Tag: COVID-19 pandemic

2021 Digital Health Technologies

Digital Health in 2021: 5 Strategies to Transform Care & Conquer Adoption Barriers

The uptake of telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on the use of digital technologies in healthcare. Telehealth platforms have connected patients and clinicians remotely, but telehealth’s growth has obscured a broader movement that had already been underway for some time:  the use of digital health to transform care. Advances in […]
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Hospital Transparency Rule

Transparency Rules and the No Surprises Act

  Healthcare providers face two new rules certain to complicate a busy year already dominated by the pandemic. The nation’s capital is facing a tremendous number of complex issues this week. Amid all this, legislative activity on two healthcare policy initiatives has advanced in the past few weeks – and those two initiatives will add […]
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2021 Healthcare Financial Technology Trends

Key Healthcare Financial Technology Trends For 2021

  More than 80% of survey respondents stated that they have confidence in their organization’s ability to “rapidly adjust their plans and strategies.” Healthcare finance leaders are more optimistic about the ability to adjust to a changing business environment and utilize quality data in the decision-making process, according to the 2021 Healthcare Financial Trends Survey report released […]
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Diversifying Revenue Generators

Diversifying Revenue Generators and Pursuing Digital Transformation

Recently, HealthLeaders hosted its first ‘Virtual Happy Hour CFO Roundtable’ sponsored by Nuance, gathering executives to address the financial and technological challenges facing the health system during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The hour-long roundtable brought together healthcare executives from provider organizations ranging across the East Coast to the Midwest to delve into two key strategic […]
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AI in Remote Proctoring

How AI and AR are Changing Medical Proctoring During COVID-19

  Medical device specialists often monitor the work of surgeons to provide case support during procedures in the operating room. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, medical proctoring has gone remote. “COVID has dramatically accelerated the need to have a remote tool, when you either don’t have access to the hospital, or when there are travel […]
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Predictive Healthcare Forecasting

Predictive Healthcare Forecasting Key to Provider Survival in 2021

Healthcare forecasting that can adapt quickly to changes could be as critical to a provider organization’s survival in 2021 as wearing a mask to stop the spread of COVID-19, experts at PwC’s Health Research Institute are saying. Nearly three-quarters of healthcare executives (74 percent) recently surveyed by the Health Research Institute said their organizations would […]
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Telehealth Future

What Does The Future of Telehealth LookLike?

The telehealth industry saw demand surge significantly this spring as Covid-19 began. Telehealth appointments are ideal for a pandemic: patients can seek an informed opinion about their symptoms and be referred for a medical test without having to go to the office physically and placing people at risk. But while the focus on telehealth has […]
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Hospital Claim Denials

Hospital Claim Denials Up for Most, Driven by Prior Authorizations

  Hospitals and health systems are facing a growing volume of claim denials, with private plan prior authorization issues driving the recent increase, according to a new report from the American Hospital Association (AHA). For the report, AHA surveyed more than 200 hospitals and health systems in 2019 to understand the impacts utilization management practices employed by […]
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