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Streamlining Patient Care: The Power of Referral Management Software

Referral MD

One observation that I find particularly intriguing is the power of referral management software—unbeknownst to many; it’s radically improving operational efficiency in doctors’ offices across the globe. Before this technology, fax machines were the primary method of communication between different healthcare providers.

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Will AI Completely Transform the Patient Experience?

PM360

1 For 65% of respondents, one of the biggest issues was that coordinating and managing healthcare is overwhelming and time-consuming. A similar number of respondents (64%) expressed disappointment with their interaction with physicians, wishing that healthcare providers took more time to understand them.

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How Can You Improve Referral Management at Your Practice?

Referral MD

How Well Are Healthcare Providers Managing Referrals? Up to one half of doctors don’t even know if their patients end up seeing the specialist they’ve referred them to. From a business perspective, health system referral leakage can average 55 to 65%, costing these providers up to $971,000 per physician per year.

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How hospitals can enhance operational efficiency with data analytics

Clarify Health

Hospitals that effectively leverage healthcare data analytics benefit from having access to precise insights that help lead to better decisions for patients and the hospital’s bottom line. There are hundreds of data points in every healthcare interaction, coming in both structured and unstructured forms.

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Is Interoperability Important for Healthcare Operations?

Referral MD

Even when doctors are using different software solutions to exchange data, the process is quite seamless thanks to the way the data would be structured. Operational efficiency is one of the top priorities in today’s healthcare systems. HIPAA too lays great stress upon protecting the right to doctor-patient privacy. Reduce Costs.

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Data-Driven Connections: Linking Rare Disease Patients to Clinical Trials, Experts, and Resources

PM360

These questions raise many implications, but advancements in healthcare data and analytics can make a huge impact on patients and healthcare providers, including reducing time to diagnosis and increasing connectivity for patients to the right providers, well-matched trials, and patient communities.

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What are the Benefits of Patient Portals?

Referral MD

Since the inception of electronic health records (EHR) in 2009, the American medical practice has been transitioning to the cloud. One of the latest iterations of our digitization comes in the form of the patient portal, an online hub designed to keep healthcare consumers in the treatment loop. For Providers. Better bottom line.