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Cofactor AI Launches Platform to Help Hospitals Fight Tidal Wave of Claims Denials and Announces $4 Million Seed Round

Healthcare IT Today

Using its proprietary medical-native foundation model, Cofactor AI reviews clinical evidence, coding guidelines, standard of care guidelines, and peer-reviewed studies, and identifies discrepancies between claims, medical documentation, payer policies, and facility contracts. For hospitals, it costs $181 on average to appeal a single claim.

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Telemedicine racks up big cost savings and enhanced care for Nebraska hospital

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" This forced Chase to retain patients longer than normal, requiring a higher level of care not typically seen in the critical access hospital. After each encounter, the vendor team faxes the documentation to Chase so it can be added to the patient's medical record.

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Modular, Data-Driven, Connected, Avelios Medical Secures €30 Million from Sequoia Capital for its Next-Generation Hospital Information System

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Great Potential With SAP exiting the HIS market by 2030, hundreds of German and European hospitals must rethink their system landscape. This presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to overhaul hospital IT, elevating the quality of care, and boosting process efficiency. Avelios Medical’s HIS 2.0

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NYU Langone Health used its FCC grant to expand Epic-linked telehealth

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Telemedicine is not only cost-effective for both the patient and the hospital, it also can reduce the risk of exposure to disease for all parties, especially during a pandemic. The organization has offered services such as virtual urgent care, telepsychiatry and virtual post-op appointments for several years to meet the needs of patients.

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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center boosts telehealth with $600K from the FCC

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Virtual visits information was tracked by a structured documentation section in the provider's EHR documentation. "However, for many patients who live outside our area, this technology is critical as it allows them to schedule their follow-up visits without a long drive to the hospital. " RESULTS.

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How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes

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With 185 hospitals, it takes effort for HCA to maintain good quality health data across their entire organization. As part of the sepsis project, HCA worked to streamline nurse documentation because some of the information needed for sepsis detection was collected manually by nurses. That is a much more complex data quality challenge.”

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

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This type of document will require not only top-notch billing tools but also new levels of contractual collaboration between separate provider entities. The AHA’s aim was to reduce unnecessary documentation and streamline the coding process.