Founder and CEO, Robert Herzog of eCaring describes how tailoring programs for special patient populations will improve patient home care while reducing risks of hospital readmissions.
Real-time health monitoring including the patient's home continues to gain importance as pressures come from a variety of sources to reduce risks and costs of readmissions and hospitalizations. The Centers for the Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), enforcing the 2012 Medicare Readmission
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3 Ways Mobile Payments Can Improve A Hospital’s Bottom Line
Kristen Gramigna of BluePay describes three ways mobile payments can transform the patient experience and improve a hospital's bottom line.
Though mobile payments have been popular in retail and restaurant venues and accepted by major brands like Starbucks and Apple for nearly five years, the mutually beneficial advantages they offer both consumer and merchant haven’t gone unnoticed by a host of other industries, including health care. Here’s a look at why more hospitals have begun to
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Coalition for ICD-10 Responds to AMA President Dr. Robert Wah
The Coalition for ICD-10 has published the following response to recent remarks made by AMA president Dr. Robert Wah, in which he compared the AMA's opposition to ICD-10 to the movie Star Wars.
In his recent speech to the AMA House of Delegates, AMA president Dr. Robert Wah characterized the planned implementation of ICD-10 as analogous to the dark forces controlling the galaxy in the movie Star Wars:
“If it was a droid, ICD-10 would serve Darth Vader… For more than a
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ICD-10 is the Pathway to Big Data in Healthcare
If big data in healthcare is the future for medicine, then ICD-10 is the way to get there.
Over the past year, most of the news surrounding the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) has been either bureaucratic or comical in nature. Last fall, another delay of the new coding system’s implementation deadline was met with a ton of mixed feelings. Most organizations truly weren’t ready. In fact, in a survey of 1300 healthcare professionals, 55% agreed with the
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6 Metrics to Improve Hospital Revenue Cycle ROI
Lindy Benton, CEO of MEA|NEA, provides six key metrics to improve the ROI of a hospital revenue cycle management program to get cash in faster with less effort.
Revenue cycle management (RCM) is the process that manages claims processing, payment and revenue generation, and often entails the use of technology to keep track of the claims process at every check point. This allows the healthcare provider billing a patient the ability to follow along in the process and address any
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Why My Digital Health Startup Failed
Jeff Novich provides a rare and honest introspective look into why his digital health startup Patient Communicator, a patient portal CRM for doctors ultimately failed.
Editors’ Note: This article was originally published in January 2013 and has been republished with permission by the author.
My father is a primary care doctor. In 2009 he asked me to help build a product that would enable his patients to access him online rather than through the phone. Patient Communicator was basically a
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Health IT Interoperability: The 21st Century’s Golden Fleece
Frank Speidel, MD shares his insights on how a defined IT architecture is a essential solution to achieving health IT interoperability.
Jason, mythic hero prior to the Greek Dark Ages, was tasked to find the Golden Fleece before he could claim his throne. For this quest, Jason recruited other Greek heroes, Hercules, Orpheus, Castor and Pollux, to name a few of the Argonauts.
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Improving Patient Experience Is The Key to Reducing Referral Leakage
Jonathan Govette of ReferralMD explains why improving the patient experience is critical to reducing referral leakage and increasing revenue for practices and ACOs.
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Wearables: A Solution Searching For Problems?
Wearables, devices used to sense data and process it into information, are generating quite the buzz in healthcare these days. But down the line, does that buzz come with a sting?
In Wearable Tech News, Tony Rizzo reports wearable technology spending predictions of $50 billion by 2018. He also reports on a ground-breaking, glucose-sensing contact lens for diabetics that will be a “true solution for a very real medical problem that affects hundreds of millions of people.”
By 2016,
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What is the Future of Population Health Management?
The next evolution of population health management will demand a greater focus on three key data truths. Janice Nicholson, Founder & CEO of i2i Systems shares her definition of Population Health Management 2.0.
If you believe that Population Health Management is about reporting and analytics then you only know half the story. Yes, having the right Population Health Management tools eases the pain associated with delivering performance or compliance reports, demonstrating
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