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RAC products should help providers prep for audits

Chip Means January 08, 2010
Recovery audit contractors are creating apprehension among healthcare providers. The threat of an audit means increased reliance on efficient, accurate care and billing information.
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Product Spotlight: Enterprise Resource Planning

 Chip Means November 23, 2009
Enterprise resource planning is increasingly critical to healthcare organizations. In the November 2009 Product Spotlight, we take a look at the impact ERP solutions are making.
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Product Spotlight: EDI clearinghouse services

 Chip Means October 23, 2009
The October Healthcare Finance News Product Spotlight provides a lay of the land in the EDI clearinghouse services market.
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Product Spotlight: Revenue Cycle Management

 Chip Means September 02, 2009
Revenue cycle management is one of the largest and most significant healthcare product categories in the age of stimulus fund, pay for performance and self-pay models. Our September 2009 issue provides an overview of the trends and products shaping RCM.
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Product Spotlight: Patient Accounts Management

 Chip Means August 07, 2009
The August 2009 Product Spotlight examines the value of patient accounts management solutions in the era of RAC, P4P and ARRA.
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Product Spotlight: Document Management

 Chip Means July 09, 2009
Document management and the advantages of automating documenting procedures are the focus of the the July 2009 Product Spotlight.
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Physicians, hospitals can tap into GE's technology loans at 0 percent

 Bernie Monegain June 16, 2009
GE will offer no-interest loans to physicians and hospitals that buy the vendor's electronic medical records systems, GE Centricity EMR and GE Centricity enterprise technology, company officials announced Monday.
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Market for EMRs pegged at $1.6 billion by 2013

 Bernie Monegain June 04, 2009
The market for electronic medical record data transfer equipment and applications, valued at $575 million in 2008, is forecast to reach $1.6 billion in 2013, according to a study by research firm Kalorama Information.
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Product Spotlight: Supply chain management

 Chip Means May 28, 2009
In the June 2009 issue of Healthcare Finance News, we took a hard look at supply chain management systems in the healthcare market.
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Product Spotlight: Contract Management

 Chip Means May 05, 2009
The May 2009 Product Spotlight looks at contract management in healthcare organizations.
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Product Spotlight: Chargemaster maintenance

 Chip Means April 03, 2009
The April 2009 Product Spotlight features chargemaster maintenance solutions.
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AMA, others join lawsuits against Aetna, CIGNA over database

 Molly Merrill March 05, 2009
Two physician-class-action lawsuits have been filed against Aetna Health, Inc. and the CIGNA Corporation. The lawsuits, filed by the American Medical Association, several state medical associations and individual physicians, claim the companies used skewed data provided by UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Ingenix to under-reimburse physicians.
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Employers eye assessment tools in harsh economy

 Chip Means March 05, 2009
Product Spotlight: Human Capital Management
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Product Spotlight: Denials Management

 Chip Means February 06, 2009
The January/February 2009 Product Spotlight focuses on the market for Denials Management solutions.
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Healthcare Organizations need help dealing with data

 Patty Enrado December 10, 2008
The challenge of any healthcare organization is the ability to deal with data that is doubling every year, said Lior Blik, CIO of Hoboken University Medical Center and president and CEO of NIT Conn...
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CM tools offer big benefits

 Patty Enrado October 29, 2008
ONLY about half of healthcare organizations deploy chargemaster maintenance technology solutions. These applications automate and update constantly changing regulatory and compliance issues, help k...
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Market is moving forward

 Patty Enrado October 06, 2008
WHILE THE claims management market is mature and industry vendors have mastered its complexity, the market is moving toward adjusting to three main drivers, said Sheila Schweitzer, CEO of CareMedic...
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Market slowly moves from reaction to preparation

 Patty Enrado August 28, 2008
Scott Wanless, principal management consultant for Fujitsu Consulting’s Business Intelligence Practice, coined the term “preparatory” analytics to describe what the predictive ana...
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Standalone applications offer best capabilities, ROI

 Patty Enrado August 26, 2008
There are two classes of products in the contract management market – a revenue cycle management (RCM) product’s contract component and a standalone contract management application. An...
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