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News 7/24/23
Top News
MCI Onehealth Technologies, which manages a Canadian primary care network and develops health IT, will sell its clinical assets to competitor Well Health Technologies so that it can focus solely on AI-powered health IT and clinical research.
Webinars
July 26 (Wednesday) 1 ET. “Lessons We’ve Learned Since Launching our Cancer Prevention Program.” Sponsor: Volpara Health. Presenter: Albert Bonnema, MD, MPH chief medical information officer, Kettering Health System, and Chris Yuppa, product owner for oncology services and cancer prevention, Kettering Health System. Kettering’s IT department has played a critical role in providing an EHR-driven framework to bring cancer risk assessment and individual prevention plans to more than 90,000 patients. Primary care, OB/GYN, oncology, and imaging providers are now able to assess the hereditary, genetic, and lifestyle factors that affect the risk of developing lung, breast, ovarian, colon, and prostate cancer in any patient encounter. Learn how Kettering brings together people, processes, and technology to be more proactive in the fight against cancer and where its cancer prevention program is headed next.
July 27 (Thursday) noon ET. “Why You Shouldn’t Wait to Use Generative AI.” Sponsor: Orbita. Presenter: Bill Rogers, co-founder, president, and chairman, Orbita. The advent of generative AI tools truly represents a paradigm shift. And while some healthcare leaders embrace the transformation, others are hesitant. Invest 20 minutes to learn why you shouldn’t wait. When combined with natural language processing, workflow automation and conversational dialogs, generative AI can help leaders address a raft of challenges: from over-extended staff, to the rising demand for self-service tools, to delivering secure information to key stakeholders. You will learn where AI delivers the greatest value for providers and life sciences, how it can solve critical challenges faced by healthcare leaders, and how Orbita has integrated generative AI into its conversational platform so healthcare leaders can leverage its full capabilities safely and securely.
July 27 (Thursday) 2 ET. “Denial Prevention 101: How to stop denials from the start.” Sponsor: Waystar. Presenter: Crystal Ewing, director of product management, Waystar. There’s a reason denial prevention is prominent everywhere in healthcare RCM. Denials reduce cash flow, drive down revenue, and negatively impact the patient and staff experience. More than half of front-end denials don’t have to happen, but, once they do, that money is gone. It’s a pretty compelling reason to take some time now to do some preventative care on your revenue cycle. This webinar will help you optimize your front end to stop denials at the start. We’ll explore the importance of not only having the right data, but having it right where staff need it, when they need it.
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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock
FQHC-focused CHC Consulting Group launches new subsidiaries focused on RCM and healthcare technology.
Small practice-focused patient billing startup Collectly raises $29 million in a Series A funding round. The company launched in 2017 as a digital debt collector, later pivoting to healthcare payments.
People
ChenMed promotes Steve Nelson to president.
Announcements and Implementations
Kymera Independent Physicians (NM) selects NextGen’s enterprise EHR and practice management software.
Research and Innovation
A study of EHR data from six primary care clinics reveals that the incorporation of remote patient monitoring helped to improve treatment and outcomes for hypertensive patients.
Other
Peachtree Orthopedics in Atlanta alerts patients to an April breach of its computer network that may have compromised some personal information. It is the practice’s third breach in seven years.
Sponsor Updates
- Encore Health Group and Affiliates sees success with its upgrade to EClinicalWorks V12, and Healow patient engagement solutions.
- Nordic Consulting receives 12 of 13 validations in a recent KLAS report on EHR education software and services.
- Medicomp Systems releases a new Tell Me Where It Hurts Podcast featuring Greenway Health CMO Michael Blackman, MD.
- Nordic posts a new podcast, “Designing for Health: Interview with Dr. Manish Patel”.
Blog Posts
- Note bloat, we can’t quit you (Nordic)
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