Open Data Platform Simplifies Payment Estimates
With laws such as the “No Surprises Act,” government has thrown its considerable weight behind the pressure on payers and clinicians to give patients good-faith estimates of the total cost of treatment. According to Marcus Dorstel, VP of Operations at Turquoise Health, both payers and providers have struggled and invested large amounts of effort in meeting the new requirements.
Payers and providers who want to meet the intent of the law by adding up or “bundling” the many parts of treatment offer “service packages” that estimate what a patient will pay. These service packages get very de...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations Bundling Healthcare Bundles Healthcare Price Transparency Healthcare Prici Source Type: blogs
Process Automation Requires More than Just Technology
Healthcare sites are desperate to cut costs and reduce staffing needs through automation: As explained by Logan Lewis, Chief Operating Officer, EnterBridge Technologies, costs are increasing faster than reimbursements and few institutions in healthcare are expected to produce better profits over the next few years.
EnterBridge Technologies specializes in custom solutions to robotic process automation (RPA). This is not robotics in the sense of roaming machines, but simply software process automation for tasks such as getting prior authorizations, handling denials, and checking for suspect billing requests.
In this video, L...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management EnterBridge Technologies Healthcare AI Healthcare Billing Healthcare Denials Healthcare IT Video Inte Source Type: blogs
For Tempe AZ, Public Health Means Being a 20-Minute City
The City of Tempe, Arizona, is using modern technology and an advanced infrastructure planning approach to enable people to make better health choices. This means ensuring everyone has access to fresh food, convenient transportation, and even adequate shade cover. It’s all part of their “20-minute city” initiative. To achieve their goals, city leaders are using a data-informed approach, enabled through GIS technology, to identify gaps in community infrastructure and planning.
Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Stephanie Deitrick, Chief Data and Analytics Officer for the City of Tempe, to learn more a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Analytics/Big Data Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System City of Tempe esri GIS for Health GIS technology Health Data Health GIS Healthcare Mapping Public Health Public Health GIS Stephanie D Source Type: blogs
Centralization and Specialization Allows Financial Stability and Growth
During the COVID-19 shutdown, when many providers lost staff or even closed, Pioneer Physicians Network, Inc. actually grew. This Ohio primary care practiced acquired three practices and added five physicians to its existing sites. In this video, Leanne Knight, Director of Health Informatics, explains how they streamlined their organization to achieve this success.
They created a central office to take the burden of general services such as referrals and document management off of their 18 treat locations, so that the staff at those sites could focus on patient care. The cloud-based eClinicalWorks service made this possibl...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 26, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management Centralization COVID-19 eClinicalWorks eCW Healow Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcar Source Type: blogs
Online Patient Payments Are Appreciated Regardless of Demographic
The healow suite of apps from eClinicalWorks opens up many common healthcare tasks to patients. In our recent video interview at the eClinicalWorks Enterprise Summit, Ben Broseke, IT Director at Orthopaedic Institute of Ohio, Inc., describes the dramatic improvements in payments they go by deploying healow Pay.
healow Pay is an online payments service that enables patients to pay their bill quickly online. The Orthopaedic Institute of Ohio has saved about 25% in costs by using healow Pay in place of paper billing, although some patients still prefer paper.
While many wonder if online payments will work with their older pop...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management Ben Broseke eClinicalWorks eCW EHR Change Management Healow healow Pay Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthc Source Type: blogs
Hyndman Area Health Centers Improves RCM Process with Help from eClinicalWorks Despite Key Personnel Departures
Despite the sudden and unexpected departure of financial leaders at Hyndman Area Health Centers, new management was able to quickly improve their revenue processes by collaborating with eClinicalWorks. The Hyndman team is now more efficient, streamlined, and able to deliver financial information in a timely manner.
Healthcare IT Today met with Dr. Brian Stratta, Interim Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer of Hyndman Area Health Centers (HAHC) to learn more.
Sudden Management Departures
The town of Hyndman, PA is located 20 minutes north of the Maryland and Pennsylvania border. It has a population of 800 peopl...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management claims denial rate Claims Processing Cloud EHR Dr. Brian Stratta eClinicalWorks eCW FQHC healthcare financial information healthcare financial reporting Source Type: blogs
Multicloud Madness: The Complexity and Cost of Managing Multiple Healthcare Cloud Platforms
Many healthcare and life sciences orgs today manage multiple Cloud platforms by default. This mix of public, private and Edge Cloud architecture provides organizations with a variety of benefits, including increased flexibility. Not all applications are right for a given Cloud solution, and a multicloud infrastructure lets IT teams deploy workloads to the most appropriate best-of- breed solution.
But the multicloud approach also introduces enormous complexity. Organizations need to select and implement the right cloud infrastructure, security protocols, and data management systems. A lack of consistency in infrastructure a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Baptist Health Dell Technologies George Morris Google Cloud Healthcare Cloud Healthcare Cloud Security Healthcare IT Video Inte Source Type: blogs
Navigating Population Health Data and HEDIS in an Ambulatory Practice
One of the big challenges ambulatory practices face today is how to navigate the increasingly complicated world of population including things like HEDIS scores. The good news is that the opportunity to do population health is now there thanks to all of the data that’s available to a healthcare clinic in their EHR. However, it takes more than just a report to do population health effectively and to ensure their closing the gaps in care.
