Financial/Revenue Cycle Management

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How Boston Children's fixed charge capture and quality improvement issues with one software program

By Bill Siwicki 02:58 pm June 19, 2018

Clinicians enter quality improvement data at the same time they enter charge capture data, enabling a more timely and robust quality effort.

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Community Care of North Carolina deploys pop health platform to transform community care

By Bill Siwicki 04:19 pm June 18, 2018

By taking a more patient-centered approach, CCNC crafted a more proactive care management strategy.

Adrian Zai, MD, of Partners HealthCare giving the afternoon keynote at HIMSS Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum in San Francisco on Wednesday.

6 tips to help your hospital embrace innovation and collaboration

By Mike Miliard 08:45 am June 15, 2018

Adrian Zai, MD, of Partners HealthCare shared insights at the HIMSS Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum in San Francisco this week.

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Next-gen revenue cycle to refine value-based care with AI, advanced analytics

By Bill Siwicki 10:05 am June 12, 2018

Technology to facilitate a patient's understanding of insurance coverage and out-of-pocket cost for pending services will feature prominently in the future.

Providence St. Joseph's big AI and machine learning projects

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Providence St. Joseph finds success leveraging AI and machine learning projects

By Bill Siwicki 11:37 am June 11, 2018

Artificial intelligence is helping the health system generate ROI through increased patient arrivals, Medicaid risk stratification model cases and surgical outcomes.

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How physicians, nurses and clinicians are reshaping IT vendor strategies

By Mike Miliard 09:04 am June 11, 2018

A number of high-profile doctors, nurses and CIOs have left hospitals to work at tech companies and they are certainly making an impact.

What providers should know about CMS patient relationship category codes

By Mike Miliard 04:26 pm June 05, 2018

AHIMA offers advice for using the new codes, created as part of the Quality Payment Program, which have begun being reported voluntarily this year.

Emory Healthcare announces new innovation hub

By Bernie Monegain 02:52 pm June 01, 2018

The hospital joins the growing trend of fostering startups with the aim of commercializing new technologies.

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Salesforce invests in cloud-based health IT firm Virsys12

By Bernie Monegain 11:18 am May 31, 2018

The woman-run consulting firm will use the capital to expand its offering in the healthcare industry, CEO Tammy Hawes says.

Text-based tool reduces patient no-shows by more than two-thirds

By Bill Siwicki 09:43 am May 31, 2018

Riverside Medical Clinic's no-show rate was 10 percent just after the platform go-live – it was 3 percent just a month later, clearly suggesting a patient preference for texting over phone calls.