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Nirvana Raises $24.2M Series A to Revolutionize Health Insurance Verification

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For providers, this also substantially reduces claim denials for their finance and RCM teams. Nirvana is available via direct API integration, EHR/EMR integration, or through the always accessible web/mobile OneVerify application. This antiquated standard is no longer compatible with today’s digital healthcare environment.

Patient Experience

Patient Experience RCM EMR Primary Care

RCM: Fixing the Old and Adjusting to the New

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) is like a one of those huge Lego sculptures. Having a well executed RCM strategy is crucial to keep your organization running because it impacts everything. From the outside it looks one thing, but upon further inspection there are a million tiny little pieces that fit together to create the whole.

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RCM Primary Care Leadership Healthcare IT

Bonus Features – February 23, 2025 – 44% of orgs experienced a cyberattack involving a third-party vendor in the last year, 20% of patients prefer AI to phone calls if it results in faster service, plus 25 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Prior authorization technology vendor careviso announced a strategic alliance with XiFin , an RCM vendor. Lumeris introduced Tom , an AI tool that augments primary care workflows by automating tasks such as scheduling appointments and conducting post-discharge outreach. Louisiana-based St.

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RCM EHR Healthcare IT Primary Care

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Weekly Roundup – October 29, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2022

The idea behind the alerts to help doctors get the information they need quickly to improve patient care. Read more… How Greenway Health’s EHR Addresses Health Equity. Read more… The Benefits of RCM as a Service. Read more… The CIO’s Role in RCM.

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RCM EHR Healthcare IT EMR

Bonus Features – March 23, 2025 – NVIDIA expands partnerships with GE HealthCare and Lenovo, plus 25 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2025

Partnerships Care navigation vendor Quantum Health added Vida Health to its Premier Pharmacy platform to provide a GLP-1 weight management solution. RCM vendor R1 is partnering with Palantir Technologies to launch R37 , an AI lab focused on healthcare financial performance.

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Interoperability RCM EMR Healthcare IT

Bonus Features – April 9, 2023 – 63% of RCM departments face staffing shortages, small Stanford study shows 90% of GPT answers in clinical setting are “generally safe,” and more

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2023

A study from CWH Advisors and Synchrony found that 63% of providers have RCM staffing shortages , and 61% expect to work with third parties for help. Florida-based Palm Plastic Surgery & Medspa selected eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR.

RCM

RCM HIE Healthcare IT Primary Care

Bonus Features – October 6, 2024 – Only 25% of health systems trust ROI claims from digital health vendors, behavioral health makes up 72% of telehealth volume, plus 20 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Interoperability vendor Connective Health is partnering with Availity , a real-time information network, to create precise care summaries for primary care and virtual specialty care providers. Products Avo launched Ask Avo , an AI tool for clinical consults that integrates with EHR systems.

RCM

RCM Digital Health Telehealth Healthcare IT

Bonus Features – February 18, 2024 – 89% of patients want a single platform for managing their health, 70% of organizations interested in AI plan to adopt solutions from their EHR vendors, plus 27 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Tellingly, 70% of orgs with plans to deploy AI intend to adopt solutions via their EHR vendors. Sales WellSpan Health chose KeyCare as its partner in expanding into virtual primary care and behavioral health services. People EHR and RCM vendor ModMed appointed Joe Harpaz as Co-CEO.

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EHR eHealth RCM HIE

Bonus Features – November 5, 2023 – Only 24% of healthcare organizations have successfully disrupted ransomware attacks, 83% of healthcare leaders say AI is or will be an essential skill, plus 20 more

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Although 90% of health systems face turnover rates of greater than 10% for roles in RCM and patient experience, only 25% of executives are looking at AI or workflow improvements to improve efficiency , an Experian Health survey found. Mississippi-based Southland Recovery selected eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR.

