Dell and Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAMHSC) have announced the creation of a health technology academy to provide customized information technology education to the ever-evolving health professions workforce. The pioneering collaboration will empower current and future caregivers to improve patient outcomes through enhanced health information technology practices.
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Top 3 Investment Areas for Population Health Management
Advisory Board survey results explore trends in the top three investment areas for population health management
The Care Transformation Center at the Advisory Board surveyed 180 healthcare provider systems, standalone community hospitals, academic medical centers, and physician practices from July-October 2013 to offer a unique snapshot of population health managers' investment priorities. Key highlights of the survey include:
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8 Best Practices to Improve Patient Payments
New white paper from AdvancedMD offers eight best practices to improve patient payments
Private practices are now among the largest unsecured credit grantors in the country. In fact, more than $1 out of every $4 of practice revenue is the patient's responsibility. How did we get to this point? As the money from insurance companies decreases, patient portions have increased. As a result, both patient liability and bad debt are on the rise and healthcare providers are experiencing unprecedented
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Availity Acquires RevPoint to Enable Enhanced Patient Access Tools
Availity's acquisition of RevPoint addresses demand for improved reimbursement management tools; simplifies “up-front” payment processes for providers and their patients.
Availity, provider of health information networks, today announced it has acquired Nashville, Tennessee-based RevPoint Healthcare Technologies, an innovative provider of revenue cycle tools that increase patient collections at the beginning of the revenue cycle process.
Unlike traditional collection tools developed to
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Is It Time We Stifle Innovation in Healthcare?
Should we stifle innovation in healthcare or should we attempt to disseminate between healthcare innovations that seems worthy? Margarit Gur-Arie explains.
Stifling innovation is a very bad thing. As a society it is incumbent upon us to let innovation breath free, prosper and multiply, because innovation is good for us. All innovation is good for us, even if it doesn’t look that way initially, because you never know when a seemingly useless innovation will spawn that one innovation that will
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Intersecting Trends in HIT: Population Health Management & Business Intelligence
72.5% of healthcare organizations are integrating clinical and claims data to better manage population health. In order to successfully take advantage of that data to improve care coordination, healthcare providers must learn to utilize population health management and business intelligence tools. The infographic shown below created by CDW Healthcare illustrates how population health management and business intelligence tools are playing a bigger role in the changing HIT landscape.
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Case Study: EHR Voice Recognition vs. Laptop EHR Entry
A Day in the Life of a Nurse with VoiceFirst
Learn how VoiceFirst's EHR voice recognition solution promotes overall clinical efficiency by reducing documentation time, increasing time for direct patient care, streamlining workflows, and increasing clinician job satisfaction.
EHR voice overlay profoundly changes the way nurses and clinicians retrieve patient information and document care. Using intuitive voice commands and real-time audio feedback from the EHR, clinicians can increase
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Study: Meaningful Use Stage 1 Alters Sequence of EHR Adoption for Hospitals
A recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Michigan found that Meaningful Use stage 1 is likely changing how hospitals sequence EHR adoption. Using data from the 2008 American Hospital Association (AHA) Information Technology (IT) Supplement data, the researchers calculated the adoption rates of individual EHR functions, along with Loevinger homogeneity (H) coefficients, to assess the sequence of EHR adoption across hospitals. They then compared the adoption rates and
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5 Key Barriers to EHR Replacement for Providers
New NextGen white paper focuses on five key barriers to EHR replacement holding most practices back from moving ahead with a much needed replacement of their EHR.
Replacing your current EHR is no easy undertaking. But it’s becoming a common trend, with about half of all providers currently unsatisfied with their EHR. Concern over EHR replacement costs can keep you up at night, but the benefits on the other side of replacement will make it all worthwhile. In fact, after a successful EHR
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HIPAA Audits: A 5 Step Survival Guide for Healthcare Providers
This post is sponsored by Compliancy Group LLC.
If you ask any health IT security professional today about what keeps them up at night, a full-scale data breach is probably at the top of the list. With regulatory fines in the millions and data breach notification/mitigation costs at even higher amounts, data breaches represent one of the greatest financial risks that healthcare providers contend with today. And in light of the new HIPAA Omnibus Rules, health IT vendors now face some of the
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