American healthcare is extremely complex with many layers of regulation and bureaucracy. From the time a person walks in for a consultation, to the moment when the doctor gets paid for his services, there is an elaborate series of steps that need to be carried out for everything to work out smoothly.
Managing appointments, verifying insurance coverage, documenting the visit, medical coding, and submitting a claim to a payer are the steps of processes that transpire between a scheduled appointment and a doctor getting paid for his services. Needless to say, it is a very long, time-consuming, and laborious process that is also prone to errors. But digitization has alleviated much of the problems that haunt these procedures. Thanks to innovations in healthcare technologies, there are digital solutions from multiple companies for each of the processes mentioned above. However, all of them need to work together seamlessly in order for providers to derive value for their investment in the solutions.
Healthcare Automation Can Improve Patient Engagement
Healthcare usually involves patients going to a doctor for consultations, the doctor examining them, and finally prescribing treatment. In the midst of the clinical visit, the patients generally ask some questions about their condition, which the doctor answers. After the consultation, the patients leave the clinic and go their way. In other words, this type of care has a uni-directional flow where the doctors speak and the patients listen. But real care begins after the...
Introduction to Healthcare Application Development
The smartphone revolution has ushered in the era of mobile applications. From simple calculators and calendars to elaborate apps for gaming, astronomy, and more, the smartphone has led to the creation of one of the world’s largest industries. Healthcare Application Development was quick to bank upon this opportunity to roll out numerous mobile apps that’d benefit doctors and patients. What followed was a torrent of creativity as applications for everything from weight loss to yoga, nutrition,...
How can Healthcare Automation be a Key to a better future of Operations of Healthcare?
Nowadays, Technology has been more critical than it was before in the Healthcare Sector. We do consider Technology as more of a convenience in our daily life. All thanks to Healthcare Automation, where excess work is done at no time-saving costs, man-work, time, etc. It is not wrong to say that Automation has forced us to adapt to survive. The healthcare systems across the world are...
What Medical Coding Solutions Can Do For Your Organization
It’s no secret that healthcare in the United States is the most complicated healthcare system in the world. It contains many layers of complex regulation to govern a web of activities amongst clinicians and insurance payers. The complexity is one of the major reasons thought to be responsible for the high cost of healthcare in America.
When a patient walks into a healthcare facility, his or her visit is bound to result...
Telehealth Technologies to Drive Remote Patient Monitoring
Telehealth is the future of healthcare, and there’s no denying it. As the healthcare system battles tirelessly against COVID-19, we have been faced with the reality of the sheer inability of traditional systems to deal with new-age requirements. Patient monitoring systems are the future of healthcare, and organizations must embrace the emerging technologies related to this domain to stay relevant and increase their ROI. Globally, governments are now focusing on...
