What You Should Know:
- New Chilmark Research report on revenue integrity
in healthcare reveals a transitional market making strides to address the new
burdens of modern care economics.
- The ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency underscores
the imperative need for automation and reduced administrative costs even
clearer.
Revenue cycle
has and continues to be one of the most difficult challenges in healthcare.
These issues manifest in the claims process of submission,
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COVID-19 Underscores Why Certain Aspects of the American Healthcare System Should Change Forever
In the late 1940s, the United Kingdom was busily reassembling country and what remained of the empire in the aftermath of World War II. Among many revelations, the war had convinced Britain’s leaders of the need to provide healthcare for all in the event of calamity upending the basic functions of a civilized society. With that, the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) was born.
In 2020, all perspectives about quality and the time it takes to see a provider aside, the NHS remains quite popular
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RUSH, R1 Launch Innovation Lab to Drive Value-Based Care & Advanced Analytics
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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How Times of Crisis Spur Needed Change in Healthcare Delivery
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to change healthcare operations in the world, foundational systems are being adapted to meet these new demands. Sometimes it takes extreme circumstances to see the cracks in a system. COVID-19 has exposed areas with more room for improvement in the healthcare system, such as optimizing operational efficiency. Organizations and individuals have changed their interactions, processes, ways of working, treatment plans, and even foundational technology. As the
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The Adoption of Telehealth During the Pandemic will Shape Healthcare’s New Normal
COVID-19 has presented healthcare with a challenge like no other, with nearly nine million cases all over the world and over 470,000 lives lost. The speed of the outbreak and the disruption caused by it has created unforeseen challenges for communities and economies, and it’s especially apparent in healthcare delivery. Healthcare systems in nations around the globe have dedicated substantial resources to respond to the pandemic and the growth has only somewhat stymied.
While the U.S.
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Greenway Health Taps AWS to Develop Cloud-Based, Data Services Platform
What You Should Know:
- To help meet the needs of ambulatory care practitioners in a post-COVID environment, Greenway Health, a leading health information technology, and services provider, today announced a new strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Leveraging AWS cloud services, Greenway is developing a
new cloud-based, data services platform, Greenway Insights, that creates new
data insights and healthcare interventions to advance the breadth of Greenway’s
products and
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W2O Acquires Discern Health to Strengthen Value-Based Care Capabilities
What You Should Know:
- W2O announced today the acquisition of Discern Health, a leading healthcare consultancy based in Washington, DC, and Baltimore, to strengthen its strategic capabilities in assisting clients with critical healthcare policy trends and value-based reimbursement models.
- Discern Health brings experts with decades of experience in quality, health care measurement, and payment models to W2O’s analytics-driven, technology-enabled marketing and communications solutions.
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Holon Integrates with Cerner’s HealtheIntent PHM Platform for Value-Based Care Insights
What You Should Know:
- Holon and Cerner announced a partnership
to advance the delivery of relevant patient insights to providers when they
need it most.
- Holon and Cerner will deploy patented
technology that automatically delivers contextually relevant patient information
from Cerner’s HealtheIntent® population health platform, which
is EHR-agnostic, directly to clinicians in their workflow to inform care
decisions.
Holon
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Top 3 Priority Areas for Healthcare CIOs in the Age of COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- In the age of COVID-19, healthcare CIOs cite interoperability,
cybersecurity, and operationalizing SDOH data priorities as top three priority
areas, according to the third annual LexisNexis focus group of CHIME
executives.
- The survey results also highlighted the importance of
a team approach with support across the organization in helping CIOs
achieve the vision of connected healthcare.
The Health Care business of LexisNexis® Risk
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Cohere Health Launches with $10M to Increase Transparency Across Care Journey
What You Should Know:
- Boston-based health IT start-up Cohere Health announced the official launch of its company with a $10 million Series A funding round led by Flare Capital Partners.
- The company’s patient journey-focused platform improves the notoriously difficult prior authorization process and replaces an existing patchwork of legacy, siloed processes, and antiquated technologies that contribute to the enormous administrative burden for physicians and health plans.
- The end
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