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Empowered patient missing in Revenue Cycle Management: Part 1

August 22, 2017 By HealthIsCool 3 Comments

Empowered patient missing in Revenue Cycle Management: Part 1

One of the most frustrating aspects of healthcare for patients, after receiving medical care, is dealing with an insurer and provider to figure out why a claim was denied, and how to navigate the system. The patient experience includes claims “It’s not that we’re just not ...

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Filed Under: 3, EHR, healthcare innovation, Healthcare Integration Tagged With: denial of healthcare claims, medical billing errors, medical claims, medical insurer, patient experience, revenue cycle management

Wasting the day away: EHRs continue to be a time suck

August 17, 2017 By Edgar Wilson 2 Comments

Wasting the day away: EHRs continue to be a time suck

To discuss EHRs is to discuss time. From their inception, EHRs were lauded as a potential time-saver. Less time would be needed searching for records and moving lab or imaging results between clinics, departments, or specialists. More time would be available for face-to-face ...

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Filed Under: 3 Tagged With: EHRs, usability

Patient-centered medical records with blockchain

August 9, 2017 By David Chou 12 Comments

Patient-centered medical records with blockchain

Co-authored with Bill Wellman, adjunct faculty at Harvard University, where he teaches courses on innovation, entrepreneurship, and blockchain. This is part of a series examining how blockchain technology could be applied in the healthcare industry. Patient-centered care ...

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Filed Under: 3 Tagged With: blockchain, data exchange, FHIR, patient-centered, PHR

The future of work in healthcare is liquid

July 21, 2017 By HealthIsCool Leave a Comment

The future of work in healthcare is liquid

A new report from Accenture highlights five major trends in digital health, and one may surprise you. The report, Digital Health Technology Vision 2017, looks at how innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IOT), mobility, blockchain and the cloud are all ...

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Filed Under: 3, EHR, healthcare innovation, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Internet of Things, Patient Engagement, telehealth Tagged With: "digital health", design thinking, digital health trends, future of work, gig economy, liquid workforce, OLC Innovate, skills economy, telehealth, virtual employees

Medical device security: More questions than answers for healthcare CIOs

July 12, 2017 By David Chou 33 Comments

Medical device security: More questions than answers for healthcare CIOs

Pacemakers that suddenly quit working; medication pumps that push too much or not enough dosage; electronic breaches that let bad guys prowl around undetected in your network so they can pillage confidential patient and financial data — these are the concerns that keep medical ...

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Filed Under: 3 Tagged With: cybersecurity, medical device security

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[#HITsm chat 11.18.16] Celebrate Passing the #HITsm Torch

November 15, 2016

Moderated by Chad Johnson, @OchoTex, HealthStandards.com Editor and Corepoint Health Senior Marketing Manager. November 18th will be the last #HITsm chat under @HealthStandards. Celebrate ‘Passing the #HITsm torch’ to @techguy @HealthcareScene.

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November 10, 2016

The first #HITsm tweet chat was held almost six years ago on Jan 10, 2011. Since that time, we have hosted approximately 280 #HITsm chats. While some of you may have participated in that very first chat (only 15 actually participated), I’m proud to say that the chats and the community have continued to grow […]

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Podcasts

‘Hactivist’ Fred Trotter on the Cancer Moonshot, open source data in healthcare, and more

August 3, 2016

Artificial intelligence is a topic that isn’t going away in the health IT and medical community. One reason it’s come as far as it has is thanks to open sourcing, or shared data. Today’s guest, Fred Trotter, has a lot to say about the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative – which he was recognized for […]

Sue Schade on gender equality, CIO challenges, and value-based healthcare

July 27, 2016

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