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6 Ways Health Payors Can Leverage Intelligent Document Processing for Cost Savings

by Tom McCann, Growth Strategy & Business Development, Instabase 04/25/2023 Leave a Comment

6 Ways Health Payors Can Leverage Intelligent Document Processing for Cost Savings

The prevailing global economic conditions are negatively impacting the healthcare industry. Continuing staff shortages, endemic COVID-19, high inflation rates, and supply chain disruptions continue to drive medical costs higher, worsening what is already a persistent challenge for health insurers.  To offset rising healthcare costs, health insurance payors are challenged to find ways to contain their own costs by streamlining their processes and tightening their belts, which invariably
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Interoperability: Particle Health Launches Suite of Solutions to Wrangle Data

by Jasmine Pennic 03/21/2023 Leave a Comment

Interoperability: Particle Health Launches Suite of Solutions to Wrangle Data

What You Should Know: - Particle Health, an interoperability platform that aggregates and delivers actionable patient data and insights to healthcare companies, announced today it has launched its Particle FOCUS (Filtered Outputs Curated for Usability + Simplicity) solution suite.   - FOCUS data products are designed to streamline data by delivering comprehensive, simplified, and organized patient health information across seven disease states:
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Medical Natural Language Processing Tech Has Come of Age

by Dr. Tim O’Connell, Founder & CEO of emtelligent 01/19/2023 Leave a Comment

Medical Natural Language Processing Tech Has Come of Age

For many years, natural language processing (NLP) has held the promise of dramatically increasing the ability of healthcare organizations to quickly and accurately understand unstructured medical text in clinical notes. Using medical NLP, healthcare providers, clinical researchers, and payers would uncover meaningful insights hidden in unstructured text faster, with fewer errors, and at less cost than manual data review and analysis. This high-quality medical-grade data in turn would drive
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Why Data is at the Heart of Value-Based Care Success

by Steven Rube, M.D., Chief Clinical Officer, Intelligent Medical Objects 10/05/2022 Leave a Comment

Why Data is at the Heart of Value-Based Care Success

The saying “you cannot manage what you cannot measure” applies to all aspects of healthcare delivery, but it is especially true in value-based care. After all, payers, providers, and the patients they care for need to know what high-value care looks like at an individual level – and how it can be applied at the population level. Delivery and technology infrastructure. All too often, data is captured in disparate systems, forcing administrative staff – or, worse, physicians and nurses – to
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RCM: How Coding Gray Areas Skew Healthcare Data

by Chris Gallagher CCS, CDIP, VP of Delivery at Penstock 06/25/2021 Leave a Comment

RCM: How Coding Gray Areas Skew Healthcare Data

Clinical reality, the ICD-10-CM classification system, and considerations of reimbursement are three distinct worlds that are sometimes in conflict. We don’t like it when financial considerations intrude on the purity of coding, but there’s no escaping this intrusion when coding serves as both the representation of the clinical picture in healthcare data and as the basis for reimbursement. Sepsis Definitions at Odds Sepsis provides a great illustration of a coding gray area that can
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3 Barriers Stalling AI Adoption in Revenue Cycle Management

by Kenya Smith, Healthcare Solution Marketing Manager at ABBYY 03/30/2021 Leave a Comment

3 Barriers to AI Adoption in Revenue Cycle Management

AI technology is quickly evolving and already surpassing human decision-making in certain instances; sometimes, in ways, we can’t explain. While many are alarmed by this, AI is producing some of the most effective and dramatic results in business today.  Adoption of AI in healthcare is growing, but there are still barriers to overcome AI can be defined in many ways but, broadly, it is the ability of a machine to perform cognitive functions we associate with human minds, such as
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Equality Health Launches Social Determinants Program to Tackle Health Disparities

by Jasmine Pennic 09/10/2020 Leave a Comment

Equality Health Launches Social Determinants Program to Tackle Health Disparities

What You Should Know: - Equality Health launches Social and Cultural Risk Assessment (SCRA™) program to address social determinants of health (SDoH) -  With Equality Health’s SCRA program, social determinants act as any other quality metric, with a far less burdensome reporting process. Equality Health, a whole-health delivery system, has pioneered a comprehensive cultural care program that enables providers to identify and
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Give Your EHR a Makeover—Not a Do-Over

by David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems 06/29/2020 Leave a Comment

Give Your EHR a Makeover—Not a Do-Over

EHRs have long been blamed for fueling clinician frustration and burnout. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Informatics in Health and Biomedicine, 70 percent of clinicians reported experiencing stress related to the use of health information technology. In an effort to address those issues, healthcare organizations have spent countless hours and revenue to rip out inefficient clinical systems and replace them with new technologies—yet clinician satisfaction hasn’t
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RCM Myth: Healthcare Billing Is Just A Back-Office Job

by Marvin Luz, Sr. Director of Greenway Revenue Services at Greenway Health 05/18/2020 Leave a Comment

RCM Myth: Healthcare Billing Is Just A Back-Office Job

Historically, there was a belief in healthcare that revenue cycle management (RCM) was only a job for the back office. But today, medical practices are well-aware all staff members are critical to the revenue cycle. This responsibility extends through every aspect of a practice, from the front office to back office with the clinical staff in between.  The front office, for example, plays a role in generating revenue, because they can optimize scheduling and collect patient and insurance
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Charges for All Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients May Reach Up to $1.4 Trillion

by Jasmine Pennic 03/25/2020 Leave a Comment

Charges for All Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients May Reach Up to $1.4 Trillion

What You Should Know: - FAIR Health brief finds the total costs for all hospitalized COVID-19 patients range from a low of $362 billion in charges and $139 billion in estimated allowed amounts to a high of $1.449 trillion in charges and $558 billion in estimated allowed amounts, depending on the incidence rate of the infection in the US population. - The total average charge per COVID-19 patient requiring an inpatient stay is $73,300 and the total average estimated allowed amount per
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