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RCM Medicare EHR FHIR

Bonus Features – January 14, 2024 – Epic Research shows telehealth results in more follow-up visits that in-office care, Elevance Health to offer smartphones to qualified Medicaid beneficiaries, plus 21 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

In a letter, the EHR Association warned that ONC’s proposed information blocking disincentives may be less effective than intended. Sales Michigan-based McKenzie Health System implemented eClinicalWorks EHR v12. Arizona-based Spectrum Healthcare chose NextGen Healthcare to support primary care and behavioral health delivery.

Telehealth

Telehealth EHR RCM Healthcare IT

Bonus Features – February 11, 2024 – HTI-1 final rule goes into effect March 11, Best in KLAS highlights 136 products in 8 categories, plus 28 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The Global Software report recognized regional leaders in acute care EHR and PACS. Keystone Technologies and Sublimation Health are partnering to help transition EHRs to AWS. CliniComp updated its EHR solution suite to offer software, hardware, and services at a fixed price. For the U.S.

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RCM Life Science EHR Psychiatry

Bonus Features – October 9, 2022 – Optum completes Change Healthcare acquisition, interest in flu shots is declining, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2022

The grant, awarded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, comes weeks after the research team published a study in njp Digital Medicine indicating that increased telehealth access during COVID-19 did not result in increased, unnecessary access to primary care. Partnerships.

HIE

HIE RCM Primary Care EHR

Bonus Features – June 16, 2024 – 40% of patients are willing to follow medical advice generated by AI, genetic testing utilization went up 5% last year, plus 22 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2024

The push to adopt EHR and RCM technology in acute care has left other care settings underserved , with adoption under 50% in post-acute care, primary care, and rehab, according to the latest HFS Research report. Health plan’s spending on genetic tests increased 8% over the same time period.

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RCM EHR Healthcare IT Primary Care

Bonus Features – January 7, 2024 – New executives at CitiusTech, MultiPlan, and NextGen, plus 15 other stories

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 7, 2024

Primary care platform Equality Health is now available for Medicaid beneficiaries in Virginia. New England Orthopedic Surgeons (NEOS) is implementing athenaOne EHR, RCM, and patient engagement functionality.

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RCM Primary Care Healthcare IT Nursing

Weekly Roundup – November 4, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Bonus Features for October 29, 2023: 66% of patients prefer email or text for reminders about medical bills, plus 94% of clinicians said lack of timely access to insights within EHR impacts patient care. RCM vendor Access Healthcare acquired Envera Health , a patient engagement vendor.

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RCM EMR Mental health Healthcare IT

Bonus Features – May 5, 2024 – Kaiser Permanente taps Innovaccer (and former CTO) for AI, report finds security flaws in Merge DICOM Toolkit, plus 18 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2024

Integrated provider, pharmacy, and medical equipment supplier American Medical Administrators is implementing eClinicalWorks EHR and RCM. Virtual primary care vendor LifeMD entered a strategic partnership with Withings to provide remote monitoring devices for its GLP-1 weight-loss patients.

RCM

RCM Healthcare IT Primary Care Interoperability

Bonus Features – September 15, 2024 – 63% of HIE entities plan to participate in TEFCA, 19% of customer interactions with healthcare orgs get disrupted, plus 32 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

NCQA launched a Virtual Care Accreditation evaluation program , with its first modules applying to primary care and urgent care. SYNERGEN Health and HST Pathways are partnering to bring RCM software and services to ambulatory surgery centers. Products Abbott announced U.S. scribe technology.

HIE

HIE RCM EHR Healthcare IT

Bonus Features – April 2, 2023 – 63% of nurses say AI will cause a generational divide among nursing staff, 67% of consumers prefer electronic medical bills but 78% of providers still use paper, and more

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2023

Products ChristianaCare launched Virtual Primary Care , a subscription-based service available to residents of Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey. Hint Health debuted Hint All-in-One , an EHR, practice management, and patient communications app for direct primary care.

