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RCM: Fixing the Old and Adjusting to the New

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) is like a one of those huge Lego sculptures. Having a well executed RCM strategy is crucial to keep your organization running because it impacts everything. From the outside it looks one thing, but upon further inspection there are a million tiny little pieces that fit together to create the whole.

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Bonus Features – May 26, 2024 – Only 43% of hospitals routinely exchange data, about 70% of organizations want to change archiving vendors, plus 24 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2024

Only 43% of hospitals routinely engage in interoperable data exchange , according to the latest ONC data brief. Products Health Catalyst unveiled Health Catalyst Ignite , the next generation of its data and analytics platform. Pearson integrated AI study tools into its nursing curriculum. appointed Michael R.

eCare

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Bonus Features – April 2, 2023 – 63% of nurses say AI will cause a generational divide among nursing staff, 67% of consumers prefer electronic medical bills but 78% of providers still use paper, and more

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2023

.” Incredible Health’s 2023 State of US Nursing Report found that 80% of nurses plan to remain in the healthcare industry until retirement – though an even greater number, 84%, worry that the industry isn’t doing enough to address poor pay, understaffing, and burnout.

Nursing

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Bonus Features – March 24, 2024 – Data infrastructure investments have 124% ROI, 85% of healthcare workers believe AI can improve the patient experience, plus 28 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2024

A survey from Hakkoda found 92% of healthcare organizations need to modernize their data infrastructure. Products Inovalon launched Converged Solutions to simplify encounter data submissions in support of risk adjustment programs. Arizona-based Integrated Medical Services implemented athenahealth EHR, RCM, and patient engagement tools.

Patient Experience

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Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2023

News and Research More than four in five (82%) of wearable device owners are willing to share health data with their physicians, according to a poll conducted by the Connected Health Initiative. Tellingly, 70% of organizations cite data visibility as a major supply chain issue, as it limits to understand and address risks with suppliers.

eHealth

eHealth Nursing Primary Care RCM

Weekly Roundup – October 28, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2023

They also discussed the all-important topic of EHR integration. Read more… Going Beyond Visit Summaries Using AI in the EHR. Meanwhile, John spoke to Suhas Uliyar about Oracle Health’s moves to create tools that accompany and augment the workflow of physicians, nurses, and patients. Sriram Rajagopalan at Inflectra.

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Weekly Roundup – April 13, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2024

At HIMSS 2024, John Lynn moderated a panel with Rackspace and Dell that highlighted the benefits and challenges of implementing and integrating multicloud solutions in healthcare , especially with it comes to hosted EHR. Read more… The Value of Sharing Data Between Acute Care and Post-Acute Care. Million in funding.

Interoperability

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WellSky Acquires Corridor, Expands Commitment to Offering Best-in-Class Coding, Revenue Cycle Management Services for Post-Acute Industry

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2023

By adding Corridor to its portfolio, WellSky will expand its medical coding and revenue cycle management (RCM) offerings to help care providers increase efficiency and improve performance across clinical, financial, operational, and compliance areas.

RCM

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Weekly Roundup – January 21, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2023

Read more… The Role of Innovation and AI in RCM. Read more… Seeing How Patients Experience RCM. John also asked the experts what RCM looks like to patients. Read more… A New Look at Data Management and Data Sharing. Read more… A New Look at Data Management and Data Sharing.

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Bonus Features – August 6, 2023 – 83% of hospitals are collecting SDoH data, 46% of hospitals planning to use large language models in the call center, and more

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2023

News and Research Five in six (83%) of hospitals are collecting SDoH data , according to the latest ONC Data Brief, with 74% using structured, electronic screening tools. Another 60% of hospitals are receiving SDoH data from outside sources, primarily from HIE entities.

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Weekly Roundup – March 16, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2024

John recapped a ViVE 2024 session with Tanya Content at UNC Health and Russ Richmond at Laudio about ensuring technology meets the needs of nurses and other clinical staff instead of imposing it on them. Read more… Unlocking the Power of Interop for More Effective RCM. John spoke to Dr. Tim O’Connell and Kim Perry at emtelligent.

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Bonus Features – January 7, 2024 – New executives at CitiusTech, MultiPlan, and NextGen, plus 15 other stories

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 7, 2024

Data platform Arcadia has joined the Atropos Evidence Network of evidence-generating applications. Bloomlife and PeriGen are partnering to improve access to monitoring and data analysis for of high-risk pregnancies. New England Orthopedic Surgeons (NEOS) is implementing athenaOne EHR, RCM, and patient engagement functionality.

