Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 12, 2025

Scott Turkow and Alden Mitchell at Medallion talked to Brittany Quemby about how to save time during the credentialing and follow-up process with automation for data intake and administrative processes. Read more… How to Keep Virtual Appointments Secure. Read more… All You Need for Managing Provider Privileges.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2025

.” Singh says that health care organizations are accustomed to automation for administration, but are now exploring it for such clinical tasks as patient access, registration, and RCM. Fraud, waste, and abuse, patient and provider experience, claims review, utilization management, and prior authorization are all being addressed with AI.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 9, 2024

Ultimately, the integration of true AI and machine learning in RCM contributes to greater accuracy, reduced denials, and a better patient experience. The best RCM work is eliminating the work itself, and if the work cannot be eliminated then it’s about automating the work through AI and machine learning models.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2023

So often in talking about Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) the focus is placed onto the organization. How do we improve RCM? How to can we incorporate digital solutions into RCM? However, that leaves out one huge piece of RCM. So let’s take a moment and focus on the patient’s experience with RCM.

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Hinduja Global Solutions

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

For better RCM, prioritize people and track with technology. Proper revenue cycle management (RCM) involves careful documentation of the entire patient journey, from pre-registering through payment collection. Across the healthcare industry, health information mismanagement is causing a loss of millions of dollars each year.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Several more healthcare IT leaders took some time to share their thoughts on data integration, key use cases for AI, how to help frontline workers, and how to build trust. Read more… EMR and RCM in the Cloud Providing Value to HealthNet. Read more… How to Scale Advance Care Planning in a Medical Practice.

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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. The survey also found that only 20% of employees are very confident in knowing how to use their health benefits. The latest monthly trends report from Syntellis showed a -0.9%

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 8, 2024

Bill Hudson at Aidoc joined John to talk about how to approach the latest wave of AI tools for healthcare , along with how to overcome the most common hurdles for AI adoption. Read more… Why Cybercriminals Target Healthcare – and How to Thwart Them. Read more… CIO Podcast : The Benefits of AI.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2025

Day 1 at HIMSS25 : How to make data usable and truly address clinicians’ needs. The company’s Drew Ivan talked to John Lynn about how this streamlines the patient matching process, especially for large batches of enrollees. Read more… Improving RCM With AI. RCM automation vendor Candid Health raised $52.5

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 1, 2023

Stephanie Deitrick told Colin how this work is helping the city improve access to grocery stores, civic buildings, commercial corridors – and paths with shade. Read more… RCM: Fixing the Old and Adjusting to the New. We posed two questions to the Healthcare IT Today community about RCM.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Joseph’s , recently sat down with Healthcare IT Today to discuss the revenue cycle management (RCM) improvements her team has made. Efficient RCM Processes are Critical Dr. Kushner has a passion for RCM.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2024

“This investment will enable us to reinvest in cutting-edge research and development, make breakthrough progress in our flagship RCM AI products, hire top-tier tech talent, and expand our go-to-market strategy and operations,” said Alex Zekoff, Co-Founder and CEO at Thoughtful AI.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2025

Los Angeles native Ray Lowe at AltaMed joined John to discuss how to deliver care when a medical facility is destroyed , along with the importance of supporting other public health services. Read more… Using RCM Technology to Close Healthcares Generation Gap. Healthcare is expected to lose 2 million workers to retirement by 2029.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 2023

Read more… One Health System’s Roller Coaster Journey to Improved RCM. That turned out to be a blessing in disguise, interim CEO and CMO Dr. Brian Stratta, told Colin Hung, as it required reviewing and streamlining the RCM process, which cut claims denial from 45% to 17% and made real-time RCM reports possible.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2024

Read more… Unlocking the Power of Interop for More Effective RCM. Colin connected with Juli Forde Smith at ZOLL Data Systems and Erica Gregory at Netsmart to discuss how prioritizing patient intake leads to better RCM – and how APIs streamline the process of sharing financial data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 20, 2024

Also at Collision, Colin connected with Dr. Eunice Wu at Asepha to learn about how to bring pharmacists into a patient’s circle of care – and why reducing their workloads is a key first step. Read more… How Digital Tools Streamline Administrative Processes and Promote Preventive Care.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

How to Balance Innovation and Digital Transformation With Regulatory Compliance and Patient Safety. Shereese Maynard at Nostradata Medical and Dan Sloshberg at Exclaimer joined John Lynn to share how to automate mundane tasks (such as changes to email signatures) and ensure automation workflows keep up with regulatory changes.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Now, for many small and mid-sized practices hamstrung by issues with claims processing, effective patient payment strategies could be the key to financial stability and a buffer against future disruptions.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 2, 2024

In the second installment, Andy explained the many stages of RCM that can benefit from generative AI: Claims, prior authorization, appeals, resource management, and contract generation. Read more… Generative AI in Your Desk Drawer: How to Get There. Read more… How Will Regulators Address AI in Healthcare ?

