Clinicians are currently playing the role of superheroes protecting humanity from a vicious enemy, the COVID-19 pandemic. There appears to be another silent…
Technical Implementation of the Cures Act
On December 13, 2016, the 114th United State Congress passed the 21st Century Cures Act with an intention to make it big in…
Utilization Management: Adapting to Pandemic Repercussions
Telehealth services have been the guardian angel of both care providers and patients since the outbreak of the pandemic in…
Improve Payer Reporting Efficiency Through Automation
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…
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…