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Feel the Pain: Paper Is Hurting All Healthcare Stakeholders

October 26, 2017

The Trends in Healthcare Payments Seventh Annual Report: 2016, available for free download – offers a look at how delaying the inevitable electronification of payments at all levels of healthcare transactions is costly on many levels to healthcare providers. Consider the following facts from a post at at AJMC: 88% of providers reported that they received…

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The Payments & Financial Services World is in Vegas, Baby

October 24, 2017

It’s advertised as “The World’s Largest Payments & Financial Services Innovation Event,” and it’s taking place right now (October 22-25) in Las Vegas – – the 2017 Money20/20 event expects 11,000+ attendees, including more than 1,700 CEOs and Presidents, from 4,500 companies and 85 countries. Their agenda is comprehensive and includes themes like PAYMENTS, BANKING, COMMERCE, SECURITY,…

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Becker “Power Panel” Makes 5 Key Observations on Managing RCM

October 19, 2017

Attendees at the Becker’s Hospital Review 3rd Annual Health IT + Revenue Cycle Conference in Chicago were treated to a panel of healthcare heavyweights discussing revenue cycle performance. The distinguished group included Vice President of Revenue Cycle Management at San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare Gerilynn Sevenikar; Vice President of Product Management and Revenue Cycle Analytics at…

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The “New” Amazon Cloud? Old News to Banks

October 17, 2017

It’s no surprise, as reported in The Wall Street Journal, and discussed in Fortune magazine, that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been pitching its public cloud services to banks. Amazon has spent the last 4-5 years trying to get security-conscious industries comfortable with the idea of using its shared computing and storage infrastructure. But are banks new…

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Want More Payment Data? How About 2243?

October 10, 2017

The PYMNTS-Ingo Money Disbursement Satisfaction Index™ is an impressive research document summarizing payments. If you’re a banker, product manager, solution provider, or anyone interested in payments, the 2,243 data points might interest you! There is certainly an anti-check tone to the initial sections, but overall the data is very interesting. Check out pages 8-21 for a…

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Payers Pressuring Providers for Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

October 5, 2017

A deep dive into revenue cycle issues in an article by Healthcare Informatics reveals a need for scale and cost reduction through process automation. “Commercial payers want more automation. The biggest movement we’ve seen in the past 12 months is a willingness to move ahead with electronic processing for pre-authorization for service. More recently, we’re seeing…

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“My eyes popped out of my head”; Checks Still Have Life

October 4, 2017

Brad Kvederis, marketing and research manager at Digital Check Corp., a Northbrook, Ill.-based marketer of check-scanning equipment, makes it his business to keep tabs on trends in overall check volume. He tells Digital Transactions News that he was “surprised” by the longevity checks have in spite of so many predictions of their demise: Kvederis points to a succession…

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Revenue Cycle Management Moves to Head of the Class

September 21, 2017

RevCycleIntelligence reported on a Black Book Market Research survey that revealed a resurgence of focus on the revenue cycle by hospitals: Almost three-quarters of struggling hospitals are prioritizing revenue cycle management over a number of initiatives, including population health, data analytics, physician practice acquisitions and recruitment, and patient engagement. The survey of over 6,000 financial and business…

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API Driven Solutions Enable Banks Anywhere

September 19, 2017

Application Programming Interfaces (API) are the backbone to connectivity between applications both across the web, as well as internal to banks. Check out this cool little YouTube Video to illustrate. OrboGraph’s greatest successes in banking have been due to our API methodology. It has given our business partners and direct clients the ability to embed…

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What’s Happening with Check Fraud Trends?

September 11, 2017

We’re looking for a few good fraud prevention men and women…do you know of any? We’ve been hearing from banks and credit unions that financial crimes using check payments have changed in 2017. After each discussion, the conversation almost always ends with, “so what are other banks or credit unions my size experiencing?” The last…

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