Pushback around prior authorization trends continues to make headlines, from a federal push to shorten prior authorization response times to a controversial attempt to require authorizations for gastroenterology procedures, a policy that has since been altered. But amid calls for meaningful change, there’s a way health systems can ease this process now, and it involves […]

In late March, a patient with metastatic cancer arrived at a skilled nursing facility, where she, unfortunately, was supposed to be admitted into hospice care. However, the paper-based packet of discharge orders that accompanied her transfer didn’t contain the instructions for hospice care or pain relief. And because this breakdown in information transfer occurred on […]

Healthcare is one of the most highly regulated industries in this country, and rightly so, since people’s lives are the focus of healthcare. Over the past couple of decades, healthcare technology has taken center stage, to help providers ensure they are delivering the best level of care. Let’s look back at how healthcare technology became […]

Like many of you, I’m just back from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Chicago and still filled with excitement. According to HIMSS, more than 35,000 attended the annual event, a 25% increase over the previous year. The entire show floor was on fire with energy and the feeling that we’ve […]

How many routine tasks do you and your staff perform every day, every week, or every month? Think about compiling reports, manually entering data, and moving data from one database to another. Although widely used in other industries, healthcare lags behind in the adoption of robotic process automation (RPA), which can emulate repetitive human actions […]