Trendsetter: Embracing New Technologies to Reimagine the Revenue Cycle
By partnering with all stakeholders, exploring and advancing new technologies, and fostering collaboration, Change Healthcare helps providers and payers navigate the transforming healthcare marketplace—aiming to enable a new paradigm in which health care is more efficient, effective, and patient-centric.
The Next Frontier in Consumerism
Over the years, healthcare interoperability—or the lack thereof—has not been an issue for consumers. Those days are coming to an end.
Preparing for Post-Live Optimization for an EHR Conversion
Although electronic health record system conversions are complex, mapping a timeline for optimization can help health systems meet their short- and long-term goals for the new system.
The Digital Front Door: Why Total Cost of Care Risk Is Not Inevitable
Rapid technological advancements have savvy health plans and provider organizations considering how to succeed in a value-based system.
Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Support High-Value Care
Leading health systems are using PROMs to support shared decision-making and reduce wasteful treatments.
Carolinas Healthcare System Saved $1.5M Annually by Using Remote Interpreter Technology
The health system increased patient interpreter services from 370,211 minutes in 2015 to 915,466 in 2016, but still experienced a systemwide language access expense reduction of $203,360.
Building Machine-Learning Algorithms that Reduce Hospitalizations and Costs
Researchers have developed software that reduces readmissions and hospitalizations by flagging patients for increased risk of medical emergencies based on EHR data.
Healthcare Challenge Roundtable: In Pursuit of Interoperability
Healthcare leaders say that even after making a great deal of progress, the industry must do a lot more work to get interoperability to where it needs to be.
On the (Bumpy) Road to Interoperability
Provider-to-provider interoperability is becoming more widespread, but some say true interoperability should entail secure, automatic data exchange among providers, health plans, and patients.
A Partnership Approach to a More Powerful Coding Compliance Program
Growing evidence suggests that traditional audit practices used during the ICD-9 era are no longer useful. Instead, the focus should shift to ongoing coder performance audits and reviews.