Tips for Optimizing Your Revenue Cycle for 2015
About six months remain in 2015, so now is a good time to reflect on what ways you can optimize your revenue cycle to finish out the year strong. Billing is one of the main areas we’ll focus on today, as it is often one of the main areas revenue cycles get plugged up.
Gwen Roberts, SVP at BHM talks Healthcare Transformation with PracticeSuite in Expert Interview
Gwen Roberts, Senior Vice President of BHM Healthcare Solutions, Inc. was recently interviewed by PracticeSuite as part of their Expert Interview Series. The interview focuses on healthcare transformation, a key area of services provided by BHM, and a term utilized to generally fit a large number of healthcare movements which are taking place in response to […]
Study Shows ICD-10 Could Cause Problems For Emergency Rooms
A recent study released by The American Journal of Emergency Medicine suggests that large numbers of emergency rooms will have difficulty implementing ICD-10 when it is officially introduced in October. These problems could have drastic impacts on workflow and cost, and affect payers and providers alike.
EHR Replacement Trend
According to a 2015 report, more than 24% of users of EHR systems say that their current systems are “too faulty or cumbersome.” This trend in EHR dissatisfaction seems to be on the rise, too.
So what’s causing the exodus from traditional systems?
7 Telehealth Terms You Need to Know
If you read our blog post 5 Top Telemed Trends of 2015, you know that telehealth is slowly revolutionizing the healthcare world for the better. From remote patient monitoring to distance education, telehealth practices and services are benefiting not only healthcare providers and organization but also patients. With telehealth becoming a topic being discussed constantly in current healthcare news, We thought it would be helpful to compile a list of the most commonly used terms in telehealth.
Value Based Purchasing in 2015
It might still be early in the year, but it looks like 2015 is already shaping up to be a big year for value-based purchasing initiatives. In large part thanks to the announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services last week outlining the year’s worth of expectations for hospitals and healthcare providers.
HHS’ goal is that by 2016, 85% of Medicare’s payments to providers will be under the VBP model, rather than fee-for-service. The shift to VBP from fee-for-service has been ongoing, but the pressure is on for providers and healthcare systems who have been lagging behind in embracing alternative payment models.
3 Big Trends Expected to Hit Hospitals in 2015
Preparedness is the name of the game within the hospital environment in 2015. If you’re not always on your toes, you can get broadsided by a shift that turns your organization upside down. So how do you prepare for the big trends expected to hit hospitals in the remainder of 2015? Read on. 1. Technology […]
National Committee for Quality Assurance Launches PCMH Redesign
The National Committee for Quality Assurance announced in March that it would be extending it’s medical home concepts beyond the realm of primary care with a new program: Patient-Centered Specialty Practice (PCSP).
This new program was created to compliment the existing Patient-Centered Medical Home department, which is one of the most widely-used medical home treatment models in the United States.
In this post, we’ll look at the details of this new program so you can better grasp what all it entails.
Social Media and Healthcare: Creating a Healthy Relationship
Should healthcare organizations use social media to connect with patients and increase quality of care? Let’s talk about social media and healthcare.
Population Health Management Challenges
As we continued to move toward value based purchasing, healthcare as an industry is becoming more and more focused on population health metrics. Instead of looking at smaller patient populations and sample sizes, industry researchers and leaders are casting a wider net these days, hoping to capture larger data samples and establish benchmarks for the move away from current payment models.