Features

Top Trends in Automation, AI Adoption in Revenue Cycle

RevCycleIntelligence Automation has a lot of potential to streamline revenue cycle management, and healthcare organizations are certainly interested in adopting technology to achieve efficiency. However, that interest is not necessarily turning into investment...

What the NJ Lawsuit Adds to Out-of-State Telehealth, Licensure Debates

mHealthIntelligence With the rapid expansion of virtual care in recent years came regulatory flexibilities to enable healthcare delivery across state lines. But many of these flexibilities have expired, resulting in a tussle between providers and patients...

Behind Epic’s Award-Winning MyChart Patient Portal Advancements

PatientEngagementHIT Epic Systems thinks it’s on the brink of a new frontier in patient portal use, saying MyChart is stock-full of the functionalities consumers want, and users are now leveraging it to move the needle on clinical outcomes and the patient...

Highlighting Top Revenue Cycle Management Vendors By User Review

RevCycleIntelligence Epic, Experian Health, and Waystar are just some of the revenue cycle management vendors performing well across various operations. The 2024 Best in KLAS Software & Services report highlights the top vendors in claims management,...

How GoodRx Brings Low Drug Costs in Vexing Healthcare Landscape

PatientEngagementHIT The cost of healthcare is getting to be a nearly insurmountable problem for patients, leaving the healthcare consumer with a pretty hefty homework assignment if they want to get the best buy for their services and medications. At GoodRx,...

Advancing Sterility Assurance Through Environmental Monitoring

PharmaNewsIntelligence In the pharmaceutical industry, ensuring the safety and efficacy of drugs is of utmost importance. Quality assurance is critical in maintaining high standards for pharmaceutical products, and one essential aspect of quality assurance is...

Revolutionizing Diabetes Care with Advanced CGM Devices

LifeSciencesIntelligence Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices have transformed diabetes management by enabling continuous and accurate real-time tracking of blood glucose levels. These minimally invasive wearables eliminate the need for frequent fingerstick...

What Is Behind Rampant Medicare Advantage Contract Terminations?

HealthPayerIntelligence With a history of overpayments, care denials, and limited provider networks, the relationship between Medicare Advantage and the rest of the healthcare industry has always been tumultuous. Over the past year, the private payer program has...

Comparing Female Fertility Drugs: Use Cases, Effectiveness, Risks

PharmaNewsIntelligence Infertility, or the inability to conceive, is characterized by one year of unprotected sex without a subsequent pregnancy. Although infertility can result from male or female partners, most available fertility drugs work on addressing...

Overcoming the Barriers to Value-Based Payment in Primary Care

RevCycleIntelligence Primary care is arguably the most critical component of our healthcare system. Primary care and preventive medicine can help avert and manage chronic diseases and prevent long-term complications. However, efforts to improve primary care...

How Remote Patient Monitoring Can Change At-Home Cancer Care

HealthCareExecIntelligence Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is changing the chronic disease management landscape by allowing clinicians to track patient outcomes and assess their needs on a continuous or near-continuous basis. In cancer care, remote monitoring can...

Exploring Challenges, Successes in Solid Tumor Cell and Gene Therapy

LifeSciencesIntelligence Cell and gene therapy advancements have significantly impacted the oncology landscape, offering an additional treatment option to patients with systemic cancers. For example, on a recent episode of Healthcare Strategies, Alivia Kaylor, MSc,...

Leveraging RPM to Enable At-Home Care for High-Risk Cancer Patients

mHealthIntelligence The rapid advancement in digital health technologies post-March 2020 has expanded the boundaries of at-home healthcare. As COVID-19 forced hospitals to deliver more care outside traditional brick-and-mortar facilities, researchers began to...

How HHS Cybersecurity Performance Goals Will Impact Healthcare

HealthITSecurity HHS recently unveiled healthcare-specific cybersecurity performance goals (CPGs) with the intent of helping the sector prioritize the implementation of key security best practices. On their surface, the voluntary CPGs are straightforward,...

Which Emerging Virtual Care Companies are Top-of-Mind for Health Orgs?

mHealthIntelligence Virtual care remains a vital area of interest and investment for healthcare stakeholders. Supported by technologies like telehealth platforms, remote patient monitoring (RPM) tools, and virtual sitting solutions, virtual care strategies...

Exploring Healthcare Price Transparency for the Consumer Experience

PatientEngagementHIT Shop in any store or for any service, and you will be able to look at the price tag or at least request a quote, but in healthcare, that level of price transparency is unheard of. Rather, patients go into most healthcare encounters not...

What Providers Can Expect for Information Blocking Enforcement

EHRIntelligence While the 21st Century Cures Act prohibited information blocking in 2016, healthcare interoperability has remained a persistent challenge across the country. The Cures Act defines information blocking as any practice likely to interfere...

Revolutionizing Fertility Treatment with a MicroICSI Device

LifeSciencesIntelligence Although traditional in vitro fertilization (IVF) remains a widely utilized assisted reproductive technology (ART) globally, there has been a significant decline in the use of conventional IVF procedures in recent years, with a notable...

Digitizing the Biopharmaceutical Supply Chain Improves Resilience

PharmaNewsIntelligence Throughout the past few years, global, national, and industry-specific changes have posed challenges to the biopharmaceutical supply chain. Disruptions and shortages have caused industry leaders and regulatory organizations to look for...