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We’re excited to see that, of the Top 5 Tech Innovations Your Bank Can’t Ignored, we can actually contribute significantly to three of them! Let’s call them the “Key 3”: Continue to embrace Check 21 Leverage electronic workflows Automated tellers Part of the shared theme of the Key 3 is that the branch bank is far from obsolete. Online…
Read MoreBlack Book™ is well known for accurate, impartial customer satisfaction surveys in the services and software industries. They conducted their annual revenue cycle management outsourcing and software/technology user polls, and here are some highlights: Black Book found that RCM transition activities in Q3 2016 are being coordinated through advisors and consultants at 29% of the…
Read MoreRené Lacerate, chief executive and founder of Bill.com, writes in a posting at American Banker that the glory days for fintech (financial technology) may be in the past. And just when we thought it was heating up! Lacerate says new fintech investments are tapering off as the broader funding market cools; also, banks are coming around and “starting to…
Read MoreA sure method for starting a conversational brushfire at a “civilian” (i.e. non-industry) cocktail party of other gathering is to begin a discussion on the ACA, or “ObamaCare.” Recent headlines detailing large insurance companies abandoning the exchanges have added fuel to the anti-ACA rhetoric, but, as folks in the industry know, things are not so…
Read MoreThe same report that finds 57% of organizations intend to use same-day ACH for last-minute payments also finds that business-to-business payments by paper check actually increased slightly from 2013, breaking the previous downward trend in check use. In fact, 86 percent have finally integrated their check payments systems with their accounting systems. There are still major…
Read MoreWhat’s one of the most powerful components of RCM, and one that ensures great financial results for hospitals? Case management consultant Mindy Owen makes an excellent “case” for EDUCATION – – ongoing training of case managers is the key. Owen is a specialist in educating and developing case management teams, and has traveled across the country teaching case…
Read MoreSet aside 13 minutes for the newest installment of the Countdown to Same Day ACH podcast series. In this episode, Jan Estep, president and CEO of NACHA, talks to Karen Webster about the overlaps, complements, and implications of all the capabilities under the faster payments umbrella. Ms. Estep says the best way to think about “faster payments” is as an umbrella…
Read MoreLet’s face it: When your job is to extract persons from dangerous situations that quite often leave them either too impaired or too traumatized to engage in something so trivial as offering insurance information, most of your work in terms of vetting financial viability and insurance coverage is going to have to happen after treatment…
Read MoreIs the cloud for real for banking? J.P. Morgan thinks so. They’ve hired Harish Grama, formerly of IBM, as chief information officer for cloud services. An internal memo obtained by American Banker says: “Harish has extensive experience in leading large globally distributed organizations in cloud native offerings, Additionally, he was a key leader in driving the transformation…
Read MoreOngoing fiscal challenges continue to emerge on a week-by-week basis in the modern medical landscape including: The evolution of ACA higher uncompensated care costs managing MACRA reimbursement schedules unprecedented patient volume and the continued challenge to reach 100% electronification, just to name a few! With all of these uncontrollable obstacles, the last thing you want is to further complicate…
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