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Patient Access in Healthcare | Revenue Cycle Management

UPMC Invests in Kyruus’ Provider Match To Optimize Patient Access

by Staff Member - Strategic Partnerships 03/09/2022 Leave a Comment

Kyruus Health Expands National Provider Network to Include Virtual Behavioral Health Providers

- UPMC, a Pittsburgh-based healthcare provider and insurer, announced it is expanding its strategic partnership with Kyruus to further optimize patient access.   - UPMC has been a Kyruus customer since 2019 and now will be directly investing in the company and collaborating on the future development of Kyruus’ ProviderMatch platform. Last year, UPMC expanded its relationship with Kyruus to enable consumers to find care and book appointments — directly into the
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GoodRx Acquires Pharmacy Services Platform VitaCare for $150M

by Fred Pennic 03/07/2022 Leave a Comment

GoodRx Acquires Pharmacy Services Platform VitaCare for $150M

What You Should Know:- GoodRx announced that it will acquire vitaCare Prescription Services, a tech-enabled pharmacy services platform that expands GoodRx’s offering to pharma manufacturers while improving patient access and adherence to affordable brand drugs.   - Over 500 million brand prescriptions are written every year, yet only half are ever filled. This acquisition will give GoodRx the tools we need to help address this problem and facilitate the brand
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Cedar Launches Cedar Pre to Transform Patient Financial Experience

by Fred Pennic 03/07/2022 Leave a Comment

Cedar Launches Cedar Pre to Transform Patient Financial Experience

What You Should Know: - Cedar launches Cedar Pre to deliver seamless and comprehensive healthcare experiences to consumers preparing for care. - By leveraging Cedar’s expanded patient engagement suite, providers can empower patients with unprecedented access and affordability from pre-registration and intake through final payment.  Cedar, a New York City-based healthcare financial technology platform built for today’s consumers, today announced the launch of Cedar Pre, an
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Patient Data & Decentralized Web: The Key To A Healthier Future?

by Jonathan Bingham - Janeiro Digital, CEO 02/17/2022 Leave a Comment

Patient data and the decentralized web: The key to a healthier future?

Interoperable data and IT systems in healthcare has long been an enigma - many have tried to tackle the challenge, but until now very little has changed. A truly interconnected network that brings together the infinite number of siloed systems used in healthcare services around the world, and even within the same county, has remained elusive. And so too has patient access to their own data. Considered by some as two distinct problems, however in reality the answer to both is the same: web 3.0
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Health Systems Cite Telehealth as Top Tool to Improve Patient Access in 2022

by Fred Pennic 12/10/2021 Leave a Comment

Telehealth Named Top Tool to Improve Patient Access for Health Systems, CCM & KLAS Report Finds

What You Should Know: - Improving patient access to medical services is a top priority for health system leaders in 2022, according to new research from the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) and KLAS Research. - According to new research, patient access was identified by health system leaders as the challenge in healthcare that can be best addressed with telehealth in the coming year. Nearly 99% of health systems identified improving patient access as a “high” or “very high”
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Ochsner Health Selects Kyruus to Simplify Patient Access Across Enterprise

by Jasmine Pennic 12/07/2021 Leave a Comment

Ochsner Health Selects Kyruus to Simplify Patient Access Across Enterprise

What You Should Know: - Ochsner Health in Louisiana, is simplifying patient access to care with Kyruus’ provider directory and enhanced search capabilities. - Patients seeking care online will now have access to rich, up-to-date information on more than 3,000 providers.   Kyruus, a provider search and scheduling solutions for health systems, today announced that Ochsner Health, the largest non-profit, academic health system in Louisiana, is utilizing the company’s provider
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Rethinking Patient Access: 4 Key Actions for Health Systems

by Erin Jospe, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Kyruus 11/30/2021 Leave a Comment

Rethinking Patient Access: 4 Key Action for Health Systems

As we learn to equilibrate with COVID-19, we are collectively learning how to modulate our acceptance of risk in order to re-emerge and engage with the world around us. It has at times over the course of the pandemic been a necessary choice, oftentimes in the name of risk, to forgo routine healthcare. Our avoidance of more routine prevention and health maintenance activities to minimize exposure and taxation of health systems has unfortunately increased other health risks, particularly risks
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Luma Health Secures $130M to Optimize Patient Journey

by Fred Pennic 11/23/2021 Leave a Comment

Luma Health Secures $130M to Optimize Patient Journey

What You Should Know: - Luma Health, a provider of patient engagement technology raises $130M to unify, automate, and transform patients’ healthcare journey. Luma Health, a San Francisco, CA-based patient engagement platform, today announced a $130 million Series C funding round led by FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity investment firm, with participation from existing investors. This latest round brings Luma Health’s total funding raised to $160
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An Inside Look at Payer Compliance with CMS’ Patient Access API Rule

by John Kelly, Principal Business Advisor, Edifecs 11/23/2021 Leave a Comment

An Inside Look at Payer Compliance with CMS’ Patient Access API Rule

The healthcare industry is now closer than ever to its quest for true interoperable data exchange. July 1, 2021 was the enforcement date for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Interoperability and Patient Access final rule. The rule requires that all healthcare payer organizations participating in a CMS program allow members to download and share their data using API’s (Application Programming Interface). This
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Is the Smartphone Key to Unlocking Frictionless Patient Registration?

by Daniel Cidon, CTO, NextGate 11/02/2021 Leave a Comment

Smartphones Key to Unlocking Frictionless Patient Registration

Since the beginning of healthcare’s digital revolution, organizations have been striving to achieve the Triple Aim of healthcare: better outcomes, lower costs, and improved patient experiences.   While reimbursement reforms and regulatory actions have helped realize measurable gains in population health and overall spending, progress on the patient experience piece hasn’t always been as clear-cut. Firstly, patient satisfaction is a hard concept to quantify.  And the
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