Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Enhances Revenue Cycle Services Market Leadership with Patient Engagement Services and Technology Capabilities Today, Access Healthcare , a global leader in revenue cycle management (RCM) and healthcare services, announced the acquisition of Envera Health , a market leader in patient engagement services.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

RCM automation, powered by artificial intelligence, can achieve this – saving considerable time and adding millions of dollars to the bottom line. Claims are packages of data points. Each data package must meet the specific requirements of the insurance provider. However, computers excel at making sense of data.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Researchers at MIT have found that de-identified patient data runs an extremely low risk of being re-identified in the event of a data breach. Study authors concluded that that the potential risk to patient privacy in sharing de-identified data is greatly outweighed by the gains for patients through medical research.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

How the IoMT Helps Data Reach Its Full Potential. We asked members of the Healthcare IT Community to share their thoughts on the growing role of the Internet of Medical Things in managing healthcare data. Read more… Data Lineage Tools Help Unpack Complex Data Dependencies. million in seed funding.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2024

The payer must then extract data from the PDF for their use. Even when the foreign entity has some sort of electronic portal, the documents that get sent remain a PDF, rather than a spreadsheet, XML, or JSON file where data can easily be extracted, collated, and parsed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2023

News and Studies HLTH Foundation formed the Techquity for Health Coalition , with a mission to help organizations consider health equity in health technology innovation and data practices. The group also launched a health equity survey , with the results to be announced at ViVE in Nashville in March.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2023

(CloudMD) , an innovative health services company transforming the delivery of care, today announced that it has closed the sale of its U.S.-based based Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Practice Management (PM), and Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) assets for approximately US$6.3

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2022

According to 57% of survey respondents, the most important consideration when choosing a provider is how well they understand you as an individual, and not just though the patient data they have about you. Google Cloud launched its Medical Imaging Suite and announced Hackensack Meridian Health and Hologic as users. Partnerships.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Care coordination vendor Lumeon and NTT DATA announced a partnership to automate the delivery of non-clinical services for hospital-at-home programs. XIFIN announced HITRUST certification for XIFIN RPM 15 , the latest version of its RCM platform. IoT platform vendor Iveda launched IvedaCare , an AI assistant for home-based senior care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2023

A survey from the Health Management Academy and Outbound AI reported that almost half (48%) of health systems are using AI technology for workforce management , and 85% expect to see a moderate to significant increase in the use of such tools in the next one to three years. Healthcare is one of six industries featured at the event.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Remote monitoring company Clear Arch Health released a mobile app that patients access to health data, educational resources, and messages from providers. More than 60% of health plans that got a 5-Star rating from CMS use Inovalon software , the data and analytics vendor announced.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2022

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. Data has been compiling for years and sitting cold and dark for all of that time,” stated Shaw.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2023

So with all of these incredible innovations, let’s take a moment to narrow our field down to Revenue Cycle Management (RCM). How can we be using technology to optimize RCM? And even more specifically, what role can data analytics and AI play in optimizing RCM?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. This frees up staff to focus on more complex and strategic aspects of RCM. The key to solving these challenges is automating workflows and leveraging actionable data to address bottlenecks.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

It’s not surprising when you consider how important receiving and managing payments is to healthcare providers and health IT companies. Niall Brennan, Chief Analytics and Privacy Officer at Clarify Health and Leader of the Clarify Health Institute , says that payer and provider data quality must be improved.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 1, 2022

Rod Nicholls from Knowtion Health really hit home on this point in this video we did together. I think this is a glimpse at the future of health IT. It was also interesting to see how every vendor at the event was a data analytics company. The reality is that not everyone was doing all of those things to make the data useful.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Even keyboard and mouse data can be captured and used for automation. Warrelmann advises organizations to look for automation opportunities where lots of data exist: clinical quality control, risk and compliance, imaging, and labs. Now they are going further and optimizing processes such as resubmitting denied claims.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2024

He says that their goal is to “eliminate data entry.” COO Sean Ross says that a doctor who does not want to take time to review the note can also request a human scribe at Medvise.AI to do the final check.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 6, 2023

The involvement of executive leadership and the establishment of a culture of transparency and accountability are key factors in the success of revenue integrity initiatives. Healthcare organizations should use this data to identify areas where improvements can be made and to continuously improve revenue cycle processes.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2023

So often in talking about Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) the focus is placed onto the organization. How do we improve RCM? How to can we incorporate digital solutions into RCM? However, that leaves out one huge piece of RCM. So let’s take a moment and focus on the patient’s experience with RCM.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Unsupervised machine learning, a type of AI, is automating tasks that would otherwise have to be manually performed by analyzing large quantities of data across patients, locations, and time. Hospitals and health systems can then determine anomalous behavior in workflows, patient care, or patient outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The potential challenges and considerations when migrating existing healthcare systems and applications to the cloud include data security, compliance, and vendor lock-in. These tools can help healthcare organizations optimize their cloud infrastructure, improve security, and gain tremendous insights into their data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

2022 Predictions for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and In Home Care – I know not everyone enjoys predictions, but the fact that last year’s prediction did so well means that people like them more than I realized which is good since we just started our 2023 Health IT Predictions. AI and Automation in RCM is All About Balance.

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