• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to secondary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

  • Opinion
  • Health IT
    • Behavioral Health
    • Care Coordination
    • EMR/EHR
    • Interoperability
    • Patient Engagement
    • Population Health Management
    • Revenue Cycle Management
    • Social Determinants of Health
  • Digital Health
    • AI
    • Blockchain
    • Precision Medicine
    • Telehealth
    • Wearables
  • Life Sciences
  • Investments
  • M&A
  • Value-based Care
    • Accountable Care (ACOs)
    • Medicare Advantage

Health IT & Digital Health-Opinion | Op-Eds | Guest Columns | Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant

RCM: Boosting Practice Revenue Through Patient Financial Clearance

by Matt Seefeld, Executive Vice President, MedEvolve 03/16/2020 Leave a Comment

RCM: Boosting Practice Revenue Through Patient Financial Clearance

Medical practices have to balance many things. But one of the biggest balancing acts, which often gets overshadowed by patient care, involves keeping finances in the black, by ensuring revenue cycle management (RCM) flows smoothly. Whether practices are solo independent ventures or large, multi-specialty networks, the struggle is real.  When we discuss the most impactful ways to keep a practice’s bottom line in check — and keep the revenue cycle healthy — most people think of back-office
Read More

6 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Considerations for Telehealth Providers

by Husch Blackwell attorneys Julian Rivera, Renee Zerbonia and Tamar E. Hodges. 03/13/2020 Leave a Comment

6 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Considerations for Telehealth Providers

As the novel coronavirus outbreak continues, the federal government and commercial health insurers have taken significant steps to increase Americans’ access to treatment and testing. In the past week, the federal government and private insurers have issued a number of guidance documents expanding coverage and payment requirements in an effort to minimize the spread of the virus. As with any changes in coverage and reimbursement, healthcare providers offering telehealth services should
Read More

Using Health IT to Preserve Antibiotics and Fight Drug-Resistance

by Evan Jones, CEO of OpGen 03/10/2020 Leave a Comment

Using Technology to Preserve Antibiotics and Fight Drug-Resistance

In its latest report on antibiotic resistance, the CDC revealed that infection rates for many threat pathogens are stagnant or in a nominal decline. While this is promising news, there are still a startling 2.8 million cases of drug-resistant infections predicted this year, which will result in an estimated 35,000 deaths. What’s more, the speed at which some patients are developing resistance to last-resort antibiotics – those that are often reserved for special scenarios and designed
Read More

Op-Ed: Health Care Is Too Important To Stay The Same

by Brent Shafer, Cerner CEO & Chairman of the Board 03/09/2020 Leave a Comment

Health Care Is Too Important To Stay The Same

Virtually every business around the globe is contending with how to improve the consumer experience in an era of digitization. We live in a world where you can calculate the fastest route to your destination, order dinner to be delivered, have groceries loaded into your fridge, and livestream content from around the world – all from the palm of your hand. So why have we not seen the same strides in health care? In part, because of the inability of patients to access and control their own
Read More

TeraRecon Acquired by SymphonyAI: What is the Impact for Medical Imaging Market?

by Simon Harris, Managing Director at Signify Research 03/09/2020 Leave a Comment

TeraRecon Acquired by SymphonyAI: What is the Impact for Medical Imaging Market?

On the 4th March 2020, TeraRecon announced it had signed an agreement to be acquired by the SymphonyAI Group. Here are the facts of the deal, followed by our take on the potential impact on the medical imaging market: - The terms of the deal were not disclosed and TeraRecon will continue to operate business as usual. However, it will benefit from greater financial backing and the synergistic technologies from other companies in the Group’s portfolio. - TeraRecon is an Advanced
Read More

The Hard Truth About Boosting Patient Acquisition

by Matt Dickson, VP, Product, Strategy, and Communication Solutions at Stericycle 03/02/2020 Leave a Comment

Matt Dickson, VP, Product, Strategy, and Communication Solutions at Stericycle

Technology giants and other non-traditional players are moving into the healthcare market, giving consumers a host of new options for how and where they obtain services. Everyone from Apple and Amazon to G.E. and Berkshire Hathaway are disrupting the market by introducing new delivery models that emphasize simplicity, transparency and positive digital experiences.  Traditional players will need to recalibrate how they build market share due to this new consumerism threat. In fact, a
Read More

Can EHRs Stand Up Marketplaces for Innovation?

by Seth Joseph, Managing Director at Summit Health 02/26/2020 Leave a Comment

Can EHRs Stand Up Marketplaces for Innovation?

