Measuring Your Revenue Cycle Performance: Key Metrics, Part II
Today, we have a guest post by Dennis Bush, Product Development Consultant at MedAptus. Charge Capture Rate As covered on Tuesday, reducing sources of lag and improving cash flow is important, but...
View ArticleA Glimpse into the Facility Billing World from a Split-Billing Expert
In healthcare today, the trend of hospitals shifting attention to outpatient services is hard to ignore. Along with increasing outpatient service delivery, is the need for expertise into appropriate...
View ArticleIt’s oh so quiet…
Less than a month to go to ICD-10 and it’s shockingly quiet. This relative calm might have something to do with the fact that in early July, CMS made a deal with the AMA, agreeing to a one-year grace...
View ArticleNews You Can Use – Week of Sept 21
Every Friday our team reviews industry happenings relevant to our business – sometimes news items are passed along to customers who seem genuinely thankful for us thinking of them… made me think… maybe...
View ArticleNews Update: ICD-9, finally a thing of the past!
Another installment of our weekly news round up – and since it is October 2nd, 2015, you can guess what today’s top story is… Less Than Two Years Until ICD-11! Yes, only one year after the physician...
View Article“That’s the way it’s always been done…”
The theme of this week’s short round up has to do with status quo, doing things the same way over and over. There are lots of reasons that individuals and organizations don’t or can’t find a better...
View ArticleIt’s the weekend – let’s be careful out there
I just read a study validating what I have always hypothesized based on many personal experiences – seeking hospital attention on the weekend is suboptimal. The related article refers to it as ‘the...
View ArticleThey like us, they really like us
Earlier this week the MedAptus team enjoyed participating the Society of Hospital Medicine’s annual leadership conference, a meeting that brings together many hospitalist leaders and hospital medicine...
View Article“And though we use it here, I can’t use it over there…”
#Letdoctorsbedoctors is on the rise thanks to the artistic brilliance that is Zdoggmd. When anything HIT-related does viral, it’s an exciting time for our industry since these days it feels like the...
View ArticleWeekly News Round Up
High reliability – Coming to a hospital near you! While the notion of high reliability has been present in industries such as air traffic control and nuclear power for many years, the paradigm is newer...
View ArticleThe Top Ten Thanksgiving Mishaps via ICD-10
If you read our blog and follow our news stream, you know that ICD-10 is a topic that is near and dear to hearts and those of our many customers and end-users. While there remains much to be seen and...
View ArticlePhysician Burnout: Only Getting Worse
Another short news round-up detailing some items of interest. Starting things off, an article on the topic of physician burnout. Some recent research suggests that burnout is on the rise and that...
View ArticleThe Top Ten Elf ICD-10 Moments
Last year around this time I blogged about the movie Christmas Vacation, looking at some of its funniest moments via ICD-10. Since it was a popular post, I was simply going to rewarm it for this year,...
View ArticleThe Curious Case of Ebenezer Scrooge
“I live in such a world of fools […] What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your...
View ArticleKicking off 2016 with a weekly news review
Happy New Year all! Hope all of our customers, partners and other allies had safe, healthy and happy holidays. In reading through this week’s industry news, a number of interesting articles talking...
View Article“Do it and I’ll shut up”
Whenever I see a reference to a union, my mind immediately goes to watching Norma Rae in my high school business class. Collective bargaining is an effective negotiation tool because the whole is...
View ArticleOde to David Bowie
I’ve always been a David Bowie fan. Listening to the many marathons these past weeks really re-ignited my love of his music. One night I challenged myself to pick a favorite song – and I couldn’t...
View ArticleInsights from a KLAS Category Leader — Integration
As some of you may have read, earlier today we announced our fifth Best in KLAS Category Leader award. We were excited to once again be recognized as the leader in the Mobile Data Systems category...
View ArticleThe Top Ten Things That Will Happen to You During HIMSS (in no particular order)
If you have ever read this blog before, then you probably know that I have a penchant for top-ten lists. But what you definitely don’t know about me until now is that I have the ability to predict the...
View ArticleThe Role of Emotional Intelligence in Medicine
One of the greatest things about working in health information technology is the constant exposure to truly innovative solutions. Each conceived to dramatically change healthcare for the better, for...
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