Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership and industry relations — with a special focus on patient engagement and federal compliance issues. She currently serves as the Director of Industry Relations at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere Systems.The new 21st Century Cures Act is about to change healthcare IT, and most of the industry never saw it
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Revenue Cycle: 5 Tips to Improve Your Organization’s Clean-Claims Rate
Editor's Note: Glenn Krauss is the Regional Director of Enterprise Solutions at ZirMed, a provider of revenue cycle management, medical claims, electronic data interchange, clinical communication, health information & healthcare connectivity.At a time in healthcare when value is king, waste is inexcusable, every penny counts and losing millions and millions of dollars to denials is simply no longer an option for hospitals and health systems.By some estimates, as many as 20 percent of medical
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Healthcare Ransomware: Why Providers Should Not Pay the Ransom
Editor's Note: Dean Wiech is the Managing Director of Tools4ever, a global provider of access management and governance solutions.Healthcare is simply in the crosshairs of some really nefarious people. You’d have to be living under a rock to have missed the comments on everything that has been happening in the sector. The daily headlines include such news as “Hospital declares State of Emergency after ransomware infection”; “Hospital pays ransom to get data back”; “Dangerous escalation in
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Is EHR Data Blocking Blocking Finally on Its Last Leg?
Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership, and industry relations — with a special focus on patient engagement and federal compliance issues. She currently serves as the Director of Industry Relations at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere SystemsHealthcare industry market analysts, technology gurus and IT reporters sometimes like to envision a
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Can Ambient Cognitive Cyber Surveillance Reduce EHR Data Breaches?
Editor's Note: Santosh Varughese is the President of Cognetyx, a provider of 'Ambient Cognitive Cyber Surveillance' to protect information assets against cyber security threats, data breaches and privacy violations. Since cybersecurity healthcare threats on hospital EHR systems have become a topic of nightly newscasts, no longer is anyone shocked by their scope and veracity. What is shocking is the financial damage the attacks are predicted to cause as they reverberate throughout the economy.In
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Humans Are The Greatest Assets to Healthcare IT Security, Not Technical
Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership, and industry relations — with a special focus on patient engagement and federal compliance issues. She currently serves as the Director of Industry Relations at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere SystemsYou know already that the biggest threat to healthcare IT security is the human element. But if human beings
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Why We Shouldn’t Call Apple ResearchKit and CareKit ‘Platforms’
Editor’s Note: Ryan Rossier is VP of Platform Solutions at Medullan, a digital healthcare consulting firm.It’s no secret that getting people to engage in their health is one of our generation’s biggest challenges.Digital health engagement, especially, is often discussed as “a huge opportunity,” but the reality is that while people are interested in their health, it’s still incredibly difficult to get them to use digital tools consistently. Enacting behavior change is still a mostly elusive
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How Millennials Lead the Way to Healthcare Innovation
Editor's Note: Mark Haddad is VP of Consulting for the Microsoft group at SADA Systems, a full-service cloud migration and IT consulting services company, offering cloud solutions, managed services, technical services. Statisticians, researchers and workplace experts love to talk about how different Millennials are than the rest of us as workers and consumers. There have been numerous studies about the potential impact of this group on the healthcare industry, since healthcare defies nearly
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Version 2 of Healthcare IT Must Change The Paradigm of EHRs
Editor's Note: Paul Brient is the CEO of PatientKeeper, a provider of healthcare applications for clinical and financial workflows to physicians. Prior to joining PatientKeeper in 2002, Brient held senior executive-level positions at leading healthcare and consulting firms including McKesson Corporation, HPR, and The Boston Consulting Group. Another report is out this month that highlights the shortcomings of EHRs. According to an AMA-funded study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine,
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Can a Healthcare App Seal of Approval Foster Innovation?
Editor’s Note: Michelle Longmire, MD is a Stanford-trained physician-entrepreneur and the CEO of Medable Inc., an app and analytics platform for healthcare. Reach her at @LongmireMD. In an effort to protect consumers, Apple has released guidelines for its health apps. In developer guidelines released this summer, it dictates: “If your app behaves in a way that risks physical harm, we may reject it.”Apple’s stance on health app safety will be regarded as the first significant industry step
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