Arkenea

AUGUST 9, 2025

Improved Patient Outcomes and Safety Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association shows that optimized EHR workflows can reduce medical errors by up to 40%. When information flows seamlessly between care providers, critical patient data is less likely to be overlooked or misinterpreted.

Documentation

Arkenea

JUNE 20, 2025

EHR revenue cycle management represents far more than simply connecting clinical and billing systems. It embodies a fundamental transformation in how healthcare organizations approach financial operations, patient engagement, and operational efficiency. Additionally, EHR RCM can also enhance patient satisfaction.

Documentation

Relias

MAY 19, 2025

Healthcare providers are no strangers to service challenges missed appointments, long wait times, communication breakdowns, or billing confusion are part of the everyday operational landscape. But in a patient-first world, its not the mistake that defines your organization its how you recover from it. rude, confused, pain).

Best Practices

Physicians Practice

JULY 15, 2025

Advanced tech automatically reconciles payments for the provider, eliminating the need to manually match payments to patient accounts. Alpine Physician Partners, leverages PatientPay Accelerate for these payments which has significantly improved our cash flow by speeding up payments by more than 40 days.

Billing

Northwest Career College

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Some of the work activities include: Appointment Setting Managed patient records and ensured they were up-to-date. Handled all insurance forms and also billing-related processes. These vital tasks provide a seamless patient experience and allow medical professionals to focus on caregiving.

Medical Administrative Assistant

Arkenea

JUNE 23, 2025

Phase 1: Assessment and Planning (Months 1-2) Current State Analysis : Begin with a comprehensive assessment of your organization’s existing data landscape, technical infrastructure, and workflow requirements.

Documentation

CollaborateMD

MARCH 20, 2025

It can bring a refreshing shift from scattered patient files and billing information to seamless, stress-free workflows and revenue management. Billing and Claims Management : Ensure smooth processes for medical billing , insurance claims, and payment collection. Is the data backed up on a mirrored out-of-state site?

Appointments

Arkenea

AUGUST 12, 2025

Sign-Up and Login 13. Comprehensive Dashboard Advanced Patient Portal Features 14. Healthcare staff can focus on patient care activities rather than time-consuming financial administrative tasks, directly improving organizational productivity and patient experience. Educational Content 7. Automated Reminders 11.

Appointments

Physicians Practice

JUNE 30, 2025

Future Steps in Documentation and Efficiency (00:13:49) Considers whether agent AI can further automate tasks like billing and multi-step processes. Closing Remarks and Outro (00:21:52) Wrap-up of the conversation, thanks to the guest, and podcast subscription information. Is your telehealth setup up to snuff? Adler, J.D.,

Diagnostics

Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 5, 2025

Follow Author Aug 05, 2025, 05:23pm EDT Share Save Comment Close-up of a stethoscope on a spread U.S. 100 dollars bills. Follow Author Aug 05, 2025, 05:23pm EDT Share Save Comment Close-up of a stethoscope on a spread U.S. 100 dollars bills.

Insurance

Medical Economics

JUNE 20, 2025

A longitudinal study published in JAMA found that gait speed was independently associated with increased risk of dementia, institutionalization and mortality over a five-year follow-up period. Other studies have identified gait speed and variability as emerging indicators of cardiovascular health.

Vital Signs

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JUNE 9, 2025

Daily Dive M-F Payer Weekly Every Wednesday IT Weekly Every Thursday By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. As such, patients place a lot of trust in their medical teams to help them prevent disease, understand their health, and choose the right treatments when necessary.

Follow-Up

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

elections, Jennifer’s assertion sums up what, ex post facto , we know about what most inspired American voters at the polls in November 2024: the economy, economics, inflation, the costs of daily living… pick your noun, but it’s all about those Benjamins right now for mainstream American consumers across many demographic cuts.

Insurance

CollaborateMD

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Encourage retention of patients or usage of optional/elective medical services by opening much-needed provider-to-patient lines of communication. Increase patient follow-up care. Help individual patients with their healthcare needs or billing questions. These tools: Reduce no-shows.

Communication

Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2025

Americans’ financial health was already stressing consumers out leading up to Liberation Day, April 2nd , when President Trump announced tariffs on dozens of countries with whom the U.S. We’ve seen this in other studies that focus on medical bills and healthcare spending as a negative influence on seeking health care.

Diagnostics

Health Populi

MAY 27, 2025

This year, we learn that outpatient care and pharmacy were the two line items most responsible for driving the PPO cost up to over $35K: pharmacy costs rose 9.7% for the average patient. MMI is quick to note that an “average patient” in the study methodology is based on the original MMI family for tracking consistency.

Billing

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This chasm is illustrated in The future of the digital patient experience , the latest report from HIMSS and the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM). 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.

Billing

Health Prime

MARCH 21, 2024

It begins at the front lines of the healthcare practice, where staff members collect essential demographic and insurance information during the initial patient contact. This information serves as the foundation for billing and reimbursement processes.

