We can close the elective surgery backlog, but it will require the healthcare industry to embrace new technologies and innovation.

Improving the elective surgery backlog caused by the pandemic

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Vice President of Physicain's Services, R1

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R1 measures roughly 39 metrics in the financial clearance process. What’s more important is setting up in-process and outcome metrics. Learn more from our discussion with Dan Dooley, VP of physician services at R1.

Financial performance metrics and goals for physicians

 Automation can increase efficiency and adherence to the financial clearance process

Leveraging automation to achieve financial clearance

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A poor capacity management system can lead to unrealized revenue, loss of patients, and increased physician burnout.

MGMA 2020: Using technology to manage capacity in the time of COVID-19

, JD, MBA, advises clients on compliance and transactions in healthcare, cybersecurity, corporate and securities law, while representing plaintiffs in False Claims Act and Dodd-Frank whistleblower cases. She also teaches bioethics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Rachel can be reached through her website, 

A trifecta of healthcare cybersecurity issues should cause healthcare industry participants to assess their current environments. 

A hospital cyberattack, two OCR Security Rule settlements, and 2020 ransomware payouts

Make sure email is a part of your cybersecurity strategy.

Email archiving and HIPAA compliance

CDI can be a critical initiative that not only increases reimbursement revenue but also enhances the patient experience.

Leveraging clinical documentation improvement for post-COVID financial recovery

Faisal as SVP & General Manager - Clinical Networks, leads business lines focused on enabling clinical connectivity for CHANGE Healthcare clients across various care settings. Most recently, Faisal was the President/CEO of Truveris Inc, a venture funded SaaS Healthcare IT company focused on managing pharmacy spend for Fortune 1000 and government entities. He successfully led significant up round of growth equity led by McKesson Ventures.

Prior to Truveris, Faisal Mushtaq was a SVP & General Manager for the Payer & Life Sciences business at Allscripts. This business focused on bringing innovative solutions across the entire healthcare value chain generating immediate value for providers and patients by leveraging Allscripts clinical data, adherence and education messaging infrastructure to enable improved clinical outcomes. He also oversaw the Payerpath RCM business.

Faisal has been in the healthcare IT industry since 2000 and has extensive entrepreneurial business experience. He has led teams of all sizes, spanning many organizational areas including Portfolio Strategy, Sales, Business Development, Technology, Operations and Software Development.

Faisal earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has also completed Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Executive Director of Consumer Payment Solutions, Change Healthcare

Matt Moore is responsible for the strategy and product development for consumer healthcare payment solutions, focusing on the provider market.

Prior to the McKesson Technology Solutions and Change Healthcare merger, Matt joined McKesson ten years ago and was responsible for the patient access business. In that role, Matt launched a highly innovative and configurable patient statement platform that was tightly integrated with the consumer payment solution and an industry-leading authorization verification solution as part of Change Healthcare’s market-leading Clearance product.

Prior to Change Healthcare, Matt spent the previous twenty years of his career working with large U.S. financial institutions including ABN Amro, U.S. Bank, and First National Bank of Chicago (now Chase) developing and launching online transactional solutions for all banking segments, invoice presentation and remittance processing solutions for retail and commercial companies, and designed EBPP and EIPP revenue management services for small businesses.

Consumer demand, the shift to value-based care, and the regulatory push for transparency are fueling the need for seamless integration and data sharing only achieved with cloud-based interoperability.

Cloud-based interoperability will accelerate clinical outcomes

More than 500 individuals affected; five new enforecement actions published.

HHS OCR Announces HIPAA Enforcement Actions & Data Regarding Hackers

Regulations regarding staff eligibility for telemedicine service reimbursement are changing by the day 

Who in the practice can provide telemedicine services to receive reimbursement?

Dr. Sean Kelly is the Chief Medical Officer at Imprivata where he heads the company’s Clinical Workflow Productivity team and advises on the clinical practice of healthcare IT security. In addition to serving as Imprivata CMO, Dr. Kelly practices medicine and teaches at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a level one trauma center and academic teaching hospital in Boston, MA. He trained at Harvard College, University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Vanderbilt University, where he served as resident and Chief Resident. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine and is a Fellow in the American College of Emergency Physicians.


Best practices to follow to meet regulatory requirements and improve patient care.