Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Auditing billing and collection processes helps staff identify bottlenecks that create delays in billing or slow down administrative tasks. This could be anything from manual data entry to complicated billing codes. Unfortunately, healthcare often faces communication challenges between patients, providers, and insurers.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The bottom-line, literally: four in ten consumers would not pay a medical bill if they cannot understand the administrative experience. Each person interviewed was responsible for health care decisions and paying the bill at least once int he past twelve months. Cedar polled 1,239 U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Using AI to improve efficiency was a key theme, as was making imaging more mobile to improve the patient experience. Colin interviewed Eric Musser at NCQA about efforts to advance USCDI and reach consensus on necessary data sets. Read more… The Benefits of an Effective Health Data Archiving Partner.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The third chart tells us that patients-as-consumers would most likely sacrifice dining out, entertainment, and travel to be able to pay medical bills. Qualtrics’ data bolsters our understanding of health care costs baked into the patient financial experience and, more broadly, the overall patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In fact, according to data from Health Payment Systems (HPS), the average U.S. family can expect to receive approximately 125 pieces of mail each year related to health care billing. Employees receive a single, simplified “super EOB” rather than multiple bills from multiple providers for each medical treatment. .

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. ” While Google is a well-known brand and customer experience for most people, Ascension Health may not be as familiar an organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 18, 2022

In a medical emergency, patients would be forced to cover massive medical bills out of pocket. As a result, 1 in 10 Americans owe some form of medical debt , with millions owing more than $10,000. Using Modern Data Tools to Address Healthcare Affordability. The fallout from these statistics takes many forms.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

GNC also, in a HIPAA-certified manner (explained on the website) that they will be collecting users’ information which consumer-members can access — in the form of visit notes and prescription data, and be able to download and save this information. Cost, cost, cost, cost, and cost — above quality of care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

.” And across all technologies assessed in this study, it was AI and machine learning that the health care finance execs pointed to as a top-three investment priority, followed by improving the patient experience (among 37%), and automating business processes (32%). Bank explained in the report. AI can help here, too.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

This is also the time my research clock alarm goes off for an important annual report that describes the latest profile of the patient-as-payer in the U.S. The overall takeaway for patients in this study is that health care is disconnected from consumers, in the words of the JPM/InstaMed report. ‘Tis the season for J.P.

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Health Populi

MAY 18, 2023

consumer credit rating companies — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — planned to remove medical bill collections that were under $500 from consumers’ credit reports. according to CFPB’s recently-published Data Point report. according to CFPB’s recently-published Data Point report.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The Commonwealth Fund’s report bolsters the central premise of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen, that the patient-is-the-payor as we approach the new year of 2020. This new year is a U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Beyond the physical and emotional pain that people experience when they become a patient, in the U.S. 98% of Americans rank paying their medical bills is an important pain point in their patient journey, according to Embracing consumerism: Driving customer engagement in the healthcare financial journey , from Experian Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

One challenge is finding the right patient payer information. Technology can help organizations identify more billable insurance coverage for self-pay patients, maximizing revenue, increasing efficiency and improving patient experience. adults report that they wouldn’t have the money to cover a $500 medical bill.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

What does my doctor bill mean?” addresses medical bill literacy – the explanation of benefits wonkiness, the coinsurance and copayment concerns, and, simply put, what did the health insurance company cover? and “which doctor can I see?” deal with the in/out-of-network uncertainties.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

There’s a new data continuum with a shift in the relationship between the deliverers of services and their buyers. That data powers new relationships and programs, Marc explained. Marc then presented an intriguing, if disturbing (to me), bar chart of “the future value of your data.” Globally, that calculated to a value of $2.36

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

” But ONC data belies that: as it happens, patients can handle the truth, as we learn that 9 in 10 U.S. patients viewed their laboratory test results online in 2022. Kaffee’s demand for “the truth” as the villainous Colonel raged, “You can’t handle the truth.”

