Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

In a letter, the EHR Association warned that ONC’s proposed information blocking disincentives may be less effective than intended. Partnerships DeepScribe deepened its integration with Epic , now pushing documentation into specific fields of a patient’s chart.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Great panel with @Fin_Thrive , @BannerHealth & @CenturaHealth on the future of #RCM. Ok, you could substitute any EHR in there, but you get the point. Ok, you could substitute any EHR in there, but you get the point. The documentation burden on clinicians is rough. pic.twitter.com/alxoUQHDen.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2023

John interviewed Suki CEO Punit Soni, about how ambient clinical voice is changing rapidly, including how Suki works as a voice assistant and not just a clinical documentation tool. They also discussed the all-important topic of EHR integration. Read more… Going Beyond Visit Summaries Using AI in the EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Colin Hung spoke to Neighborhood Health CIO Anthony Villanueva about enabling a grassroots approach to care by giving care teams NextGen mobile technology to document encounters well beyond the clinical setting. Cloud-based behavioral health EHR Valant received an investment from Resurgens Technology Partners.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 1, 2023

Read more… RCM: Fixing the Old and Adjusting to the New. We posed two questions to the Healthcare IT Today community about RCM. It starts with looking at the RCM process holistically and finding ways to improve communication, reduce confusion, give patients more payment options, and aim for a personalized approach.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Generative AI could support diagnosis and treatment of mental health conditions , and it can help document visits and track symptoms. Bonus Features for October 29, 2023: 66% of patients prefer email or text for reminders about medical bills, plus 94% of clinicians said lack of timely access to insights within EHR impacts patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2023

Studies Less than 1% of all medical claims include an ICD-10 Z code that documents a social determinant health, according to a data brief from LexisNexis Risk Solutions. Partnerships Patient education and engagement vendor Mytonomy has connected Mytonomy Cloud for Healthcare with Oracle Health EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2024

Learn more about Medvise.ai: [link] Check out other articles in our ambient clinical voice series: Context Makes Innovaccer More than a Note Generator How Comprehend PT Takes Clinical Notes Our of Physical Therapists’ Hands Sunoh’s Ambient Clinical Voice Automates Clinician Note Creation Corti Becomes Part of the Conversation Nuance Is Setting the (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The cloud-based EHR vendor’s v12 release is coming soon, and at this year’s user conference CEO Girish Navani announced multiple new eCW features that had the audience gasping with excitement. While attending the eCW user conference, John also reflected on how poor EHR usability can have an adverse effect on patient safety.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2024

Responses included task automation, resource allocation, clinical documentation, predictive analytics, diagnostics, and supporting the hospital at home. Smart practices should look beyond automation to EHR and practice management integration as well as workflow customization when considering their options, said Dr. Steve Kim at Valer.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

These can look at EHRs and patient directories, or analyze 60-70 pages worth referral documents to identify the need for financial planning. Middleware systems that currently have only rudimentary, rule-based quality checks can be enhanced with sophisticated quality checks.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

Data lineage tools document the source, accuracy, and flow of regulated healthcare data – a key step in ensuring compliance and minimizing the impact of a data breach, noted Ernie Ostic at Manta. Helping clinicians troubleshoot within the EHR can improve workflows and job satisfaction , Bill Lewkowski at HCTec pointed out.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The following is a guest article by John Wallace, PT, OCS, Senior Vice President of RCM at WebPT. Finally, payers of all stripes may send documentation requests. An Advanced Document Request (ADR) is then followed by a list of beneficiaries and dates of service to be reviewed. About John Wallace.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Finally, the company noted more than two-thirds of clinicians using Nuance DAX Copilot for AI-powered documentation had an improved experience providing care. TrustCommerce integrated its patient payments platform with athenaIDX , athenahealth’s RCM product.

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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 15, 2023

IoT data analytics company CenTrak launched Workflow , a platform for automating clinical documentation and reporting. EHR, RCM, and practice management vendor ModMed appointed Jody Beaverson as Chief People Officer. GI health management platform Ayble Health announced a partnership with the American Nutrition Association.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The market will see increased asks/attention for bots as they are critically needed in RCM to offset staff shortage, enhance staff retention, and accelerate tasks (ultimately cash flow). In the future we will see even more connected devices sharing data and fueling diagnostically focused EHRs.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2023

Colin spoke to Joella Almeida at MedEssist about supporting pharmacies as they take on a greater role in care delivery through documentation, scheduling, and more. Read more… Uncovering Diagnostic Information in the EHR. Read more… Moving the Industry Forward With an RCM Adoption Model.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In the past few years, Athelas RCM and RPM have grown rapidly to thousands of healthcare providers and hundreds of thousands of patients. Their PatientKeeper EHR software saves clinicians hours of time every day, and Strongline protects nurses while delivering key analytics on the physical logistics of a hospital.

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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. Read more… Giving Healthcare Organizations the Return on Investment They Want. Read more… How Addressing Sepsis Helped HCA Better Prepare for Hurricanes.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2023

Partnerships Augmedix and HCA Healthcare are jointly developing ambient documentation products for the acute care setting; HCA is also making a financial investment in Augmedix. The company also announced that the Princess Alexandra NHS Trust is migrating to the Oracle Health EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Tellingly, 70% of orgs with plans to deploy AI intend to adopt solutions via their EHR vendors. DeepScribe announced its Trust and Safety Suite to help ensure accuracy and transparency of AI-powered medical documentation. People EHR and RCM vendor ModMed appointed Joe Harpaz as Co-CEO.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Patient education material in the form of images, documents and videos is pushed to patients through the app, as well. Myia provides clinical teams with contextualized proactive information targeted directly into their EHR and workflow. In addition, the MiHealth app allows scheduled and real-time patient self-assessment questions.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 27, 2023

More than one-third of the 321 participating health system executives are planning to automate two or more RCM or finance functions in 2024 a recent survey by Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and Eliciting Insights reports.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 2023

Read more… One Health System’s Roller Coaster Journey to Improved RCM. That turned out to be a blessing in disguise, interim CEO and CMO Dr. Brian Stratta, told Colin Hung, as it required reviewing and streamlining the RCM process, which cut claims denial from 45% to 17% and made real-time RCM reports possible.

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