Becker's Cardiology

Health systems process enormous volumes of protected health information every day, which makes every facility a high-value target. Most IT teams already treat encryption as a baseline defense. Fewer can prove the encryption they rely on actually works as promised.…

Federal auditors found that 13 percent of the prior authorization requests Medicare Advantage plans denied met Medicare coverage rules, care that likely should have been approved. The pressure that creates lands on the revenue cycle. This report shows how health…

Hospital revenue loss rarely begins with a bad claim. It often begins days or weeks earlier, when a service is scheduled before authorization requirements are confirmed, documentation is incomplete or the final service no longer matches what was approved. That…

A fully staffed perioperative team is essential to safe, efficient surgical care — and rising procedural demand, clinician shortages and anesthesia constraints keep testing it. But workforce shortages are only half the problem. The other half is deployment: getting the…

by: LocumTenens.com Mergers, physician group exits and service line changes rarely arrive with a convenient pause. Schedules still need filling. Quality and safety metrics still need to hold. And whoever owns clinical staffing suddenly faces a problem that looks nothing…

Cardiac imaging, monitoring and specialist follow-up volumes keep climbing, and cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide. The response in most health systems has been to add AI department by department — automated echo quantification in one place,…

Referrals stall between the referring office and the scheduler. Calls get abandoned. A patient hits the phone tree, gives up, and books somewhere else. None of it registers in a report until the revenue is gone and the patient is…