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The PDEI score is calculated by looking at how practices are using online tools for activities such as patient scheduling, paying bills, and viewing test results. The athenahealth Research team gathered critical data from a sample including over 6,300 practices on the athenaOne network and over 50 million patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Urgently Ortho in San Francisco, California, had an overarching goal: to create a tech-enabled orthopedic urgent care facility that provided a seamless patient experience using technology that could scale with leadership’s growth ambitions. ” Most hospital EHRs did not offer a great patient experience.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

“Report” is one word for this nearly 150-page compendium of health care data that is a treasure trove for health service researchers, marketers, strategists, journalists, and those keen to explore questions about the current state of health care in America. adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

It is powered by a team of digital health veterans, social workers specialized in oncology, and data scientists who enable patients to engage in their own care coordination, beyond the clinical. The platform connects patients to the Jasper Care Guides – the high-touch aspect of the service.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

My book Health Citizenship provided this diagram of four pillars of health citizenship — with healthcare explicitly called out as a civil right, digital citizenship protecting citizens’ data privacy and control (a la the GDPR as opposed to HIPAA’s “leaky” provisions), building up trust between patients and providers, and (..)

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2019

Patients in the U.S. Data illustrating that “paradox” is shown in the second chart: while 78% percent of patients told Maestro Health their health care experience is positive, 69% feel they lack control over their patient journey. Quality health care in America is too expensive, 79% of consumers said.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With delivery capabilities across upstream and downstream processes, Access Healthcare is uniquely positioned to unlock insights derived from operational processes to prevent claim denials, maximize collections, and enhance the overall patient experience.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Certain kinds of debt are associated with mental health challenges – in particular, debt incurred outside of a person’s control, like medical debt. FHN’s own data show that stress is not distributed evenly. consumers said paying a health care bill was stressful. ” One in 3 U.S.

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Mend

OCTOBER 18, 2022

While many industries have already gone digital, healthcare is still catching up when it comes to billing. Paper mail still leads for medical bills. Fifty-one percent of patients receiving a billing statement via the mail in 2021. Patient clicks the secure link, verifying their identity with their DOB.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

Here are the data on administrative burdens impact more people who are sicker than those who are in better health. Note that 21% of these sicker patients needed a particular doctor or hospital not covered by their insurance — that is, out-of-network. The Qualtrics Study explored the views of over 1,000 U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Practices and billing teams have the ability to set the terms (e.g., According to Inbox Health data, 96 percent to 99 percent of patients choose to continue receiving their bills and make payments digitally. Healthcare costs are at an all-time high, and many patients may need financing to pay their bill.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

They must also think carefully about what it takes to deliver an outstanding patient experience—including digitally—in a post-COVID world, where consumers expect digital access and support at each stage of their care journey. But finding the right approach is key. Avoiding digital fatigue is also an important consideration.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

It is not about remote patient monitoring or adopting electronic health records or tools to help patients view their charts. We’ve seen that the patient experience, cost control and human capital considerations all improve with real-time connectivity. But improving connectivity is easier said than done.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

She explained how a technology can start with earnest health-goals and result in ethical dilemmas: consider the potential for wearables to change how we improve our health, a “wonderful thing,” Sara said, enabling passive data collection. Then add a social element and, hey, you have a buddy for fitness collaboration when running.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2024

I live and breathe and work with patient and consumer health financial data every working day. I’ve absorbed a lot of graphic and data visualizations, read countless peer-reviewed papers, and reviewed myriad PowerPoint decks.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“The odds are against hospitals collecting patient balances greater than $7,500,” the report analyzing Hospital collection rates for self-pay patient accounts from Crowe concludes. Crowe benchmarked data from 1,600 hospitals and over 100,00 physicians in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Technology now plays a key role in buying behaviors, allowing patients unprecedented access to “shop” for services at their convenience. Health Catalyst, a data and analytics platform, presents the online marketplace as an opportunity for providers. When it comes to prescription medications, consumers demonstrate this hesitancy.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 18, 2024

The following is a guest article by Connor Accurso , Data Science Senior Product Manager at R1 The pressures on healthcare providers – from labor shortages to rising costs to reimbursement delays – continue with little relief in sight.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2024

“medical system” more granularly than that broad ecosystem phrase. But we do have demographic data for this question based on confidence in the medical system by gender, race, age, educational attainment, party ID, and household income. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Gallup does not examine the U.S.

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