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Cash is Queen Says RCM Experts

Healthcare IT Today

The upside of adopting technology for RCM can be significant: A drop in DSO (days sales outstanding). One technology in particular is proving to be very effective for RCM improvement – data analytics. Why communication from leaders remains key to RCM improvement. How executives can make work-from-home for RCM staff work.

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Weekly Roundup – October 28, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

The intersection of HIPAA and AI technology presents new challenges for developers and patients alike, according to Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan at Inflectra. Generally speaking, HIPAA applies if AI takes data from medical records and processes it to provide decision support , though of course there’s more to consider as well.

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HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Health Populi

A few of my favorite comments were: “Jim Cramer needs a crash course in FHIR standards” from the wonkier section of peanut gallery. The fact is that HIPAA may not cover all of these data flows. Revenue cycle management (RCM) is a big HIMSS theme from providers’ points of view. The patient as payor.

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HIStalk Interviews Gabriel Orthous, CIO, Central Georgia Health Network

HIStalk Interviews

Usually those are part of a system of trying to identify CPT codes or ICD codes in order to get paid through a billing RCM model. Of course claims and of course clinical. Then I’d go in and the HIPAA paperwork was on paper and I had to sign that. You have dichotomies of political and revenue cycle. It was beautiful.

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Weekender 5/10/19

HIStalk Weekender

Astria Health blames its EHR conversion and contracted RCM vendor for its Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Practice Fusion unit of Allscripts is served a criminal grand jury subpoena related to EHR certification and anti-kickback statute issues. Grahame Grieve is named the winner of the 2019 Glaser Award.

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Weekender 5/3/19

HIStalk Weekender

HHS announces that it will use its discretion to reduce maximum annual HIPAA fines based on level of culpability. I also am on board with you as it pertains to Cerner’s terrible attempts at RCM. Best Reader Comments. Life in rural America is in a serious long-term decline and has been for decades. Vaporware? ). Smartfood99 ).

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