Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2022

The upside of adopting technology for RCM can be significant: A drop in DSO (days sales outstanding). One technology in particular is proving to be very effective for RCM improvement – data analytics. Why communication from leaders remains key to RCM improvement. How executives can make work-from-home for RCM staff work.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… The Benefits of RCM as a Service. Read more… The CIO’s Role in RCM. Doctors Love Alerts – Until They Don’t.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because theres so much happening out there in healthcare IT we arent able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure youre informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2023

Healthcare IT Today met with Dr. Brian Stratta, Interim Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer of Hyndman Area Health Centers (HAHC) to learn more. Systemic Review of RCM Processes The HAHC billing team, under a new manager, collaborated with eClinicalWorks to review and streamline the RCM process.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For providers, this also substantially reduces claim denials for their finance and RCM teams. “Healthcare providers and patients alike have suffered from the opaque and inefficient insurance verification process for far too long,” adds Akshay Venkitasubramanian, CEO at Nirvana.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2024

We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Note: These jobs are listed by Healthcare IT Today as a free service to the community. Healthcare IT Today does not endorse or vouch for the company or the job posting.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. The unofficial theme of this year’s HFMA conference was how hospitals are dealing with staffing challenges in RCM and collections.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Healthcare IT Today, sat down with Roger Murray, Vice President of Product & Marketing at Telemynd and Venky Chellappa, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at CharmHealth to learn more about their collaboration. All charting, notes and RCM activities happen in CharmHealth’s EHR. We wanted it to feel like a single environment.”

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2024

eClinicalWorks Leaned into AI a Year Ago In 2023, Healthcare IT Today attended the eClinicalWorks Enterprise Summit (for large practices) and the Health Center Summit (for community health clinics and federally qualified health centers – FQHCs). That investment is paying off.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Equity, AI, and EMR Maturity at HIMSS23. Tegria acquired Sisu Healthcare IT Solutions , a MEDITECH certified hosting and services firm.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 1, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to weigh in on how to protect against the most common cyber threats.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… EMR and RCM in the Cloud Providing Value to HealthNet. Read more… Why EMR Optimization Is a Continuous Process.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

We reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them how can health information management professionals leverage emerging technologies, such as AI , to enhance data integrity and streamline processes? Today, we are going to focus on emerging technologies in regard to health information management.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Canvas Medical, the EMR that enables clinicians and developers to power the future of care delivery, has raised $24MM in Series B funding led by M13 with participation from Haystack and previous investors Inspired Capital, IA Ventures, Upfront Ventures, and Irongrey. Founded in 2015, Canvas is reimagining the EMR for the future of healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Most importantly, NextGen Healthcare ’s Ambient Assist solution has lived up to expectations. Healthcare IT Today was invited to cover #NextGenUGM24, held in Nashville TN. Not only for RCM reimbursements, but also how fast a physician conducts an encounter and how satisfied patients are with their service.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. See you at #HLTH2022!

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 30, 2024

We reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them – what novel ways are you seeing AI being applied to healthcare? This holistic approach is where AI can revolutionize healthcare. Where hasn’t it been applied yet that you think it should be?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. As artificial intelligence becomes more integrated in healthcare, its vast potential comes into sharper focus; its shortcomings are becoming more apparent as well.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The following is a guest article by John Wallace, PT, OCS, Senior Vice President of RCM at WebPT. When it comes to the number of patients providers can see in a day, some might think that more is more. After all, more patients should generate more billable services—and thus, more payments.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2024

For the 66th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are talking to Sergio Melgar, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at UMass Memorial Health (UMMH) about his organization’s recent achievement of Epic Gold Star Level 10! First, we get into why Melgar decided to go for this incredible achievement.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Another not so sexy, but important part of every EHR is the RCM and billing functionality. That should allow the doctors doing a prescription refill to see if there are other refills they should do at the same time to save them a future message and provide a better patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

However, proper staffing for EHR, revenue cycle management (RCM), and other major health IT system transitions go far beyond IT personnel. In fact, my experience suggests that operational readiness is a key factor for EHR and RCM success. Each phase of a project, from ideation to activation, demands specific skills and insights.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Learn more about HHM Health: [link] Learn more about Sunoh.ai: [link] Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT. And for an exclusive look at our top stories, subscribe to our newsletter and YouTube. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Watch the video for more perspectives on AI in healthcare and the Mayo Clinic Platforms approach. Learn more about Mayo Clinic Platform: [link] Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2024

And for an exclusive look at our top stories, subscribe to our newsletter and YouTube. Tell us what you think. Contact us here or on Twitter at @hcitoday.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Some RCM software captures Z codes , a subset of the ICD ( International Classification of Diseases ) billing codes, specifically designed for SDOH.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 27, 2022

Yesterday we shared 6 EHR optimization tips with you. Today, we’re going to look at the ecosystem of technology that interacts with the EHR and makes the EHR experience better (or worse if done wrong). It’s easy to talk about optimizing the EHR as just configuring the EHR setting and workflows, but EHR software these […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Doctors don’t seem flustered by bodily fluids or welts–what they dread is the hour-long calls with insurers, trying to persuade them to cover a test or procedure. There has to be some quality monitoring to prevent fraud and upcoding, but a lot of the time, the doctor just hasn’t coded properly or filled out the […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We asked members of the Healthcare IT Community to share their thoughts on the growing role of the Internet of Medical Things in managing healthcare data.

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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. WELL will pay approximately $5.75

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

LGI Launches its International Diversification Strategy LGI Healthcare Solutions Inc. As healthcare organizations continue to struggle with chronic resource shortages across all their operations, the need for workflow automation solutions is becoming even more critical. Originally announced October 5th, 2023

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2023

based Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Practice Management (PM), and Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) assets for approximately US$6.3 Harris Computer Corporation (Harris) and follows the sale of CloudMD’s Canadian EMR business in October 2022. The sale was pursuant to a definitive agreement with a subsidiary of N.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2021

Harris, a global vertical market software provider and acquirer, acquires US-based healthcare provider Bizmatics Inc. The Bizmatics suite of software, PrognoCIS, encompasses electronic health records (EHR), practice management and revenue cycle management (RCM) software and services. Harris provides a permanent […].

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