As COVID-19 continues to influence patient behaviors and causes providers to reevaluate how they operate their businesses, healthcare practices all around the world started looking for solutions that emphasize clinical efficiencies, elevate patient revenue cycle management, as well as feature enhanced reporting, and analytics tools. More so, along with facing challenges of the patient intake process during a pandemic, providers have also been put to the test with learning how to meet the sudden
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Innovaccer Reaches $1.3B Valuation, Launches Health Cloud Platform
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer closes Series D round of growth capital bringing Innovaccer at a total valuation of $1.3 billion.
- In addition, the company has launched the Innovaccer Health Cloud, a platform as a service that combines the company’s Data Activation Platform and application suite with an extensive set of platform services and tools that allow customers and partners to easily develop interoperable applications that improve patient outcomes and lower
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11 Best Practices of a Successful Care Model Transformation Plan
Health systems across the country will require a plan to react to government deep spending cuts and revenue shortfalls due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospital services have seen a significant downturn in demand in 2020, and the recent resurgence in cases has led to further decreases. The public health emergency has also resulted in innovation, most notably telehealth, which has been granted temporary pay parity during the pandemic.
Still, hospitals and health systems face a year of losses, but
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Health Plans Must Go Beyond the ONC Mandate and Prioritize Member Experience
We are all frustrated when there’s a glitch with our online banking, or if bandwidth problems interfere with streaming the movie we want to watch. Imagine how individuals will react when the results of a cancer screening don’t find their way into Apple Health or Google Health, where such information is supposed to be easy to find. Or worse, if an individual is given the wrong information about a cancer diagnosis.
An individual’s first call about missing health data or claims is going to
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6 HIEs Form New Consortium to Drive Population Health Improvements Via Data Sharing Interoperability
What You Should Know:
- A group of six health information exchanges (HIE) announced today their formation of the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability (CSRI).
- The 501(c)(3) CRSI aims to help drive individual and population health improvements across the nation through robust and innovative sharing of health information.
- Collective, CRSI connects over 80 million records for patients across several states and provide a wide range of services to healthcare
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Epic, Galen Healthcare, Chartis Group Named 2020 Overall Best in KLAS Awards
What You Should Know:
- Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the eleventh consecutive year in the Best in KLAS 2021 Software & Services report, released today, which reports on the top vendors for 2020. Epic was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor. Galen Healthcare Solutions was named the top Overall IT Services Firm. The Chartis Group earned the award of top Overall Healthcare Management Consulting Firm, edging out last year’s winner,
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CHIME-KLAS Report Reveals 10 Key EMR Interoperability Trends
What You Should Know:
- New CHIME-KLAS interoperability report reveals steady
progress in some areas related to interoperability and leaps forward in others.
- A total of 67% of provider organizations reported they
often or nearly always had access to needed records in 2020, up from 28% in
2017. Providers noted improvements in functionality and usability for tasks
like locating and viewing records.
Both providers and the companies that produce the hardware and software needed
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From Analog to Digital Neurology: 3 Steps to Better Inform Patient Care
The field of neurology is at an inflection point. With a growing aging population, neurologists are facing an increasing number of patients needing care, and the pent-up demand for services due to COVID-19 only exacerbates this issue. The pressure on neurologists is enormous, with surveys indicating excessive stress caused by inefficient workflow and mounting paperwork 1,2. It is becoming increasingly clear that the traditional analog neurological exam and referral system is overwhelmed, and
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Onyx, AMA Innovations Form Collaboration to Build FHIR-Based Messaging
What You Should Know:
- Onyx and AMA Innovations partner to rethink ways FHIR-based messaging technology can improve links between healthcare and community-based organizations.
- As part of the collaboration, both organizations will jointly
target grant opportunities through HHS’ Administration for Community Living’s
Social Care Referrals Challenge Program.
Onyx Technology LLC and AMA Innovations Inc., a technology development subsidiary of the American Medical Association, today
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Intelligent Automation of the Revenue Cycle: How an Integrated Platform Approach Yields Financial Results
Healthcare provider networks are experiencing enormous pressure to manage financial margins and invest in contactless patient experiences. With overall financial losses projected to exceed $323 billion as a result of COVID-19, a projected $200 billion in administrative waste due to revenue cycle inefficiencies, and increasing pressure to meet digital consumerism demands, it is essential for health systems to find ways to streamline processes, maximize their revenue cycles and cut costs. These
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