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InstaMed has released a report that should act as a wakeup call for the health industry as a whole and health providers specifically. Even before you download the report PDF, there’s a striking chart that gets right down to business. Here’s an excerpt: Some additional relevant data from the report: 61% of patients said they…
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A Special Guest Host Blog Post by Bob Frimet, CAMS Millions of Americans depend on banking services each and every day, for everything from writing checks and paying bills to wiring money. But when was the last time you thought about the millions of “under-banked”? Where does that customer go? There are many reasons why…
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Bank fees have been in the news lately, particularly with the ramp up of 2020 presidential candidates. Not only is the aggregate number, $15B, in question, but so also is the issue of whether or not fees are unfairly targeting persons with lower incomes. From WashingtonExaminer.com: One of the Democrats vying to run against President…
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HealthCareDive reports on a Connance survey revealing that 70% of providers claim it takes more than a month to collect from patients, and a 2017 Advisory Board analysis found that the average 350-bed hospital lost up to $22 million in revenue due to revenue cycle issues. The “Deep Dive”: Providers are increasingly turning to payment…
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Pymnts.com reports on JP Morgan Jamie Dimon’s latest shareholder letter (which appeared on April 4) noting that AI and Machine Learning are mentioned prominently. Why is this important? Dimon’s shareholder letters are closely read and parsed for nuggets of insight regarding the economy, the investment climate, and even revelations about America’s standing in the world.…
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Let’s face it — even as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions become more and more mainstream and attainable, they are multi-layered concepts that are not entirely intuitive. For the lay person, it could be about as close to trying to understand rocket science as we can get… (present company included!) A McKinsey Quarterly…
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Saturday Night Live debuted in 1975, meaning that if you were a member of the generation that watched the first seasons of the show, you’re in “the demographic that clings to checks.” according to the pundits. This past weekend, SNL enlightened viewers as to a few exaggerated benefits of “cheques” that we normally don’t promote…
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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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FIS was recently recognized by leading industry research and advisory firm Aite Group for its Code Connect application programming interface (API) gateway, naming it “Most Advanced API Strategy” in a newly released report. FisGlobal.com noted in an article: Code Connect provides a growing, constantly updated hub of APIs from both FIS and third-party developers for…
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If you’re looking for a good, basic breakdown of blockchain technologies, head over to HealthData Management for a concise summary of the core technologies involved in blockchain, and why they are making such an an impact in the Healthcare industry. As we’ve discussed previously, blockchain is a ledger of records arranged in data batches called…
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