Category: rural healthcare

Bassett Healthcare Network outsources IT, RCM operations to Optum

Bassett Healthcare Network, Daily, Health IT, hospitals, IT, News, Optum, Outsourcing, Revenue Cycle Management, rural healthcare, services, SYN, Top Story / May 31, 2021 May 31, 2021

The New York-based rural health system has entered into a collaboration to outsource its IT and revenue cycle management operations to Optum. Further, about 500 Bassett employees, who currently perform those functions, will be given the opportunity to transition to Optum.

OpenLoop Raises $3M to Expand Digital Health Marketplace for Clinicians

digital health, Partners, Patient Care, PhD, Physicians, rural healthcare, Startups, Techstars, Telehealth, Telemedicine, virtual healthcare, Virtual Healthcare Services / April 14, 2021 April 14, 2021

What You Should Know: – Techstars-backed OpenLoop raises $3M in funding to expand digital health marketplace to connect certified clinicians to telehealth opportunities. – The company plans to use the funding to This financing enables OpenLoop to expedite the development of their marketplace technology and grow their team of experts. OpenLoop, a Des Moines, Iowa-based …

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Is Broadband Access The Missing Key to Improving Rural Healthcare?

Opinion, public health, rural healthcare, Telehealth, Telehealth Visits, WASHINGTON / December 17, 2020 December 17, 2020

The plain truth is that rural America has always had a market failure problem. In the 1930s, the problem manifests as woefully inadequate telephone and electrical service. The spaces were just too wide open, the potential customers too few, for companies to invest in America’s in-between places. In response to this market inefficiency, a federal …

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COVID-19 Hastens America’s Reckoning with Rural Healthcare

Coronavirus (COVID-19), Opinion, rural healthcare / October 29, 2020 October 29, 2020

Source: Christian Heitz from Pexels So long as we could say, “Healthcare is a business,” we could continue to avoid the moral and ethical choices from which such statements shield us. But then COVID-19 came into the picture and the bottom dropped out of healthcare as a business. Hospitals and health systems are hemorrhaging money; …

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Rural Hospital Execs Can Beat COVID-19 By Shifting From Reactive to Proactive Care

Affordable Care Act, care management, chronic care, CMS, COPD, Coronavirus (COVID-19), diabetes, Health Information Technology, healthcare delivery, healthcare technology, HIT, Hypertension, kidney disease, MD, obesity, Opinion, risk, rural healthcare, Telehealth, Telehealth Services, video, virtual care / October 23, 2020 October 23, 2020

Eric Tran, Tulane School of Medicine Donald Voltz, MD, Aultman Hospital The COVID-19 virus is ravaging the planet at a scale not seen since the infamous Spanish Flu of the early 1900s, inflicting immense devastation as the U.S. loses more than 200,000 lives and counting. According to CDC statistics, 94% of patient mortalities associated with …

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What rural hospitals can teach their urban counterparts about patient engagement

Daily, EHR, Health IT, MedCity Influencers, News, physician burnout, rural healthcare, SYN, Top Story / August 4, 2020 August 4, 2020

Rural hospitals are grappling with high rates of chronic disease, lack of broadband access, and workforce shortages that are exacerbated by the low pay and professional isolation that are characteristic of rural settings. It is from within this digital divide that rural hospitals have learned so much they can pass along to their urban peers.

Cerner Launches New Cloud-Based Offering for Rural and Critical Access Hospitals

Cerner, cloud, critical access hospitals, Electronic Health Record, EMR/EHR, Health IT, model, physician burnout, rural health, rural healthcare / July 23, 2020 July 23, 2020

What You Should Know: – Cerner announced a new offering, CommunityWorks Foundations aimed at reducing costs and speeding up the implementation process for Rural and Critical Access Hospitals. – This much-needed offering caters to small rural healthcare providers, who often face challenges such as geographic isolation, workforce shortages, educational disparities, and diminishing resources that can …

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