From member enrollment, eligibility checks, and provider network management to billing and collection, healthcare payers are involved in handling and reporting sensitive healthcare data. The healthcare payer process is drawn out…
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The Top Technological Avenues for Chronic Care Management in 2021 and Beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic has delivered punishing blows to chronic disease management. Patients enduring pulmonary diseases, hypertension, diabetes, and mental health conditions…
Understanding the Limitations of Inadequate Data
Today, data is everywhere and in many forms. The processing power to crunch huge amounts of data and get analytical…
The Steps to Success for Healthcare AI/ML Endeavors
When Deepmind’s AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol, a top professional Go player, in the year 2016, deep learning (DL), a subset of machine learning (ML), became the buzz…
The CXO Toolkit: Areas of Focus in Healthcare Technology Development in 2021
Since the Meaningful Use initiatives of 2009, Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) development has been driven by continually evolving healthcare regulations. The…
The ONC Rule Changed to April 2021 – Act Now to Comply!
The ONC issued a final rule on March 9th, 2020, to hold entities who interfere with, prevent, or materially discourage the access,…
Establishing an Analytics Culture – An Overview of the Roadmap
Although at the beginning of the 21st century, many businesses had started to focus on data, the COVID–19 pandemic has forced organizations to develop and adapt to a must–have data-driven culture at all levels.…
The 2021 Physician Schedule – RPM Updates
The 2019 Physician Fee Schedule introduced three new CPT codes (#99453, #99454, and #99457) to enable hospitals and home health…
The 2020 Changes to ICD-10-CM – What’s New?
ICD-10-CM has been used to document inpatient hospital procedure coding since October 1, 2014. It was introduced as an update…
Regulatory Penalties – When the HHS Comes Calling
Millions of citizens in the United States rely on the accuracy of Electronic Health Records (EHR) to make crucial decisions…
Digital Patient Experience – Does it Matter?
Consumer satisfaction is paramount to the success of the product or service delivered by a business playing the field in…
Descriptive Analytics: Baby steps towards Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
We are witnessing a rise in the use of AI/ML concepts and technologies in healthcare. Today, algorithms are already outperforming…