Financial/Revenue Cycle Management

While we can't afford to have redundancy in every situation due to budgets and application architectures, we can partner to understand the core technology needs and design to minimize downtime for business and clinical units.

Lynn Barr, founder of Caravan Health and chief innovation officer at Signify Health, discusses the specific issues rural providers face and the policy changes needed to support them. 

Epic held the largest share of acute-care hospitals among electronic health record vendors, followed by Cerner and Meditech.

This week's top stories include Physician Partners of America being accused of billing federal programs for unnecessary medical testing and services, among other violations, and CMS estimates that payments to hospitals will increase in 2023 by $1.6B.

The U.S. Department of Justice alleged that Physician Partners of America increased its telehealth visits in an attempt to make up for lost revenue during COVID-19.

Ascertain, funded to the tune of $100 million, will develop machine learning and predictive analytics tools to help solve "quality, equity and cost problems."

The adoption of new technology has helped Abu Dhabi's Capital Health hospital improve clinical outcomes, drive business efficiency and empower the workforce. See this virtual tour from the United Arab Emirates.