Healthcare Industry
Let’s face it — even as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions become more and more mainstream and attainable, they are multi-layered concepts that are not entirely intuitive. For the lay person, it could be about as close to trying to understand rocket science as we can get… (present company included!) A McKinsey Quarterly…
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Penn Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes & Policy Research (CHOPR) did a study measuring nurse satisfaction with EHR systems and the “concurrent effects of EHR adoption level and the hospital work environment on usability and quality outcomes.” HealthData Management reports: What CHOPR found was that 25 percent of nurses reported dissatisfaction with their current EHRs…
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If you’re looking for a good, basic breakdown of blockchain technologies, head over to HealthData Management for a concise summary of the core technologies involved in blockchain, and why they are making such an an impact in the Healthcare industry. As we’ve discussed previously, blockchain is a ledger of records arranged in data batches called…
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There’s been a lot of chatter and speculation as to what the much-discussed health care partnership created by powerhouses Amazon, JPMorgan, and Berkshire is going to consist of and what it might be called. Drum roll please…It’s called HAVEN (and they even have a website, complete with a letter from Chief Executive Officer Atul Gawande,…
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The Executive Briefing at OpenMinds.com discusses the ways Revenue Cycle Management must adjust in the VBR (value-based reimbursements) World. OPEN MINDS Senior Associate David E. Wawrzynek summed up the changes organizations need to make in order to survive — and succeed — with revenue cycle management in a value-based world: The revenue cycle management process…
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According to a final rule issued November 2, 2018, the longstanding Medicare policy in which healthcare payments varied based on the setting is about to expire. The rule came as part of the 2019 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) payment system rule by the U.S. Centers for Medicare…
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A newly released research report from Business Insider Intelligence makes the case that, compared to other industries, the United State Healthcare industry has been slow to embrace new payment systems and processes. They point out, for instance, that approximately 77% of healthcare providers still use paper-based patient billing methods, according to an MGMA and Navicure…
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This year’s education schedule at the HIMSS Conference, held this week at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, is awash in AI-related material, notes HealthCare Innovation in a post this week. To name a few: Session MLAI03, “Keynote: Synergies Between Man and Machine”; Session MLAI04, “State of the Industry: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence…
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February is the perfect time to unveil an exciting refresh of content, messaging, and solutions on the OrboGraph website! We have observed major industry activities by large banks, small banks, healthcare providers and healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) companies to update antiquated, legacy systems. This Platform Modernization process is an opportunity for OrboGraph and its customers…
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According to a report from staffing and recruiting firm LaSalle Network, which reviewed responses from 3,500 millennial revenue cycle professionals, ranging from managers to executives, Millennial healthcare professionals who work in the revenue cycle are largely satisfied with their employers. This is good news for an industry that will need to fill positions with young…
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