Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The following is a guest article by Steven Dubner, Vice President of Product Management at Nordis Technologies No matter how exemplary the clinical care, overall patient experience and satisfaction often hinge on the last interactions with providers—billing and payments.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2024

You could see that eCW had put a lot of focus on improving the speed of documentation including number of clicks and time spent documenting. I think time spent documenting matters a lot more than clicks even if clicks are often cited as the problem. It literally showed how much time was spend after hours documenting.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Providers are saving more than two hours daily on clinical documentation, improving efficiency and the quality of notes. AI medical scribes have transformed patient visits by silently working in the background, turning patient-provider conversations into draft clinical documentation, and drastically helping alleviate burnout.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Partnerships AI documentation and coding vendor Ambience Healthcare joined athenahealth’s Marketplace Program. Lone Star Family Health Center selected athenaOne for EHR, RCM, and patient engagement. Company New Patient experience vendor Tendo updated its PCI, SOC 2 Type 2, and HIPAA certifications.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 9, 2024

We’re moving away from a world where people need to spend countless hours combing through medical documents to manually extract key information to put into a prior auth or other encounter. Ultimately, the integration of true AI and machine learning in RCM contributes to greater accuracy, reduced denials, and a better patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 7, 2024

Advanced technologies and automation can deliver timely patient notifications, satisfaction surveys, appointment reminders, and more that get more patients, and more payments, into the health system, while creating efficiencies in a traditionally complex and demanding revenue cycle operation.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2022

The Sequoia Project has released additional documentation support the implementation of TEFCA , the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement for health IT interoperability. And all respondents said labor shortages are causing an operational strain that’s adversely impacting the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Nearly all (95%) of healthcare executives are interested in end-to-end managed services to solve RCM challenges, according to a survey from Ensemble Health Partners. Partnerships Qualtrics and Epic are partnering to integrate patient experience data into the EHR. More than 70% prefer managed services to in-house operations.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2024

Many practices I spoke with at this year’s Enterprise Summit commented on the time and bottom-line savings being realized by having AI automatically match inbound electronic documents to the correct patient record (verified by an actual pair of eyes of course).

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Fixing Documentation at the Source. By considering how clinical notes are used in the revenue cycle process, Ambiences AI ensures the documentation it generates will reduce billing and coding issues downstream. The workflows, documentation, and decision-making processes are completely different. Real-Time, No Cleanup Required.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2024

Broadly, the document supports a ensure standards are met in the deployment of AI. ED utilization for liver cancer care is higher in Black and Hispanic patients compared with white patients , according to a report from Inovalon and Genentech. RCM services vendor Savista launched Sophia , a patient-facing digital agent.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Additionally, automating processes such as this help to relieve employee burnout and simultaneously improve the patient experience. The market will see increased asks/attention for bots as they are critically needed in RCM to offset staff shortage, enhance staff retention, and accelerate tasks (ultimately cash flow).

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Fern Cowan at DeepCura AI talked to John about applying lessons from hospitality to healthcare AI , as well as the benefits of deep EHR integration for clinical documentation. Read more… Harness Ambient Listening to Revolutionize Documentation. Read more… Mental Health Screenings Ensure Healthy Children and Parents.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2023

Three leaders of ROI Healthcare sat down with John Lynn and talked about helping health systems get the payoff they want from investments in RCM, ERP, and EHR software. Read more… Tracking the Patient Experience at Intermountain Health. Read more… Giving Healthcare Organizations the Return on Investment They Want.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

Partnerships DeepScribe deepened its integration with Epic , now pushing documentation into specific fields of a patient’s chart. Patient experience platform ixlayer joined the Innovators’ Network at the American Heart Association Center for Health Technology & Innovation.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Colin Hung spoke to Neighborhood Health CIO Anthony Villanueva about enabling a grassroots approach to care by giving care teams NextGen mobile technology to document encounters well beyond the clinical setting. Read more… Bringing Care to the Streets in Nashville. Read more… Taking Social Determinants of Health to New Heights.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 18, 2024

To work a claim and determine the next step, service agents typically review the account’s history and research multiple payer documents (clinical and administrative policies, contracts, electronic/non-electronic correspondence, etc.).

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 30, 2024

From financial clearance and prior authorizations to clinical documentation, coding, billing, and denials management, intelligent automation is helping healthcare providers combat payer policies and avoid regulatory penalties that can negatively impact their margins and ability to reinvest money toward the primary mission of care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2024

Compliance monitoring, documentation, omnichannel physician engagement, and supply chain resilience are some of the areas where the experts see AI playing a more prominent role in pharma IT this year. Read more… Putting Daily Data at the Center of Patient Engagement. Read more… 2024 Health IT Predictions : AI in Pharma.

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JULY 12, 2024

.’ So we’re actually reducing cost, we’re enabling them to invest in Cognizant and in TriZetto where then we’re enabling that platform of generative AI where it helps them basically enhance the patient experience as well as a provider experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In addition, the MiHealth app allows scheduled and real-time patient self-assessment questions. Patient answers are displayed in easily interpretable graphics on a cloud-based dashboard. Patient education material in the form of images, documents and videos is pushed to patients through the app, as well.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Involving revenue cycle management (RCM) is necessary for any comprehensive SDoH/health equity strategy. Patient experience. SDoH Factors Impacting Patients and Revenue. These metrics are a vital part of a patient’s SDoH story when this information is documented in the patient’s chart.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2023

Colin spoke to Joella Almeida at MedEssist about supporting pharmacies as they take on a greater role in care delivery through documentation, scheduling, and more. Read more… Moving the Industry Forward With an RCM Adoption Model. Healthcare has many models, but until recently RCM has been missing.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

patients anticipate AI will create a more efficient patient experience , according to a recent Talkdesk survey. Patients diagnosed with cancer are nearly twice as likely to access their medical records online than other patients , according to the latest ONC / ASTP data brief. Research Half of U.S.

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