July/August 2023

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Can Automation Fix Revenue Cycle Management’s Staffing Problem?

Mark Hagland

July 11, 2023

In the July/August Issue of Healthcare Innovation: Patient care organization leaders are moving forward to accelerate their leveraging of automation in the revenue cycle management...

Interoperability & HIE

Health Data Utility: From Vision to Reality in Many States

David Raths

July 11, 2023

Now in 2023, the vision that the leaders of some HIEs had of transforming their organizations into health data utilities (HDUs) is becoming a reality in many states

Social Determinants of Health

How Are Leaders in the Trenches Strategizing around SDOH?

Mark Hagland

July 11, 2023

The emergence of work around the social determinants of Health (“SDOH”) has advanced very rapidly in just a few short years, as the leaders of patient care organizations nationwide...

Clinical IT

Innovator Awards Program: Vendor Winners

July 11, 2023

Healthcare Innovation congratulates the winning organizations in the vendor space in our Innovator Awards Program! Two winners and one runner-up organization were named. Congratulations...

Richard Wagner (1813-1883), composer of the 'Ring of the Nibelung,' and considered one of the greatest of all operatic composers

Finance/Revenue Cycle

What Richard Wagner’s “Ring” Cycle Says about Perseverance—in Healthcare, Too

Mark Hagland

July 11, 2023

Our July/August cover story focuses on the heroic efforts taking place to adopt more and more advanced technologies in order to automate revenue cycle management processes

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Cybersecurity

What Might AI Really Mean for Healthcare Cybersecurity?

Mac McMillan

June 13, 2023

Cybersecurity industry leader Mac McMillan reflects on the complexities around artificial intelligence in healthcare, and the cybersecurity challenges it presents

Alternative Payment Models

CMS Announces New MCP Model for Primary Care Coordination

Mark Hagland

June 9, 2023

CMS announces a new alternative payment model, the Making Care Primary (MCP) Model, intended to improve care coordination for Medicare and Medicaid patients

Blythe Adamson, Ph.D., M.P.H., says Flatiron has the advantage of a decade of 'golden data' labelled by experts to train machine learning models.

Big Data

Q&A: Blythe Adamson, Ph.D., M.P.H., Flatiron Health’s Senior Principal Scientist

David Raths

May 26, 2023

“The capabilities of what's possible to do now with natural language processing, machine learning, and AI — those capabilities didn't exist five years ago when I joined the company...

'Once you see this data, and once you start talking to people in the community, you can't unsee this. Your passion changes,' says Terry Scoggin, CEO of Titus Regional Medical Center

Analytics/AI

Q&A: Terry Scoggin, CEO of the Last Independent Hospital in Northeast Texas

David Raths

May 23, 2023

Leader of Titus Regional Medical Center in Mt Pleasant, Texas, discusses using tools from Metopio to create a rural Texas benchmark data visualization that highlights disparities...

Electronic Health Record/Electronic Medical Record (EHR/EMR)

Baptist Health Reaping Benefits From EHR Consolidation

David Raths

May 17, 2023

“With the disparate systems we had previously, we realized we could not see the whole patient journey,” says Stacey Johnston, M.D., vice president and chief application officer...

Medicare/Medicaid

The Keys to CentraCare’s Success as a Medicaid ACO

David Raths

May 9, 2023

Rachael Lesch, R.N., M.B.A., executive director of population health and quality at Minnesota-based CentraCare, discussed her team’s approach to value-based care in the Medicaid...

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

At Spring Conference, NAACOS Quality Award Winners Share Keys to Innovation

David Raths

May 4, 2023

Leaders from Delaware Valley ACO, University of California San Francisco, and Southwestern Health Resources present on patient care improvement efforts