Lab Automation

Addressing Workflow Challenges in Healthcare

Workforce shortages are a major challenge for healthcare systems of all sizes. In order to address staffing shortages, many hospitals and health systems are turning to workflow automation. Workflow automation improves efficiency, reduces costs, and improves the human experience. There are a number of ways that Boston WorkStation can be used to address workforce shortages.
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Automating Claims Status Checks: The Ticket to Accelerated Reimbursement

A healthcare claim status inquiry and response transaction is the communication between a provider and a payer about a healthcare claim. The payer goes through a procedure to check the claim requests for adequate information, validation, justification, and authenticity. At the end of this process, the insurance company may reimburse the money to the healthcare
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Smart Automation Technology is a “Must Have“ for Healthcare Data Migrations

Data migration is the process of selecting, preparing, extracting, and transforming data. A successful EHR data migration is a key consideration for any system implementation, to improve data quality and eliminate redundant or obsolete information. Yet moving from a legacy system to a new EHR is an arduous process, fraught with delays, financial losses, staffing
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Automating Healthcare Scheduling, Reminders, and Patient Communications

Gartner predicted that half of healthcare CIOs would use Robotic Process Automation (RPA) by 2023. And they were right. More than 50% of healthcare organizations have already invested in RPA initiatives, compared to 5% in 2020. These organizations have discovered that RPA can result in a 30%-50% cost savings over manual data entry and process
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The HFMA Conference in Nashville – Turn It Up!

The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) Annual Conference is the premier event in healthcare finance, drawing more than 3,000 participants from across the nation and offering 4 strategy-focused general sessions, more than 70 educational sessions, and 7 content tracks over 4 days. This year’s theme is “Turn it Up,” which plays well in Music City.
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Elevate Your Automation Capabilities: Improved Functionality in MEDITECH

MEDITECH’s Expanse EHR has been described as an elevated experience for clinicians, patients, and communities. Boston Software Systems has served the MEDITECH market for three decades, bringing increasingly sophisticated workflow automation tools to over 500 hospital customers on MEDITECH EHR systems. Automate Your Future Appointment List From 1 System or 50 The need to manage
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Think Outside The Box with Healthcare Automation

The average administrative worker in healthcare accomplishes hours of repetitive, routine tasks every day that are better left to machines. Smart automation technology like Robotic Process Automation (RPA) mimics the activity of a human, by carrying out the same tasks and processes far more quickly, accurately, and tirelessly, which makes automation a great digital ally.
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Making It Easier to Connect in Health IT

Connecting people, process, and workflow has always been a bit of a struggle for Health IT. OK, it’s been a big struggle. Over the years, we’ve made “limited” strides in terms of interoperability. It has not been fast, it has never been easy, and we continue to deal with the lack of connectivity on a
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Improve the Health of Your Revenue Cycle – With Workflow Automation

Hospitals and health systems depend on the lifeblood of the revenue cycle to stay afloat. Both success and failure depend upon how well health system administrators manage billing, coding, prior authorizations, payment processing, claims, denial management, and collections. Optimizing the revenue cycle can be a challenge in the best of times. The financial and operational
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Automate Reporting, Reduce Chaos

The White House confirmed Wednesday that it has ordered hospitals to send data on COVID-19 patients straight to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), instead of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Under the current system, about 25,000 medical centers report their information each day to the CDC. The changes mean
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Tracking Lost Productivity During COVID-19

Managing disruptions to people and productivity caused by the coronavirus is not an easy task. It’s likely that your team is adapting to temporary COVID-19 working conditions, even if that means sharing a kitchen table with a spouse, kids, and pets. Whether working remotely or social distancing, the danger of rapid declines in productivity, morale,
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Why We Began a Daily “Crisis Series” on Social Channels

Recently, we began a “daily crisis” series of posts on our social channels to help people navigate this “new normal.” An integral part of our daily conversations revolve around social distancing, working remotely, sheltering in place, and staying home. The subject matter we are confronting makes it even more critical that organizational leadership address one
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Boston WorkStation Automates COVID-19 Lab Result Reporting Required by HHS

Today we are facing a global crisis. It’s time to leverage the power of technology resources. Boston WorkStation’s lab reporting automation platform was built for this. A letter was sent to all hospitals Sunday requesting that they report their COVID-19 testing data to HHS on a daily basis. This applies to hospitals with in-house labs.
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Automation in Healthcare: Providing the Missing Piece of Usability

Automation in healthcare is being hailed as the “missing piece of usability,” with multiple use cases for data migration, greater efficiency, and revenue cycle management tasks. Yet, many aren’t aware of the additional benefits of adding automation to a digital health strategy. Many processes can benefit from the increased efficiency, reduced manual data input, and
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Boston Software Systems Announces Lab Automation Solutions

Aug 29, 2019BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS (PRWEB) Boston Software Systems announces the company’s intelligent automation (IA) project to develop an improved process for hospital labs and externally-linked facilities, harnessing the ability to dramatically improve efficiency and reduce data-driven user fatigue. “RPA is growing quickly because it helps companies to automate an array of previously manual business processes
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Australian Health Selects BSS EHR Migration

Aug 01, 2018Boston Software Systems has partnered with one of the largest healthcare provider organizations in Australia on a series of advanced EHR / EMR migration and optimization projects. The healthcare system, comprised of 4 hospitals and a large scale, multi-practice care facility, provides a comprehensive range of traditional hospital-based care plus sub-acute, ambulatory, extended
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