By Matthew Hawley – Artificial intelligence has been touted as a “solution” to modernize many payers’ processes and functions, including their traditional payment integrity programs. Yet seeing AI as the answer to health plans’ administrative burdens is overly simplistic.
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By Zac Amos – Preventing unnecessary hospital readmissions is critical for improving patient outcomes and controlling healthcare costs. Each readmission adds to healthcare costs and disrupts a patient’s recovery, impacting quality of life and increasing risk.
By Noel Felipe – With high labor costs, low margins and claims denial rates averaging almost 15%, according to the American Hospital Association, providers need new approaches to effective revenue cycle management. Automation and AI tools can increase productivity, reduce the cost to collect and accelerate revenues.
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By Matt Bridge – Efficient patient access operations are paramount for healthcare provider organizations to thrive in today’s tumultuous financial landscape. Inefficiencies created by outdated, time-consuming, and cost-intensive patient access and financial clearance operations create delays in the patient’s journey from…
By Allison Morin MSN RN NI-BC – Shared governance is a leadership model in which clinical staff, administrative teams, and healthcare executives all work together to shape internal policies, operations, and technology adoption.
By Beth Friedman – AHIMA was founded in 1928 to improve the collection and organization of health information for medical professionals to improve public health. Fast forward nearly 100 years and the association’s new president, Dr. Kevin Klauer, modernized this vision to reiterate health information professionals’ essential roles: collect, analyze, share, and protect patient information.
By Linda Finkel – With all the tasks health systems currently face, the idea of radically reinventing can be daunting. But it doesn’t have to be. To bring real change in a healthcare system, it’s necessary to think boldly and transform the way things are done.
By Susan Clark -During the DirectTrust conference in late September, I had the great fortune to run into Marc Mar-Yohana, founder of OtisHealth, a DirectTrust member who was speaking at the conference. Like me, he sees the bright side of things and has a positive energy vibe.