Financial/Revenue Cycle Management

And that's costing the U.S. healthcare system in a big way, even in the era of value-based care, according to a new survey from Black Book.

The new technology enabled Catalyst Health Network to achieve all of its care management goals and create a fully connected information highway, its president says.

The company says CareCloud’s integrated clinical and financial tools will help it offer its healthcare customers more ways to streamline physician workflows, improve patient outcomes and increase practice profitability.

The health system’s biggest payer presented it with a contract the payer said would net Owensboro $12 million a year. The health system’s financial IT said something quite different.

These trends in the new year ahead will see healthcare provider organizations innovating solutions and practices to improve healthcare, one expert predicts.

OMNY Health co-founder and COO Sunny Grewal, whose 3.5-minute elevator pitch was the audience's top pick at the "Shark Tank"-like competition, explains how his distributed ledger tech can help hospitals monetize mounds of unused data.

As a result of patients taking on more healthcare costs, revenue cycle teams have had to figure out how to engage them and work more closely with marketing, says Will Reilly, VP of client and consumer marketing at VisitPay.

Jay Spence, vice president of healthcare solutions at Kaufman Hall's software division, says providers need a now, near and far paradigm to link strategy to a financial plan.

Revenue cycle management, patient and physician engagement, business intelligence and analytics, pop health and a clinically oriented supply chain are key pieces to patient-centered care, says KLAS VP of Business Development Doug Tolley.