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The average health system uses 18 EHRs

By Naomi Diaz for Becker’s Hospital Review The typical health system uses 18 different EHR vendors across affiliated providers, yet these systems often lack seamless communication capabilities, leading to challenges, Lown Institute reported Jan. 2.   These challenges include patients encountering difficulties in accessing their data, physicians ordering redundant tests, patients being labeled as alive when they are deceased and…

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How Will Revenue Cycle Leaders Expand AI Users in 2024?

BY Jasmyne Ray for Health Leaders Artificial intelligence has moved from a buzzword to an established presence in revenue cycle technology. Revenue cycle and finance leaders alike are looking to AI to streamline processes and automate tasks, which will allow them to use staff more efficiently as the sector-wide staffing shortage persists. HealthLeaders previously spoke to…

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A CIO looks back on 2023, and offers a forecast for 2024

By Mike Restuccia for Healthcare IT News It’s that time of year, to reflect again on the past and pontificate about what the future may hold for the healthcare information technology community. For the first time in several years, I’m promoting a more positive, albeit cautious, message. Like the “revenge travel” explosion seen as individuals broke free from the…

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Two former NBA players convicted over roles in health care fraud

By Reuters for NBC News A federal jury in New York City on Wednesday convicted two former NBA players over their roles in a scheme to defraud a league health care plan into paying millions of dollars for bogus medical procedures. Glen Davis, 37, who played for three NBA teams and won a championship in 2008 with the…

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Why hackers attacked a health system on Thanksgiving

Giles Bruce by Becker’s Hospital Review It likely wasn’t by happenstance that cybercriminals attacked a major U.S. health system the week of Thanksgiving, IT security chiefs told Becker’s. Ardent Health Services, a 30-hospital system based in Nashville, Tenn., took its IT systems offline Nov. 23, the morning of Thanksgiving, after discovering what it later found to be a ransomware attack. Ambulances…

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Hospitals confront mounting reimbursement challenges and diminishing cash reserves

By Nathan Eddy for Healthcare Finance News Escalating reimbursement delays and declining cash reserves are placing hospitals and health systems across the nation in a precarious financial predicament, according to data from Syntellis Performance Solutions’ analysis of 1,300 hospitals. The findings, published in partnership with the American Hospital Association, underscore the pressing need for measures…

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Eight Ways for Providers to Protect Themselves in a New Era of Payer Denials

By Beth Friedman for For the Record My health care career began in the 1980s when I was a clinical coder for a small Pittsburgh hospital. Even then, before the Prospective Payment System and DRGs, a steady drumbeat of payer denials echoed throughout the business office, HIM, and finance departments of most health care provider…

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AI, machine learning top health CIO priorities in 2023, survey finds

By Emily Olsen for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Dive Insight: High labor expenses pummeled hospital margins last year, and many facilities continue to struggle financially even as pressure lifts for some providers.  Those financial challenges, combined with the COVID-19 pandemic, paved the way for AI and virtual care adoption, which could lessen some of the resource strain, the survey said.…

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