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1. From Days To Minutes: Overcoming Costly Barriers To Efficient And Effective Patient Care 8/13/2019

   By automating processes to better support bidirectional communication in vital clinical workflows, such as those associated with prior authorizations, both providers and payers can improve patient care while cutting significant administrative costs.

2. Digital Transformation: Tech Challenges For Healthcare Modernization 4/11/2018

   The healthcare industry is in the midst of a dramatic digital transformation, marked by a host of new back-end technologies that promise to modernize hospitals and lay the foundation for a truly digital workplace in the year ahead. Hospitals and healthcare systems are challenged with striking a delicate balance between running a smooth, efficient operation while remaining flexible and devoted to patient care in a modern age. This creates significant procurement challenges, requiring hospitals to embrace new technologies and innovations at a seemingly breakneck pace while also keeping an eye on the bottom line.

3. The Unfortunate Irony Of COVID-19 And Health Insurance — And Lessons To Learn From It 6/15/2020

   Concerned people often bring up the need to reform the American healthcare system. Individuals who are lucky enough to have insurance may find their plan has so many stipulations that it doesn't provide the level of coverage originally anticipated.

4. Patient Relationship Management: Taking Care To The Next Level 11/28/2016

   When patients quit coming back to a practice, it is often for different reasons than providers assume. By Josh Weiner, Chief Operating Officer, Solutionreach

5. White Paper: Age-In-Place Storage: When Not To Tier And Migrate Active Data 11/12/2009
   We acknowledge the changes in file reference behavior are subtle, consistent, and complex. There are two ways to “look” at any file on a Unix file system4. The most common is with the file’s path and name, which is exactly what people and most programs do when they open or close a file as we look at a directory structure. Even so, names are not used to mange files. By Randy Chalfant
6. Payment Integrity: New Perspectives On, And Approaches To, Mastering The Challenge Of Healthcare Fraud, Abuse And Waste 3/25/2010
   The problem of healthcare fraud and abuse is a serious and ongoing one. Health insurance fraud includes billing for services, procedures, or supplies never provided; misrepresentation of what was provided, or by whom; and the providing of unnecessary services. By Emdeon
7. White Paper: The Tripwire HIPAA Solution: Meeting The Security Standards Set Forth In Section 164 11/3/2009
   On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The law includes new rules that affect the health care industry and those entities that might handle, process or maintain personal health information. This paper is intended for organizations that know they are a CE (Covered Entities). By Tripwire, Inc.
8. Real-Time Healthcare Data: A Game Changer For Navigating The Care Path In The Bundled Payment Era 6/5/2017

   Population Health Management and Bundled Payment Models have created a high demand for innovation in healthcare information technology. Healthcare providers have historically operated in silos, but value-based care initiatives have highlighted benefits for looking at healthcare comprehensively and are financially structured to transform care accordingly.

9. Cost Transparency Is Not Enough — Engagement Is Critical 6/21/2016

   It’s more imperative than ever for health plans and employers to offer not only cost transparency tools, but support them with proactive engagement. Engagement is key to driving utilization of cost transparency and provider search and, thus, cost savings. Recently, the Journal of the American Medical Association did a study on cost transparency and its results. They found that, rather than helping members spend less and save, health spending actually increased for the member populations. The word that was not mentioned? Engagement.

10. AI Is Making Traditional Patient Feedback Actionable 8/6/2018

    Every healthcare organization wants to improve the patient experience. Traditional methods of collecting and monitoring patient feedback fall short of providing healthcare leaders the actionable insights necessary to improve patient experience. To overcome the challenges of continuous improvement, industry leaders need better analytics solutions.