What You Should Know:
- Rush University System for Health (RUSH) and R1 RCM Inc. launches a joint Innovation Lab to deliver solutions to improve the quality of care for patients.
- The Innovation Lab is expected to commercialize its
solutions beginning in 2021.
Rush University
System for Health (RUSH) and R1 RCM Inc.,
a provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle
management (RCM) services to healthcare providers, announced the launch of
a joint Innovation Lab to deliver solutions
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DAS Health Acquires Managed IT Services and CyberSecurity Company Technology Seed
- Both companies’ clients will gain an increased depth of IT and security support, and Technology Seed’s healthcare clients will now have a substantially improved value proposition
DAS Health Ventures, Inc., a provider of health IT and management, announced today it completed the acquisition of Technology Seed, LLC, a managed IT and cybersecurity services company based in Salem, NH. This acquisition strengthens DAS’ position in the MSP sector and significantly advances its growth strategy to
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Sharecare Acquires WhiteHatAI to Enhance Healthcare Payment Integrity
What You Should Know:
- Sharecare acquires WhiteHatAI to provide health plan
and provider clients with additional capabilities to ensure healthcare payment
integrity
- WhiteHatAI’s ability to detect erroneous claims before
they are paid will help Sharecare’s health plan partners reduce costs
associated with FWA.
- Sharecare will integrate WhiteHatAI’s capabilities to
foster deeper engagement by enabling patients to both verify recent medical
procedures and report
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DrChrono, ClearGage Integrate Patient Estimator and Finance Tools
What You Should Know:
- DrChrono announces that ClearGage has integrated its
patient estimator and financing tools into DrChrono‘s Practice Management
platform.
- The ClearGage app offering gives practices the ability
to provide patient estimates directly within appointments.
DrChrono Inc., the
company developing the essential platform and services for modern medical
practices, announced today that ClearGage has integrated
its patient estimator and
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HealthEdge Acquires Payment Integrity Solution The Burgess Group
What You Should Know:
- HealthEdge Software announces the acquisition of The Burgess
Group, LLC (“Burgess”), an innovative payment integrity software company
focused on improving healthcare payment operations for an undisclosed sum.
- The strategic acquisition will boost Health Edge’s position in
the payment integrity market and extends best-in-class claims processing to
include software-driven payment integrity
- Burgess’ product, Burgess
Source®, is the first solution to natively
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BJC HealthCare Taps Patientco to Provide Seamless Patient Payment Experience
What You Should Know:
- BJC HealthCare has signed an agreement with patient payment platform
Patientco to offer a seamless patient financial experience, helping patients navigate their medical expenses and pay their bills.
- Patientco’s platform provides patients with a single
billing statement outlining their outstanding balance and will help BJC streamline its payment process by reducing the number
of bills associated
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COVID-19: 4 Essential Patient Payment Strategy Components to Accelerate Cash Flow
David Shelton, PatientMatters CEO
In the past few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has shaken societies, economies, and human wellbeing to the core. While protecting public health and welfare are top priorities for hospitals, the harsh reality is that it takes cash to keep the doors open and serve patients effectively. Revenue is down significantly as a result of canceled elective surgeries, while the costs of medical supplies and in-demand personal protective equipment for workers have
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Banner Health to Implement Cerner Revenue Cycle Management Across Enterprise
What You Should Know:
- Cerner and long-time client Banner Health announced
a new deal to implement a comprehensive suite of revenue cycle management
solutions as part of a long-standing strategic alignment to use health care
technology to drive population health improvement.
- The revenue cycle integration will take place across
Banner Health’s entire system, including 28 hospitals and clinics in six
states.
Banner Health and Cerner,
today announced it is expanding
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4 Ways Healthcare Organizations Can Establish Partnerships to Drive Innovation
With public and private healthcare spending significantly outpacing that of other countries, U.S. hospitals face intense pressure to find new ways to capture greater value. More and more, organizations are finding that partnerships with existing vendors can help unlock next-level performance gains in a transformative environment.
Take Nebraska Medicine, for example. In the early 2000s, the health system created multidisciplinary committees to boost revenue integrity and adopted new revenue
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Post COVID-19: Medical Billing Finally Realizes the Value of Text-to-Pay
Bird Blitch, CEO, and co-founder at Patientco
Contactless payments were on the rise even before COVID-19 hit. But now, health systems should see them as essential. Consumers are increasingly wary of touching a credit card terminal that others have used, a perfect conduit for spreading germs. For consumers, text payments serve as a convenient contactless way to pay, but there are other unique benefits when this method of payment is applied in a healthcare setting.
Let’s look at how text
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