A few years ago. eClinicalWorks introduced a data analysis tool called HEDIS Analytics that brings to the surface gaps in care among a clinical practice’s population. This...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Ambulatory Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Revenue Cycle Management eClinicalWorks eCW Eileen Testa Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured HEDIS HEDIS Analytics HEDIS Scores Source Type: blogs
How eClinicalWorks Integrates Disparate Data
Data sharing and interoperability are spreading too slowly in health care, and even if a doctor manages to get all the data, its varied formats make it hard to draw insights from.
eClinicalWorks has tackled the problem with a product called PRISMA, which can search across multiple providers and provide a unified view of recent visits, test results, etc. In this brief video, Jose M. Rocha, Director of the Corporate Business Office at First Choice Neurology, explains how such integration can produce better care.
For instance, his neurology service works with 42 hospitals, each displaying data on patients in its own idiosyncr...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability eClinicalWorks eCW eCW Prisma First Choice Neurology Health Data Sharing Healthcare Interoperability Healthcare IT Video Interviews Source Type: blogs
Enable Cyber Resiliency and Business Continuity Across On-premise and Multiple Cloud Environments
Setting up a modern healthcare technology environment spanning on-premise and multicloud locations requires a comprehensive strategy that takes time, needs to be application-based, and allows for an on-ramp to move entire ecosystems of applications.
Due to the proliferation of attacks – which are disproportionately target healthcare and life sciences organizations, becoming more frequent, increasingly sophisticated, and their consequences more dire – the inescapable conclusion is that it is no longer a matter of if these organizations will be breached, it is now a matter of when.
To stay ahead of the constantly changin...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Security and Privacy Amanda Heidemann Cyber Resiliency Dell Technologies George Morris Healthcare Business C Source Type: blogs
Interoperability Saves Lives and Builds Trust at HHM Health
For HHM Health, an FQHC serving the Dallas area, interoperability and access to medical records is vital for establishing trust with their patients and saving lives. The team leans on various modules from eClinicalWorks, including Prisma, which allows them to retrieve records from a variety of information exchanges – a feature that helped them save the life of new patient.
Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down with Geli Brown, Senior Director of Quality Management at HHM Health to learn more about how they are using technology to improve the lives of patients and to achieve their goal of becoming the top-ch...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Carequality Cloud EHR CommonWell Health Alliance Data Sharing eClinicalWorks eClinicalWorks Prisma eCW eCW Prisma FQHC FQHCs Geli Brown Source Type: blogs
A Demo of How to Make Healthcare Kiosks More Accessible for All
One of the most interesting opportunities at the HIMSS annual conference is the chance to see demos of a wide variety of health IT solutions. At this year’s event, we decided to film a number of demos of interesting health IT products that we thought readers of Healthcare IT Today would find useful. If you want to see all of these demos as we share them, be sure to subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today YouTube channel.
The first demo I’m excited to share is by Nicky Shaw, US Operations Manager at Storm Interface. Shaw demonstrates how you can take a healthcare kiosk and make it accessible for those who ma...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Regulations Ada Healthcare ADA Healthcare IT Demos Healthcare IT Video Source Type: blogs
Why We Need to Think Differently About Storage in Healthcare
Managing health data is no longer as simple as archiving it for the odd retrieval by a clinician down the road. Today, health data is a strategic asset. Mining that data can lead to critical operational and clinical insights. Plus the data itself is critical to the creation of AI engines and machine learning algorithms. To manage health data properly, healthcare organizations need to think differently about data storage.
Passive Data Archives
It wasn’t that long ago that the most complex questions regarding health data storage were: Is there enough hard drive space to archive the data? and Is that archive secure? There w...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Cloud Storage data archive Epic Health Data Healthcare Cloud Healthcare Legacy Systems HIMSS HIMSS 2023 Source Type: blogs
Why Legal Immigration Is Impossible for Nearly Everyone
David J. BierMylatest policy analysis published today explains why it is impossible for nearly all immigrants seeking to come permanently to the United States to do so legally. The report is a uniquely comprehensive and jargon-free (to the extent possible) explanation of U.S. legal immigration. Contrary to public perception, immigrants cannot simply wait and get a green card (permanent residence) after a few years. Legal immigration is less like waiting in line and more like winning the lottery: it happens, but it is so rare that it is irrational to expect it in any individual case.The figure below shows the U.S. legal imm...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 13, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
MA for Tomorrow: Moving Beyond the Status Quo to Advance Concrete Policy Changes for the Future of Medicare Advantage
BY CECI CONNOLLY AND MICHAEL BAGEL
Medicare Advantage (MA) has passed the tipping point, delivering coverage and care to more than half of the senior population in the US. The Congressional Budget Office projects more than 60 percent of people 65 years and older will be in the program by 2030. As enrollment soars and interest in value-based health care grows, it is imperative policymakers modernize the program that is expected to cost $7.5 trillion over the next decade.
Rather than taking the standard Washington posture of declaring victory or defending the status quo, our provider-aligned, nonprofit member pla...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Ceci Connolly MA for Tomorrow Medicare Advantage Michael Bagel Source Type: blogs
