Healthcare Finance Technology

Driving change with analytics

Caroline Gay and Ray Ready from Florida's Lakeland Regional Health talk about common analytics traps. Also: The latest from Washington and five features of HFMA's all-new all-inclusive membership.

Erika Grotto July 2, 2019

CVS, Virtual Platforms, and How Millennials are Disrupting the Industry

Chad Mulvany, HFMA's director of healthcare finance policy, perspectives and analysis, shares insights on technological developments that are disrupting the industry.

Erika Grotto July 2, 2019

Pursuing a Proactive Denials Strategy Helps Resolve Denials and Prevent Recurrence

A look at how one company is partnering with healthcare organizations to use data and technology to address the root causes of long-standing problems, including denials.

HFMA July 1, 2019

HFMA Chair to finance leaders: I dare you to move

HFMA Chair urges attendees “dare to move” to address challenges in healthcare finance.

Rich Daly June 26, 2019

Cutting through the hype to find practical approaches to interoperability

To promote interoperability, the healthcare industry should seek to optimize existing tools by ensuring consistency of use across the continuum of care.

Erkan Akyuz June 20, 2019

Analysis: Price check in the EHR

Humana may be a more desirable partner for physicians interested in risk arrangements if its collaboration with Epic reduces potentially preventable ED and inpatient utilization due to increased medication adherence.

Chad Mulvany, FHFMA June 19, 2019

Change Healthcare: Accelerating healthcare innovation by productizing APIs

Change Healthcare talks about transforming the approach to application programming interfaces (APIs) to deliver them as individualized products that solve healthcare-specific problems.

HFMA June 18, 2019

Using artificial intelligence to improve revenue cycle operations

In God we trust; all others must bring data                                 — W. Edwards Deming The ability to use the data aggregated throughout the revenue cycle is critical to proactive issue resolution, project prioritization, estimation of financial impact of revenue cycle initiatives and forecasting. However, data analysis at each stage of the revenue cycle is dependent on…

HFMA June 17, 2019

Data Integration Challenges Prevalent with Outside Vendors

Today’s revenue cycle increasingly relies on external business partners to process payments. Unfortunately, passing accounts back and forth from the business office to outsourced vendors brings data integration challenges. Often, reconciliation issues occur when the same account is in multiple locations such as with the hospital and the outsourced vendor. This breakdown in inventory integrity…

Matt Hawkins June 17, 2019

Bridging the gap between finance and clinical data

A Mount Sinai emergency department physician’s work with data analytics demonstrates how bringing together clinical and revenue cycle information can bridge gaps and solve payment problems.

HFMA June 17, 2019
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