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Nursing Medical Billing Primary Care EHR

Cleveland Clinic’s AI Scribe Bake-Off: How Ambience Healthcare Came Out on Top

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

You cant take a primary care solution and force it into an emergency department or an oncology unit. Ambience won because their solution could handle the unique needs of different specialties and seamless fit into existing workflows. The workflows, documentation, and decision-making processes are completely different.

Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Primary Care Patient Experience EHR

Bonus Features – October 8, 2023 – 67% of Women are Having Issues with Getting a Clear Diagnosis – of which 25% are Still Waiting for Diagnosis or Gave up Entirely, Health Gorilla has 17 Healthcare Organizations Commit to Joining their QHIN, and More!

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2023

A recent study by Surescripts on prescribing trends found that non-physicians working outside of primary care prescribed nearly 20% more diabetes, high cholesterol, and hypertension medicines than they did in 2019. Meanwhile, primary care physicians prescribed these same medications 3.5%

eCare

eCare Primary Care Patient Experience RCM

Weekly Roundup – June 10, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2023

Read more… Gaining More Control With a Cloud-Based EHR. Moving to the eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR simplified the IT environment – and improved account management and authentication. Recently launched capacity management vendor Florence acquired Zipnosis , a virtual care solution provider.

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Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2023

Formed in 2001 as the eHealth Initiative, EHI has advocated for federal reimbursement for e-prescribing, EHR use, and telehealth, all while convening competitors to foster industry-wide collaboration. Included Health is partnering with Dispatch Health to connect virtual primary care to in-home urgent medical care.

eHealth

eHealth Nursing Primary Care RCM

Weekly Roundup – November 12, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Healthcare isn’t getting away from paper any time soon , between fax machines and backups when the EHR system goes down. Colin Hung spoke to Patrice Wolfe and Thomas Thatapudi at AGS Health about how process automation such as claims retrieval can ease the burden on RCM staff , bringing in more revenue with less manual work.

HIE

HIE EHR Interoperability RCM

Bonus Features – November 19, 2023 – Critical access hospitals 16% less likely to participate in data exchange, two-thirds of orgs plan to increase AI spending by 25% in the next three years, plus 36 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Azalea Health completed SOC 2 Type 2 Certification for its cloud-based EHR and RCM platform. Primary care technology platform Equality Health appointed Lawrence Green as Tennessee Market President. Certifications Data management firm Harmony Healthcare IT received HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year (r2) Certification.

eCare

eCare Healthcare IT Interoperability Health Information

Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – October 11, 2023 – Announcements from Best Buy, General Catalyst, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Walgreens, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

TrustCommerce integrated its patient payments platform with athenaIDX , athenahealth’s RCM product. Elation Health released an integrated EHR and billing suite for primary care. Cigna’s Evernorth Health Services launched a value-based care program for behavioral health.

Life Science

Life Science EHR BioTech RCM

Canvas Medical Achieves ONC Certification, Raises $24MM to Power Clinicians and Developers Building and Scaling Digital Health Companies

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Canvas’s suite of products are highly customizable by developers, seamless for providers, and give care delivery companies full control over their patient experience. .” The company works with customers of all care models and verticals, from direct-to-consumer virtual care to at-risk complex care and everything in between.

EMR

EMR Digital Health Primary Care RCM

Bonus Features – April 16, 2023 – Accenture says generative AI could augment 40% of healthcare work, 31% of healthcare workers don’t know what to do if a data breach happens, and more

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 16, 2023

eConsult and referral management vendor AristaMD launched a unified care transition platform for primary care. Health system data network Truveta unveiled the Truveta Language Model, which turns EHR data into data points that can be used for health outcomes research. In addition.

EHR

EHR RCM Healthcare IT Primary Care

Bonus Features – January 15, 2023 – 80% of consumers want a clearer process for dealing with billing errors, USCDI update would add 20 more elements, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2023

Telehealth provider Dr. B expanded its service offerings to include dermatology, sexual health, reproductive health and primary care. EHR, RCM, and practice management vendor ModMed appointed Jody Beaverson as Chief People Officer. DrFirst promoted G. Cameron Deemer to CEO and announced that founder James F.

