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• Revitalize Profit Margins By Fixing Broken Processes

  9/23/2020

  In today’s climate, healthcare providers must protect their profit margins and obtain every dollar that is owed to them by insurance companies. Enhancing operational efficiencies and streamlining administrative processes can go a long way in reducing denials and minimizing the amount of re-work involved in billing workflows.

• Patient Privacy: 6 Steps To Ensure HIPAA Compliance

  9/17/2019

  Technology is at the forefront of much of the innovation within the healthcare industry. New advancements are improving everything from patient care procedures to information availability, but many companies are struggling to manage the ancillary side effects of this rapid digitalization.

• New Year, New Data-Driven Healthcare Trends

  1/25/2016

  The physician-editors of our electronic clinical reference resource know a thing or two about data. They scour more than 27,000 articles in peer-reviewed journals each year, examine and weigh the strength of evidence each study offers, and translate it into more than 8,000 quick-to-digest summaries physicians and other practitioners can use at the point of care. Following are five ways, based on the evidence, patient care will be affected by health IT, payer data mandates, and other tech trends disrupting clinical workflows in the coming year. By Betsy Jones, EBSCO Health

• Transformation In 2015: Focusing Technology On The Patient

  1/12/2015

  We are currently experiencing the biggest transformation in healthcare ever. Technology plays a significant role as an enabler of this transformation, but will not drive it alone. Improving patient care and driving toward patient engagement are crucial goals in this next phase of the healthcare industry. To make adoption ubiquitous and implementation effective, there are several things we should focus on as we dive into 2015. By Alan Portela, CEO, AirStrip

• Riding The Herd To Transformational Success

  12/1/2016

  There is an unpleasant truth that almost any CIO or senior insurance executive is loath to admit: at some point in the past he or she has been involved in a large and costly technology initiative that failed spectacularly. It’s especially difficult when the initiative is at the root of the company’s operations, as are many core systems transformation initiatives. Why does this happen? There are many reasons, but many fail as a result of the effects of a kind of herd mentality.

• Can AI Propel Us Towards Universal Health Coverage?

  7/2/2019

  The World Health Organization defines universal health coverage as ensuring that everyone can obtain the care they need, when they need it, right in the heart of their own communities. While countries in all regions of the world continue to make progress toward these goals, millions of people still have no access to healthcare. Considering this stark reality, it’s imperative we ask ourselves, how might advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) improve healthcare access and outcomes globally?