Patient health records contain a plethora of private information, including social security number, address, billing information, and other sensitive information, all in one file. Now more than ever, electronic health records are being utilized to ease the flow of patient information between other healthcare providers. Because of the nature of this information, it is critical that electronic health records are secure from the threat of cyber criminals. With this information, criminals can steal the identity of your patients and leave your organization in ruin. In fact, recent health information hacks cost a large healthcare organization nearly $100 million. In the…
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Revenue Cycle Management, RCM: What Can It Do For You
In the healthcare world, proper and efficient revenue cycle management can provide your organization with the best workflow and processes to increase payments. It is crucial to the financial health of your business to manage your office’s claims process, payment, and revenue generation. By incorporating Revenue Cycle Management, or RCM, your healthcare organization can keep tabs on the claims process to ensure that you are not losing money or writing off bad debt. Patient billing can be a hassle for any office. Trying to coordinate patient eligibility, co-payment collection, medical coding, claims management, bill collection, and denied claims can be…
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Is Your Data Safe?
Don’t Let ‘Hacktivists’ Steal Your Data (Medscape Business of Medicine: 8.4.15) The frequency and magnitude of cyber security breaches only seem to be increasing every month. The essential reality isn’t whether there will be a breach of your system but, increasingly likely, when?