Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 18, 2022

In a medical emergency, patients would be forced to cover massive medical bills out of pocket. As a result, 1 in 10 Americans owe some form of medical debt , with millions owing more than $10,000. The fallout from these statistics takes many forms.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

It is not about remote patient monitoring or adopting electronic health records or tools to help patients view their charts. We’ve seen that the patient experience, cost control and human capital considerations all improve with real-time connectivity. But improving connectivity is easier said than done.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Improves the patient experience. Rising costs have placed more of the financial burden on patients. In fact, 1 in 11 adults delay or go without medical care due to cost reasons, according to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In an economy where inflation is impacting fuel, housing, and grocery prices, an unexpected medical bill can go from merely unforeseen to flat-out unfeasible for some. When it comes to prescription medications, consumers demonstrate this hesitancy.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Creating a good patient experience through better, patient-centric billing is a critical way to improve By reducing confusion and providing a payment path for consumers who need it, patients can be better informed, more in control of their medical expenses and, most importantly, re – engaged.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Urgently Ortho in San Francisco, California, had an overarching goal: to create a tech-enabled orthopedic urgent care facility that provided a seamless patient experience using technology that could scale with leadership’s growth ambitions. ” Most hospital EHRs did not offer a great patient experience.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Ninety percent of patients surveyed said that provider loyalty depends on the patient financial experience. adults with unpaid medical bills say they’ve had a provider deny them care due to that medical debt, leading many to put off care. Both can impact outcomes, costs, and the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

We reached out to our beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on the role technology can play in working towards health equity. Melissa Urrea, Senior Executive Medical Director at naviHealth One of the areas where technology and research can improve healthcare is in the area of genomics.

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