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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This article was initially available on our podcast. Click here to listen. When are benchmarks not benchmarks? This will be a long podcast, so strap in a little bit. The MGMA collected data from 2,500 practices. There was a webinar where the MGMA, in conjunction with WhiteSpace, which makes data warehousing effectively, offers data warehousing, […]