COVID-19 Report
We’ve rounded up some of the latest news and announcements pertaining to the coronavirus and the healthcare industry.
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Catching Patients At Risk For Cancer Before They Fall Into Systemic Cracks
By Joel Diamond MD FAAFP – While perhaps not as definitively as Newton’s law of gravitation, most providers embrace “early detection” as a truism for improving outcomes of most diseases and disorders. This is certainly the pervasive view in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
The Case for a More Secure Healthcare Supply Chain to Safeguard the Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines
By Tom Knight – As we’ve seen with HIV medications, limited supplies of life-saving drugs lead to black-market demand. Healthcare leaders need to boost their defenses against drug diversion — any activity that removes a prescription medication from its intended patient use.
How Healthcare Technology Is Taking on Child Abuse
By Luke Smith – In the wake of COVID-19, advancements in healthcare tech allowed us to shift to many healthcare processes to a virtual environment. Telehealth took off and with it came greater flexibility in how and where patients could receive treatment. Now, some of that same technology is being applied to the fight against child abuse.
COVID-19 Report
We’ve rounded up some of the latest news and announcements pertaining to the coronavirus and the healthcare industry.
Is Your Revenue Cycle Ready for 2021?
By Matt Seefeld – The long-awaited debut of 2021 has come and gone. And while many physician practices are ready for a fresh start, the reality is that the unprecedented financial challenges of 2020 will have a lingering impact.
Six Tech Trends That Will Influence Physician Practices in 2021
By Roland Therriault – Every year presents new challenges to healthcare leaders, but 2020 threw a curveball like few others: Covid-19. Over the last 10 months, physician practices and their partners have had to rethink healthcare clinical and billing practices and embrace new technology even when they weren’t ready for it.
Why Retrospective Code Review Shouldn’t Be Your Primary Risk Adjustment Strategy
By Dr. Seth Flam – The risk adjustment rules insist that each new calendar year, diseases and their correlated ICD codes from the previous year, be properly recorded in the current year, when clinically suitable. You may think it common practice that providers would just redocument….
COVID-19 Report
We’ve rounded up some of the latest news and announcements pertaining to the coronavirus and the healthcare industry.