This past year, California became the latest (and largest) state to legislatively mandate an all-payer claims database (APCD). As the name implies, an APCD is a statewide repository of all claims information from a state’s health care payers, including both commercial and government.
The intent of an APCD is to help policymakers and others better understand the drivers of health care use and costs and spot usage trends across networks, facilities, and geographies. An APCD could also help assess
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Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation to Upgrade to Medsphere’s CareVue EHR
- Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation (CHCC) will implement Medsphere’s CareVue electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle management (RCM) platform. - Based on Saipan, the capital of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, CHCC is the primary organizer of acute and ambulatory healthcare services for the islands of Rota, Saipan, and Tinian.Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation (CHCC) will implement the Medsphere’s CareVue electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle management
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DAS Health Acquires Health IT Company Automated Medical Systems
- DAS Health acquires health IT company Automated Medical Systems to strengthen its position in the U.S. health IT market. - The acquisition enhances its product offerings, including adding Henry Schein’s MicroMD® to their Electronic Health Records (EHR) portfolio.DAS Health, a Tampa, FL-based provider of health IT and management solutions announced the acquisition of Automated Medical Systems, a healthcare IT company based in Valdosta, GA, with clients in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and
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How Intelligent Automation Can Address 3 Revenue Cycle Challenges
Artificial intelligence (AI) has received a lot of buzz and been positioned as the central healthcare technology needed to solve many financial challenges and digitally transform internal operations. However, if you’re looking for practical solutions that can address variable activities and complete work with a high level of quality, today, healthcare organizations should look to intelligent automation.
Here’s why: True AI attempts to mimic human cognition. As such, AI remains
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American Samoa Medical Center Authority Extends Contract with Medsphere and CareVue EHR/RCM Solution
- American Samoa Medical Center Authority (ASMCA) and the American Samoa Department of Health (DOH) extends their contract with Medsphere and CareVue EHR/RCM Solution- South Pacific island group’s safety-net healthcare system signs on for seven more years plans to implement Medsphere enhancements of CareVue platformMedsphere Systems Corporation, a provider of affordable and interoperable healthcare IT platform solutions, today announced that the American Samoa Medical Center Authority (ASMCA)
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Simplee Integrates Patient Financial Engagement Platform with Cerner RCM Solution
- Simplee integrates their patient financial engagement platform with Cerner’s revenue cycle management portfolio and consumer technology. - The integration makes it simple, efficient for providers to transform medical billing and payments into consumer-friendly experience.Simplee and Cerner Corporation today announced a new relationship aimed at price transparency, convenient billing and personalized payments options for consumers. Healthcare organizations will soon be able to use this
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Walmart Health Taps Zotec Partners to Power Patient Financial Experience
- Walmart Health has formed an end-to-end RCM technology and services relationship with Zotec Partners to simplify the healthcare financial experience processes for its customers, including primary care, dental, vision, and mental health services.
- Zotec’s technology will enable Walmart Health patients to schedule and register for appointments ahead of time, confirm or change insurance and demographic information, see estimated cost for services, receive text and email updates, efficiently
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Why Healthcare Is Finally Moving To The Cloud
When I started in this industry, the idea that we would put patient information in the cloud was an absurdity. How on earth could anyone justify putting the most sensitive information in our personal lives somewhere other than a locked cupboard, in the safety of a hospital? We would never dream of letting paper patient charts leave the hospital or clinic, so why would we let them leave simply because they are electronic?
Historically, security was tied to proximity and direct control, nowhere
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Top 5 Factors Impacting the US Population Health Management Market
The North American Population Health Management (PHM) reached the $4 billion milestone for the first time in 2018, despite growth slowing for the second consecutive year. With the US provider market consolidating and vertical integration increasing, vendors are having to adapt their offerings to keep up with changing needs. Here is our take on the five trends that will impact market growth over the coming years:
1 – A Market Still Maturing
As the market has evolved, providers are taking
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Report: Health Systems Are Struggling to Simplify Patient Billing & RCM Processes
Today’s health systems are prioritizing patient financial experiences, yet many still struggle to simplify patient billing and align it with revenue cycle management (RCM), according to an in-depth study, commissioned by patient payment and engagement platform Cedar and conducted by The Health Management Academy (The Academy). The Cedar and Academy study examined practices at 20 of the top 100 U.S. health systems including qualitative and quantitative analyses of 23 senior executives
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