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The integration of remote care management (RCM) into healthcare delivery is becoming increasingly vital, particularly for patients with chronic conditions or ongoing health issues. RCM utilizes technology to provide healthcare services remotely, outside of traditional in-person visits.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2023

Not surprising RCM is also a popular use case for AI, with 78% of health systems currently using it or evaluating its use. RCM vendor PMMC is working with CAST Imaging to accelerate its migration to the cloud. Interoperability engine Infor Cloverleaf Integration Suite is now available in AWS Marketplace.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The report also finds that providers are prioritizing their IT investments in certain key areas, such as: Revenue cycle management (RCM) : RCM is the process of managing the financial aspects of patient care, from billing and coding to collections and denials.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2022

Earlier this month, the RCM vendor reported a data breach that may have impacted patients at five Texas-based providers. Patients don’t always know what’s happening, and doctors don’t always know how to use the technology in front of them. How do we give everyone the time to learn?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Develop a Strategic Appeals Process In the aftermath of a cyberattack, a well-defined strategic appeals process is crucial for recovering lost revenue from denied or backlogged claims.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

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). However, they face near-term challenges in how to operationalize this change. Automation is making a big difference in revenue cycle management (RCM).

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Ben Scharfe at Altera Digital Health outlined why organizations must address the challenge of integrating semi-structured data from ambient listening tools into EHR, analytics, and RCM systems. Read more… Ethical Boundaries, Big Payouts: The Lure of Hacking Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 1, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to weigh in on how to protect against the most common cyber threats. Funding and M&A Activity: RCM vendor Janus received a strategic growth investment from Enhanced Healthcare Partners. Cybersecurity: Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2023

Building on our previous posts on data and health equity and technology and health equity , we asked the Healthcare IT Community to weigh in on how to approach health equity from a different angle. Separate systems for RCM, practice management, and payments don’t make sense if a medical office has one person managing all things finance.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2023

John spoke with Angela Burgess at Randolph Health and George Dealy at Dimensional Insight about how to ensure that all staff get value from data and what success is possible through data-driven operations. RCM vendor Aspirion acquired FIRM Revenue Cycle Management Services.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

John Lynn attended the CHIME Fall Forum and tuned in to the CIO panel, where longtime and interim CIOs shared their thoughts on how the CIO role has changed, how CIOs can help to address burnout, and how to guide their organizations into the future. Panelists also talked about the path forward for digital innovation.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 11, 2023

Read more… How to Continue to Improve Medication Management. Funding and M&A Activity: RCM company CodaMetrix closed $55 million in Series A funding. RCM technology and service provider AGS Health acquired Availity’s India-based patient access outsourcing business unit.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Having this detailed information about what their insurance will and won’t pay for helps patients make more informed decisions about when to get care and how to pay for it. One of the best ways to do this is by providing patient responsibility estimations, preferably before the time of service.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

This frees up staff to focus on more complex and strategic aspects of RCM. When organizations acquire technology and are unaware of how to use or properly leverage it, they can end up in large amounts of data and not know how to appropriately apply it to improving solutions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

The platform also enables health systems to determine how to best allocate resources – healthcare workers, beds – and contains the spread of infectious disease by managing care for lower-risk patients remotely. Somatix markets SafeBeing, which is a wearable, AI-powered, remote patient monitoring system for healthcare providers.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Healthcare now relies on increasingly large amounts of data for maximizing both artificial intelligence (AI) and revenue cycle management (RCM) systems. How To Extract Web Content. Data collection is key. BHM Healthcare Solutions understands the value of data in getting healthcare organizations to next-gen analytics.

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HIStalk Interviews

JUNE 12, 2019

Usually those are part of a system of trying to identify CPT codes or ICD codes in order to get paid through a billing RCM model. One is the clinical focus, the EMR perspective of workflow and patient-centered focused around clinical things that have to occur. You have dichotomies of political and revenue cycle.

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HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 15, 2018

GPB Capital acquires Maryland-based RCM/EHR vendor Health Prime International. I love my 20+ year marketing career, but there are definitely “special internal challenges” faced by marketing teams that other teams like finance and development would never have to deal with, i.e. everyone knows how to do marketing. Weekly News Recap.

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