Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

a leading provider of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) solutions, today announced the acquisition of Net Health ’s EMR line of home health, hospice, home care, and palliative solutions and RCM services (collectively, “home health and hospice”). Careficient Inc. , About Careficient. About Net Health .

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Read more… EMR and RCM in the Cloud Providing Value to HealthNet. Read more… Why EMR Optimization Is a Continuous Process. Also at HLTH, John caught up with Co-founder and CEO Alex Lebrun about what the company has learned from its 85 healthcare organization customers and what’s next for Nabla.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

AI-powered revenue cycle management (RCM) systems streamline billing and coding processes, reduce claim denials, and optimize revenue capture. Machine learning algorithms can also analyze large datasets to detect patterns, assist with predictive analytics, and improve medical coding accuracy.

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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 31, 2024

Not only for RCM reimbursements, but also how fast a physician conducts an encounter and how satisfied patients are with their service. “By giving our customers these benchmarks through this enterprise data warehouse and dashboard that we publish, they can see how much potential they are leaving on the table,” said Velamoor.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

HOUSTON & SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Lightning Step, a leading provider of All-In-One CRM, EMR, and RCM solutions for behavioral health and addiction treatment facilities, is enhancing its platform with vital recovery support and alumni engagement for those contending with Substance Use Disorder (SUD).

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2025

RCM vendor R1 is partnering with Palantir Technologies to launch R37 , an AI lab focused on healthcare financial performance. Products EMR vendor Canvas Medical launched Hyperscribe , an open source AI copilot that uses ambient audio to write clinical documentation and orders.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Helping Providers in Ontario Adopt AI and Improve EMRs. Colin Hung sat down with Rob Fox at OntarioMD about the organization’s work collaborating with vendors to give physicians a role in shaping EMR enhancements as well as helping physicians decide which AI innovations will work best for them.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2023

Systemic Review of RCM Processes The HAHC billing team, under a new manager, collaborated with eClinicalWorks to review and streamline the RCM process. With the new streamlined RCM process, reports are now available in near real-time. This meant that HAHC had to start from scratch to rebuild their revenue cycle processes.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Read more… The Benefits of RCM as a Service. At the recent eClinicalWorks National Conference, John spoke to Todd Mallon of Advocare about the health system’s transition from in-house revenue cycle management to RCM as a service , due in part to staffing issues. Read more… The CIO’s Role in RCM.

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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

JULY 10, 2022

More than 90% of respondents said providing routine healthcare post-COVID is putting a strain on their departments, with 90% of RCM departments experiencing a labor shortage. Illinois-based Midwest Orthopaedic Center went with eClinicalWorks for its patient engagement, cloud-based EHR, and RCM products.

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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. Epic Cupid Analyst – Bluebird Staffing Senior EHR Analyst, Epic Beacon – Ardent Health Services Sr.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 30, 2023

Based on personal and professional experiences, Lightning Step provides an integrated CRM, EMR, and RCM platform designed for behavioral health and addiction treatment centers, helping operators to streamline patient care from intake to discharge, improving interdepartmental workflow, operational efficiencies, and patient outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

People EMR vendor Canvas Medical appointed Adam Farren as CEO. EHR, RCM, and practice management vendor Greenway Health hired Chuck Rackley and Geordie Sanborn in Vice President of Sales roles. Company News Sentara Health chose WellSky for analytics to support clinical interventions in its home health operations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2022

The unofficial theme of this year’s HFMA conference was how hospitals are dealing with staffing challenges in RCM and collections. One Hospital’s Approach to Better Revenue Cycle Efficiency. Medical imaging vendor Intelerad announced a growth investment from TA Associates that is expected to close in the third quarter of 2022.

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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

MAY 13, 2023

Read more… Equity, AI, and EMR Maturity at HIMSS23. Separate systems for RCM, practice management, and payments don’t make sense if a medical office has one person managing all things finance. They also highlighted some tips for patients and parents for keeping their health information private when they’re online.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 1, 2023

In the latest CIO Podcast, LCMC Health’s Tanya Townsend told John about the health system’s EHR consolidation as part of its effort to get to HIMSS Stage 7 for the EMR Adoption Model. Funding and M&A Activity: RCM vendor Janus received a strategic growth investment from Enhanced Healthcare Partners. Million Users.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2024

All charting, notes and RCM activities happen in CharmHealth’s EHR. We worked to make all the interfaces between the two systems bidirectional so that patients and staff have a seamless experience. We wanted it to feel like a single environment.”

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2024

AI for cybersecurity which initially will focus on identifying log-ins that do not conform to the usual patterns Plans for AI for RCM Overall, I was once again impressed with the direction being taken by eClincalWorks. They jumped into AI with both feet last year and have maintained that commitment.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

What the EMR Industry Can Learn From Facebook – Seems like people care about Facebook and Healthcare. AI and Automation in RCM is All About Balance. Facebook in Healthcare – This article is so old, it’s kind of sad that it’s still getting so much traffic. Although, this article is from 2012.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 30, 2024

With this context, I believe novel applications of AI in RCM today are less about the technologies themselves and more about how traditional revenue cycle processes must evolve based on a technology-first mindset. This holistic approach is where AI can revolutionize healthcare.

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HIStalk Interviews

JUNE 12, 2019

You have one view of the world through your EMR, whether it’s Epic or Cerner or any type of hospital-based system. But when you get out into the community, you see more of a diversity of EMRs. One is the clinical focus, the EMR perspective of workflow and patient-centered focused around clinical things that have to occur.

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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 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

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

More than 80% of all claims denials are associated with Medicare , according to the latest annual benchmark report from RCM and auditing software maker MDaudit. In addition, half of patients with Type 2 diabetes reported mental health concerns, 45% faced financial concerns due to the cost of care, and 32% said they didn’t trust the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

One of the biggest announcements at the eClinicalWorks Annual Conference was the advancement of the Sunoh.ai medical scribe product that automates the creation of clinical notes for the clinician.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

This applies to the entire RCM ecosystem including reducing administrative burdens and producing cleaner claims. RCM In today’s healthcare landscape, the revival of the holistic, longitudinal health record isn’t merely a momentary glimpse but a comprehensive journey through a patient’s medical history.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The following is a guest article by Frank Forte , CEO at EnableComp The healthcare revenue cycle has never been more complex. As electronic health record (EHR) systems become nearly universal and interoperability initiatives gain momentum, many healthcare providers assume their revenue cycle challenges are solved.

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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

JULY 26, 2021

For the 67th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about what’s Rising and Falling in Health IT. I’m not sure there’s ever been a time in health IT where more things have been happening. Money is flowing into new and old health IT companies as they build out new digital health solutions and […] test

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The Mayo Clinic Platform is chasing the perennial technology promise: of boosting innovation from a wide range of sources by reducing the burdens of development, testing, integration, and administrative management. ” They include a “distributed data network” that collects data “from participants across the globe.”

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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

MARCH 22, 2024

The ambient voice solution at Medvise.AI focuses on the revenue cycle. According to CEO Gautamdev Chowdary, they have trained their voice-to-text transcription on medical input and made it extremely accurate with full automation. They have also achieved 100% accuracy in billing through a few extra features.

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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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