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Automation has been making human workers superfluous for centuries, but until recently, workers whose jobs required high-level cognitive skills have been able to rest easy, confident no machine could possibly replace them when it came to making nuanced decisions based on the evaluation of complicated, sometimes contradictory data. By Khal Rai, Senior Vice President, Product Development & Operations, SRS Health

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Perhaps more than in any other industry, healthcare organizations are being forced to re-examine their business processes. Rising costs, ongoing provider consolidation, and the need for HIPAA compliance solutions are all driving healthcare organizations to find new ways to improve operational efficiencies, increase productivity, and reduce expenses.

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FEATURED CONTENT

  • Why Healthcare Facilities Should Consider Managed IT Services
    10/13/2020

    Every day, organizations across the world continue to achieve technological advancements and breakthroughs. Although these developments are not specific to any one industry, we tend to see this occur most often in healthcare.

  • First We Fix The Data, Then We Make It Work For Us
    5/13/2016

    The healthcare industry amasses a tremendous amount of clinical data from which it gets far less value than it should. One issue is the lack of consistent, or perhaps I should say persistent, data stewardship with many errors and omissions negatively impacting clinicians. A second issue is a failure to put clinical data to work in meaningful ways, including the identification of trends and patterns (your most at-risk patients), or — at a much higher system level — reducing network leakage and creating effective measurement initiatives. Addressing these issues will be essential to achieving meaningful progress toward healthcare industry goals — and it’s really not as difficult as it seems.

  • No One Party Or Workflow Can Address The Opioid Crisis
    11/12/2018

    Data from both traditional health sources and non-medical sources, wrapped in analytics, can offer a unique view of individuals as they engage various stakeholders throughout the healthcare system. These data insights can enable extrapolation and identification of risk factors that are often complex and indicative of opioid abuse and misuse.

  • Why Healthcare Should Provide Treatment Cost Information
    1/3/2018

    As part of revenue cycle management, patient financials — the ability to discuss treatment costs at the time of service and helping patients understand why visits cost what they do — is crucial and a growing challenge in healthcare IT. Savvy healthcare consumers are demanding more information about all aspects of their medical care and are especially interested in obtaining up-front information about costs in an effort to mitigate increasing premiums and high deductibles.

  • Setting The Facts Straight: 3 Common Misconceptions When Applying Automation To The Revenue Cycle
    12/30/2020

    After an extremely difficult year – one where health systems now face losses projected to exceed $323 billion due to COVID-19 and as much as $200 billion in administrative waste as a result of revenue cycle inefficiencies – providers, now more than ever, are feeling enormous pressure to reduce costs and effectively manage finances. Many organizations are turning to automation technologies to navigate healthcare’s operational challenges and improve outcomes at a lower cost – however, many may be taking a misguided approach that is preventing them from reaching widespread efficacy and justifying the initial cost of investment.

  • Finding The Balance Between Patient Outreach And Patient Care With Technology
    3/2/2020

    Patient engagement is crucial to all healthcare organizations. It might seem at first glance that the larger an organization is, the more hands there would be to connect with patients. Unfortunately, the opposite is often true. The resources of health systems and hospitals are stretched to the limit with the basics, leaving little time for the “extras.”

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