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• Chart Reviews In The Age Of EHRs

  4/21/2016

  Anyone who contracts with health insurance companies knows chart reviews are part of the process with an insurance company chart reviewer coming to the practice every so many months to review practice charts and collect data. I suspect it is to make sure we are staying compliant with their billing requirements.

• Tablet PC Enables Doctor To Succeed In The Field

  3/19/2012

  When a physician is “out in the field,” mobile technology is a great enabler, as long as it works. Dr. R. Dale Walker from One Sky Center in Oregon finds a tablet PC enables him to accomplish more and provide greater patient care. By Motion Computing
• Unravelling The Mysteries Of Medical Billing With Artificial Intelligence

  10/12/2016

  When you go to the grocery store and make a purchase, the receipt you receive at the end of your visit is fairly self-explanatory. By David Bayer, Vice President, Compreno Group at ABBYY

• Optimizing Direct Spend Management For More Sustainable And Innovative Healthcare Systems

  2/1/2019

  In the U.S., healthcare costs too much. It consumes 20 percent of GDP and costs twice what it does in other developed countries, despite the scale of the U.S. market. This is neither sustainable nor efficient – and we see the individual, collective, and political ramifications playing out every day in the headlines. We pay more than other countries for prescription medications, medical devices, and healthcare services. It goes without saying that the complexities of our healthcare and insurance systems are problematic in this regard, but much of the opportunity to cut costs lies at the source – literally. Smarter sourcing and procurement of direct materials should be addressed as a major strategic factor in reducing healthcare costs.

• The Who, What, Why, When, And How Of Patient Communication During COVID-19

  4/27/2020

  COVID-19 has been on everyone’s mind for weeks—and it has been a frightening and confusing time, to say the least. According to recent studies, 81 percent of adults say that this is a true “national emergency.” Three out of four report feeling stressed about outbreaks in their communities while nearly 70 percent say they are afraid that they, or a member of their family, will catch the virus. These fears are only exacerbated by a lack of information or confusion about what is true or not.

• From Value-Based Care Goals To Realities: 4 Steps To Your Desired Destination

  12/9/2015

  It’s one thing to have a destination circled on a map, quite another to actually get there and put your feet on the ground. Case in point: Health and Human Services (HHS) has set a goal of tying 30 percent of traditional, or fee-for-service, Medicare payments to quality or value through alternative payment models, such as Accountable Care Organizations or bundled payment arrangements by the end of 2016. HHS is also aiming to tie 50 percent of payments to these models by the end of 2018. With such a clearly defined landing, the fact that healthcare is moving toward value-based care is indisputable. The big challenge heading into 2016 and beyond, then, lies in figuring out exactly how healthcare organizations will achieve this ambitious goal — and that’s where thinking needs to move outside the box. Following are four innovative steps healthcare organizations can take to succeed under these emerging value-based care models. By Clyde Wesp, Jr., MD, MAOM, Executive Clinical Strategist, Jacobus Consulting