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Advancing Healthcare Processes with Innovative Technologies: Streamlining Operations to Focus the Human Touch

In today’s dynamic healthcare landscape, operational efficiency and member retention are more interconnected than ever. The challenge lies in finding the right balance between automation and the human touch—leveraging innovative technology to manage routine tasks while reserving human expertise for meaningful interactions. According to MarketsandMarkets, the global artificial intelligence in healthcare market is projected to […]
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FDA lays out digital health goals in 2018 strategic roadmap

Leveraging innovation and competition to better healthcare is one of the four cornerstones of the Food and Drug Administration’s 2018 […]

CMS launches voluntary bundled payments model, first since spiking mandatory bundles

The agency’s Innovation Center said the new Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced model is the first APM that would […]

Medical Device Data, UDIs on Claims Impact Costs, Patient Safety

According to recent reports, payers who incorporate medical device data and UDIs into their claims may improve costs and patient […]

Healthcare Data – How to Use it to Your Benefit

In today’s world, information travels at gigabit speeds. For business, this means near limitless opportunities to accumulate data and use […]

Providers: Email is main data breach culprit

A recent survey by Mimecast and HIMSS Analytics states that providers overwhelmingly rank email as the No. 1 source of […]

OCR: 5 ways to fight internal health data breaches

Healthcare organizations can protect themselves from internal healthcare data breaches. “Healthcare organizations are a prime target for internal breaches caused […]

5 Solutions for Conquering Challenges of Bundled Payment Models

Healthcare finance executives see strong IT investment in 2018, but a bubble could be growing

KPMG and Leavitt Partners new survey found that health and life sciences organizations intend to invest in analytics and digital […]

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Claims Analytics Help Medicare Identify, Prevent Provider Fraud

The use of a claims analytics platform helped Medicare to identify and prevent millions of dollars in provider fraud. “Close […]

Does Blockchain Have A Place In Healthcare?

Quality Payment Program needs more technical assistance, oversight, OIG finds

A new report by HHS’ Office of Inspector General gives CMS points for making significant efforts to implement the Quality […]

More billing codes, demonstrations help bridge physician payment gap

In the 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, CMS said it is working incrementally to “identify gaps in appropriate coding and […]

Health systems’ IT priorities for 2018: Cybersecurity technologies, patient-generated data

Many major health systems plan to invest in improved cybersecurity technologies next year. “Cybersecurity improvements are top of mind for […]

10 top health technology hazards for 2018

With 2017 coming to a close, it is time to look ahead to 2018 and the top 10 health technology […]