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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

The traditional denial appeal process involves phone calls, emails, meetings, faxes, document searches, contract reviews, and endless forms, and can take hours of effort per appeal. For hospitals, it costs $181 on average to appeal a single claim. We are leveling the playing field in the AI arms race between payers and providers.

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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. MEETING THE CHALLENGE Chase introduced telemedicine in phases as different needs arose.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. 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.

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

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"The main problems we wanted to address with our telehealth platform prior to COVID-19 surrounded our goals of expanding the reach of our clinical care services and allowing our clinicians to meet our patients at their convenience to avoid unnecessary long commutes to our city campus," he said. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Te Toka Tumai Auckland rolling out FHIR-ed-up PAS and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Virtual Care service is currently being provided through WACHS's command centre, outpatient services, metropolitan health services that offer remote patient access, and business meeting rooms. The task force, which is composed of senior leaders and subject matter experts, recently met for its first meeting.

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Health systems, care delivery groups, Amazon launch hospital-at-home initiative

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Encourage greater flexibility for home-based care services to meet commercial and Medicare Advantage network adequacy standards. Mayo Clinic Platform president Dr. John Halamka, for instance, has said he foresees a future of "virtualist centers in what were formerly known as hospitals. THE LARGER TREND.

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Orlando Health to launch Hospital Care at Home program

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Orlando Health on Monday announced that it's been approved by Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration to start delivering hospital-level acute care in adult patients’ homes. WHY IT MATTERS. It's going to be the emergency department for heart attacks or strokes.

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