When considering medical billing technology and data solutions, the possibilities are vast. From analytics and workflow tools to automation and AI, the options are numerous. These solutions can integrate data from various systems, including EHRs, practice management, LIS, accounting, HR, and more. Making Strategic Decisions with Medical Billing Technology The question of whether to start […]
We frequently encounter EHR data integrity problems within electronic health records (EHR), practice management, billing, and laboratory information systems. These issues can range from simple anomalies in reporting to complex structural database problems. While some issues can be easily resolved, others require more complex solutions. Today, we encountered a particularly nonsensical issue that highlights a […]
Advanced MD’s custom reporting tool, “Advanced Insights” (AI), is a powerful tool for generating custom reports. However, the use of the acronym “AI” is misleading, as it implies the use of artificial intelligence, which is not the case. The underlying technology appears to be Cognos, a reputable business intelligence tool from IBM. Custom Reporting Capabilities […]
How do you get all of the information you want out of a system? Some systems have great reporting, some have mediocre reporting, and some have terrible reporting. What we’ve found is that even the best systems almost never allow you to extract all the information you need in one report. Even when custom reporting […]
We were recently working with a client where we needed to gather data from many different places, one of which was a clearinghouse. But why do we need data from a clearinghouse? Why can’t we get it from a practice management system, billing system, or EHR? Well, most billing systems, regardless of the brand, typically […]
I’m constantly impressed by how bad the data is in healthcare IT systems. We’re encountering one of these issues again today, and they seem to pop up all over the place. You could consider these to be metadata issues, but in reality, they are data integrity issues. For example, there are some strange problems in […]
Let’s say you have a post date for payments in May. Whatever you posted in May should be closed and should never change because you’re capturing the time at which a function was performed, and you can’t time travel back to do that. However, some systems allow this, and the problem is that it makes […]
I’ll bet you didn’t know time travel was possible. Well, with some healthcare IT systems, it is. It’s not uncommon in billing to find yourself in a situation where there’s some unapplied balance. You receive an ERA, an EOB, or some form of payment, and for whatever reason, you can’t post the entire amount—or even […]
This article was initially available on our podcast. Click here to listen. Analytics, statistics, data science, artificial intelligence. What does all this mean? What are we doing in revenue cycle management, specifically concerning financial data for healthcare? First, what is data science? This is a way of categorizing or grouping a whole bunch of things […]
This article was initially available on our podcast. Click here to listen. Where you get your data from does make a big difference. Suppose I look at the progression of how we accessed data from our clients. In that case, we’d initially had the idea that we could go into the billing system, whether it’s […]
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