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Guest Blog Written by Jordan Bires, National Healthcare Practice Director As the calendar turns to the last page of the year, I am once again caught off guard by how fast another year has come and gone. The march towards 2020 is a reason for additional reflection as we come to the close of an… Read More»

Healthcare costs in the US have ascended to almost unimaginable heights in the past several decades. According to a March 2019 study published in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), healthcare spending went up by nearly a trillion dollars between 1996 and 2015. That same study reported that healthcare costs in 2017 totaled $3.5… Read More»

Typos can ruin lives, and I’m not talking about an embarrassing autocorrect error in a text message to your boss. I mean errors that destroy dreams and accomplishments. Take the case of Great Britain resident Kim Walmsley, whose career and marriage were ruined after she was mistakenly recorded as a male at birth. Or Raymond… Read More»

By Adam Bluemner Once upon a time, the idea of attaining a paperless office seemed a bit like the business management version of scaling Mt. Everest. These days we’re all a lot closer to the summit than we might have ever expected. The digitization of records of all kinds has done a lot more than… Read More»

Article written by Stephanie Onofri When I think of choosing automation solutions for medical records management I imagine it a bit like the old saying “like shooting fish in a barrel.” While I’ve personally never shot fish in a barrel, I know that if various solutions for electronic document management were dumped in a barrel, it really wouldn’t… Read More»

Article written by Stephanie Onofri Doctor, I’m Seeing Double! How easy is it to err on financial paperwork? Let’s be honest, after hours of grueling calculations, our eyes have a way of playing tricks on us. Sixes begin to look like nines, sevens turn into ones, and adding or omitting a zero can cause some… Read More»

Article written by Stephanie Onofri The opening of the Health Insurance Marketplace has news and social media outlets of all sorts buzzing. Frustration and confusion abound as users try to work around crashing websites, missing information, puzzling forms and delayed start dates. But the move from manual paper enrollment to online enrollment has at least one insurance… Read More»

Article written by Stephanie Onofri Anyone who has ever been responsible for invoice matching realizes that from an AP Department perspective, the invoice is the most difficult part of the match to automate. AP processors have to tediously key in information, like PO numbers, vendor information, or item codes to to complete the 3 way… Read More»

Article written by Stephanie Onofri Have you ever considered the amount of time that you would save by electronically capturing invoice line items simply by scanning them into an enterprise content management system tailored to integrate with your existing ERP system? Or what it would look like to actually meet forecasted goals by simplifying and… Read More»

Article written by Stephanie Onofri There is an old saying: “You can’t teach an old frog new drinks” – Or wait – On second thought, it might have been about an old “dog” and a “mink” or something like that. Either way, whether you’re a frog or a dog or a university office, there seems to… Read More»