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RCM Healthcare IT Primary Care EHR

Bonus Features – April 28, 2024 – 22% of employers fully trust chronic condition management vendors, Common Agreement v2.0 requires support for FHIR API exchange, plus 29 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

RCM outsourcing vendor Ensemble Health Partners expanded its partnership with Microsoft. Clinical data exchange vendor MRO is now automating data exchange between providers for continuity of care purposes. Truveta released a mother-child EHR dataset to drive research from pre-pregnancy through childbirth and pediatric care.

FHIR

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Bonus Features – November 19, 2023 – Critical access hospitals 16% less likely to participate in data exchange, two-thirds of orgs plan to increase AI spending by 25% in the next three years, plus 36 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Hospitals serving marginalized communities are less likely to participate in interoperable patient data exchange , according to the latest ONC research. For example, while 79% of patients trust their doctors and nurses, only 54% of front-line workers trust leaders in their organizations.

eCare

eCare Healthcare IT Interoperability RCM

Bonus Features – November 26, 2023 – 85% of healthcare orgs boosting IT spending in 2024, 70% of orgs actively considering generative AI, plus 18 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Cybersecurity tops the list of investment priorities, followed by EHR modernization, virtual / digital care, and AI. RCM is by far the most popular potential use case, with 58% of all considering the use of generative AI there. Virtual sitting technology can be tied to reduction in nurse burnout , according to a recent AvaSure study.

eHealth

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Bonus Features – April 16, 2023 – Accenture says generative AI could augment 40% of healthcare work, 31% of healthcare workers don’t know what to do if a data breach happens, and more

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 16, 2023

A Salesforce survey of healthcare workers found that 76% agree that keeping data safe is their priority. Partnerships Chronic care at home company Pria is using InterSystems Health Connect Cloud for data integration. However, only 54% said their cybersecurity training is efficient, and 19% said it’s irrelevant for their job.

EHR

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Bonus Features – May 28, 2023 – 20+ health systems pledge to use Epic to share info under TEFCA, 84x increase in telehealth for mental health from 2019 to 2022, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2023

News and Studies Nearly two dozen health systems have pledged to use Epic to share health information through the TEFCA framework , the EHR vendor announced, adding, “Our plan is to deliver software this year that will help our customers to be among the initial participants in TEFCA.” Noom announced Noom Med for obesity care.

Mental health

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Bonus Features – July 2, 2023 – Nuance and Epic integrate, 5 in 6 physicians say telemedicine improves continuity of care, news from HFMA, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2023

The FCC is updating its Mapping Broadband Health in America platform to incorporate maternal health data , with the aim of identifying whether Internet connectivity is tied to disparities in maternal health outcomes and determining where interventions could have the greatest impact. Boston-based Hebrew SeniorLife implemented MEDITECH Expanse.

Telemedicine

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Avoiding Red Flags: Finding the Right Productivity Balance

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The following is a guest article by John Wallace, PT, OCS, Senior Vice President of RCM at WebPT. Payers have vastly improved data intelligence on therapists and practices, and OIG even has a dedicated section on issues in outpatient rehab. After all, more patients should generate more billable services—and thus, more payments.

Medicare

Medicare RCM Private practice Nursing

Bonus Features – December 10, 2023 – 84% of physicians still use manual processes to manage care transitions, 70% of executives prefer managed services for RCM, plus 26 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Nearly all (95%) of healthcare executives are interested in end-to-end managed services to solve RCM challenges, according to a survey from Ensemble Health Partners. Partnerships Qualtrics and Epic are partnering to integrate patient experience data into the EHR. More than 70% prefer managed services to in-house operations.

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Weekly Roundup – May 11, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2024

Several people mentioned AI and technology infrastructure ; other concerns included nurse burnout, staffing shortages, and interoperability , the age-old topic. Read more… How Interoperability and Analytics Change the Nurse Call Paradigm. Read more… A Look at RCM, AI, and a New Book Called Joy Notes.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 3, 2019

Being an IT person and a long time athlete who has used FitBits, heart rate monitors, and training logs, I figure that the right way to handle the data stream from personal monitoring devices, logs, etc. The in-house VistA talent that was swept out was expensive, but at least they made an EHR that worked when you turned it on.

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EHR RCM Nursing HIPAA

Weekender 4/26/19

HIStalk Weekender

APRIL 26, 2019

Bain Capital hires financial advisors to help it assess the potential sale of RCM vendor Waystar. However, I just encourage them to “make it yours” via personalization of the user interface and data entry areas a little at a time. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not).

