12 Questions for Potential Billing Vendors Choosing the right billing vendor will help ensure a medical practice remains on sound financial footing. Because it is such an important part of the practice's overall operation, the process of selecting a vendor can be stressful. Knowing the right questions to ask can help make the process easier to manage. The following 12 questions will help practices separate the good vendors from the mediocre ones and narrow the field of contenders.
The Revenue Engine that Could Many physicians continue to wrestle with an economy-in-recovery and declining reimbursements. Uncovering any and all opportunities to improve the speed and efficiency of getting paid positively contributes to the bottom line. This article presents the best practices for efficient revenue cycle operations.
Remote Patient Monitoring Tech Can Treat More than 200 Million People Remote patient monitoring provides a solution that can reduce costs, improve care delivery, and quality of life for the patient. However, the adoption is still slow and wireless technologies have only begun to penetrate the market. This article discusses the benefits to remote patient monitoring.
Case Study:Technology Helps Restore Practice Profitability As patients adjust to paying copays at every visit, the next challenge will giving patients a clearer picture of their deductible obligations with estimation software. Modernizing access to the practice with online scheduling.This case study explains how a seven-provider primary care practice with deep financial problems worked through their challenges by leveraging technology.
5 Elements of a Successful Patient Engagement Strategy Patient engagement has always been a good thing to strive for in health care practices. Today, however, patient engagement is an essential strategy for achieving what the Institute for Healthcare Improvement calls the "triple aim" of health care: improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of health care.
Focus on these neglected areas: staffing, business overhead, and payer contracts. Gains made in the areas of staffing, overhead, and payer reimbursements can contribute to more effective recruitment and retention as well as boost financial performance in the long run.
HP in collaboration with HIMSS
As the healthcare industry embraces value-based care, hospitals and other provider organizations are relying on digitization to better follow patients through their healthcare journey -- and recoup each and every reimbursement dollar. For more insight from Jeffrey Goldstein, MD, MS, Senior Healthcare Specialist and Daniel Colling , BSC, RN, Global Lead for Clinical and Print Workflow Solutions at HP inc. read more here.
HP in collaboration with HIMSS
To protect patient health information, hospitals and healthcare organizations need to be sure they are incorporating often overlooked endpoint technologies -- namely, printers -- in their healthcare IT security plans. For more insight from Pamela Dill, Senior Security Advisor at HP Inc. read more here.
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A Term is a single word search.
A Phrase would wrap a string of words in quotes and find matches on the extact string.
Boolean Operators You can combine basic queries with Boolean operators to form a more complex query. Boolean operators define the relationships between Terms or Phrases. Our search supports the following Boolean operators: AND, "+", OR, NOT and "-". Please note that Boolean operators must be all uppercase.
AND example search: default AND document
This is the default operator. It will be used if there is no Boolean operator between two terms. For example:
default document is the same as default AND document. In this case both terms need to exist within a listing to find a match on that listing.The + character is synonymous with using AND.
OR example search: default OR document
In this case just one of the terms needs to exist within a listing to find a match on that listing.
NOT example search: default NOT "document type"
The NOT operator excludes documents that contain the term (or phrase) after NOT. So a listing match would have to include the word default but not the phrase "document type". The - character is synonymous with using NOT.
Wildcard/Prefix queries You can perform "wildcard" or "prefix" queries using the '*' operator. Whereas all of the previous search found exact matches on the whole term or phrase, a wildcard search will find partial matches.
example search: ehr*
This query will match all documents containing words beginning with the prefix 'ehr' like the word Ehrlichia.