Medication

Health Prime

MAY 2, 2024

Implement appointment reminders and follow-ups Use automated appointment reminders and follow-up communications to enhance the patient experience. Patient reminders and follow-ups are critical for a successful practice. At Health Prime, we can help!

Follow-Up

Relias

APRIL 18, 2025

In todays competitive healthcare environment, providing an exceptional patient experience isnt just a nice-to-have, its a necessity. From improving patient satisfaction to enhancing loyalty and even driving operational efficiency, patient experience is a key factor that can set healthcare providers apart.

Patient Experience

Health Prime

APRIL 11, 2024

Medical practices and billing services constantly seek ways to enhance efficiency and financial performance. ” While they may sound similar, understanding their distinctions is crucial for healthcare providers and billing professionals. Also, remember to optimize staffing levels and roles to improve productivity and patient care.

Billing

Walker Info - Patient Experience

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Patient experience is more than feeling good about feeling good. In fact, more than 70% of patients would switch healthcare providers to improve their experience. Improving patient experience scores through value-based care should be at the top of every health system’s to-do list.

Patient Experience

CollaborateMD

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Medical billing plays a critical role in the financial stability of healthcare providers. Fortunately, medical billing software offers a solution to the challenges healthcare providers face. The impact of billing challenges is felt by healthcare providers and patients. They can have significant consequences for patients.

Billing

Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

Add on top of these significant stressors the need to deal with medical bills, which is another source of stress for millions of patients in America. What is not commonly discussed is that medical bill problems are very common among people who have insurance and not only the uninsured. As a result, more people in the U.S.

Billing

Northwest Suburban College

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Medical billing and insurance processing are essential skills for aspiring medical assistants. These tasks ensure that healthcare providers get paid for their services and that patients understand their financial responsibilities. Both medical billing and insurance processing require attention to detail and strong communication skills.

Medical Assistant

Coronis Health

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Are you considering partnering with an ophthalmology medical billing company for your facility? Outsourcing Your Medical Billing Can Free up Time and Resources for Your Ophthalmology Facility Those working in the ophthalmology industry often wear many hats while providing comprehensive care for their patients.

Billing

CollaborateMD

JANUARY 31, 2024

Navigating piles of billing paperwork drains your time and energy. The right medical billing software streamlines this process, making it quicker and more accurate. The added efficiency gives you more time for patient care and reduces administrative headaches.  This article breaks down chiropractic medical billing software.

Billing

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

When I say “Oscar” here on the Health Populi blog, you’re conjuring up an image of the health plan insurance innovator founded in 2012. But the ad for Patient Power was up-close-and-personal with Shepard Fairey painting in his iconic style a poster for empowered health consumers.

Insurance

Health Populi

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Across all providers, AmWell scored highest at 885, followed by Doctor on Demand with 879 points. Cigna, the highest-scoring payer-backed telehealth organization, racked up 874 points on the 1,000-point scale. In the study, J.D. The study was fielded in June-July 2020 among 4,302 U.S.

Physical Exams

Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

.” And across all technologies assessed in this study, it was AI and machine learning that the health care finance execs pointed to as a top-three investment priority, followed by improving the patient experience (among 37%), and automating business processes (32%). Bank explained in the report. AI can help here, too.

Billing

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2024

The overall takeaway for patients in this study is that health care is disconnected from consumers, in the words of the JPM/InstaMed report. This is the modus operandi for bill payment among U.S. consumers would prefer to pay those bills online through their doctor’s or hospital’s websites (for 38% of patients). .”

Billing

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

For mainstream Americans, “the math doesn’t add up” for paying medical bills out of median household budgets, based on the calculations in the 2019 VisitPay Report. Cost influenced two-thirds of patients in terms of their satisfaction with a physician or a health system. Given a $60K median U.S.

Insurance

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Several factors underpin the adoption of telehealth in 2019: Consumers’ demand for accessible, lower-cost health care services as people face greater financial responsibility for paying the medical bill (via high-deductible health plans and greater out-of-pocket costs for co-payments).

Follow-Up

Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

” The quid pro quo value exchange is that GNC ramps up its membership list of consumers for the program and the promise of other purchases from the virtual or brick-and-mortar “front of the store.” GNC is channeling to the current concerns of health consumers… value in the eye of the beholder and medical bill payer.

Insurance

Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

was Russia’s invasion into Ukraine, noted by 18% of people — from 14% of Republicans up to 23% of Democrats. The cost of filling up a car’s gas tank ranked first among U.S. Other worrisome health care cost items follow down the line, including: 45% of U.S. Overall, 55% of people in the U.S.

Long Term Care

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

” Across all plans, consumers’ Net Promoter Scores (NPS) have increased year over year since 2019 when they hit a low of 11, now up 7 points in 2021 to 18. And second, the month features four weeks of sessions for the annual ATA Conference which kicked off last week on Tuesday 1stJune followed by more sessions on Thursday the 3rd.

Patient Satisfaction

Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

As an Index, the MMI combines several line items of healthcare spending to make up the overall number, and this methodology allows us to compare the rising costs of care for a family of 4 covered by a PPO year to year.

Medication