RCM

RCM Primary Care EHR Nursing

Weekly Roundup – April 29, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2023

Three leaders of ROI Healthcare sat down with John Lynn and talked about helping health systems get the payoff they want from investments in RCM, ERP, and EHR software. After improving the quality of data collected at the point of care, HCA rolled out a project to better detect and prevent sepsis.

Patient Experience

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Biofourmis’ remote patient monitoring and AI-based analytics technology, Biovitals, provides personalized predictive care by leveraging active and passive data collected from clinical-grade patient wearables that continuously monitor more than 20 physiological parameters, as well as patient-captured data from a mobile app.

Connected Health

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Bonus Features – March 26, 2023 – Epic sees “tremendous potential” for GPT, more than 90% of patients want self-scheduling, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2023

News In a Microsoft press release announcing the availability of GPT-4 in Azure OpenAI Service, Epic’s Seth Hain, Senior Vice President of Research and Development, said the EHR vendor sees “tremendous potential” for the latest version of the multimodal large language model. ” (Hat tip to Katie Link for point this out.)

RCM

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Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

The first quarterly Healthcare IT Market Report from Pivot Point Consulting hinted at a continued need for providers to develop long-term strategies around virtual care, customer relationship management, and RCM optimization. Nursing-centered primary care provider Greater Good Health appointed Carol DeVol to its board of directors.

Telehealth

Telehealth Primary Care Healthcare IT Leadership

Weekender 5/10/19

HIStalk Weekender

MAY 10, 2019

The Practice Fusion unit of Allscripts is served a criminal grand jury subpoena related to EHR certification and anti-kickback statute issues. Astria Health blames its EHR conversion and contracted RCM vendor for its Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Chartis Group changes private equity owners. Bill Spooner ). Get Involved.

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RCM EHR HIPAA Nursing

Connected Health Pulse

RCM: Fixing the Old and Adjusting to the New

Bonus Features – May 26, 2024 – Only 43% of hospitals routinely exchange data, about 70% of organizations want to change archiving vendors, plus 24 more stories

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Bonus Features – April 2, 2023 – 63% of nurses say AI will cause a generational divide among nursing staff, 67% of consumers prefer electronic medical bills but 78% of providers still use paper, and more

Bonus Features – March 24, 2024 – Data infrastructure investments have 124% ROI, 85% of healthcare workers believe AI can improve the patient experience, plus 28 more stories

Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, and more

Weekly Roundup – October 28, 2023

Weekly Roundup – April 13, 2024

WellSky Acquires Corridor, Expands Commitment to Offering Best-in-Class Coding, Revenue Cycle Management Services for Post-Acute Industry

Weekly Roundup – January 21, 2023

Bonus Features – August 6, 2023 – 83% of hospitals are collecting SDoH data, 46% of hospitals planning to use large language models in the call center, and more

Weekly Roundup – March 16, 2024

Bonus Features – January 7, 2024 – New executives at CitiusTech, MultiPlan, and NextGen, plus 15 other stories

Bonus Features – April 28, 2024 – 22% of employers fully trust chronic condition management vendors, Common Agreement v2.0 requires support for FHIR API exchange, plus 29 more stories

Bonus Features – November 19, 2023 – Critical access hospitals 16% less likely to participate in data exchange, two-thirds of orgs plan to increase AI spending by 25% in the next three years, plus 36 more stories

Bonus Features – November 26, 2023 – 85% of healthcare orgs boosting IT spending in 2024, 70% of orgs actively considering generative AI, plus 18 more stories

Bonus Features – April 16, 2023 – Accenture says generative AI could augment 40% of healthcare work, 31% of healthcare workers don’t know what to do if a data breach happens, and more

Bonus Features – May 28, 2023 – 20+ health systems pledge to use Epic to share info under TEFCA, 84x increase in telehealth for mental health from 2019 to 2022, and more

Bonus Features – July 2, 2023 – Nuance and Epic integrate, 5 in 6 physicians say telemedicine improves continuity of care, news from HFMA, and more

Avoiding Red Flags: Finding the Right Productivity Balance

Bonus Features – December 10, 2023 – 84% of physicians still use manual processes to manage care transitions, 70% of executives prefer managed services for RCM, plus 26 more stories

Weekly Roundup – May 11, 2024

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Weekly Roundup – April 29, 2023

A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Bonus Features – March 26, 2023 – Epic sees “tremendous potential” for GPT, more than 90% of patients want self-scheduling, and more

Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Weekender 5/10/19

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