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December 2020 Edition – Healthcare

January 4, 2021

We have seen the banking and payments industries recover from the challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic with a resurgence of checks and sustained volumes of other payments. With this recovery, banks and financial institutions can now refocus on automation and fraud prevention projects which have been delayed while the economy recovers.

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December 2020 Edition – Check

January 4, 2021

We have seen the banking and payments industries recover from the challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic with a resurgence of checks and sustained volumes of other payments. With this recovery, banks and financial institutions can now refocus on automation and fraud prevention projects which have been delayed while the economy recovers.

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2020 – Turning Challenges into Opportunities in RCM

December 23, 2020

To say 2020 will long be remembered as a challenging year for the healthcare industry is almost comical in its understatement. The strain put on all levels of the system, from front-line care all the way through collection and revenue cycle, has been incredible. Then comes this news out of Virginia via Healthcare Finance News: Newport News, Virginia-based Riverside Health System is coming out of 2020 able to say that it had one of its most improved collection, performance and revenue cycle years to date.

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How Banks Can Work with Bitcoin’s Original Design

December 22, 2020

While Bitcoin cryptocurrency has been for many years held at arms length by mainstream consumers — it’s been considered volatile because of how much and how quickly its value can change, and the 2018 Bitcoin crash is still fresh in the mind of the industry — there are signs that it is gaining more widespread acceptance.

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Dissecting Mythbusters’ GPU vs CPU Video: What It Means for Real-Time Check Processing and Fraud Detection

December 10, 2020

Back in August, we explored the importance of Nvidia’s data centers to real-time check processing. The blog post garnered a huge amount of attention from our readers, yielding requests to take a deeper dive of the featured video from Mythbusters and the subject of GPUs vs CPUs.

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RCM Audit Can Offset Massive $323B COVID Losses at Hospitals

December 4, 2020

With healthcare organizations seeing lower volumes of patients for routine and elective procedures, the industry is having to withstand massive losses. While healthcare revenue for each organization depends on many factors, the American Hospital Association (AHA) reports that hospital operating margins are still down 28% year-to-date compared to 2019.

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Capital One Goes All In on the Cloud – Will Others Follow?

December 3, 2020

The Amazon Web Services website reports that Capital One is completing its migration as the first US Bank to go all-in on the cloud — and it’s making waves in the industry. “Capital One, one of the largest banks in the United States, announced in November 2020 that it had completed the migration from all eight of its on-premises data centers to Amazon Web Services (AWS), becoming the first US bank to report that it was all in on the cloud.

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What We Learned at the ORBOIMPACT Healthcare Payments Sessions

November 19, 2020

As we noted in our Check & Fraud recap earlier this week, the ORBOIMPACT VIRTUAL CONFERENCE, our two-day online event — which covered Healthcare Payments on Thursday, October 29, and Banking & Payments on Friday, October 30 — was a huge success! Industry speakers coupled with OrboGraph experts focused on AI innovation and payment strategy helped drive strong attendance, while innovative polling encouraged attendee participation and interaction.

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Wearable Tech: A Boost for Healthcare Payments?

November 13, 2020

The healthcare market anticipated some turbulent times, speculating about what uncertain future was in store while the Coronavirus was “spinning up.” For example, John Talaga, executive vice president and general manager, healthcare at Flywire, predicted that at least some of Flywire’s healthcare clients might face a 30 percent revenue shortfall this year. In a story at pymts.com, Mr Talaga was happy to admit he was a bit too pessimistic.

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Recapping ORBOIMPACT and the Modernization of Check & Fraud

November 12, 2020

We’re pleased to announce that our ORBOIMPACT VIRTUAL CONFERENCE, a two-day online event which covered Healthcare Payments on Thursday, October 29, and Banking & Payments on Friday, October 30, was a huge success! Industry speakers coupled with OrboGraph experts focused on AI innovation and payment strategy helped drive strong attendance, while innovative polling encouraged attendee…

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