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Emerging Trends and Technologies For Healthcare Future

Future of Healthcare Technology: Emerging Trends and Technologies

The healthcare industry is on the brink of transformation, as a multitude of emerging technologies and trends, such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, telehealth, and blockchain, are set to revolutionize it. The pace of innovation in healthcare technology is relentless and shows no signs of decelerating. A myriad of emerging technologies and trends, such as […]
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Blockchain Takes Over The Power to Heal

Blockchain has taken the shape of an important asset in the 21st century with applications starting from practitioner’s authentication to supply chain management. The abilities of the robust privacy and interoperability of blockchain can change the healthcare space and improve the wide range of needs in healthcare. Blockchain provides a reliable and standard chain of […]
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Blockchain in Healthcare

How Blockchain Can Solve Healthcare’s Data Reconciliation Problem

The U.S. healthcare industry has a $1 trillion opportunity to cut costs and reduce waste, according to a 2015 Harvard Business Review analysis. While there are various areas waste accumulates, costly data reconciliation is a prominent problem for hospitals and health systems. Change Healthcare defines data reconciliation as “the process of compiling information across companies […]
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How Cryptocurrency Benefits Medical Billing Services

Cryptocurrency benefits medical billing services, and in turn healthcare staff and patients, in so many ways. Here’s what to know A cryptocurrency is a decentralized virtual or digital currency that’s used as a medium of exchange for using particular products/services. It is like normal currencies but it also facilitates the exchange of digital information. Counterfeiting cryptocurrency is difficult […]
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How Automating Patient Insurance Verification Reduced Denials

Eliminating the manual backend task of checking patients’ insurance eligibility reduced denials and AR days at an orthopedic surgery practice while also getting more staff face-to-face time with patients. When it comes to healthcare, Kim Wishon has a major pet peeve. “My biggest problem that I have is the administrative burden of healthcare,” says Wishon, CEO of Watauga […]
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HIT Think: How Blockchain Could Make an Impact In Healthcare

Blockchain, like other young and disruptive technologies, offers wide opportunities to impact healthcare, an industry that is primed for disruption. Despite being the largest sector of the U.S. economy, healthcare is plagued by slow systems, wasteful financing, and resource utilization and operational inefficiencies. To address these issues, innovative solutions like blockchain can alter the arithmetic […]
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