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Selling a Latte For $5; Collecting Only 50¢ at Time of Purchase …

November 6, 2017

Sometimes it’s instructive to remind ourselves just how “different” the world of health care payments can be. Consider Dr. Andrew L. Pecora’s Starbucks metaphor in an article entitled The Quirky Way Physicians Are Paid: Imagine a hypothetical board meeting at Starbucks Corporation where a newly hired CEO tells the board how he intends to increase same-store…

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Feel the Pain: Paper Is Hurting All Healthcare Stakeholders

October 26, 2017

The Trends in Healthcare Payments Seventh Annual Report: 2016, available for free download – offers a look at how delaying the inevitable electronification of payments at all levels of healthcare transactions is costly on many levels to healthcare providers. Consider the following facts from a post at at AJMC: 88% of providers reported that they received…

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Becker “Power Panel” Makes 5 Key Observations on Managing RCM

October 19, 2017

Attendees at the Becker’s Hospital Review 3rd Annual Health IT + Revenue Cycle Conference in Chicago were treated to a panel of healthcare heavyweights discussing revenue cycle performance. The distinguished group included Vice President of Revenue Cycle Management at San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare Gerilynn Sevenikar; Vice President of Product Management and Revenue Cycle Analytics at…

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Press Release: OrboGraph Profiled as Top 10 Leading Healthcare Solution in The TECHNOLOGY HEADLINES

October 18, 2017

Overcoming the challenges of EDI adoption with electronification of EOB/EOPs   Billerica, MA, October 19, 2017 – OrboGraph, a premier developer and supplier of intelligent electronic/paper automation solutions in healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM), as well as recognition solutions, image validation and check fraud detection for the U.S. check processing market, was recently profiled in the…

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Deloitte Describes 3 Ways Blockchain Might Boost Hospitals Within Ten Years

October 12, 2017

Becker’s Hospital Review links to a neat and tidy summation of a comprehensive Deloitte report that examines the digital hospital of tomorrow. As we’ve discussed in this space previously, blockchain technology is poised to boost hospital operations in the foreseeable future. The three takeaways Becker’s extracted from the report in terms of specific ways blockchain tech…

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Payers Pressuring Providers for Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

October 5, 2017

A deep dive into revenue cycle issues in an article by Healthcare Informatics reveals a need for scale and cost reduction through process automation. “Commercial payers want more automation. The biggest movement we’ve seen in the past 12 months is a willingness to move ahead with electronic processing for pre-authorization for service. More recently, we’re seeing…

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Revenue Cycle Management Moves to Head of the Class

September 21, 2017

RevCycleIntelligence reported on a Black Book Market Research survey that revealed a resurgence of focus on the revenue cycle by hospitals: Almost three-quarters of struggling hospitals are prioritizing revenue cycle management over a number of initiatives, including population health, data analytics, physician practice acquisitions and recruitment, and patient engagement. The survey of over 6,000 financial and business…

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Brush Up Before Becker’s Conference: 25 Things to Know About RCM

September 14, 2017

If you’re going to the Becker’s Hospital Review 3rd Annual Health IT + Revenue Cycle Conference next week in Chicago, better brush up on the top industry topics. Check out Becker’s Hospital Review list of 25 things to know about revenue cycle management.  The article was written in January, but still highly useful as it’s interesting to see…

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Healthcare Moving to the Cloud – and Out of “Dark Ages”

September 7, 2017

A recent report available for purchase from Forrester Research (and summarized at Healthcare It News) says that healthcare specific developments from cloud service providers are in the process of ending the “dark ages” of health IT. From the report: The enterprise health cloud market is growing in large part due to healthcare CIOs increasingly realizing that…

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Paper Remains: OrboGraph Highlighted as Top 25 Healthcare Technology Vendor for 2017

August 31, 2017

Healthcare costs are skyrocketing and paper remains an obstacle to electronification —  but, even with all that, the August CIO Applications publication (see electronic versions here) highlighted OrboGraph as a Top 25 Healthcare Technology Solution Provider for 2017! The magazine highlighted the OrboAccess cloud-hosted platform solution, which not only intercepts the paper but also streamlines the overall…

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