By Alexander Vitenas – A payment collected months before surgery and a payment collected after a procedure can leave the same balance due. But they tell different stories. One may be a prepayment tied to a planned treatment before a final charge existed. The other may be payment against an established balance. Looking only at the final number can hide how it came to be.
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By Sagnik Bhattacharya-In conversations with healthcare organizations, we hear versions of the same problem again and again: there is no shortage of technology they want to put to work. Finding the capacity to connect it all is another story.
We have rounded up some reports and surveys from around the industry that we thought were of interest from LexaView, the AMA, Clinical Architecture, McKinsey & Company, and Premier.
By John Torontow – Physicians are trained to be questioners, seekers, and skeptics. This is usually a good thing, as skeptics tend not to accept the first or most obvious answer. And when their doctors are inspired to dig deeper, patients tend to feel like they’ve got someone on their side who really cares.
By Philip Wickline – For all of the technological advancements that have unfolded in healthcare over the past several years, one relic of the past still seems to sum up today’s patient experience. The clipboard. It’s a potent symbol of just how much responsibility and redundancy healthcare providers continue to thrust onto patients when it comes to gathering and sharing data.
By Alan Vitale & Donald Searing PhD – In the digital age of healthcare, data is abundant, but structure is not. Payer organizations are inundated with clinical notes, scanned forms, faxes, and handwritten appeals. These “unstructured” data types – which lack uniformity – slow operations, obscure insights, and increase administrative burden.
By Usman Choudhary – Healthcare data security is among the most pressing challenges in today’s interconnected world, primarily because digital transformation exposes sensitive patient information to the risk of breaches and cyberattacks.
By Ian Cohen – My Health My Data Act went into effect on March 31, 2024 This law is a game changer for companies, even outside of healthcare. The law requires companies to get an explicit “opt-in” for HIPAA Consent when collecting certain types of data.
By Jitin Asnaani – The sheer amount of information generated in healthcare and the variability of sources increases the risk of duplicate, inaccurate, incomplete, or inconsistent identity data. This can result in numerous hurdles.