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Eligibility Checks That Catch Coverage Changes Before the Visit
By Harris Mahmood – Many denials trace back to a front desk moment, not a coding mistake. A patient changed jobs, aged into Medicare, or lost Medicaid at a renewal, and nobody noticed until the claim came back. A single eligibility check on the day of the visit is not enough to prevent this.
The Hidden Tax on Health Care Providers
By Doug Kimball – For smaller independent practices, managing insurance claims is no longer just an administrative task, it’s a direct threat to financial sustainability. More than 41% of health care providers report claim denial rates above 10%, a problem that has continued to grow in recent years.
NOW in Life Sciences – Month of November 2026
In this monthly report you will find news and highlights in the Applied Life Sciences from Eko Health, Prolific Machines, Sharp Services, Merck, AstraZeneca, Senseonics, Verily Health Gene by Gene, Paradromics, & more.
Mental Health Data in Your Telehealth Stack: Five Controls to Check
By Elijah Fernandez – Behavioral health is now one of the most common uses of virtual care, and it produces the most sensitive records a health system holds. Many telehealth platforms were built for general medicine and then pointed at behavioral health. The gaps tend to show up in the same five places.
Health IT Innovation
What Multi-Site Healthcare IT Standardization Actually Requires
By David Boggs – Healthcare networks are rarely built. They accumulate. Sites join the estate opportunistically, on whatever timeline a lease, a merger, or a physician group’s retirement happened to dictate. The technology follows the same logic.
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Healthcare Needs to Make Interoperability a Career Before It Becomes a Crisis
By Professor Rachel Dunscombe – Ask a university student interested in technology to name the careers available to them, and they can probably tell you something about artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, software engineering or data science.
Read MoreRegulatory
More Investment Dollars Announced by CMS for State Use
The following recent state investments illustrates how CMS’ commitment to rural health modernization is taking shape on the ground, tailored to the unique needs of rural communities in California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Missouri, Texas, West Virginia, & Wyoming.
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Accurate Provider Data: A Foundation for Better Patient Access
Newly released FINN Voices episode with Beth Friedman and Dr. Alex Ding, Chief Medical and Public Affairs Officer at DataSpring, for a conversation on the state of provider data, its impact across the ecosystem, and the path toward industry standardization.
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Healthcare Revenue Cycle and Finance
Eligibility Checks That Catch Coverage Changes Before the Visit
By Harris Mahmood – Many denials trace back to a front desk moment, not a coding mistake. A patient changed jobs, aged into Medicare, or lost Medicaid at a renewal, and nobody noticed until the claim came back. A single eligibility check on the day of the visit is not enough to prevent this.
Read MoreDigital Health & Telemedicine
Mental Health Data in Your Telehealth Stack: Five Controls to Check
By Elijah Fernandez – Behavioral health is now one of the most common uses of virtual care, and it produces the most sensitive records a health system holds. Many telehealth platforms were built for general medicine and then pointed at behavioral health. The gaps tend to show up in the same five places.
Read MoreAnalytics & Population Health
In Healthcare AI, Annotation Is a Clinical Decision – Not a Labeling Task
By Peter Leo – In healthcare AI, the quality of a model is inseparable from the quality of the clinical judgments used to train and evaluate it. An annotation is not a simple administrative label attached to an image or text file; it is a clinical interpretation made by a qualified reader.
Read MoreHealth IT Security Privacy and Compliance
How Healthcare Leaders Can Reduce Cybersecurity Risks Across Their Vendor Network
By April Miller – Healthcare organizations rely on external vendors for critical services, from electronic health records to billing. Ongoing vendor oversight helps you protect sensitive data and maintain quality patient care.
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