The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital health technologies across the healthcare industry. Digital transformation is now the top priority for many healthcare leaders as they seek to build resilient systems. At its core, this means implementing emerging digital technologies to modify essential operations, processes, and services to ease staff workload and withstand future challenges.
The primary drivers of digital transformation are consumerism, cost, and experience/expectations,
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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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3 Types of Data Are Transforming Clinical Care Through Cellular-based RPM
As the healthcare industry continues to embrace new technologies, remote patient monitoring (RPM) is becoming established as a way to help chronic patients remain in their homes with health supervision to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and visits to the emergency department, urgent care facility, or physician’s office.
RPM has been known for its ability to monitor a patient’s vital signs in near real-time and provide quantitative data to their care team over
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Minding the Gaps: 4 Traditionally Non-IT Roles Necessary for IT Success
As healthcare continues to digitally transform, integrating health data among various IT stakeholders demands much more collaboration than our predecessors could have imagined. Once focused intensely on preventing fraud, waste, and abuse and ensuring high-quality patient care, the compliance department is tasked with maintaining programs that meet the regulations and laws of numerous government bodies pertaining to various areas, especially electronic protected health information (ePHI).
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A Hybrid, Technology-Driven Approach to Overcome Coding and RCM Staff Shortages
Exacerbated by pandemic-induced burnout, resignations, and even terminations1, chronic coding and revenue cycle management (RCM) staffing shortages have healthcare organizations struggling to find ways to keep revenue flowing despite a lack of qualified professionals to handle critical processes. It is a situation that has been brewing for years, as too few qualified professionals are entering professions that are expanding more rapidly than ever before.
According to the American Hospital
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The Critical Shift in ASC EHR Adoption: Overcoming Barriers
Extraordinary advances in technology have opened up previously unthinkable possibilities for the healthcare industry and improvements in patient care. Electronic health records (EHRs) are one of many health IT advancements in recent years, and they prove to have a significant impact on both providers and patients alike. While an EHR optimizes workflow efficiencies for providers, it also enables a more comprehensive view of a patient’s health. By pulling together data points and health
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Nuance Sells Off Transcription and EHR-Go-Live Businesses to DeliverHealth
What You Should Know:
- Nuance announced that it’s planning to sell two sections of its healthcare business – Health Information Management (HIM) and Electronic Health Record (EHR) Go-Live Services to a new independent company, called DeliverHealth, in early 2021.
- Nuance will be a minority shareholder of DeliverHealth
and continue to provide its technology to the company.
Nuance
Communications, Inc., today announced the planned sale
of the Health Information Management (HIM)
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Designating Ownership of Provider Data Will Improve Care Coordination, Study Finds
What You Should Know:
- New LexisNexis Risk Solutions Health Care survey reveals
that 63% of respondents believe designating ownership of provider data will
improve care coordination, yet only 18% of organizations report having a
dedicated data governance department
- The survey results are based on over 100 qualified
responses from organizations across the industry, including independent
hospitals, teaching hospitals, independent physician groups, and federally
qualified health
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AHIMA to Provide MEDITECH Expanse EHR Training to 16k Students
What You Should Know:
- The American Health Information Management Association
(AHIMA) has selected MEDITECH to provide access to digital training for 16,000
students in over 300 colleges and universities using MEDITECH Expanse EHR.
- MEDITECH Expanse will be offered as part of the AHIMA
VLab™ — an online-based health information environment that features multiple
software applications and corresponding lab lessons.
MEDITECH is
extending its relationship with The American
Health
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Why EHR Interoperability is Critical for Telehealth
Telehealth has recently taken off as a way to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, but even though telehealth has been around for several years, clinics had difficulty adopting it pre-COVID-19. This caused clinics to not view telehealth as a viable option, and it was often seen as a last resort approach to healthcare.
As reducing the spread of COVID-19 became paramount, Medicare and Medicaid were forced to develop telehealth service codes, and clinics were tasked with finding an
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