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) continues to advocate for improved data exchange, with the interoperability and information blocking rules being the latest federal push.  One of the ONC’s goals with its latest guidance is to establish an ecosystem of innovation, with electronic health records (EHRs) serving as the foundation -- i.e., the platform enabling application development and user access.  But when it comes developing an EHR-based marketplace for
Read More

Benefits of Store and Forward, or Asynchronous Telehealth Solutions

by Brooke LeVasseur, CEO of AristaMD 02/24/2020 Leave a Comment

The utility and benefit of store-and-forward, or asynchronous telehealth solutions

An introduction to asynchronous, or store-and-forward, as a modality of telehealth  As our healthcare system continues to innovate in order to meet demands and improve the delivery of value, various telehealth solutions have emerged and been implemented to increase efficiency, access to, and quality of care. Telehealth is a broad term encompassing “a collection of technology-based means or methods to enhance healthcare delivery and education.” As defined by the National Telehealth
Read More

Black History Month: Social Determinants of Health, The African American Experience

by JohnMatthew Douglas, President And Founder at iPressForward, LLC 02/21/2020 Leave a Comment

Black History Month: Social Determinants of Health, The African American Experience

For the sake of history and, the auspices of a bountiful potential of a great people of a Great Nation may there be boldness and courage in the noble battle waged to address social determinants of health within US healthcare? History has revealed the health and well being of a Nation and its people is as important as matters of national security. Thus, stands the profound import of equitable access to good health and wellness within the United States of America and Nations around the world.
Read More

How Do We Make Dignity the Animating Principle in Healthcare?

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 02/19/2020 Leave a Comment

Medsphere CEO Talks Affordable Healthcare IT and Future of EHRs

Dignity-focused organizations are not easy to define, but also not hard to recognize. Justice Stewart It’s all about the patient. Well, unless that patient has been to particular hospitals for treatment and is having trouble paying the ensuing bills. Then it’s about the hospital and collections agents and wage garnishments and such. For this approach to providing care, the Lown Institute, a nonpartisan think tank advocating for bold healthcare ideas, honored a group of what they clearly
Read More

  • Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 162
  • Go to page 163
  • Go to page 164
  • Go to page 165
  • Go to page 166
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 246
  • Next Page

Primary Sidebar

Subscribe to HIT Consultant

Latest insightful articles delivered straight to your inbox weekly.

Submit a Tip or Pitch

Featured Insights

Digital Health Funding Q3 2025: Choppy Undercurrents Beneath a Steady Surface

Featured Interview

ConcertAI VP Shares View on AI Hallucinations and the Fabricated Data Crisis in Scientific Publishing

Most-Read

Cleveland Clinic and Khosla Ventures Form Strategic Alliance to Accelerate Healthcare Innovation

Cleveland Clinic and Khosla Ventures Form Strategic Alliance to Accelerate Healthcare Innovation

Northwell Health Selects to Deploy Abridge’s Ambient AI Across 28 Hospitals

Northwell Health to Deploy Abridge’s Ambient AI Across 28 Hospitals

Omada Health Launches "Nutritional Intelligence" with AI Agent OmadaSpark

Omada Health Launches AI-Powered Meal Map to Transform Nutrition for Cardiometabolic Patients

From Overwhelmed to Optimized: How AI Agents Address Staffing Challenges and Burnout in Healthcare

From Overwhelmed to Optimized: How AI Agents Address Staffing Challenges and Burnout in Healthcare

Qualtrics Acquires Press Ganey Forsta for $6.75B to Create the Most Comprehensive AI Experience Platform

Qualtrics Acquires Press Ganey Forsta for $6.75B to Create the Most Comprehensive AI Experience Platform

Pfizer and Trump Administration Announce Landmark Agreement to Lower Drug Costs

Pfizer and Trump Administration Announce Landmark Agreement to Lower Drug Costs

KLAS Report: Epic's Native Ambient Speech Tool Reshapes Customer AI Strategies

KLAS Report: Epic’s Native Ambient Speech Tool Reshapes Customer AI Strategies

Epic Unveils MyChart Central and New APIs to Advance Interoperability at Open@Epic

Epic Outlines Roadmap for Next-Generation Data Sharing at Open@Epic

Epic Launches Comet: A New AI Platform to Predict Patient Health Journeys

Epic Launches Comet: A New AI Platform to Predict Patient Health Journeys

RevSpring to Acquire Kyruus Health, Creating a Unified Patient Experience

RevSpring to Acquire Kyruus Health, Creating a Unified Patient Experience

Secondary Sidebar

Footer

Company

  • About Us
  • Advertise with Us
  • Reprints and Permissions
  • Op-Ed Submission Guidelines
  • Contact
  • Subscribe

Editorial Coverage

  • Opinion
  • Health IT
    • Care Coordination
    • EMR/EHR
    • Interoperability
    • Population Health Management
    • Revenue Cycle Management
  • Digital Health
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Blockchain Tech
    • Precision Medicine
    • Telehealth
    • Wearables
  • Startups
  • Value-Based Care
    • Accountable Care
    • Medicare Advantage

Connect

Subscribe to HIT Consultant Media

Latest insightful articles delivered straight to your inbox weekly

Copyright © 2025. HIT Consultant Media. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy |