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Insights from Digital Health Leaders at ViVE 2025

EvidenceCare

By replacing traditional pre-op visits with a digital experience, Kaiser not only improved efficiency but also reduced unnecessary testing and saved millions of dollars. Initially, the idea of eliminating pre-op visits faced skepticism, but careful testing and feedback led to a solution that worked for both clinicians and patients.

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Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health

Health Populi

The big gap in supply to patients vs. demand by health consumers is highlighted by what the arrow in the chart below points to: managing payments and paying bills. Patient-facing digital tools help patients with fairly basic tasks like making appointments, seeking doctors, and paying bills.

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How to Evaluate Practice Management System Requirements for Your Healthcare Practice

CollaborateMD

It can bring a refreshing shift from scattered patient files and billing information to seamless, stress-free workflows and revenue management. Here’s a breakdown of essential features of practice management systems : Patient Scheduling : Streamline efficient appointment booking while minimizing no-shows through automated reminders.

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Enhancing patient outcomes by strengthening allergy evaluation in primary care settings

Medical Economics

Patient history is essential in allergy diagnosis, as tests show sensitization, not clinical allergy, guiding appropriate management and treatment. Establishing medical necessity ensures justified diagnostic tests and treatments, aiding reimbursement and proactive allergy management.

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Healthcare Administration vs. Clinical Role: What is the Difference?

Northwest Career College

People in these positions are concerned with scheduling, billing, and record management. Whether you are calling to check into an appointment or to ask a question about your insurance, you have spoken with someone in healthcare administration. Patients who see clinical workers for checkups, treatment, or tests are clinical workers.

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Practice tip of the week: Be an on-time physician

Physicians Practice

This April 2024 article by Neil Baum, MD , on being an on-time physician gives this tip: Instruct new patients to arrive 20-30 minutes before their appointment to fill out paperwork or complete the paperwork online if your website provides the forms for patient demographics and a health care questionnaire.

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Lead, follow or get out of the way

Physicians Practice

Many doctors and practices have tried to outsource their billing, only to find disastrous results. In these unfortunate cases, their next plan is to bring billing back in-house and cancel the billing service. Did they have to wait long to obtain an appointment? or less) on an appointment card.

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