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Blog in Data & Technology

Driving Faster Prior Authorizations in Healthcare with NLP and AI Technology

Pushback around prior authorization trends continues to make headlines, from a federal push to shorten prior authorization response times to a controversial attempt to require authorizations for gastroenterology procedures, a policy that has since been altered. But amid calls for meaningful change, there’s a way health systems can ease this process now, and it involves...
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Can Technology Fix the Prior Authorization Challenge for Payers?

Health plans developed prior authorizations (PA)s with noble goals in mind. And research shows PAs have achieved one of these goals: lowering drug costs. But the process has gotten out of control and become a growing burden for providers, payers, and members. The good news is, the right tech can solve prior authorization challenges.Yes, prior...
Blog in Healthcare & Interoperability

Bidirectional Exchange: Another Major Step Toward Healthcare Interoperability

Imagine this scenario: While visiting family out of state, a man experiences sudden shortness of breath and chest pains. His daughter rushes him to a local urgent care clinic. Thanks to modern patient-query technology, the attending medical staff instantly pulls his critical cardiac history from his primary care physician thousands of miles away. That is a...
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Understanding the Basics of Query-Based Health Data Exchange

Health data exchange is essential to meaningful patient care. Providers must be able to leverage accurate and timely health information at the point of care to achieve improvements to the patient experience, population health, care costs, and provider satisfaction.Over the past decade, a few technologies have emerged from the pack that enable the sharing of...