OrboNation Blog
Are you ready for the wave of changes coming to healthcare? As is to be expected when a new administration takes over in Washington, the first 100 days of President Biden’s presidency are likely to bring a number of changes for employer-sponsored health and welfare plans, says Debra Hoffman and Stephanie B. Vasconcellos of Mayer Brown in their blog at Lexology.com.
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Surprise! Barry McCarthy the CEO of Deluxe, is a proponent of checks as payment tools. Even with the pivot for consumers to digital payment options, business-to-business is still reliant upon an older payment method: checks. Yes, you read that right. Although check usage has decreased significantly since the mid-2000s, physical checks accounted for 42%of B2B transactions in 2019 despite the explosion of digital options.
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In a world where COVID-19 has made on-site collaboration a more and more distant memory — with no end in sight for the growth of remote work as the norm — PaymentsJournal reports: The need for automation has never been more pressing. Clients want quick, efficient solutions that enable them to do more with less. From lending decisions to payments risk management, only technology can provide the necessary support that businesses need.
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Without a doubt, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and other technologies are streamlining the revenue cycle management and healthcare payments industries in many different ways. Roni Boker, OrboGraph product manager notes: “Market need still exists, and organizations are now having to move faster than ever with new work environments as a means to implement greater controls on their data and assist with compliance and resiliency.”
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We have receive a tremendous amount of positive feedback from our recent #OrboZone launch, with a countless number of clients, partners, and industry experts raving about their “experience.” But what is #OrboZone? It’s dynamic content that combines high-impact videos, visual galleries, energizing music, and entertaining activities for your WFH environment.
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PNC Bank N.A. announced on Jan. 27 that it has struck a definitive deal to buy payment gateway provider Tempus Technologies, Inc. This new team-up will allow their business customers to handle their receivables and payables via one channel, covering all rails. According to a report at Pymnts.com:
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No one has to tell you the revenue cycle automation process is complex, and getting more so every year. That’s why it’ll come as no surprise that Healthcare Finance News is reporting that about 30% of health systems and hospitals are unable to manage their revenue cycle automation efforts without at least two vendors. The numbers were gathered via the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s Pulse Survey program, fielded between May 19, 2020 and June 22, 2020 among 587 chief financial officers and revenue cycle leaders at various health systems.
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Here’s a paradox we enjoy seeing: Even as it’s proclaimed all over the place that “checks are in decline,” and “checks are alien to Millennials” — we see a forward-looking, technologically innovative payroll infrastructure startup system launch and call itself — Check.
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Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards spent some time with PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster talking about distributed banking — aka banking-as-a-service — and how it differs from open banking. Edwards said that open banking is mostly about moving information, not about moving money between a consumer, her bank, and a third party, like the Robinhood app — at least for now. That data exchange makes it possible for a FinTech to step into the middle of the transaction but also makes the bank little more than the “dumb pipes” that serve as the funding source.
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With COVID-19 vaccines being administered across the globe, the healthcare payments industry — like the world population in general — is feeling cautiously optimistic as 2021 begins. The industry faced many challenges throughout 2020, but healthcare technology companies stepped up and transformed the pandemic into an opportunity to innovate, calling the pandemic a “catalyst” to accelerate the digital transformation for healthcare.
Matt Hawkins, CEO of Waystar, provides predictions for healthcare payments in the new year in an article posted on Modern Healthcare.