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News 4/29/24
Top News
RCM vendor Gebbs Healthcare Solutions acquires CCD Health, a contact center based in the Dominican Republic that specializes in appointment scheduling for outpatient radiology practices.
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Announcements and Implementations
Every Child Pediatrics (CO) implements Yosi Health’s patient intake and registration software.
Atlantic Radiology New Hampshire selects RCM and practice management software and services from Healthcare Administrative Partners.
Quest Medical Billing Services begins offering billing services for mental healthcare.
Research and Innovation
A small study featured in JAMA finds that primary care physicians who saw patients both virtually and in person during a single shift perform around 6% more EHR-based work than colleagues who saw patients via a single modality. Those PCPs who solely conducted telemedicine visits did not perform any additional work in their EHR.
Other
Airing tonight on Georgia Public Broadcasting, “The Only Doctor” documents the efforts of Karen Kinsell, MD to care for the residents of one of Georgia’s unhealthiest counties in a clinic that is barely scraping by. Filmmaker Matthew Hashiguchi says of Kinsell, “She is a doctor 24 hours a day, seven days a week. She gets calls on the weekends, at night, random times, from residents and patients asking for help. And I was just sort of in awe of her willingness to do whatever it took to do what was right in her eyes.”
Sponsor Updates
- EClinicalWorks will host its 2024 Health Center Summit May 8-10 in Boston.
- Waystar will exhibit at the OPIE Software: Driving Practice Success customer conference May 2-3 in Oklahoma City.
Blog Posts
- 9 insightful quotes on cloud and AI from Stanford Health Care and AWS leaders at Arab Health 2024 (Nordic)
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