HBMA Webinar – “Building an RCM Technology Powerhouse: Starting with Denials” There is so much opportunity in RCM technology…You could set up interfaces to get data from your clients, build a practice management system for billing, create a killer analytics platform, or even develop an AI solution. Excited to announce my upcoming webinar for the […]
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. Limitations of Advanced […]
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 […]
I’m constantly impressed by how bad the data is in healthcare IT systems. We’re encountering one of these clinix data integrity 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 […]
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 […]
I saw an interesting article recently concerning artificial intelligence and machine learning in revenue cycle management, focusing on evaluating AI vendors for RCM. It was pointing to pre-authorizations and pre-certifications as an excellent area for using this technology. This article was initially available on our podcast. Click here to listen. Learning to Compare Results: Evaluating […]