President Trump has proposed the FY19 budget for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and it stresses that the agency should make dealing with the opioid crisis its top priority. […]
The EHR software vendor also plans on bringing new client-facing tools along with the recently-acquired technologies from Practice Fusion and McKesson to the show floor. Remember Allscripts announcing its partnership with Microsoft to design a new cloud based EHR last year? Well, we will finally be seeing its results at HIMSS 2018. […]
The Revenue Cycle leader at TransUnion Healthcare believes the patients to be the new payers in healthcare. Jonathan Wiik, revenue cycle leader at TransUnion Healthcare, has revealed that in the evolving healthcare payment landscape, the patients are the new payers and they now represent a staggering 30% of the billing revenue. […]
EHRs have evolved over the years. A decade ago, almost nine out of ten healthcare providers in the U.S. were managing patient’s health records by hand. The feat was difficult and they had to keep color-coded files to make sure that everything made sense. Thankfully, the HITECH Act of 2009 was there to help US clinicians [...]
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the federal government that challenged the no-bid deal signed between Cerner and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for the replacement of VA’s EHR platform. CliniComp, a California-based EHR developer, is the entity behind the filing of the mentioned law suit. The company said [...]
The new technology aims at enhancing interactions between providers and patients to reduce physician burnout and both boost consumer experience. Massachusetts-based multinational computer software technology corporation Nuance Communications has unveiled an artificial virtual assistant that has been designed specifically for healthcare providers and their patients. Before this, the IT Company has developed artificial intelligence virtual assistants [...]
