RACs Moving Forward: Year of Uncertainty is Over
By Lula Jensen – RACs are back! Following several delays and multiple lawsuits, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has finally awarded the new RAC contracts.
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Can Artificial Intelligence Really Revolutionize Healthcare?
By Abhinav Shashank – Artificial intelligence- a buzzword that was initially created and introduced as a concept to imitate human brain and its actions and operate in the real world with a comprehensive human approach.
Centricity LIVE Recap: Delivering Value Based Care
By Ashu Ravichander – The underlying theme at this year’s GE Centricity LIVE was the move towards value based care and its impact on software. Practices and technology partners gathered at GE’s largest user group conference to share tips and thought leadership for improving care.
Why is Risk Management Such a Challenge?
By Clyde Hewitt – If one lesson is clear from the constant stream of recent settlements announced by the Office for Civil Rights, it is that covered entities are not implementing risk management plans to reduce risks to protected health information (PHI) to an acceptable and appropriate level.
For Health Care Providers, the Check Is Still in the Mail
By Blair Jeffery – While the benefits of electronic transactions for health-care payments—reduced operating costs, efficient processing, enhanced reliability, and strengthened security—are widely acknowledged, the health-care industry has faced many challenges keeping pace with standard electronic-payment adoption rates.
Added Data Security Comforts Patients During Telehealth Encounters
By Tom Toperczer – Criminal attacks are the leading cause of PHI reaches, according to a Ponemon Institute study. Breaches cost the healthcare industry $6.2B in 2016, while HIPAA Security and Privacy rule violation penalties for providers range from $50,000 per breach incident up to $1.5M.
Do You Know the “True” Cost of a Coder
By Andrea Romero – “Outsourced coders are too expensive”, “My internal coding resources are much less expensive than external coders” are statements I hear frequently from HIM leaders.
Practice Managers – Seriously How Are You Keeping Up?
By Chad Tunison – I think it’s time for the healthcare industry to stand up and give Practice Managers the applause they deserve. It is commonly known that providers have it rough these days due to increasing regulations, however, what never seems to get headlines…
Post-Interoperability Era: Now It’s All About Actually Exchanging Health Records
By Buff Colchagoff – Both the Sequoia Project and DirectTrust recently announced that they are exchanging more health records and connecting more provider sites than ever before – reinforcing how more EHR transactions and more States are being covered as connectivity expands for both.