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Why Manual Processes Are A Barrier To Payer-Provider Collaboration
8/22/2017
As payers and providers seek to uncover collaborative opportunities in an industry increasingly shifting toward patient-centric healthcare and value-driven outcomes, it’s critical to examine the most significant barriers to improved partnerships. By Dan Schulte, SVP Healthcare, HGS Inc.
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Leveraging Consumer Tech To Address Medication Adherence
9/11/2014
Hospitals continue to struggle with properly educating patients on the safe medication use. Now, digital patient engagement solutions that leverage streaming video and powerful information-sharing tools may end those struggles. By Dr. David Medvedeff, CEO, VUCA Health
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RTLS: Seeing Is Believing For Pediatric Hospital
10/28/2011
An enterprise-wide pilot convinces a pediatric hospital to implement an RTLS (real-time location system) for asset tracking.
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3 Simple Scheduling Tricks To Steal From The Business World
3/21/2018
Unfortunately, healthcare technology is at least a decade behind the rest of the professional world. For the most part, healthcare systems rely on a combination of manual, paper-based processes and disparate systems that do not communicate in real-time. Nowhere is this more evident than in scheduling techniques. While businesses have made an art of productivity and schedule optimization, many clinical settings are plagued with scrambled schedules and inefficient calendar models.
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How Revenue Cycle Technology Can Upgrade The Patient Experience
2/7/2019
“We must improve the patient experience.” That statement has become a rallying care in the healthcare industry—and for good reason. In the era of patient consumerism, patients today demand more from their providers than great clinical care alone. In keeping with their other daily activities, they expect convenience and transparency — especially when it comes to the increasingly costly financial side of care.
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Code Red: Rescue Your Healthcare Revenues
4/30/2012
This white paper exposes many challenges, including complex coding and compliance mandates, that impact the healthcare revenue and how a claims management solution can help you overcome them. By Darren J. Hobbs and James S. Lacy, JD
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Document Imaging Tames Healthcare Claims
5/28/2010
According to CNN Money, inefficient claims processing costs the U.S. healthcare system more than $200 billion per year. These inefficiencies are often attributed to the manual, paper-based practices many healthcare facilities still use to process claims. All too often, handling paper claims leads to data entry errors, misplaced files, and low productivity and profitability. By Ken Congdon, editor in chief, Health IT Outcomes
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How Genomics Researchers Deal With Big Data
5/24/2017
While the term Big Data was, according to the New York Times’ Steve Lohr, coined in 1998, it hit the mainstream as a hot business concept about a decade ago when major advancements in processing power, storage, and bandwidth coincided with the trend toward cloud computing. By Greg Hoffer, Vice President of Engineering, Globalscape
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Measuring Interdepartmental Outcomes In Healthcare: Challenges And Solutions
6/9/2016
ScienceSoft offers three techniques for interdepartmental healthcare data analytics of outcomes. Implement them to understand your performance better. By Natallia Babrovich, Business Analyst, ScienceSoft
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Women's Equality Day: Reflecting On What We've Accomplished And Where We're Going
8/28/2019
In honor of National Women’s Equality Day, we spoke to several women in the tech industry to learn how they’re working to level the playing field and breaking the glass ceiling.