Financial/Revenue Cycle Management

30% of physician practices to replace their EHR within 3 years, Black Book says

By Mike Miliard 02:09 pm April 16, 2018

Medical groups are seeking customizable and cloud-based systems and emerging technologies like speech-recognition capabilities.

Miramont Family Medicine is using the telemedicine robot Beam at its clinics.

Telemedicine robot enables physician consultations in multiple locations

By Bill Siwicki 09:13 am April 16, 2018

Using the device, called a Beam, Miramont Family Medicine now sees more patients than ever – enabling physicians to be in more than one of its four locations at the same time.

Centegra Hospital Huntley in Illinois. Credit: Centegra Health

Centegra Health slashes ER door-to-doc times by 64% with specialty EHR

By Bill Siwicki 07:07 am April 06, 2018

The emergency department EHR enables caregivers to document with much greater speed, which helped knock down the door-to-doc wait time from 67 minutes to less than 30.

Microsoft sues Community Health Systems for alleged copyright infringement

By Jessica Davis 11:21 am April 04, 2018

CHS, already facing financial troubles, has been accused of breaching contractual obligations with the tech giant, by continuing the use of Microsoft products at some of its recently sold hospitals.

GE Healthcare sells value-based care division to Veritas Capital for $1.05 billion

By Bernie Monegain 04:33 pm April 02, 2018

The private equity firm sees a big opportunity for growth in the sector, offering further evidence that value-based reimbursement is here to stay.

Traditional hospital budget systems are holding back innovation, experts say

By Beth Jones Sanborn 04:19 pm April 02, 2018

The typical manner in which hospital leaders construct their budgets is by clinical and ancillary departments, which can hinder innovation.

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield offices in Washington, D.C. Credit: Google Maps

CareFirst breached again, notifying 6,800 members of phishing attack

By Jessica Davis 01:56 pm April 02, 2018

The Maryland insurer is already involved in a lawsuit stemming from a 2014 breach of about 1.1 million members.

A screensnap of the Drchrono EHR.

DrChrono to offer Apple hardware leasing for physician practices

By Mike Miliard 01:35 pm April 02, 2018

The first EHR vendor to build a native app for iOS devices now aims to make it easier for small and large practices to customize personal hardware packages for their offices, including MacBooks, Apple TV and more.