Nalashaa Healthcare Blogs
“Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies” aka SMART is a standard framework to facilitate the development of interchangeable healthcare applications. Since its initiation in 2010, the SMART Health IT Project has attracted…
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A good provider network is essential for payers. Finding new providers and enrolling them into networks is relatively easier than maintaining one. Providers can choose to drop out from health plans for…
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Member management is crucial to healthcare payer organizations. Member engagement KPIs are what decide a payer’s Net Promoter Score. This means that payers must put in extra effort to ensure…
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Before we step into how data analytics can transform a payer’s organization for the better, one must address the chains holding them back from the miracles of analytics. The lack of…
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FHIR has taken the healthcare industry by storm. Health plans are rushing to incorporate FHIR into their systems to not just evade penalties but also to attain the end goal…
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With the latest Interoperability and Patient Access rule, the proposals to reduce provider and patient burden, FHIR-based APIs have become the talk of the town. The latest proposed rule works towards enhancing health information…
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With the introduction of the Interoperability and Patient Access rule, FHIR APIs created quite the buzz within both the payer and the provider communities. As a follow-up to the rule, CMS released a couple of proposals urging…
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Affordable healthcare is the need of the hour and interoperability is the means to that end. The healthcare ecosystem is looking into ways they can enable this affordability as soon as possible, and…
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The need for interoperability was first highlighted back in the 1980s when payer organizations had to expand to working with data from more than one system. They needed a foolproof method of…
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Managing a provider network can be a time-consuming and repetitive task because government regulations are constantly changing. Furthermore, each organization defines the ideal network differently depending on its goals. In…
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The proposed rule is currently titled ‘Reducing provider and patient burden’. However, the proposed rules do not promise any reduction of burden for payers. Payers must make sure their systems…
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Provider expectation from HIT vendors has grown exponentially. These expectations encompass data security to application performance and the manageability of IT resources and systems. The good news is, HIT vendors have many avenues…
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