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Boost Operational, Clinical and Financial Performance with Good Data

by Pete Nelson, Vice President and General Manager, Global Alliances, GHX 04/01/2021 Leave a Comment

There’s an old adage that every challenge is merely an opportunity in disguise. COVID-19 highlighted the healthcare industry’s ongoing challenge with producing clean, standardized data. As the industry looks to rebound from the severe financial impact of the pandemic, there’s a renewed urgency among hospitals and health networks to improve operational efficiency.  The push toward greater operational efficiency – in a time of constrained budgets and resources – has accelerated
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Waystar Launches Price Transparency Solutions to Meet Consumer Demand

by Jasmine Pennic 03/08/2021 Leave a Comment

Waystar Launches New Text Patient Statements and Offers Price Transparency Solutions to Meet Consumer Demand

What You Should Know:  - Waystar, a provider of healthcare payments software, today announced the addition of the Text Statements feature to its suite of payment tools. This new solution enables patients to easily view and pay medical bills directly from their smartphone, bringing transparency and convenience to the patient financial experience – a long-standing focus for Waystar. - Patients frequently don’t know what they’ll owe weeks, if not months after the point of care, If
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A New System to Fit A New Economy: How Healthcare Can Recover From COVID-19

by Paula Muto, MD, FACS Founder and CEO, UBERDOC, Inc. 01/28/2021 Leave a Comment

A new system to fit a new economy: how healthcare can recover from COVID-19

We are at a watershed moment. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to reevaluate our priorities both economically and with regard to public health. Living with a healthcare system that was created in response to an emergency measure during World War II, US consumers have struggled for more than a decade to control and understand the rising cost of healthcare.  Unfortunately, employer-based health insurance and government-subsidized care continue to be  the major drivers of cost and policy. As
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30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021

by Fred Pennic 12/30/2020 Leave a Comment

30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021

As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare executives to share their predictions and trends for 2021. Kimberly Powell, Vice President & General Manager, NVIDIA Healthcare Federated Learning: The clinical community will increase their use of federated learning approaches to build robust AI models across various institutions, geographies, patient demographics, and medical scanners. The sensitivity and selectivity of these models are outperforming AI models
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Designing A Digital Experience to Drive Revenue and Patient Engagement

by Bill Krause, VP and GM, Digital Experience and Consumer Engagement at Change Healthcare 08/20/2020 Leave a Comment

Designing A Digital Experience to Drive Revenue and Patient Engagement

With the rise of healthcare consumerism, people are looking to hospitals, health systems, and physician practices to deliver the same user-friendly, digital experiences they receive from other industries. A recent survey found that more than 80% of consumers surveyed believe “shopping for healthcare should be as easy as shopping for other common services.” Specifically, they want streamlined access points online where they can shop for and purchase healthcare, easily make appointments,
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8 in 10 Consumers Stated COVID-19 Made Telehealth “Indispensable” in Healthcare Delivery

by Jasmine Pennic 07/13/2020 Leave a Comment

8 in 10 Consumers Stated COVID-19 Made Telehealth “Indispensable” in Healthcare Delivery

What You Should Know: - 8 in 10 consumers said COVID-19 made telehealth “an indispensable part of the healthcare system, according to a new study commissioned by Change Healthcare. - 2020 Change Healthcare - Harris Poll Consumer Experience Index reveals 65% said they plan to use telehealth more after the pandemic, and 78% said COVID-19 has shown how badly the U.S. needs more telehealth options. A majority of consumers agreed COVID-19 will fundamentally change healthcare delivery
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New AI Accurately Translates 93% of Prescription Information Imported into EHRs

by Fred Pennic 06/30/2020 Leave a Comment

New AI Accurately Translates 93% of Prescription Information Imported into EHRs

What You Should Know: - Healthcare technology company DrFirst has announced the release of its next generation, patented SmartSig AI technology to improve the quality of patient medication history when it is imported into hospitals’ and health systems’ electronic health records (EHRs). - Simple prescription instructions, called “sigs,” can have hundreds of variations or be missing entirely from patients’ medication histories when they are imported into hospitals’ EHRs. The missing
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Why COVID-19 Highlights Urgent Need to Humanize and Modernize The Patient Financial Experience

by Florian Otto, MD, DDS, Co-founder, and CEO of Cedar 06/30/2020 Leave a Comment

Why COVID-19 Highlights Urgent Need to Humanize and Modernize The Patient Financial Experience

It’s no secret that COVID-19 and the corresponding near-immediate economic catastrophe will be felt for significantly longer than the few short months it took to wreak its initial havoc. While losses hit businesses from “a to z” (...except maybe Amazon, ironically), hospitals and health systems tasked with treating the victims of this pandemic bear a particularly harsh dose of the financial fallout -- $72 billion in CARES Act hospital grants barely serving as a band-aid to the financial
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Adobe, Change Healthcare and Microsoft Launch Consumer Healthcare Platform

by Jasmine Pennic 06/02/2020 Leave a Comment

Change Healthcare Acquires Credentialing Tech Docufill to Improve Administrative Efficiency

What You Should Know: - Collaboration with Adobe and Microsoft creates a unique, scalable, and more secure consumer solution to address rising demand for more transparent and streamlined healthcare experience. - The Connected Consumer Health™ suite is delivered in a software-as-a-service model, with speedy deployment, no hardware to procure, and minimal IT resources required for customers to access and use the platform. Today Change Healthcare unveiled the Connected Consumer Health
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3 Ways to Build a Back-to-Basics Approach to Revenue Cycle Management

by Deborrah Short Rodrick, The SSI Group 03/23/2020 Leave a Comment

3 Ways to Build a Back-to-Basics Approach to Revenue Cycle Management

Sixty-nine percent of healthcare revenue cycle leaders say they will put more money toward technologies that boost revenue integrity, eliminate human error and unlock greater efficiency in the year ahead, an HFMA/Navigant analysis found. But for many organizations, the biggest untapped opportunity to improve performance comes down to a single word: data. For all the buzz at about the ways in which digital innovation and automation could transform revenue cycle management, healthcare
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