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Primary Care: A Crisis Ahead?

August 13, 2020

The New Yorker Magazine takes a close look (via Clifford Marks, an emergency-medicine resident at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) at how primary care practices and physicians are taking it on the chin due to the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic.

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Understanding AI: What is a Deep Learning Node?

August 7, 2020

To the layman, much of the language in the AI space can be mystifying, particularly in deep learning. Take for example one of the core elements; the node. A deep learning node is “a computational unit that has one or more weighted input connections, a transfer function that combines the inputs in some way, and an output connection. Nodes are then organized into layers to comprise a network.”

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Business Resiliency and Technology Critical for RCM

July 30, 2020

A new podcast at PYMNTS.com features a conversation with Jennifer Barker, Managing Director and Head of Wholesale Payments Product Delivery at JPMorgan Chase & Co., on the topic of business resiliency in this unprecedented pandemic environment.

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Healthcare Organizations vs. Fraud: Three Potent Weapons

June 25, 2020

In an environment challenged by Coronavirus, the already significant problem of healthcare fraud is more harmful than ever. Blue Cross Blue Shield reports: The National Heath Care Anti-Fraud Association estimates conservatively that health care fraud costs the nation about $68 billion annually — about 3 percent of the nation’s $2.26 trillion in health care spending.…

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Hospital, Outpatient Visits Plummeted During COVID-19 Crisis

June 19, 2020

RevCycleIntelligence.com cites a Commonwealth Fund study that shows outpatient visits for more than 50,000 providers declined by nearly 60 percent in mid-March when COVID-19 began to take hold, and the volumes have remained low through mid-April. Stay-at-home orders, of course, had much to do with the sharp downturn. Similarly, hospital visits also saw a substantial…

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Business Intelligence with Data Visualization

June 12, 2020

Moving from “big data” to “wide data” Visualization of data through DataOps and technology Data Visualization benefits for the Revenue Cycle Management In the digital world, we are seeing tremendous growth and robustness of data being collected through various systems, particularly in healthcare. According to a recent press release from Gartner: By 2020, most data and…

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A Careful Return to the Workplace Begins

June 3, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic hopefully continues to subside — and the general population becomes more and more used to social distancing and appropriate use of facemasks — companies that had sent their employees home to work are beginning cautious steps toward bringing a portion of them back to the office. Cerner, for example, has begun…

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PODCAST: Deluxe Navigates the New Payments Reality

May 28, 2020

A new podcast at PYMNTS.com features a conversation with Michael Reed, division president of payments at Deluxe. The podcast covers a wide range of timely payments topics, including: Checks still widely used with Reed reporting $7 trillion total transactional amounts with $2 trillion from lockbox. How work-from-home mandates have forced businesses to rethink how they…

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COVID-19 vs. Physician Practices

May 26, 2020

In addition to disrupting the lives of nearly every person across the globe, the novel coronavirus has utterly upended physicians’ practices, according to a recent article at RevCycleIntelligence. A survey conducted April 10 to 13 by the Primary Care Collaborative and The Larry A. Green Center found that half of primary care practices are unsure…

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COVID-19 and Its Effect on Labor for Essential Businesses

May 20, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically altered the labor landscape. With mandated shutdowns across the country for non-essential businesses to slow the spread of COVID-19, we’ve seen a shift toward working remotely, AKA “work-from-home.” Although official statistics are not readily available, according to Netskope – a provider of cloud security services for Fortune 100 companies –…

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