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New Orleans hospital tackles bad debt
Touro Infirmary, a not-for-profit, faith-based hospital in New Orleans, has a plan – and technology – to improve collections and reduce bad debt. The hospital will employ Self-Pay Analytics software developed by California-based MedeFinance to help handle payments and collections. The technology categorizes patient accounts based on risk, income and household size to best identify the likelihood of patient payment, charity care eligibility, demographic errors and potential fraud. “Since Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has one of the nation’s highest uninsured rates, and Touro Infirmary’s percentage of self-pay and uncompensated care patients has risen dramatically,” said Robert Ficken, vice president and CFO of the hospital.
Partners expands work in connected health
Boston-based Partners HealthCare is expanding its commitment to connected health technologies. It also announced a name change for Partners Telemedicine – to the Partners Center for Connected Health – to better reflect the range of its work in telehealth, remote care and disease and lifestyle management. The center will be developing programs on the management of chronic illnesses, mental health and fitness and wellness.
South Carolina hospital to add radiology info system
The Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center in South Carolina will add Agfa HealthCare’s IMPAXTM Radiology Information System to its existing IMPAX image management system. Hospital executives say the technology will help optimize departmental operations and standardize medical imaging and diagnostic data access for radiologists and physicians.
Asante aims to reduce number of passwords
Asante Health in southern Oregon will implement single sign-on technology. The software, developed by Andover, Mass.-based Sentillion, is designed to eliminate use of multiple passwords and improve physician satisfaction with the hospital’s Siemens Soarian system and other clinical applications by providing access management, safety and privacy, regulatory compliance and protection of data and information sources. Single sign-on will be rolled out to 3,000 clinical users across four facilities.
