What You Should Know:
- AdvancedMD, a provider of cloud healthcare software for independent medical, mental health, and physical therapy practices, announced today the top six healthcare trends that will have the biggest impact on physicians and medical offices in 2023.
- These trends are based on aggregated, anonymous user data from the more than 40,000 practitioners spanning 13,000 medical practices that subscribe to AdvancedMD practice management, EHR and patient engagement
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Electronic Transactions Can Benefit Partnership Among Physicians, Insurers and TPAs
The patient is at the center of the healthcare experience, and rightfully so. However, a strong case can be made to place the physician at the center. After all, it’s the physician who diagnoses and treats the patient.
Insurance companies and third-party administrators (TPAs) also have critical roles to play in the care experience, bringing together networks of physicians, specialists, surgery centers, hospitals, ambulatory care centers, and more to create a comprehensive care experience for
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Health IT M&A: KLAS Reveals Vendors Learning to Mitigate Negative Impact
What You Should Know:
- Since KLAS’ last report on M&A activity, there have been several notable vendor mergers and acquisitions affecting the healthcare IT landscape, and many healthcare organizations have needed to navigate the resulting disruptions.
- This report provides an update on how customer satisfaction has been affected by recent health IT M&A activity and what makes vendors more or less resilient during this type of change. This report includes 26
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The New “Front Door” to Healthcare Can Only Open Fully with True Interoperability
Some people think of retail pharmacists as standing behind the counter bottling pills, answering insurance questions, or discussing side effects with a customer.
But the COVID pandemic fundamentally changed the role of the neighborhood pharmacist, from primarily dispensing medication to increasingly being the source of urgent and primary care for patients. With the successful administration of more than 300 million COVID vaccinations, an ongoing doctor shortage, and
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Israel HMO Enables Patients to Contact Doctors Via WhatsApp
What You Should Know:
- Clalit Health Services, the largest HMO in Israel eases the burden on customer service teams, allowing members to communicate directly with their HMO through WhatsApp and social media.
- Clalit members in Israel. Clalit members can now contact the clinic and doctors via WhatsApp - to schedule appointments, send documents - and save waiting time.
Deploying CommBox’s Omnichannel Communication Platform
As part of the move, Clalit implemented CommBox’s
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TripleBlind Taps Mayo Clinic Platform To De-Identify Patient Data
What You Should Know:
- TripleBlind, an automated, real-time data de-identification company has expanded its relationship with Mayo Clinic Platform.
- For the first time in healthcare, the use of TripleBlind’s Privacy Builder software will enable healthcare systems, via Mayo Clinic Platform, to strategically collaborate on developing the next generation of digital healthcare solutions within secure environments.
Collaboration Details
The collaboration allows the Mayo Clinic Platform
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Solve.Care and EarthID Sign to Power Decentralized & Multi-faceted ID for Healthcare
What You Should Know:
Solve.Care & EarthID have announced a collaboration to employ blockchain technology to decentralize ID data and provide verification of credentials to create a powerful ID management system to be put in the hand on individuals.
The collaboration will enable individuals to aggregate all their multi-faceted data related to their identity for healthcare purposes, while maintaining complete control.
Decentralized & Multi-faceted ID for
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Why Prioritizing Patient Experience Is Essential for Small Healthcare Practices
Rising inflation and a looming recession are causing small healthcare practices to tighten their belts and eliminate unnecessary costs. Still, too many healthcare leaders are divesting where it may end up hurting them in the long run: digital solutions.
Digitization and automation can be a lifeline for healthcare practices. Staffing shortages and tedious and time-consuming tasks plague small healthcare businesses, and customers are turning to more modern and accessible practices for
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Opioid Use Disorders Cost U.S. Hospitals More than $95B Annually
What You Should Know:
- Based on prevalence estimates from PINC AI™ data during 2017-2022, an estimated 66 million emergency department (ED) outpatient visits and 760,000 inpatient admissions in the U.S. annually are for patients with the diagnosis of opioid use disorders (OUDs).
- Patients with an OUD diagnosis had 32.5 percent higher cost per ED visit and 8 percent higher cost per inpatient visit than those without an OUD diagnosis. The annual total cost of care for OUD-associated ED
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5 Must-Have Features for AI Platforms in RCM
A healthy, stable revenue cycle is crucial to every healthcare organization’s success. However, managing the revenue cycle takes experienced coders, complete documentation, and timely resolution of denials.
Administrative processes account for about 30% of U.S. healthcare costs, which means that all areas of a patient encounter, from check-in to billing and claims, are potential targets to obtain greater efficiency.
In the past 20 years or so, computer-assisted coding (CAC) has become
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