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One of the most important components of modern healthcare is confidentiality. With many companies moving towards electronic health records, it’s now easier than ever to share important health information among providers. However, it’s also easy for non-providers to gain illegal access to records. As your organization’s data footprint expands across various environments, partners and endpoints, your threat landscape also expands. Cybercriminals seeking to exploit security vulnerabilities put sensitive and valuable information at risk. Confidently protecting your data, which provides a critical foundation for every business operation, is central to a zero trust approach to security. Data security solutions, whether implemented […]

Having a robust data archive is important for any healthcare organization, especially when dealing with legacy data management. A data archive helps healthcare organizations meet statutory data retention requirements, retain and access historic data easily, and can act as a passive or active solution depending on your needs. While streamlining your organization’s healthcare data needs, the archive will also save money by decommissioning legacy systems – saving on license, maintenance, and support costs; improve operational workflows and organizational efficiency, and help with much more! The list of benefits a healthcare organization can reap by implementing a data archive is endless. […]

Epic has become the most extensively used electronic health record (EHR) in the United States, since its first software design in 1979. According to PubMed Central®, Epic is the most prevalent EHR available in the US and maintains the health records of approximately half the US population. Epic states that currently more than 300 million patients from academic medical centers, children’s organizations, community hospitals, hospices, independent practices, mental health, multi-specialty groups, payers, rehab centers, retail clinics, and many other healthcare organizations, have a current electronic patient record in Epic systems. The company is said to be one of the top vendors for […]

Most healthcare organizations need a streamlined revenue management process, especially while handling Accounts Receivable (A/R) – for the timely collection of payment, and to avoid errors in data that can lead to future revenue delay. Healthcare Accounts Receivable is the outstanding reimbursement for a treatment or service owed to a provider by a patient or its insurance company after billing. It is important to handle Accounts Receivable properly and do the payment collection on time, as the A/R cycle usually ranges between 1–120 days, and with each day passing, the threat of revenue leakage increases for the healthcare organization. Moreover, […]

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are not new to the healthcare industry and will continue to take place in upcoming years at a higher pace and momentum. The “Q2: 2022” report, by KaufmanHall, states that the second quarter of 2022, had 13 M&A’s with two major ‘mega’ transitions between organizations with annual revenues over $1 billion. Behavioral health, home care, long-term care, physician groups, and governmental plans are predicted to be the top healthcare markets for M&A in 2023. Several horizontal and vertical acquisitions are taking place in the healthcare sector. They are believed to help increase scale, reduce capital costs, improve […]

You. Me. Who owns the healthcare data? That’s a debate going on since the beginning of time. However, with the arrival of the 21st Century Cures Act, we’ve finally got an answer to this question – the data belongs to the patient. Since the implementation of the Cures Act, maintaining a steady flow of electronic data between healthcare organizations and other caregivers, and ensuring that everyone has access to the right data, has never been more important. The Cures Act, first introduced in 2016, is focused on advancing innovative HIT product developments and ensuring patients have access to their data faster and […]

Healthcare legacy data archival plays a major role for healthcare organizations in terms of operational workflow, data lifecycle management, business revenue, and patient care. It is a game-changer for them as it can positively impact the healthcare facility, its staff, and patients. In this article, we’ll cover: What is healthcare legacy data archival? What is the process for healthcare legacy data archival? Why is it important for healthcare organizations to archive? It will also help provide a clear picture to your healthcare organization on how to get started with legacy data archiving.   What is Healthcare Legacy Data Archival? Healthcare […]

Read time: 5 mins   Today, data archiving is an essential part of an organization’s record management. Data management is highly crucial  for  companies that process large amounts of information. The greatest benefit of archiving data is that it reduces the cost of primary storage. Data archiving is the process where an organization creates a long-term archive of their structured and unstructured data for reasons like compliance requirements, EMR/EHR changes, lawsuit management, storage reduction, and information governance. It is the process of moving data that is no longer actively used to a separate storage for long-term retention. Archived data consists […]

With constant change in healthcare around results-based payment models, urgent population health needs, demand for more patient engagement and a desire to take advantage of data analytics, not every EHR vendor can keep up with it all. If your current EHR is under-performing or just not suited to your practice, you should think about replacing your EHR. While switching EMR systems may be a daunting task, understanding what to look for in a new system and what to expect during the process can make it easier. The government wants to shift the health industry into the digital age and has […]

In the late 1980s, most healthcare records were stored physically as paper records. Since then, the exponential growth of data and increased digital transformation caused by federal initiatives, have caused the immense growth in the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) by healthcare organizations. Such an adoption growth had led to the emergence of about 3,600 complete EHR vendors and modular products in the market by the end of stage one of Medicare & Medicaid’s EHR Incentive Program. EPIC and Cerner have become the leading vendors in the EHR market. As of 2019, about three-quarters of office-based physicians (72%) and […]