Data, Healthcare IT, Leadership and RCM

R1 RCM to Acquire Acclara

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Acquisition of Providence’s Current Modular Services Business Accompanied by 10-Year Agreement to Provide Comprehensive Revenue Cycle Management Services R1 RCM Inc. (R1) integrated delivery networks (IDNs), recognized for leadership in developing innovative delivery models and a commitment to technology. million shares of R1 stock.

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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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What Trend in RCM Are You Keeping Your Eye on Right Now and Why?

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2023

In search of that answer, we reached out to our wickedly smart Healthcare IT Today Community to see what trends in RCM they are keeping their eyes on and why. Check it out and see if any of their answers can help you and your healthcare organization. We’ve compiled all of their answers together in the video down below.

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Hyndman Area Health Centers Improves RCM Process with Help from eClinicalWorks Despite Key Personnel Departures

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2023

Healthcare IT Today met with Dr. Brian Stratta, Interim Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer of Hyndman Area Health Centers (HAHC) to learn more. Systemic Review of RCM Processes The HAHC billing team, under a new manager, collaborated with eClinicalWorks to review and streamline the RCM process.

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Turning Increased Ambulatory Volumes into Financial Strength: 4 Moves for RCM

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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Digital Innovation and AI in Revenue Cycle Management

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2023

Digital Innovation and Artificial Intelligence are two huge topics recently in the world of Healthcare IT. We reached out to the Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights on this topic. InstaMed found 73% of healthcare consumers want eStatements but 75% of providers primarily use paper and manual processes for collections.

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Bonus Features – October 16, 2022 – Half of docs considering leaving their job, there’s little risk in sharing de-identified data, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Partnerships.

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How Will the Current Macroeconomic Environment Impact Digital Health and Healthcare IT Decision-Making?

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2023

As health systems grapple with market uncertainty, how will the current macroeconomic environment impact digital health and healthcare IT decision-making? How are AI and automation addressing healthcare labor shortage challenges? At the same time, one of the biggest focus areas of healthcare systems and providers is 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.

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Three Ways AI is Preventing Revenue Leakage

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The following is a guest article by Dan Parsons, Co-Founder and CPO at Thoughtful Revenue leakage poses a significant challenge to healthcare providers, and the traditional methods used to mitigate these losses are becoming increasingly difficult to scale. Claims are packages of data points.

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Access Healthcare Acquires Envera Health

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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Weekly Roundup – July 29, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. How the IoMT Helps Data Reach Its Full Potential. Read more… The Problems and Benefits of Non-Competes in Healthcare.

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Bonus Features – January 29, 2023 – ONC says more than 70% of hospitals can use external data at the point of care, the 3 largest health info networks have indexed 90% of patients, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Bonus Features – November 27, 2022 – 60% of hospitals use 50+ operations systems, CHIME names Theresa Meadows as CIO of the Year, and more

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Bonus Features – October 9, 2022 – Optum completes Change Healthcare acquisition, interest in flu shots is declining, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Partnerships.

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Claims Software Can Ease Manual Processes Related to Treating Medical Tourists from Outside the U.S.

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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Bonus Features – March 19, 2023 – Info for 81% of physicians is inconsistent in major health plan provider directories, 48% of health systems using AI for workforce management, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Bonus Features – December 4, 2022 – 34% of Americans take anti-anxiety meds during the holidays, hospital margins at -2% but show signs of hope, and more

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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CloudMD Divests Non-Core U.S. Electronic Medical Records and Practice Management Business

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2023

based Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Practice Management (PM), and Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) assets for approximately US$6.3 CloudMD is also a market leader in workplace absence management through data-driven prevention, intervention, and return-to-work programs.

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Where UiPath Can Automate For Workflow and Quality in Healthcare

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. See the video for Warrelmann’s insights into healthcare automation today.

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Healthcare AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Leslie Pagel, Chief Evangelist at Authenticx AI tools, such as ChatGPT and generative AI, are contributing to speed, volume, and accuracy in processing unstructured data sources.

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Cash is Queen Says RCM Experts

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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Technology & RCM & AI, Oh My!

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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Voice-to-Billing Ambient Clinical Voice at Medvise.AI

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. And for an exclusive look at our top stories, subscribe to our newsletter and YouTube. Tell us what you think.

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Payments, Price Transparency, GIS + EMS Response Times & Vendor Management at ViVE2023

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

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. This means normalizing the data and filling in the gaps that currently exist (ie: where data is not available or not reported).

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Top Healthcare IT Today Resources, Articles, Videos, and Podcasts

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

Most Visited Healthcare IT Resource Pages. Healthcare IT and EHR Conferences and Events. Healthcare GIS. Most Visited Healthcare IT Today Articles Published in 2022. Five Key Factors When Selecting the Right Data and Tech Partner in Healthcare. 4 Reasons Why 5G and Healthcare Make Sense.

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Insights and Perspectives from #HFMAAnnual Conference

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 1, 2022

It was also interesting to see how every vendor at the event was a data analytics company. Every company had some angle on the data they have and how they were using that data to help healthcare organizations. Although, he pointed out that it takes good data governance and an effort to drive action from the data.

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Maximizing Revenue and Compliance: The Vital Role of Revenue Integrity in Healthcare Organizations

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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Patient Experience with Revenue Cycle Management

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 AI and Automation: Good or Bad?

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We reached out to the beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to hear the different lines of thinking on automation. 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.

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What are the Cost Implications of Implementing Cloud Technology in Healthcare?

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In search of some answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community. The potential challenges and considerations when migrating existing healthcare systems and applications to the cloud include data security, compliance, and vendor lock-in.

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Healthcare Workforce – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. This frees up staff to focus on more complex and strategic aspects of RCM. As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.

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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

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Partnerships.

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R1 RCM to Acquire Acclara

RCM: Fixing the Old and Adjusting to the New

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What Trend in RCM Are You Keeping Your Eye on Right Now and Why?

Hyndman Area Health Centers Improves RCM Process with Help from eClinicalWorks Despite Key Personnel Departures

Turning Increased Ambulatory Volumes into Financial Strength: 4 Moves for RCM

Digital Innovation and AI in Revenue Cycle Management

Bonus Features – October 16, 2022 – Half of docs considering leaving their job, there’s little risk in sharing de-identified data, and more

How Will the Current Macroeconomic Environment Impact Digital Health and Healthcare IT Decision-Making?

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

Three Ways AI is Preventing Revenue Leakage

Access Healthcare Acquires Envera Health

Weekly Roundup – July 29, 2023

Bonus Features – January 29, 2023 – ONC says more than 70% of hospitals can use external data at the point of care, the 3 largest health info networks have indexed 90% of patients, and more

Bonus Features – November 27, 2022 – 60% of hospitals use 50+ operations systems, CHIME names Theresa Meadows as CIO of the Year, and more

Bonus Features – October 9, 2022 – Optum completes Change Healthcare acquisition, interest in flu shots is declining, and more

Claims Software Can Ease Manual Processes Related to Treating Medical Tourists from Outside the U.S.

Bonus Features – March 19, 2023 – Info for 81% of physicians is inconsistent in major health plan provider directories, 48% of health systems using AI for workforce management, and more

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