automation has proven its value as a strong technology to support an enterprise’s strategic goals. But getting it right has its challenges. A successful implementation begins by finding the right processes to automate. Like many technology investments, success depends on having the right people onboard, who can help you push past the obstacles when they
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The COVID-19 global pandemic highlighted the need for a population health approach to identify and implement strategies in healthcare. In doing this, we quickly realized our inability to input, organize, and share data across and between information silos. Without a more complete “view,” our ability to measure is inaccurate, failing to meet the goals of
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Connecting people, process, and workflow has always been a bit of a struggle for Health IT. OK, it’s been a big struggle. Over the years, we’ve made “limited” strides in terms of interoperability. It has not been fast, it has never been easy, and we continue to deal with the lack of connectivity on a
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We talk a lot about the gaps in healthcare: the inefficiencies between systems and silos, people, and processes, that make it more difficult than it should be to get things done. Never has healthcare efficiency been more important. The key to operating during these lean times is to pair technology solutions with a business model
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Healthcare has been challenging the last six months. We’ve taken on the need for a new model of care delivery to reach a broader patient population with less risk of exposure. According to a report by McKinsey, telehealth providers have rapidly scaled offerings and are seeing 50 to 175 times the number of patients via
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Healthcare has been challenging the last six months. We’ve taken on the need for a new model of care delivery to reach a broader patient population with less risk of exposure. According to a report by McKinsey, telehealth providers have rapidly scaled offerings and are seeing 50 to 175 times the number of patients via
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We hosted the #HITsm chat today, exploring the topic of automation in healthcare. In examples ranging from EHR data migration to revenue cycle management tasks, telehealth, and more. automation is helping hospitals, health systems, and technology partners keep up with increased demand, ever-changing regulations, and the challenge of uncertainty in today’s healthcare landscape. automation challenges
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We are in a better position for dealing with COVID-19 now than we were in March. We’ve seen telemedicine evolve to its rightful place in healthcare and reimbursement parity is being considered nationally. We found out that we could work from home, even in areas and departments that never considered doing this pre-pandemic. And we
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Hospitals and health systems depend on the lifeblood of the revenue cycle to stay afloat. Both success and failure depend upon how well health system administrators manage billing, coding, prior authorizations, payment processing, claims, denial management, and collections. Optimizing the revenue cycle can be a challenge in the best of times. The financial and operational
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Robotic Process Automation, or automation, is the term used for software or services combined with rule-based processes, reducing or eliminating repetitive tasks that are normally handled by humans. KPMG estimates the global IT robotic process automation market (automation) is expected to be worth $5 billion this year. That’s because automation is capable of driving significant
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