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

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A report from Western New York HIE HEALTHeLINK and the Milbank Memorial Fund found that enrollment in a CMS Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) model at a institution that was a member of the HIE led to a 24% decrease in hospital admission rates, a 21% drop in outpatient surgeries, and a nearly 33% reduction in hospital length of stay.

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Bonus Features – April 9, 2023 – 63% of RCM departments face staffing shortages, small Stanford study shows 90% of GPT answers in clinical setting are “generally safe,” and more

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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. Florida-based Palm Plastic Surgery & Medspa selected eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR.

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Weekly Roundup – November 12, 2022

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Healthcare isn’t getting away from paper any time soon , between fax machines and backups when the EHR system goes down. Colin Hung spoke to Patrice Wolfe and Thomas Thatapudi at AGS Health about how process automation such as claims retrieval can ease the burden on RCM staff , bringing in more revenue with less manual work.

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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

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About 75% of hospitals are members of regional HIE organizations, and 35% participate in regional and national HIEs. EHR, RCM, and practice management software vendor Greenway Health named Mark Goodwin as Senior Vice President of Revenue Services. Staffing platform SnapNurse named Jeff Grant as Chief Executive Officer.

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Bonus Features – August 6, 2023 – 83% of hospitals are collecting SDoH data, 46% of hospitals planning to use large language models in the call center, and more

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Another 60% of hospitals are receiving SDoH data from outside sources, primarily from HIE entities. California’s Orange County Migraine & Wellness Center selected eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR and healow. Illinois-based Springfield Clinic is migrating to athenahealth ‘s cloud-based EHR.

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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

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HIE collaborative Civitas Networks for Health received a $1 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to implement and disseminate the Gravity Project’s SDOH standards. Epic recognized RWJBarnabas Health for achieving a 43% increase in productivity during the latest phase of its Epic Together EHR implementation project.

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Bonus Features – May 28, 2023 – 20+ health systems pledge to use Epic to share info under TEFCA, 84x increase in telehealth for mental health from 2019 to 2022, and more

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News and Studies Nearly two dozen health systems have pledged to use Epic to share health information through the TEFCA framework , the EHR vendor announced, adding, “Our plan is to deliver software this year that will help our customers to be among the initial participants in TEFCA.”