Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Lean into an Evidence-Based Cadence for Communications There is a science to communicating with patients about their financial responsibility for care—one that incorporates data such as the patient’s past history of medical payment, how likely they are to respond to a particular form of communication, like digital versus paper, and how quickly.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer. The patient is worried about privacy and data security.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Many healthcare providers find themselves wondering whether a revenue cycle management (RCM) partner would benefit their organizations. Streamline the billing process The right RCM partner will help providers optimize revenue by creating faster, easier processes to identify insurance coverage.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2023

Analyzing conversational data helps identify human coding errors, reduce disruptive billing claim processes, prevent fraud and guide decision-making. AI capabilities can speed through burdensome RCM tasks to help healthcare providers avoid denials, reduce coding errors and improve price transparency for patients. Dawn Crump, Sr.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2023

A study from CWH Advisors and Synchrony found that 63% of providers have RCM staffing shortages , and 61% expect to work with third parties for help. Further compounding the problem: 59% of providers rate patient health literacy as poor despite their education efforts. Productivity data vendor CenTrak appointed Andrew Robinson as CEO.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 1, 2023

The Arizona city is using GIS data to map which neighborhoods make it possible to meet basic needs in a 20-minute trip on foot, by bicycle, or via mass transit. Read more… RCM: Fixing the Old and Adjusting to the New. Read more… RCM: Fixing the Old and Adjusting to the New.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 1, 2023

Avaneer Health , a company created by a consortium of major payers and health care providers, is trying to solve these problems and other administrative inefficiencies once and for all.

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Andy took a deep dive into LexisNexis Health Equity and Inclusion Insights , which takes steps to provide more granular data by drawing on non-traditional data sources and evaluating data in the context of a patient’s environment. Read more… Healthcare IT Today Podcast : 2023 Health IT Recap.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2024

Read more… The Value of Sharing Data Between Acute Care and Post-Acute Care. Brian Drozdowicz and Dr. Hamad Husainy at PointClickCare sat down with Colin and discussed how TEFCA and other regulations are driving interoperability efforts – and how data-sharing is key to reaping financial benefits under value-based care.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Answers include infrastructure management, resource utilization, data management, data protection, and security and compliance monitoring. Read more… Overcoming Obstacles to Healthcare Training Data Accuracy. AI models need to be trained on high-quality data. John Lynn talked to Mark Christensen at Xelex.ai

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2023

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. Read more… Secure Data Archiving Is Critical to Fortifying Your Technology Stack. Sriram Rajagopalan at Inflectra.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2023

Generative AI is an amazing tool capable of sorting and analyzing large sums of data. It is not, however, very capable of discerning the difference between correlation and causation in the data, leading to hallucinations. Read more… Healthcare IT Today: Health IT Topic Roulette. This episode has surprise topics!

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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

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

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

MARCH 31, 2024

ONC released its Draft 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan and is accepting public comments on the document until May 28. Wearable safety technology vendor CENTEGIX launched the CENTEGIX Safety Platform to support incident response in hospitals and health systems. Data platform Innovaccer launched an AI Advisory Board.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2024

2024 Health IT Predictions: AI Regulations and Ethics. This week, we published several more posts in our series on 2024 Health IT Predictions. Read more… 2024 Health IT Predictions: Generative AI and Data. Read more… 2024 Health IT Predictions: The Healthcare Workforce. million in funding.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2022

HFMA Recap: Using Data to Do More With Less. The biggest takeaway was the role of technology in general – and data analytics in particular – to help healthcare organizations automate and outsource administrative financial tasks in a tight job market. Read more… Key Benefits of Successful Healthcare Data Management.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 2, 2024

What Health IT Trend Has You Most Excited ? Responses to our latest question for the Healthcare IT Today community included large language models, the availability of SDoH data, and increased adoption of ambient monitoring. Read more… Use Data to Uncover Actionable Insights for Service Desk Support.

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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. PatientsLikeMe is partnering with Massachusetts General Hospital to share de-identified patient data for ALS research.

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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 23, 2023

ONC has released the United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 4 Standard , better known as USCDI v4. The number of individuals impacted by healthcare data breaches is up 56% from last year , according to a Fortified Health Security analysis of HHS data.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 14, 2021

(Azalea Health or Azalea), a leading provider of cloud-based patient management and health IT solutions, today announced its acquisition of dashboardMD, an innovative cloud provider of business intelligence reporting solutions and healthcare analytics.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2022

The Sequoia Project has released additional documentation support the implementation of TEFCA , the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement for health IT interoperability. At the HFMA conference, revenue cycle management vendor R1 shared data from a survey of more than 200 healthcare CFOs and finance VPs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2024

2024 Health IT Predictions : Cautionary Views of Healthcare AI. Our ongoing series of 2024 Health IT Predictions turned to some reasons to be wary of AI. Read more… 2024 Health IT Predictions: AI Use Cases in Healthcare. Read more… 2024 Health IT Predictions : AI’s Impact in Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Two-thirds of health systems use AI for at least some RCM tasks. Helen Lamons at Advata pointed out that denials management is one of the most mature use cases for AI in RCM – and when used effectively it can help organizations improve collections with limited impact on billing staff. million.

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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

JUNE 10, 2023

Read more… Surveying Lab Tests From a Health IT Perspective. Lab tests are critical to the care process, but labs struggle to share data with other care providers , Andy Oram noted in the first piece in a three-part series on lab tests. Read more… Shifting From Data Dashboards to Valuable Action.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The report also finds that providers are prioritizing their IT investments in certain key areas, such as: Revenue cycle management (RCM) : RCM is the process of managing the financial aspects of patient care, from billing and coding to collections and denials. Market Insights & Analysis for Founders & Investors.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This will help us improve data quality, optimize revenue cycle management (RCM) efficiency, and unlock generative AI in healthcare.” ” Semantic Health empowers auditing teams by identifying high-impact revenue and quality opportunities across medical coding and clinical documentation improvement.

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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

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

MARCH 11, 2023

Read more… Knowing Your Data and How You’ll Use It. The biggest healthcare data challenge is rushing to use it before identifying business needs , John learned in a conversation with three leaders at Clearsense. Curation and integration of data is also critical, especially as data sources grow in number and complexity.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2022

From the perspective of revenue cycle management (RCM), the updates may create revenue uncertainty. . While any changes to the status quo can cause anxiety, especially when they tie directly into revenue, with the proper knowledge, preparation, and technology, medical organizations can stay on track to reach their 2023 RCM goals. .

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Advice included looking at state-level data privacy laws, taking information blocking and price transparency rules seriously, and exploring new ways to use telehealth. Read more… Finding Balance in Patient-Centric RCM. Read more… Strengthening Email Cybersecurity by Safeguarding Sensitive Patient Data.

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