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6 Essential Criteria for Making Confident AI Vendor Decisions

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Austin Ward, Head of Growth at Fathom In the face of workforce shortages and increasing cost pressures, many organizations are turning to AI technologies to automate revenue cycle management (RCM) processes. Automation Rate The most important criterion for AI in RCM is the automation rate.

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Bonus Features – November 19, 2023 – Critical access hospitals 16% less likely to participate in data exchange, two-thirds of orgs plan to increase AI spending by 25% in the next three years, plus 36 more stories

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Hospitals serving marginalized communities are less likely to participate in interoperable patient data exchange , according to the latest ONC research. For example, while 79% of patients trust their doctors and nurses, only 54% of front-line workers trust leaders in their organizations.

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The Payment Integrity Game-Changer: Generative AI

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A 2022 Deloitte survey of U.S. Healthcare technology companies are urged to design interoperable data platforms that offer holistic data access and transparency to better meet the needs of health workers, care teams, and patients across the continuum of care. In fact, studies by the U.S.

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The Role of RCM in Health Equity

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Involving revenue cycle management (RCM) is necessary for any comprehensive SDoH/health equity strategy. ” RCM professionals constantly interact with data that is valuable to informing health equity strategies – particularly since the transition to the ICD-10 code set that created an environment rich with data detailing SDoH.

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Healthcare AI and Automation: Good or Bad?

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I’ll give one of my favorite examples to demonstrate. Examples include many types of medication refills, pre-authorization requests, preventive maintenance screenings, remote monitoring, and even management of mild urgent and chronic conditions. Companies need to implement tools to automate processes that they already do well.

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Healthcare Workforce – 2024 Health IT Predictions

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A whopping 100% of respondents in Experian Health’s latest survey said staffing shortages impacted their organizations and 70% of those who said payer reimbursements are the most impacted by the staff shortages say it led to higher denial rates. This frees up staff to focus on more complex and strategic aspects of RCM.

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HIStalk Interviews Gabriel Orthous, CIO, Central Georgia Health Network

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If you come from an educational hospital or a medical center that’s inside of the perimeter here in Atlanta, for example, it’s a little bit different on how they deal with their independent providers. Usually those are part of a system of trying to identify CPT codes or ICD codes in order to get paid through a billing RCM model.

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