What You Should Know:
- Allscripts and Microsoft sign a five-year partnership extension to support Allscripts’ cloud-based Sunrise electronic health record and drive co-innovation.
- The alliance will enable Allscripts to harness the power of Microsoft’s platform and tools, including Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, and Power BI, creating a more seamless and highly productive user experience.
Today Allscripts and
Microsoft Corp. announced the
extension of their long-standing
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Post COVID-19: Medical Billing Finally Realizes the Value of Text-to-Pay
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 payments can fit into a health system’s revenue
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Top 4 Disruptions Healthcare Providers Should Prepare to Address
The past few years have been particularly interesting for the healthcare landscape. We’ve seen a surge in telemedicine and retail clinics, increasing use of personal healthcare devices such as watches and fitness trackers, aggressive attempts to dismantle the ACA, the growing influence of private equity investment firms, and massive mergers with disruptive enterprise market entries such as Amazon. As the ground beneath them continues to shift, many providers are venturing into new territory to
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MTBC Acquires RCM Vendor Meridian Medical Management
What You Should Know:
- MTBC acquires Meridian Medical Management, a former GE
Healthcare IT company to enhance its cloud-based healthcare IT solutions and
services.
- Meridian Medical Management has been providing revenue cycle
management solutions to the ambulatory medical practice management marketplace
for over 20 years.
MTBC, Inc., a Somerset,
NJ-based provider of cloud-based
healthcare IT solutions and services announced it has acquired
Meridian Medical Management
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athenahealth Launches Its First Embedded Telehealth Solution at No Additional Cost
What You Should Know:
- Today, athenahealth unveiled athenaTelehealth, a new embedded offering that empowers healthcare providers to seamlessly conduct telemedicine visits with their patients. athenaTelehealth will be available at no additional cost for a limited time to allow providers to deliver care during COVID-19 and beyond.
- As stay-at-home orders and fear of exposure to coronavirus took root, government deregulation and high patient demand led to a surge in telehealth
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Report: State of Health IT Private Equity in the Era of COVID-19
In May, as the U.S. cautiously started to reopen amid intense controversy, HGP polled hundreds of private equity funds across all stages of investment to find out how COVID-19 has impacted deal flow. Eighty respondents provided their perspective on topics ranging from an appetite for new investments to access to debt to the impact on portfolio companies.
Respondent Demographics
Effect of COVID-19 on Valuations
When asked how they expect overall and Health IT valuations to behave in
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R1 Acquires Cerner RevWorks to Extend Revenue Cycle Capabilities
R1 RCM Inc., a provider
of technology-enabled revenue cycle management services to healthcare providers,
today announced that it will acquire
Cerner RevWorks services
business and commercial, non-federal client relationships. R1’s electronic health record-agnostic
revenue cycle
platform seamlessly complements a healthcare organization’s infrastructure,
quickly driving transformative improvements to net patient revenue and cash
flows while reducing operating costs.
Integration
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Adobe, Change Healthcare and Microsoft Launch Consumer Healthcare Platform
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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RCM: 4 Must-Haves of a Revenue Integrity Solution
For multiple years in a row, chief executive officers (CEOs) participating in the American College of Healthcare Executives’ annual survey ranked financial challenges as the number one issue facing hospitals. With sound revenue cycle management and, in turn, revenue integrity is essential to survival, the decision to buy, build or replace a revenue integrity solution is one of the most important a hospital can make.
Crucial differences separate revenue integrity solutions from one another.
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RCM Myth: Healthcare Billing Is Just A Back-Office Job
Historically, there was a belief in healthcare that revenue cycle management (RCM) was only a job for the back office. But today, medical practices are well-aware all staff members are critical to the revenue cycle. This responsibility extends through every aspect of a practice, from the front office to back office with the clinical staff in between.
The front office, for example, plays a role in generating revenue, because they can optimize scheduling and collect patient and insurance
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