Waverly Health Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital located in Waverly, Iowa is expanding its relationship with eClinicalWorks by replacing their existing EHR from Paragon Inpatient to eClinicalWorks Acute Care EHR and Revenue Cycle Management. This transition will reduce overall implementation costs while creating unified patient records in inpatient and outpatient communities while ensuring the seamless exchange of information.“At Waverly Health Center we are dedicated to providing high
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Paperless Productivity Acquires WiseCLAIM to Expand Presence in Healthcare Claims Automation Market
Paperless Productivity, a workflow automation consultancy and systems integrator, has announced its acquisition of the WiseCLAIM platform from WiseTREND. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. WiseCLAIM was developed in response to the continued prevalence of paper CMS claims forms among healthcare payers, Third Party Administrators (TPAs), and billing services. By automating data extraction from CMS/HCFA/UB forms, it has become an integral tool for mid-market and large firms in
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Partners HealthCare Expands Use of Kyruus’ Patient Access Solutions
Partners HealthCare is expanding its use of Kyruus’ patient access solutions to improve the patient experience across all its entities, and to ensure patients can gain access to Partners’ world-class network of providers.Partners originally started working with Kyruus in 2014 to help power its online find-a-doc solution. Now, Partners is expanding its use of Kyruus to develop a robust provider directory to help patients find the right provider based on a wide range of criteria, including
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Revenue Cycle: Why Patient Segmentation Is Key to Mitigating Financial Risk
With technology continuing to advance, making healthcare internet platforms easier to navigate, patients are becoming savvy consumers who increasingly are shopping for the healthcare they want to receive. Emerging trends, such as higher insurance deductibles and regulatory requirements for upfront estimates, are driving this trend, underscoring the role of patient access to move beyond the “one size fits all” mentality to address these fundamental changes.Traditionally, patients have had limited
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Cognizant Acquires Bolder Healthcare Solutions to Expand Revenue Cycle Management Services
Cognizant today announced it has agreed to acquire Bolder Healthcare Solutions, Louisville, KY-based provider of revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions to hospitals, physician practices and other specialist healthcare organizations in the United States. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2018.RCM software and processes integrate and automate healthcare administrative and medical data to ensure benefit eligibility and
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JPMorgan Chase, VisitPay Partner to Offer Healthcare Receivables Financing
VisitPay, a provider of patient financial engagement, has entered into an exclusive agreement with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. in connection with the bank’s plan to extend recourse financing to VisitPay’s new Balance Transfer program, which will provide wholesale funding to healthcare providers. St Luke’s Health System in Boise, a long standing VisitPay client, is among the innovation partners shaping the program.With the launch of the Balance Transfer program, VisitPay now offers providers a
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SSI Group Acquires Health Data Aggregation Company ICA CareAlign
The SSI Group, an industry leader in revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions, has announced the acquisition of Nashville, TN-based Informatics Corporation of America (ICA), a provider of aggregation and exchange of patient clinical data under the brand name of CareAlign.The combined expertise and information services will help a diverse set of healthcare organizations improve their ability to address the growing need to combine administrative, financial, and clinical data driven by changes in
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MU Health Care to Implement Cerner Revenue Cycle Management Across 5 Hospitals
University of Missouri Health Care, in Columbia, has selected Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, to help manage revenue cycle performance across its five hospitals and more than 50 primary and specialty care clinics.MU Health Care will soon integrate Cerner’s registration, scheduling, patient accounting and practice management solutions and transaction services with its existing electronic health record (EHR), Cerner Millennium. The integration of clinical and financial data will
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eClinicalWorks Launches Acute Care EHR & Revenue Cycle Management
Today, eClinicalWorks, announced it will launch a cloud-based platform for Acute Care EHR and Revenue Cycle Management during HIMSS18, starting at $599 per bed per month. The company is changing the landscape of acute care EHR industry by providing a modern, cloud-based platform with no upfront license fees. Hospitals will have no financial barriers to transition to eClinicalWorks.Hamilton Healthcare System, is expanding its relationship with the company by selecting the platform and will become
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R1 Acquires Intermedix Corporation for $460M to Expand End-to-End RCM
R1 RCM Inc., a provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle management (RCM) services to healthcare providers, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Intermedix Corp (Intermedix), including its healthcare division comprised of its physician and EMS RCM, practice management and analytics businesses, in a transaction valued at approximately $460 million.Intermedix provides revenue cycle management, practice management and data analytics services to more than 15,000 individual
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