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How Automating Patient Intake Can Help Healthcare Providers Manage Data

Referral MD

Can Automating Patient Intake Help Healthcare Providers? Manual patient intake is a burden. This can mean long wait times for patients, but for healthcare providers, it can mean missing data, extra costs, and compliance risks. What Types of Data Do Healthcare Providers Need to Manage and Why?

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The Healthcare System Isn’t a System, Health Exec Says

MedCity News

Patients are struggling to find the right care, and that’s because the healthcare system is fragmented, according to Andrea Walsh, president and CEO of HealthPartners, an integrated healthcare provider and insurance company. Walsh made these comments Wednesday at the HIMSS 2023 conference in Chicago.

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Everything You Need to Know About Prior Authorizations in Healthcare

Referral MD

Prior authorization is a pivotal component of healthcare, bridging the relationship between patients, healthcare providers, and insurance companies. While a physician may determine a treatment plan, they must get the insurers green light to ensure coverage. Why Does Prior Authorization Exist?

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Breaking Down Patient Access Barriers

PM360

After nearly five years of mounting pressures on the American healthcare system, providers and patients are confronting another challenge that shows no signs of slowing down: skyrocketing medical costs. Patients with low incomes are especially vulnerable.

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Symptom Search Optimization

Healthcare Success

Forward by Stewart Gandolf, Chief Executive Officer At Healthcare Success, we understand that a patients journey often beings with a search query. Symptom search optimization is crucial for: Guiding patient journeys. These symptom-based searches represent the initial touchpoint in the modern patient acquisition funnel.

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Value-based healthcare can help reduce costs

World of DTC Marketing

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), in 2021, the average cost of employee health insurance premiums for family coverage increased by 4% from the previous year to $22,221. Why haven’t more employers addressed the rising costs of employee healthcare with value-based care? health care system.

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Amazon’s big gamble

World of DTC Marketing

Quick Read: Amazon will dramatically expand its healthcare reach with its planned $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical, a primary care provider with 188 offices in 25 markets nationwide but are they making a strategic move or a mistake? 3hree: What does this mean for patient data? 4our: Can HCPs trust patients?

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