RCM

RCM Healthcare IT Primary Care Interoperability

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APRIL 26, 2019

Bain Capital hires financial advisors to help it assess the potential sale of RCM vendor Waystar. HHS announces CMS Primary Cares, two value-based care payment models launching in 2020 that it says will cover at least 25% of Medicare beneficiaries and providers. Athenahealth lays off 200 employees.

RCM

RCM Primary Care Nursing EHR

Bonus Features – March 2, 2025 – 61% of docs worry AI will increase prior auth denial rates, more than 60% of orgs using imperfect tools to manage unstructured data, plus 37 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 2, 2025

A survey from AAFP affiliate Phyx Primary Care found almost 48% of primary care physicians using AI assistants use them with every patient they see. Rural hospital financial optimization company Cibolo Health selected TruBridge as its preferred RCM partner.

Primary Care

Primary Care RCM Life Science Healthcare IT

Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

The first quarterly Healthcare IT Market Report from Pivot Point Consulting hinted at a continued need for providers to develop long-term strategies around virtual care, customer relationship management, and RCM optimization. Urgent care software provider Experity appointed Brian Berning as its Chief Financial Officer.

Telehealth

Telehealth Primary Care Healthcare IT Medicare

Bonus Features – May 14, 2023 – Only 16% of organizations are using data to define clinical best practices, 84% of orgs hit with ransomware attacks lose revenue, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2023

De-identified real-world data in EHRs can help predict the severity of diabetic retinopathy , according to a paper from Verana Health published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. One reason for this growth: In 25% of hospitals, less than half of major projects met their key goals.

RCM

RCM HIE Healthcare IT Primary Care

Bonus Features – July 2, 2023 – Nuance and Epic integrate, 5 in 6 physicians say telemedicine improves continuity of care, news from HFMA, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2023

Navina released a generative AI assistant for primary care practices. Community Health Northwest Florida implemented eClinicalWorks EHR. Black Book Research released its latest RCM vendor rankings , with Axiom and Waystar earning top rankings in multiple software categories.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine RCM HIE Healthcare IT

WELL Health to Acquire EMR, Billing and Clinical Assets from CloudMD

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

WELL Health is acquiring CloudMD’s Cloud Practice entity which includes OSCAR based Juno EMR or “Electronic Medical Record” and ClinicAid billing Software applications as well as three primary care clinics located in the province of British Columbia. About WELL Health Technologies Corp.

EMR

EMR Primary Care Medical Billing RCM

Weekly Roundup – September 17, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

In the latest CIO Podcast, Linda Stevenson from Fisher-Titus Medical Center discussed how the Ohio-based health system is developing a telehealth roadmap after the initial pandemic rush and better integrating telehealth with its Oracle Cerner EHR system. Stevenson also detailed the difference between workflows in virtual and in-person visits.

RCM

RCM Healthcare IT Health Data Medical Billing

Weekly Roundup – September 17, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

In the latest CIO Podcast, Linda Stevenson from Fisher-Titus Medical Center discussed how the Ohio-based health system is developing a telehealth roadmap after the initial pandemic rush and better integrating telehealth with its Oracle Cerner EHR system. Stevenson also detailed the difference between workflows in virtual and in-person visits.

RCM

RCM Healthcare IT Health Data Medical Billing

Nirvana Raises $24.2M Series A to Revolutionize Health Insurance Verification

RCM: Fixing the Old and Adjusting to the New

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Bonus Features – February 23, 2025 – 44% of orgs experienced a cyberattack involving a third-party vendor in the last year, 20% of patients prefer AI to phone calls if it results in faster service, plus 25 more stories

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Weekly Roundup – October 29, 2022

Bonus Features – March 23, 2025 – NVIDIA expands partnerships with GE HealthCare and Lenovo, plus 25 more stories

