Weekly Roundup – August 12, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week. Achieving Interoperability One Practical Byte at a Time. Upstate New York’s Rochester Regional Health began its interoperability journey with lab data, Colin Hung learned, as there was a clear need to bring in lab test results from many external sources to help care teams make better clinical decisions and improve outcomes. Read more… Surescripts, FTC Settle Over Charges of Anticompetitive Behavior. Anne Zieger unpacked the FTC settlement of charges that Surescripts was operating at a near-monopoly in two markets. Surescripts must pull back control of routing and eligibility and alter behavior in the medication history services and on-demand formulary services niches. Read more… How AI – and People – Improve Revenue Cycle Outcomes. Pat Murphy at TruBridge talked to John about bringing the whole company together to talk about what claims denials processes to automate. This helped the company find ways to help providers prevent denials in the first place instead of having to reconcile them later. Read more… Healthcare IT Today Podcast: The Patient Experience Outside the Four Walls of the Hospital. John and Colin discuss the advances in remote monitoring technology that make...
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