Living with a rare disease can be exhausting. Symptoms, limitations, and medications are all obvious contributors, but there is another, less obvious challenge to living with a rare disease: the experience of simply being a patient.Patients, especially those with rare and complex diseases, are required to be their own health historians to manage and track all of their health needs and keep documents and paperwork up to date. They are also asked to fill out the same forms repeatedly – the same
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DrChrono Unveils EHR Configuration for Allergy Practices
DrChrono, the company enabling the medical practice of the future, announced today new updates to DrChrono EHR for Allergy to help simplify allergy testing, billing and other critical processes for allergy specialty practices. DrChrono EHR for Allergy is a robust and flexible all-in-one EHR platform that makes scheduling, clinical, and billing work seamless for allergists and immunologists.The newly updated DrChrono EHR for Allergy includes the following:· Allergy specific account
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HIMSS19 Agrees – 2019 Will be a Big Year for Telehealth
Telehealth has been a key theme at HIMSS for several years now; that said, it has never quite lived up to its own hype and to some extent has been viewed as a “niche” area compared to some of its bigger brothers such as EHR and population health. The back-end of 2018 and start of 2019 saw developments that are likely to change this in the near future.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated several of its guidance models and the 2019 physician fee schedule in relation to
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Study: Clinicians Feel More Comfortable Sharing Patient Information through Secure Communication
Clinicians feel more comfortable sharing patient information using a secure communication tool, according to findings from a secure mobile communication study conducted by Island Health in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The research evaluated Vocera Collaboration Suite across acute care and community practice settings on Vancouver Island. The study, which included feedback from more than 100 clinicians, evaluated the mobile application to understand the impact of secure texting on care
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CVS-Aetna Merger Impact : Consumers Open to Receiving Primary Care at CVS Clinics
The CVS-Aetna merger has the potential to create an integrated model for consumer healthcare that could transform the consumer experience; however, are consumers embracing the prospect of receiving care in a CVS retail pharmacy setting? According to new research from J.D. Power, forty-five percent of consumers said they would probably or definitely would use primary care services in a CVS retail pharmacy setting. CVS-Aetna Merger Consumer Impact Survey BackgroundJ.D. Power's December 2018 pulse
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Humana and PatientPing Integrate to Improve Care Coordination for North Carolina Medicare Advantage Members
Care coordination platform PatientPing, today announced that it has teamed up with Humana on a new care coordination focus for Humana Medicare Advantage plan members in North Carolina. The partnership aims to improve member experience for Humana's North Carolina Medicare Advantage membership by enhancing care coordination among providers on PatientPing's platform. Through these efforts, Humana aims to reduce emergency department visits, preventable admissions and readmissions, and improve
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Why Hospitals Without Robust Revenue Cycle Support are Losing Millions
A frequent knock on electronic health records (EHRs) has been that they’re just glorified billing systems that fail to provide enough clinical functionality to make a significant difference in the quality of care.So it’s somewhat incongruous that a recent Black Book report on revenue cycle management (RCM) system adoption would say that 26 percent of hospitals don’t have an effective RCM system in place even as virtually all hospitals are using an EHR.How can that be?The explanation for any
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Mon Health Taps PatientMatters to Improve Patient Financial Experience
PatientMatters, a company focused on improving patients’ financial experience while ensuring greater reimbursement for hospitals, today announced that leading PA and WV-based health system, Mon Health, has chosen the company to create a pre-access service system. Specifically, Mon Health will leverage PatientMatters’ new IntelliPass Phase I Advisory Program to improve the patient financial experience and overall collections process.This will enable Mon Health to integrate data and
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XIFIN Expands Patient and Physician Engagement Capabilities
XIFIN announced the expansion of its portfolio of physician and patient engagement solutions with integrated patient responsibility estimation and automated prior authorization capabilities, enabling diagnostic providers to improve their patient experience and physician satisfaction. The new capabilities include a strategic partnership with Glidian that integrates automated prior authorization capabilities with XIFIN’s revenue cycle management and laboratory information system solutions, XIFIN
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Covera Health Nabs $8.5M for Data Analytics Platform to Improve Healthcare Outomes
Covera Health, an NYC-based provider of analytics-based programs to reduce medical misdiagnoses and improve quality of care has raised $8.5 million in Series A funding led by Equity Group Investments (EGI). The Series A round also included select strategic and individual investors. Founded in 2017, Covera Health leverages advanced data analytics to build Radiology Centers of Excellence Programs for employers, health plans, and other healthcare entities to reduce misdiagnoses, improve patient
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