Bonus Features – April 9, 2023 – 63% of RCM departments face staffing shortages, small Stanford study shows 90% of GPT answers in clinical setting are “generally safe,” and more

Bonus Features – October 6, 2024 – Only 25% of health systems trust ROI claims from digital health vendors, behavioral health makes up 72% of telehealth volume, plus 20 more stories

Bonus Features – February 18, 2024 – 89% of patients want a single platform for managing their health, 70% of organizations interested in AI plan to adopt solutions from their EHR vendors, plus 27 more stories

Bonus Features – November 5, 2023 – Only 24% of healthcare organizations have successfully disrupted ransomware attacks, 83% of healthcare leaders say AI is or will be an essential skill, plus 20 more

Bonus Features – January 14, 2024 – Epic Research shows telehealth results in more follow-up visits that in-office care, Elevance Health to offer smartphones to qualified Medicaid beneficiaries, plus 21 more stories

Bonus Features – February 11, 2024 – HTI-1 final rule goes into effect March 11, Best in KLAS highlights 136 products in 8 categories, plus 28 more stories

Bonus Features – October 9, 2022 – Optum completes Change Healthcare acquisition, interest in flu shots is declining, and more

Bonus Features – June 16, 2024 – 40% of patients are willing to follow medical advice generated by AI, genetic testing utilization went up 5% last year, plus 22 more stories

Bonus Features – January 7, 2024 – New executives at CitiusTech, MultiPlan, and NextGen, plus 15 other stories

Weekly Roundup – November 4, 2023

Bonus Features – May 5, 2024 – Kaiser Permanente taps Innovaccer (and former CTO) for AI, report finds security flaws in Merge DICOM Toolkit, plus 18 more stories

Bonus Features – September 15, 2024 – 63% of HIE entities plan to participate in TEFCA, 19% of customer interactions with healthcare orgs get disrupted, plus 32 more stories

Bonus Features – April 2, 2023 – 63% of nurses say AI will cause a generational divide among nursing staff, 67% of consumers prefer electronic medical bills but 78% of providers still use paper, and more

Cleveland Clinic’s AI Scribe Bake-Off: How Ambience Healthcare Came Out on Top

Bonus Features – October 8, 2023 – 67% of Women are Having Issues with Getting a Clear Diagnosis – of which 25% are Still Waiting for Diagnosis or Gave up Entirely, Health Gorilla has 17 Healthcare Organizations Commit to Joining their QHIN, and More!

Weekly Roundup – June 10, 2023

Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, and more

Weekly Roundup – November 12, 2022

Bonus Features – November 19, 2023 – Critical access hospitals 16% less likely to participate in data exchange, two-thirds of orgs plan to increase AI spending by 25% in the next three years, plus 36 more stories

Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – October 11, 2023 – Announcements from Best Buy, General Catalyst, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Walgreens, and more

Canvas Medical Achieves ONC Certification, Raises $24MM to Power Clinicians and Developers Building and Scaling Digital Health Companies

Bonus Features – April 16, 2023 – Accenture says generative AI could augment 40% of healthcare work, 31% of healthcare workers don’t know what to do if a data breach happens, and more

Bonus Features – January 15, 2023 – 80% of consumers want a clearer process for dealing with billing errors, USCDI update would add 20 more elements, and more

Weekender 4/26/19

Bonus Features – March 2, 2025 – 61% of docs worry AI will increase prior auth denial rates, more than 60% of orgs using imperfect tools to manage unstructured data, plus 37 more stories

Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Bonus Features – May 14, 2023 – Only 16% of organizations are using data to define clinical best practices, 84% of orgs hit with ransomware attacks lose revenue, and more

Bonus Features – July 2, 2023 – Nuance and Epic integrate, 5 in 6 physicians say telemedicine improves continuity of care, news from HFMA, and more

WELL Health to Acquire EMR, Billing and Clinical Assets from CloudMD

Weekly Roundup – September 17, 2022

Weekly Roundup – September 17, 2022

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