Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT that we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week. Shifting With or Without Permission From

The following is a guest article by Michael Egbert, Chief Executive Officer at Sherpas Healthcare Solutions CMS has scaled Risk Adjustment Data Validation (RADV) to a degree the industry has never seen before. A program that once reviewed a relatively small pool of roughly 60 Medicare Advantage (MA) contracts a year now applies to all

Withings has moved far beyond weight measurement with a wide range of devices to measure wellness. In our recent extensive interview, Antoine Pivron, Vice President of Health Solutions at Withings's B2B Division, explains that Withings is years ahead of the health care industry—and more and more, its customers are too. "With or without permission from

The following is a guest article by Jessica Chalk, Founder and CEO at myStoria A patient can log into a portal, see a lab result, and still have no idea what it means, what happened before it, or what to do next. That's not access to your health record. That's a locked room with a

The past couple years I kept getting text messages from CIOs that were in Las Vegas for the Workday Rising conference. They'd ask me if I was at the conference and if I wanted to meet up with them at some of the evening vendor events. I'd certainly watched the growing number of hospitals and

The following is a guest article by Steve Pappas, Head of Innovation at eGain Lately, it seems that we can’t turn on the TV or scroll through our social media feeds without stumbling across a high-level politician, news personality, or celebrity moralizing about the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in high-impact, customer-centric fields

Telehealth has steadily evolved from a niche virtual visit tool and remote inpatient monitoring capability to a mainstay in post-acute care and linchpin for population health. All this has happened while telehealth’s existential questions – integration with clinical care models, alignment with incumbent reimbursement models, impact on outcomes, long-term value proposition, and so on –

The following is a guest article by James Moade, Associate Director of Corporate Communications, Marketing & Operations at Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) There has been a lot of talk lately about artificial intelligence destroying humanity. And I mean a lot. Not “AI might take your job.” Not “AI might write mediocre country songs

The following is a guest article by Rahul Agrawal, Founder & CEO at QuickIntell An automated payer call can end with a recording, a transcript, and a completed status. That does not mean the revenue-cycle work is complete. A billing employee still needs to know what the payer actually confirmed, how to verify it, what

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT that we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week. How Direct-to-Consumer Models Impact Continuity, Clinical

The following is a guest article by Puneet Arora Healthcare AI systems are gaining access to more clinical and operational data. That is useful, but more data does not necessarily mean a system understands what is true now. Retail pharmacy makes the problem easy to see. Imagine a prescription claim is rejected because prior authorization

It's been a few weeks since we've done a Fun Friday. Plus, I saw this video and thought I just had to share it. It's a great mix of technology and AI combined with the reality that so many doctors face. Will AI replace healthcare professionals? Here is an AI robot on its first day

In this lively interview, Guillaume de Zwirek, CEO & Co-Founder at Artera, lays out a vision for patient access where AI provides speedy handling, comprehensive gap coverage, and insightful feedback to providers at a level beyond what humans could do. De Zwirek offers an excellent, articulate summary of how AI can simplify patient access workflows

There are a lot of aspects to analyze and discuss when it comes to direct-to-consumer healthcare models. Today we are going to narrow it down to its impact on care continuity, clinical quality, and provider workflows. And the best way to learn about that is by reaching out to our wonderful Healthcare IT Today Community

The following is a guest article by Mansi Goel For most of the last decade, AI in healthcare was mostly a back-office automation story - faster scan analysis, automated documentation, and detecting drug interactions. These were tools that executed tasks; they did not think through them. The role of AI in healthcare is evolving. A

MEDITECH Live brought together MEDITECH users, healthcare IT leaders, technology partners, and industry experts to discuss the trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the future of healthcare (Note: Be sure to check some of the other insights shared in MEDITECH Live sessions). In this collection of short videos, we caught up with members of the healthcare

InterSystems is the data Goliath of health care, present in 20 countries and processing two-thirds of all medical records in the United States. But even InterSystems has to evolve to deal with the challenges of health care, including shrinking funds and the vast expansion in the use of data for analytics and AI. In a

The following is a guest article by Mahmut Yuvanç, Founder of Sağlık Markam For many people, the first encounter with a healthcare practice is no longer a reception desk. It is a search result, a map listing, a service page or a mobile contact form. That first encounter is a digital front door. When it

Hundreds of companies are offering AI for clinical and other healthcare related uses. Kenny Wong, Chief Product Officer at xCures, offers two criteria for judging the value of a solution: first whether the outcome is repeatable and shows the work that was done transparently, and second whether it is generating a desired result such as

Oracle Health is delivering an AI-native EHR that coexists with legacy systems to avoid risky rip-and-replace migrations. By wiring clinical workflows directly to its enterprise supply chain, HR, and finance tools, the company is finally leaning into its Oracle-ness. This approach brings real back-office relief to everyday healthcare challenges.

The following is a guest article by Rob Grant, Chief Commercial Officer at Kythera Labs Health systems have invested heavily in analytics over the past decade. Yet many of their biggest strategic decisions, from where to expand a service line to why patients leave the system, are still made with an incomplete picture. Most organizations

The following is a guest article by Feynman Xu, Ph.D., Founder and CEO at MedArise Independent medical practices often describe prior authorization, referral, eligibility, fax, and revenue cycle backlogs as hiring problems. Sometimes they are. But many practices do not lack another job title. They lack reliable capacity in one queue. Adding a person or

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT that we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week. The Biggest Healthcare IT Insights From

The following is a guest article by Brian Kenah, CTO at EnableComp Model capability is climbing fast, and the tooling to build AI agents is now largely commoditized. The strongest models are a license away for any health system or vendor that wants them. That's led a lot of technical leaders to the conclusion that

This week we're lucky to be taking part in the MEDITECH Live user conference. The event brings together MEDITECH users to hear from MEDITECH executives, connect and learn from peers, and for MEDITECH to hear from its users. We'll be sharing a number of videos we shot with healthcare executives at the event, but here's

The following is a guest article by Cristian Ionescu, Co-Founder and Lead Analytics Expert at Witanalytica A healthcare app can attract thousands of users while leaving its organization unable to explain how many successfully become active subscribers. Marketing sees campaign responses. Product teams see app activity. Subscription operations see accounts and contracts. Each team has

Innovar Healthcare is known for data movement and integration in healthcare: any data in any format, between any set of customers. One major trait that distinguishes Innovar from nearly all services in health care today is that it offers and supports open source tools, which is common in other industries. In our recent interview at

The following is a guest article by Michael Ohayon, GM Nexcess Managed Cloud at Nexcess Broadcom acquired VMware and changed how its software is sold. Perpetual licenses are gone, subscription prices are rising, and legacy contracts are expiring. This leaves you to pay more for existing infrastructure or transition to an alternative platform. For clinics,