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HIPAA Data Breaches: What Covered Entities Must Know

HealthITSecurity As more healthcare organizations implement new technologies, connect to health information exchanges, and adopt electronic health record technology, they are potentially exposing themselves to more online threats and potential HIPAA data...

How Will MACRA Impact Patient Engagement, Care Coordination?

PatientEngagementHIT In 2015, Congress passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) with an overwhelming bipartisan majority. The complex piece of legislation has a number of  provisions, each of which affects different areas of the...

How to Get Started with a Population Health Management Program

HealthITAnalytics Healthcare providers are well aware by now that there is no magic solution to the incredibly complex conundrum of systemic reform.  Depending on who you ask, the answer to the puzzle of the Triple Aim is either more technology, less...

The Role of Risk Assessments in Healthcare

HealthITSecurity A risk assessment helps covered entities ensure they are compliant with the HIPAA requirements in terms of physical, technical, and administrative safeguards. It also assists in showing potential areas where an organization might be putting...

What Is the Role of Natural Language Processing in Healthcare?

HealthITAnalytics For many providers, the healthcare landscape is looking more and more like a shifting quagmire of regulatory pitfalls, financial quicksand, and unpredictable eruptions of acrimony from overwhelmed clinicians on the edge of revolt. The...

How Patient Engagement Supports Chronic Disease Management

PatientEngagementHIT Patient engagement and chronic disease management are both key components in support of the healthcare industry’s shift toward value-based healthcare. Through robust patient support efforts inside and out of the doctor’s office,...

The Role of Healthcare Data Governance in Big Data Analytics

HealthITAnalytics Data has always been the lifeblood of the healthcare industry.  From blood pressure readings and surgical records to insurance claims, immunization histories, patient demographics, and payment receipts, every action of every member of...

Preparing the Healthcare Revenue Cycle for Value-Based Care

RevCycleIntelligence Not only do value-based care models aim to make healthcare providers more accountable for the services they provide to patients, but they are also designed to shift financial accountability away from payers to healthcare organizations....

How the Affordable Care Act Impacts Patient Engagement

PatientEngagementHIT The 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act began a thorough overhaul of the healthcare system. Some states expanded Medicaid, consumers began to buy health insurance on federal and state health insurance exchanges, and healthcare...

How to Choose the Right Healthcare Big Data Analytics Tools

HealthITAnalytics In just a few short years, the idea of “big data analytics” has transitioned from a mysterious new buzzword to an essential competency for healthcare organizations large and small.  Analytics has moved from a lofty...

Breaking Down the Basics of the Patient-Centered Medical Home

HealthITAnalytics As the healthcare industry moves away from traditional fee-for-service reimbursements towards a new era of accountable, cost-conscious, coordinated care, healthcare organizations are actively seeking new patient management strategies to...

How Ransomware Affects Hospital Data Security

HealthITSecurity Ransomware is a type of malware that typically prevents organizations from accessing certain parts of its system. For example, an entity and its users could be locked out from critical systems, such as EHRs, and may be unable to get in...

How Patient Portals Improve Patient Engagement

PatientEngagementHIT What are patient portals? Patient portals are an online website that is connected to the EHR, centrally focused on patient access to health data. These tools give patients a look into various data points, including lab results,...

Identifying Care Disparities for Population Health Management

HealthITAnalytics Over the last several years, “population health management” has become a key concept for healthcare providers who are trying to recalibrate their traditional operations to meet the growing challenges of value-based reimbursement...

Using Revenue Cycle Analytics for Effective Value-Based Care

RevCycleIntelligence The hospital industry has been experiencing a number of challenges in recent years due to the payment reforms coming from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and commercial health payers. There has been a much greater...

What We Know About Value-Based Care Under MACRA, MIPS, APMs

RevCycleIntelligence The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 has many parts tied to Medicare and other federal health plan beneficiaries, but first and foremost it is a bill that brings an end to the sustainable growth rate and a beginning to...

Key Ways to Improve Claims Management and Reimbursement in the Healthcare Revenue Cycle

RevCycleIntelligence Reimbursement is changing in healthcare. Even before elements of the Affordable Care Act began to go into effect, a growing focus on value- based care versus volume has led many healthcare organizations and providers to consider...

Increased EHR Adoption Raises Need for Robust Security

HealthITSecurity EHR security is one small piece to the larger data security puzzle that healthcare organizations, especially those of a larger size, are becoming increasingly aware of and looking to address. Under HIPAA, covered entities have the...

Why Healthcare Needs Value-Based Supply Chain Management

RevCycleIntelligence Healthcare supply chain — the holistic flow of relationships between suppliers and customers — is about efficiently delivering low cost care as goods and supplies, such as a pair of doctor’s gloves, move from point of...