Healthcare Industry
ORBOIMPACT Virtual Conference Explore the Conference It’s become clear that leveraging AI and Deep Learning tech is the key to better patient care, while at the same time reducing costs and improving efficiencies — our primary missions in the healthcare field. But, what exactly is Deep Learning? Health IT Analytics offers a pretty concise overview…
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As is his tradition, Dan Michelson, CEO of Strata Decision Technology, took his best shot at condensing the presentations he’d seen at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference (last week in San Francisco). Over 40,000 players were in town from every corner of the healthcare ecosystem. However, if you want to hear the heartbeat of what’s happening at…
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Welcome to 2019! We’ve experienced an eventful 2018 in Healthcare IT, and who better than Healthcare IT News to offer the Top 10 Healthcare IT News articles of 2018? As expected, the impact and rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning was covered in depth: Artificial intelligence and machine learning gained a greater presence, and we conducted…
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Via Becker’s Hospital Review: OptumIQ Annual Survey on AI in Health Care reveals that, over the next five years, a healthcare organization will invest an average of $32.4 million on artificial intelligence. According to Optum: The inaugural OptumIQ Annual Survey on AI in Health Care indicates a tipping point in the adoption of AI in the industry,…
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You read that right: About a quarter of all US hospitals — 26% — do not have an effective healthcare revenue cycle management solution in place, according to a new Black Book survey. According to RevCycle Intelligence, Black Book surveyed over 4,640 individuals from 522 hospitals and healthcare delivery networks regarding their use of 165 revenue…
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RevCycle Intelligence reports on a new survey that healthcare organizations are losing revenue because they are failing to properly manage referrals and patient leakage. Some of the report’s findings: There’s a gap between priority and action. Some 87% of healthcare executives say patient leakage is a high priority, but 23% don’t track leakage and 20% don’t…
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In today’s “retail medical market” with heightened RCM patient focus, improving a patient’s financial experience is a key to healthcare revenue cycle management success, according to the Senior Regional Director of Revenue Cycle at Ascension Healthcare. RevCycleIntelligence.com reports that the ability to implement self-service technology and give accurate price estimates is key to improving the patient experience…
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Artificial intelligence is making itself invaluable in a variety of industries, including healthcare. With this in mind, Becker’s Health IT and CIO Report offers five useful terms to add to your AI playbook: Artificial intelligence: Intelligent behaviors commonly associated with humans but exhibited by machines and applied to tasks like problem-solving, automatically completing forms or…
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Results of a recent a recent JAMA study as reported in EHR Intelligence reveal that a disturbing amount of hospitals fail to comply with federal and state regulations for patient EHR and paper health records requests. This is especially damaging in today’s healthcare retail climate, where patients understandably want to know what their costs are. Researchers made…
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A study from Eliciting Insights shows that, while adoption of revenue cycle technology is brisk, some medical facilities are hesitant to adopt automated remittance posting in spite of its proven ability to solidify the bottom line in challenging times. Based on survey responses from 179 hospital revenue cycle executives, here are some takeaways as reported on Becker’s Hospital CFO…
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