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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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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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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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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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