Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2024

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. Read more… CIO Podcast : Health IT Project Management. Read more… This Week’s Health IT Jobs for April 24, 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. 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. Jon Kimerle, Epic Alliance Manager at Pure Storage.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 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. Read more… Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy. Read more… Operational Teams Drive Optimal Health IT System Adoption.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

More than 40% of Americans have unpaid medical bills, totaling nearly $200 million, and half of U.S. adults report that they wouldn’t have the money to cover a $500 medical bill. More importantly, providers risk lost revenue each time a patient leaves the office without paying.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 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. Read more… What Tools are Necessary for Handling the Cloud in Healthcare ? Helping Providers in Ontario Adopt AI and Improve EMRs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2021

A group of California hospitals has had such success with the initial run of its medical billing improvement process that it has expanded far more quickly than it had originally intended.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Meanwhile, the cost of a healthcare service can vary by hundreds of dollars across providers with no difference in quality. “Even with good health insurance, both my Co-Founder and I have received unexpected medical bills for thousands of dollars over the years,” said Kevin Chiu , Co-Founder and CEO.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

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. eClinicalWorks, the Cloud, and Medical Practice Expansion. Read more… Talking Trends on the Healthcare IT Today Podcast.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2022

According to one survey on healthcare payment plans, 90.7 When patients have questions about their medical bills, offer support over a variety of communication channels like live chat, text, email, or IVR. percent of patients would be interested in using payment plans in the future. Provide enhanced support. About Blake Walker.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

Explaining Medical Bills. An AI-powered chatbot will be available in the future through Epic’s Hello World platform that will help explain complex medical bills to patients. Early response has been positive with some patients commenting how the generated responses are more empathetic than prior communications.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2020

A new survey of independent medical practices and billing companies has found that they are leaning heavily on telehealth to keep generating income. The survey, which was conducted by Kareo, connected with more than 600 medical practices and 140 medical billing companies. It found that one of […].

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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. It’s reported that somewhere around 80% of medical bills contain errors, which hurts the patient and the provider.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Technology Partners, LLC, doing business as ImagineSoftwareTM (“Imagine”), a leading provider of medical billing automation software and revenue cycle management applications, today announced it received a strategic growth investment from Marlin Equity Partners (“Marlin”).

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Access Healthcare’s global delivery engine encompasses over 27,000 people working from 20 delivery sites across nine cities in the United States , India , and the Philippines. With a global presence and a commitment to innovation, Access Healthcare delivers efficient, leading-edge solutions to healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2021

The combination accelerates transformation in the healthcare industry and dramatically improves the patient financial experience. Together, Waystar and Patientco will offer patients consumer-friendly experiences when paying medical bills, […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2024

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 30, 2023

Watch the video for details about how the service works and compare it to other ambient clinical voice related technologies like Nuance’s Dax Express and Ambience Healthcare to name a few. And for an exclusive look at our top stories , subscribe to our newsletter. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This acquisition will also enable our EMR and billing divisions to enter new markets in the Canadian Prairies where we look forward to supporting healthcare practitioners’ access to new digital health innovations.”

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

And with an increasing number of privately-employed people participating in High-Deductible Health Plans (HDHPs) and other catastrophic plans, there is a widening gap between the employee responsibility (deductibles, out-of-pocket maximums) and policy coverage. When it comes to prescription medications, consumers demonstrate this hesitancy.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2023

So to make sure we keep our organization and patient information safe, we reached out to the amazing and beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to learn more about what security to look into for IoT. Insecure medical devices can also be exploited to hurt patients and damage institutions. This is what they had to share with all of us.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Or are there areas in healthcare where past regulations are now too restrictive and are holding us back? In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update regulations. The following is what they had to say.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 20, 2022

It takes about three paper statements , on average, for consumers to pay their medical bills. Just three years ago, 90% of healthcare organizations relied on paper-based billing statements. The following is a guest article by Mark Spinner, President and CEO at AccessOne.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

Bring health plans into a shared platform to s treamline health benefits management. U se additional data from insurers’ medical bills to identify treatment gaps, manage costs, and meet quality performance targets.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Medical care prices may have grown at their slowest rate in decades in the past year, but consumers still feel the pinch, with many dipping into savings to pay their medical bills. They offer a private way for patients to navigate their healthcare expenses so they may determine which options for payment best meet their needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It’s estimated that up to 80 percent of medical bills contain errors amounting to billions of dollars that are lost annually to payers. That’s billions that cannot be reinvested back into the healthcare system to increase the affordability and accessibility of care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 10, 2023

As such, coders are expected to “speak the language” of physicians and payers, a mistake-prone exercise that drains time from coders and physicians alike. “As

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

However, hospital information systems are more designed to support medical billing than clinical decision-making. When diagnosing, physicians need to consider many factors simultaneously and then select the related and unique code from the 68,000-diagnosis code list.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2024

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. What Threat or Opportunity Should Health IT Leaders Keep Their Eyes On ? Healthcare IT Today asked 16 experts at ViVE 2024 this question.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

These programs, which care for more than 30 million of the nearly 64 million Medicare enrollees , operate on the cutting edge of health care and suffer serious problems in data collection and billing. There’s widespread consensus that payments to Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) are a mess.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Earlier this year, the American Medical Association (AMA) released its CPT Evaluation and Management (E/M) Code and Guideline Changes for 2023. . These changes directly affect medical coding teams and providers’ day-to-day job responsibilities and how they capture services to receive quick and accurate reimbursements.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Doctors don’t seem flustered by bodily fluids or welts–what they dread is the hour-long calls with insurers, trying to persuade them to cover a test or procedure. There has to be some quality monitoring to prevent fraud and upcoding, but a lot of the time, the doctor just hasn’t coded properly or filled out the […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 3, 2022

Despite technology’s ability to eliminate some of the more tedious tasks like filling out endless insurance forms, and paying bills, […]. The following is a guest article by Joel Landau, Founder and Chairman of The Allure Group. Sadly, most of us realize now that the promise of a “paperless society” is unlikely to become a reality.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

” For as long as I can remember, the topic of price transparency in healthcare has […]. We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 2/14 at Noon ET (9 AM PT).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

“NextPatient is like a digital front office, fully integrated with the DrChrono offering’s advanced mobile capabilities to manage patient information, patient check-ins, scheduling, charting, medical billing, telemedicine and overall EHR management,” Cheng said. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2023

Inbox Health’s data-driven platform makes it easy to automate and personalize patient billing communications, modernizing long-standing industry norms of 30/60/90-day paper statement billing cycles. By improving the patient experience, billers see an increase in profitability, cash flow, and collection speeds.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2019

Nym, a leading autonomous medical coding technology provider, announced today that it has secured a $6 million seed round of financing, led by Bessemer Venture Partners. “Nym’s autonomous medical coding technology offers auditable and consistently […].

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Learn more about Availity: [link] Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT. Enjoy our interview with Krisi Hutson from Availity. And for an exclusive look at our top stories, subscribe to our newsletter and YouTube. Tell us what you think.

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