Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

” Based in Toronto , Semantic Health has made significant strides in streamlining manual auditing processes, reducing denials, and improving documentation quality for auditing teams. This will help us improve data quality, optimize revenue cycle management (RCM) efficiency, and unlock generative AI in healthcare.”

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2024

Because many people don’t proclaim themselves as medical tourists on travel documents, reliable statistics on the prevalence of medical travel are scarce. Most often, the resulting document is a PDF file that’s transmitted to the payer. But the U.S. has been named the top worldwide medical tourism destination.

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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. Read more… Taking Social Determinants of Health to New Heights.

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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

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.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

In other news, Quantum Health launched Premier Oncology , a cancer care navigation tool. RCM outsourcing vendor Ensemble Health Partners expanded its partnership with Microsoft. Specialty telemedicine vendor Thirty Madison is partnering with Talkspace to expand mental health support for women.

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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

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. Read more… Addressing the Social Determinants of Mental Health. One strategy for building this strength is digitizing and streamlining RCM.

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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. At the same time, though, mental health practitioners and patients alike must weigh the security, privacy, and legal challenges of using generative AI , along with bias in algorithms.

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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

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

JANUARY 14, 2024

Partnerships DeepScribe deepened its integration with Epic , now pushing documentation into specific fields of a patient’s chart. Every Cure is partnering with Atropos Health to use its Evidence Network to accelerate evidence generation on treatment effectiveness.

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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? We would love to hear from all of you as well!

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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. Concierge care platform Gradia Health secured $4.2 based EMR, RCM, and practice management assets to N. million in seed funding.

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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

A bad UI can leave physicians distracted and frustrated, which takes theis attention away from the patient in the room and can lead to errors in documentation or prescribing. Read more… Featured Health IT Job : Information Technology Manager at Salinas, California-based Natividad, posted to Healthcare IT Central.

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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. 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.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

A strong business case exists for addressing the financial impacts of social determinants of health (SDoH) and new reimbursement models designed to emphasize health equity. Involving revenue cycle management (RCM) is necessary for any comprehensive SDoH/health equity strategy.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The solutions acquired from TCP provides data-driven, physician-led, prospective clinical documentation integrity (“CDI”) reviews […]. A combination of artificial intelligence (“AI”) capabilities and physician-led quality reviews enhances the reimbursement cycle solutions from CorroHealth.

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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. Sales Texas Family Wellness Clinic is adopting Sunoh.ai , the EHR-agnostic clinical documentation tool developed by eClinicalWorks.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 6, 2023

They should be documented and communicated to all staff members who are involved in the revenue cycle. Historically, healthcare organizations have tended to compartmentalize departments, with little integration or collaboration between the clinical and revenue cycle teams.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

API-driven integration and AI capabilities support pre-payment review effectiveness by scanning claims with high accuracy in less than half a second, reducing manual efforts and minimizing the likelihood of errors slipping through the cracks.  For complex claims that require the review of additional documentation, such as itemized bills or medical (..)

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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). The World Health Organization estimates that up to 50% of all medical documentation mistakes result from administrative errors.

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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… Moving the Industry Forward With an RCM Adoption Model. Healthcare has many models, but until recently RCM has been missing.

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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. We’re also raising fresh capital from General Catalyst, valuing the combined entity at $6B.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

DeepScribe announced its Trust and Safety Suite to help ensure accuracy and transparency of AI-powered medical documentation. Peer-reviewed research from Linus Health showed digital cognitive assessment tools outperform paper-based screenings in detecting early mild cognitive impairment and dementia.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

CAREMINDr is a health IT communications company that provides mobile-enabled remote patient monitoring systems that give physicians the ability to enroll their patients in condition-specific “journeys,” such as for diabetes and hypertension. The MiHealth provider dashboard is designed with clinical workflow in mind.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 10, 2019

Astria Health blames its EHR conversion and contracted RCM vendor for its Chapter 11 bankruptcy. HHS asks people to share their stories about obtaining copies of their health records or the sharing of them among providers. Grahame Grieve is named the winner of the 2019 Glaser Award.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 2023

Read more… One Health System’s Roller Coaster Journey to Improved RCM. Pennsylvania-based Hyndman Area Health Centers lost two financial leaders in an 8-month span. Read more… Navigating Population Health Data and HEDIS in an Ambulatory Practice.

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