EHR Adoption

Providers Benefit from Moving ERP Systems to the Cloud, KLAS Finds

April 22, 2019 - Healthcare organizations are benefitting from moving their on-premise enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to the cloud, according to a new KLAS market report. In the report, ERP 2019: Performance in the Cloud, C-suite executives, IT leaders, and other healthcare managers and directors say moving the ERP system to the cloud provided...

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How Will Automation, AI Impact Healthcare Employment?

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Increased use of automation and artificial intelligence is slated to replace millions of jobs and tasks in the near future. However, healthcare employment is relatively safe from automation, according...

Healthcare Interoperability, Rule Reform Key to Value-Based Payment

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Healthcare interoperability is vital to the transition to value-based payments, the second in command at HHS recently stated at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology...

When Claims Reimbursement Doesn’t Cover Healthcare Innovation

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Implementing healthcare innovations that improve care quality is key to boosting patient experience and care quality, but what happens when claims reimbursement doesn’t cover the use of the...

HHS Mulls Private Sector Dialogue to Foster Healthcare Innovation

by Jacqueline LaPointe

HHS is floating the idea of creating a workgroup of private healthcare companies to advise the federal department on healthcare innovation and investment, according to a new Request for Information...

EHRs Still Disrupt Nursing Workflows, But Nurses Warming to Tech

by Jacqueline LaPointe

The tides are starting to turn when it comes to EHR satisfaction among registered nurses. Only 69 percent of the providers now feel the EHR system is disruptive to the nursing workflow compared to 84...

AMA Invests $27.2M in Health IT Co to Advance Value-Based Care

by Jacqueline LaPointe

The American Medical Association (AMA) recently invested another $27.2 million in Health2047 Inc., a health IT start-up in Silicon Valley that aims to tackle value-based care, physician productivity,...

House Reps Create Caucus for Value-Based Reimbursement, Health IT

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Four House Representatives recently announced the creation of a new bipartisan group dedicated to supporting and promoting healthcare innovation through value-based reimbursement. Representatives Mike...

Hospitals, Vendors Pay Health IT Professionals an Average of $109K

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Compensation for health IT professionals in provider and vendor organizations slightly increased from last year, reaching an average salary of $109,610 in 2018, according to the most recent HIMSS US...

EHR Adoption Does Not Lower Administrative, Medical Billing Costs

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Electronic health records (EHRs) did not reduce insurance-related and medical billing costs despite the federal government’s claims that EHR adoption would lower administrative expenditures,...

Post-Acute Care Orgs Lack IT, Data Analytics for Value-Based Care

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Value-based care hinges on data analytics and provider communication across the care continuum. However, post-acute care providers do not have the health IT infrastructure or communication workflows in...

Health Center Work Conditions Drop After Practice Transformation

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Improving work conditions for clinicians and staff members may be key to implementing practice transformations for value-based care in federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), a new Health Affairs...

NYC Health’s ERP System to Bring Business Ops to Digital Age

by Jacqueline LaPointe

From payroll and workload management to orders and purchasing, health systems manage a myriad of back-end business operations, using a combination of automated systems as well as manual processes...

3 Pain Points Affecting Small Practice Healthcare Revenue Cycle

by Jacqueline LaPointe

While working in a small practice allows providers to really understand their patients and their community’s healthcare needs, it can also create unique healthcare revenue cycle management...

Providers Lack Tools, Payer Alignment for Value-Based Purchasing

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Healthcare providers still lack the necessary tools for value-based purchasing success with only 43 percent of providers reporting that they have access to the appropriate solutions, a recent Quest...

77% of Practices Seek MIPS Compliance Tech for MACRA Support

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Approximately 77 percent of practices of three or more clinicians are looking to purchase Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) compliance technology by the last quarter of 2017 to overcome MACRA...

After EHR Adoption, Revenue Cycle Technology Modernization Begins

by Jacqueline LaPointe

Electronic health records (EHRs) revolutionized the way healthcare organizations collect, analyze, and report patient and practice data. And now that nearly 97 percent of hospitals and almost three-quarters of providers are using certified...

56% of Top Performing Med Groups Plan Value-Based Purchasing

by Jacqueline LaPointe

About 56 percent of medical groups that were financially high-performing have a plan for a value-based purchasing transition versus just 32 percent of medical groups falling behind with healthcare...

Health IT, Care Navigators Most Effective at Lowering Costs

by Jacqueline LaPointe

While countless strategies are out there for making care delivery more efficient, a recent Health Affairs study revealed that interventions that use health IT and community health workers realized the...

How a Rural Hospital Used Health IT, EHR to Stay Independent

by Jacqueline LaPointe

In a time of declining claims reimbursement rates and value-based care, rural hospitals are struggling more than ever to improve their healthcare revenue cycle management strategies. For many rural...

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