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• Please Be An Engaged Healthcare Leader

  12/8/2015

  As the co-founder of a healthcare technology company offering tools to increase patient engagement, reduce readmissions, and improve patient outcomes, I am no stranger to the current prevailing opinion that analytics are one of the, if not the only, key determinants in predicting outcomes and costs. However, my experience at the Congress on Population Health Management conference in Orlando earlier this fall made me question whether we are truly open to the newest information related to healthcare outcomes and its potential implications. By Zach Silverzweig, co-founder, CipherHealth

• Artificial Doctors In A Human Era

  1/12/2018

  The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) is overused today. Unfortunately, this often leads to a misunderstanding of what AI is. Artificial intelligence is an umbrella term and covers many areas, including robotics, machine learning (ML), natural language processing, knowledge representation and computer vision. For the purposes of this article it will suffice to view AI in a simplified form as a synonym of Machine Learning with one stipulation – AI implies automatic decision making while Machine Learning only provides insights for a human observer to facilitate the decision-making process.

• Consumers Must Be The Focus Of Providers' Value-Based Technology For Managing Risk

  1/16/2020

  Providers negotiating risk-based health plan contracts or considering Medicare Value-Based payment options have to decide how they are going to avoid devastating financial losses. As capitation re-emerges as a dominant payment type, providers are using various technologies to supplement their current EHRs and financial systems. Their priorities are on spotting patients and providers who may generate "excessive" costs compared to targets and improve performance.

• Reimagining Discharge To Elevate The Patient Experience

  8/22/2016

  With the proliferation of high-deductible health plans, patients have a greater financial stake in their care than ever before — in some cases paying thousands of dollars for a single care episode. Likewise, hospitals are taking on more financial risk for patients beyond the hospital stay.

• Preventing Email Data Breaches In Healthcare

  7/23/2018

  You don’t have to be a cybersecurity expert to know that data breaches are an all too common occurrence in healthcare. According to the 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report by Verizon, healthcare suffered more breaches than any other industry in 2017, accounting for almost a quarter of all breaches investigated during that period. Consequently, Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI) were the most common types of data compromised overall, more so than banking and payment card details.

• Time To Bring Automation To Prior Auth

  12/29/2017

  Prior auths may be as popular among providers as ants at a picnic, but they have become a common and necessary part of the reimbursement process. As a result, being able to manage prior auths efficiently is critical to maintaining a healthy revenue cycle and avoiding issues such as denied claims, administrative waste, excessive staff turnover and, of course, patient dissatisfaction.