By Devin Partida – The beginning of the 2020s brought a great number of changes to the medical industry as a whole. Telehealth, which was beginning to gain popularity at the end of the 2010s, became a necessity to allow patients to continue their treatment while slowing the spread of COVID-19.
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By Scott Overholt – Payer-required administrative tasks are a burden most providers know all too well. They are a daily source of frustration, diverting time from mission-critical work and often delaying patient care. Legislation impacting audit and authorization processes is in constant flux, only increasing confusion about payer requirements and regulations.
By David Lareau – Electronic Health Records are generally viewed by clinicians as a technology that requires a lot of effort without providing much reward. Crucial information is scattered, and users spend far too much time trying to find it. Too often, they simply give up.
By Mark Menton – The sometimes adversarial relationship between providers and health plans is well documented – and its patients who end up in the crosshairs of the fragmented healthcare system. Amid government mandates, evolving customer demands, and rapid-fire innovation, many providers and plans realize they can’t go it alone anymore.
By Dan Matthews – Medicine and technology have always gone hand-in-hand. This fact has perhaps never been more apparent today, with some of the most powerful and innovative technologies, from robotics to artificial intelligence to Big Data are proliferating in the modern healthcare industry to fight disease and save lives.
By Matt Stewart – As AI continues to evolve into a must-have technology in almost every industry, healthcare organizations have continued to expand and accelerate their strategies. A recent survey found that more than half of healthcare executives expect AI will begin delivering tangible cost savings within three years at about a 90% increase.
By Derek Jones – According to the American Hospital Association, America’s hospitals and healthcare systems experienced an average loss of $50.7 billion per month due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, that is how bad the situation has been over the past two years. However, telehealth proved to be the savior of the health industry.
By Jason Ausili PharmD – As interoperability provisions from the Cures Act enter their enforcement phase, pharmacy leaders within the Pharmacy HIT Collaborative, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and pharmacy system vendors, met recently to discuss the state of pharmacy interoperability.
Wishing you a safe and happy New Year. Here are a couple of playlists from Healthcare NOW Radio highlight top episode of the year. Thanks for reading and listening in 2021.