NextGen Healthcare recently conducted a survey among practices across the nation to gain deeper insight into the current state of revenue cycle management (RCM) across various medical practices. Participating practices included both NextGen Healthcare clients and non-NextGen Healthcare clients, spanning varying specialties, staff size, and locations. The survey results reflect the operational and financial metrics provided by each of them. .
The RCM Survey Report: What’s Happening Behind
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Archives for 2015
MDOps to Deliver Voice-Controlled Instant Clinical Documentation for Allscripts Users
MDOps, a provider of dictation-based mobile apps for instant clinical documentation has joined the Allscripts Developer Program, a network of innovations featuring certified applications and devices for users of Allscripts Sunrise Acute Care. MDOps' certified application, MDLog enables intuitive access to Allscripts Sunrise Acute Care from the convenience of an iPhone or iPad, simplifying the clinical documentation and workflow for physicians and other medical staff.
Becoming an ADP-certified
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Infographic: Top Healthcare Trends of 2015
2015 is poised to be a year of transition in healthcare. ICD-10 rolls out in October, and more healthcare providers will need to optimize EHRs to comply with Meaningful Use, stage 2 requirements. The mobile app market is exploding, and the majority of healthcare leaders are now considering telehealth services.
Physicians in small, independent practices are feeling the crunch as the decreasing number of doctors are unable to keep up with the rising patient demand for care. The infographic
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Rite Aid Launches First-Ever Healthcare Innovation Challenge
Rite Aid is announcing the first-ever healthcare Innovation Challenge, a nationwide search for original product ideas that will improve the health and well-being of Rite Aid customers. Rite Aid’s Innovation Challenge is being conducted in partnership with Edison Nation Medical, a leader in medical and healthcare innovation. Edison Nation Medical will work to design, develop and patent the chosen health and wellness products that will be sold exclusively at Rite Aid stores and . The challenge is
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Cleveland Clinic, Cox Partner to Deliver Telehealth & Home Health Solutions
Broadband and cable TV provider, Cox Communications and Cleveland Clinic have announce the formation of Vivre Health, a strategic alliance to bring world-class healthcare to the home through innovative telehealth and home health solutions.
The joint venture will help further increase Cox's market footprint by expanding into healthcare to provide remote patient monitoring, telehealth visits and other in-home monitoring and treatment services via broadband. The cable TV provider already
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Epic Plans to Launch Its Own App Store
Verona, Wis.-based EHR leader Epic Systems is planning to launch its own app store called the "App Exchange", similar to Apple's iTunes store that would allow developers to create apps that integrate with Epic's EHR platform, Wisconsin State Journal first reports. Mark Bakken, co-founder and former chief executive of Nordic Consulting, the largest consulting firm working with customers of Epic first broke the announcement Tuesday during a luncheon meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network.
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Cigna-HealthSpring Partners with Telcare To Deliver Cellular-Enabled Monitoring
Cigna-HealthSpring has announced a partnership with Telcare to further expand health care services for its Texas Medicaid STAR+PLUS membership in an effort to improve the quality of life for its beneficiaries with diabetes. Under the new partnership, Telcare will deliver its cellular enabled remote monitoring and engagement services for select diabetic beneficiaries enrolled with Cigna-HealthSpring under the Texas Medicaid STAR+PLUS Program. Their first joint program has launched their first
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Aetna, Newtopia to Bring Personalized Health Prevention to Employers
Newtopia, a personalized health company has signed a commercial agreement with Aetna to begin offering its enterprise health engagement platform to Aetna’s largest employer customers and their employees. Newtopia uses genetic testing and behavioral science to build highly personalized disease prevention plans.
Aetna/Newtopia Pilot Program
The partnership follows the successful pilot program completion with Aetna employees who had, or were at risk for, Metabolic Syndrome, a condition that
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Walgreens Adds Patient-Reported Data from PatientsLikeMe Members
PatientsLikeMe is now working with Walgreens to help make it easier for people to understand how the medications they take may affect them. Now, anyone researching a medication or filling a prescription on Walgreens.com can access a newly enhanched dashboard that shows how their prescribed medication has impacted other patients on the therapy, including medication side effects for more than 5,000 medications , as reported by PatientsLikeMe members.
PatientsLikeMe is a
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AirStrip Expands Mobile Health Solutions to Australia and New Zealand
AirStrip® and Life Monitor Pty Ltd. have announced the formation of a strategic partnership to sell AirStrip solutions in Australia and New Zealand. Both the AirStrip ONE mobile interoperability platform and the Sense4Baby wireless fetal/maternal monitoring system will be available as part of the agreement.
Life Monitor streamlines connectivity across the healthcare sector, providing the Ideal Life Operating platform and associate peripheral devices to enable clients to remotely manage
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