Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
The vendor will demonstrate its new software at HIMSS17 next week in Orlando.
Those on the forefront of health IT have an unparalleled opportunity to do well by doing good: to introduce the latest innovations that fix the ever-persistent, budget-draining, patient-endangering inefficiencies in healthcare, while capturing new markets and making more money.
Accountable Care
Consumerism is no longer a buzzword in healthcare, says Cerner President Zane Burke. As the industry continues to shift, providers should evaluate the care delivery process from the front-end to back-end to identify opportunities for improvement with the consumer in mind.
Black Book Report shows that 70 percent of hospitals say data from outside providers is missing from their systems' workflows.
A company executive says the new services will help customers earn payments under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services chronic care management program.
Hospital system is rolling out EHR, population health platform, data warehouse and revenue cycle management technologies in consolidation from more than 75 existing applications.
The new technology is designed to help providers monitor clinical outcomes and make government reporting easier.
Analytics
Epic landed the top spot for Overall Software Suite in the 2017 Best in KLAS: Software and Services report, for the seventh consecutive year. It also earned the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor and Best in KLAS awards in eight other segments.
Chief Financial Officer Christian Pass said the company scrutinized tech spending to more effectively manage EHR disaster recovery and underlying operating systems.
The center will house institutes that train healthcare leaders working on transforming the way care is provided in the U.S. and around the world. The goal is to achieve the highest clinical quality at the lowest sustainable cost.