By Stuart Long – Healthcare IT leaders are continuously balancing the need to improve patient care, optimize operational efficiency, secure data, and manage costs. Prioritizing the right digital investments is crucial, with significant implications for clinical and financial outcomes.
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This week’s Talent Tuesday is brought to you by Navenio and their CEO Connie Moser discussing the ongoing post COVID challenge of our nursing shortage.
By Erica Olenski – At the HFMA Annual Conference 2024 in sunny Las Vegas, “frontier” was this year’s passionate theme. HFMA described the healthcare finance industry as “a new frontier of health.” Here is my take.
By Spencer Allee – The next frontier in revenue cycle management is here—denials prevention, resolution, and recovery powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning. The best chance hospitals and health systems have to combat growing numbers of denials is to implement AI in their denials management workflows.
By Christie Scanlon – Within healthcare’s intricate landscape, a complex interplay exists among three principal entities: patients, providers, and payers. This dynamic can be likened to the “Three-Body Problem” in physics—a concept from Liu Cixin’s science fiction novel…
By Jim Tate – CMS established MIPS to link physician reimbursement to quality and cost-effective care. The current 2024 Medicare reimbursement adjustments are based on the 2022 performance year scores (0-100) for eligible clinicians. The program is budget neutral and the potential range of adjustments range from -9% to +9%.
By Jeff Robbins – The healthcare industry has experienced an explosion of data and analytics. Whether it comes from an Apple Watch or a hospital room, patient data is collected nonstop. But we can still unlock the value especially as AI becomes an increasing part of the equation.
By Kristin Quinlan – Across the healthcare industry and public health sector, there is a growing recognition that language access significantly impacts social determinants of health (SDOH)—the conditions in which people are born, live, and work that shape health outcomes.
By Patty Hayward – Healthcare call centers are embracing artificial intelligence and automation as tools for both improving the patient/plan member experience and streamlining processes to increase efficiency and reduce costs.