University of California at San Francisco, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (UCSF-OMS) has partnered with ReferralMD, an enterprise patient access platform to reduce patient wait times. As part of the partnership, UCSF has implemented ReferralMD's patient access platform to provide regular feedback to referring providers, prevent lost referrals, and centralize their referral management process. Prior to going live with ReferralMD, UCSF-OMS received faxed referrals from hundreds of
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Patient Access in Healthcare | Revenue Cycle Management
Inspira Health Network Launches Virtual Care Platform for Southern NJ
Inspira Health Network, one of southern New Jersey’s leading healthcare providers offering primary, acute and advanced care services is launching its own virtual care platform, Inspira eCare. The platform virtually connects patients with Inspira clinicians making it convenient and cost-effective for patients to receive care for common health conditions.Powered by virtual care company Zipnosis, Inspira eCare's virtual care platform allows patients to use their smartphones, tablets or computers to
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Fixing Healthcare’s Broken Pre-Authorization Screening & Verification Model
Editor's Note: David Dyke is the Vice President of Product Management & Business Development at RelayHealth where he is responsible for delivering innovation and value to the healthcare providers across revenue cycle management. Among the processes that influence the healthcare revenue cycle, pre-authorization stands out—but not in a good way. It lacks the foundation of a widely-adopted electronic data exchange, resulting in repeated manual, ad hoc methods of securing and confirming payer
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Meaningful Use Stage 2 Changes Bring Big Differences to Record Release
Guest post by Steve Emery, Director of Product Management at HealthPort
The Meaningful Use Stage 2 Notice of Proposed Rule Making is out and it would bring sweeping changes to how hospitals and eligible professionals release records and other information to patients.
Essentially, CMS is dropping three Stage 1 reporting criteria and replacing them with a core requirement for patient online access to medical records. CMS’s goal is to move the release of information (ROI) process from labor
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23% of U.S. Hospitals Plan to Invest in Patient Access Solutions for Eligibility
CapSite™ announces the release of the 2011 U.S. Patient Access Study. The study represents the latest in a series of CapSite strategic industry reports focused on the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) market.The statistically significant study represents unique Voice of Customer (VOC) insight from more than 500 U.S. hospitals on the market opportunity, market share, vendor mind share and adoption of various Patient Access solutions
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