Healthcare News of Note: Fewer patients translates to a small reduction in charity care spend for hospitals
Healthcare News of Note for healthcare finance professionals is a roundup of recent news articles, including a reduction in charity care in 2020 due to fewer patients, a review of physician burnout and moral injury data, and what early adopters are doing to test 5G.
Alpha Health: Using machine learning to create fully autonomous revenue cycle operations
A revenue cycle technology company talks about how machine learning and other modern automation techniques can help healthcare organizations increase revenue, boost productivity and be more agile in the face of unexpected business volatility.
Odeza: Driving engagement through patient-centric digital communications
One company shares how it partners with health systems in delivering artificial intelligence-assisted digital communications through two-way SMS, voice, email, live chat and web-based chatbots for improved patient communication experience.
AI, automation and RPA in the revenue cycle
Review how artificial intelligence, automation and robotic processing automation fit within the revenue cycle of the future and what steps hospitals and health systems are taking to design the revenue cycle of the future.
HFMA’s Digital Annual Conference continues Aug. 12 and Aug. 14 with more virtual education for healthcare finance professionals
HFMA's Digital Annual Conference continues Aug. 12 and Aug. 14 with a focus on optimizing performance with the latest KPIs, using analytics strategies to lower cost and maximize revenue and using behavioral economics to engage patients.
Hospitals share lessons learned from AI ‘workers’
Hospital finance leaders have found opportunity and challenge from their growing use of artificial intelligence within their finance operations.
A new concept of healthcare finance for recruiting, retaining and engaging the next generation of professionals
If the healthcare finance industry wants to attract and retain younger generations of workers, it will need to embrace the smarter tech and automated capabilities that help deliver a meaningful work environment to the rising and incoming generations.
How to prevent silent denials from eroding a hospital’s margin
Hospitals should take steps to prevent silent denials. Such denials are a common result of inaccuracies introduced as a result of clinical conservatism, which can have an impact on reimbursement before a claim is submitted.
How investment in AI for healthcare organizations has changed due to the pandemic
A business focused on artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare explains how COVID-19 has raised the bar in the utilization of AI and dives into the value of its use to be successful in a post-COVID future.
2020 is challenging us to re-imagine integrated healthcare
The recovery plan healthcare organizations use to address the impact of COVID-19 and other factors that have damaged the financial foundations of healthcare delivery are likely to involve increased integration.