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poor patient engagement

The Hidden Cost of Poor Patient Engagement in Healthcare

on December 11, 2024 | By The InteliChart Team

When you’re thinking about improving patient engagement, it’s easy to focus on the effect it will have on your practice alone. The benefits speak for themselves: If you do it well, you’ll get more business, retain more patients, and remain more profitable. On the other hand, if you don’t do it well and patients remain disengaged, they’re likely to find other providers for their healthcare needs—not to mention they might leave you negative reviews, which can damage your practice’s reputation and cause you to lose revenue in the process.

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New Year, New Insurance? Why Automated Insurance Verification is Your Secret Weapon

on November 26, 2024 | By The InteliChart Team

The start of the year can be a perfect storm for healthcare practices. Flu season peaks, patient volumes surge, and high volumes of insurance coverage changes add complexity. With 1 in 5 Americans switching insurance each year, chances are some of your patients will have new plans come January. Staying ahead of these changes is crucial—and automated insurance eligibility verification can make all the difference.

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patient engagement solutions

7 Must-Have Patient Engagement Solutions

on November 21, 2024 | By The InteliChart Team

Patient engagement technology has become essential as healthcare increasingly shifts toward digital, patient-centered care. The global patient engagement solutions market is projected to grow at an impressive 17.7% annual rate, reaching $70.3 billion by 2030. This rapid adoption underscores how much practices and hospitals value tools that streamline engagement across the patient journey.

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6 Key Benefits of Automated Insurance Eligibility Verification

6 Key Benefits of Automated Insurance Eligibility Verification

on November 7, 2024 | By The InteliChart Team

Insurance eligibility verification confirms a patient’s coverage before care, ensuring smooth operations and a positive experience for both patients and providers. When insurance isn’t active or doesn’t cover the scheduled service or booked provider, patients may be left responsible for the full bill. This often leads to payment delays or missed payments which can disrupt the practice’s revenue cycle and introduce further complications.

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low clean claim rate and how to fix them

4 Common Causes of Low Clean Claim Rates (and How to Fix Them)

on October 29, 2024 | By The InteliChart Team

With financial pressures rising across the healthcare industry, maximizing revenue through efficient claim processing has become essential. A key factor in this efficiency is a practice’s clean claim rate—the percentage of claims submitted to payers that are processed and paid without any errors or rejections on the first attempt. When claims are rejected, they add administrative burden, delay payments, and reduce margins, making it harder for practices to stay profitable.

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patient engagement platform

What is a Patient Engagement Platform?

on May 21, 2024 | By The InteliChart Team

A patient engagement platform is a software solution designed to empower patients to actively participate in their healthcare journey and enhance communication between patients and healthcare providers. These platforms can vary in functionality and scope, and offer solutions that simplify the healthcare experience such as online scheduling, 24/7 access to medical records, digital intake forms, two-way online communication with providers, easy access to educational resources, and other self-management tools.

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Comparison Guide: InteliChart’s Patient Intake vs. The Others

on April 1, 2024 | By The InteliChart Team

According to a recent survey of 1,000 patients conducted by InteliChart, 68% of patients prefer to fill out intake forms online. Although many health IT vendors claim their technology can digitize and streamline the entire intake process, there are often hidden limitations caused by outdated integration methods, technology that doesn’t work well together, or a lack of self-service customization options. Fortunately, InteliChart’s Patient Intake offers exactly what it promises – a truly customizable intake experience that can eliminate the use of paper forms for good. Let’s explore what your patients and staff can expect with the InteliChart’s Patient Intake versus other patient engagement vendors.  

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patient satisfaction

Why Improving Patient Satisfaction is More Than a CAHPS Score

on February 27, 2024 | By The InteliChart Team

In the landscape of healthcare quality assessment, traditional metrics like CAHPS survey scores have long been the gold standard for evaluating patient satisfaction. However, relying solely on these standardized surveys may overlook crucial aspects of a positive patient experience, leading to an incomplete understanding of satisfaction levels.

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7 Benefits of a Digital Patient Intake Process

on June 28, 2023 | By The InteliChart Team

The patient intake process can be quite cumbersome and can cause headaches for your already-strained ancillary medical staff and patients. Paper forms are slow, prone to error, and simply outdated. These days, it seems like nearly everything is going digital—why shouldn’t your patient intake process follow suit? Plus, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the last thing your patients want to do is sit in a waiting room filling out paperwork with a pen and clipboard that could be covered in germs. Fortunately, digitizing your patient intake process can help mitigate many of these challenges while offering several additional benefits for patients, practices, and providers. Let’s talk about why it's time to digitize your patient intake process.

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InteliChart Streamlines the Patient Intake Process

How InteliChart Streamlines the Patient Intake Process

on April 27, 2022 | By The InteliChart Team

The rise of healthcare consumerism and emerging technologies has prompted many practices to streamline and reimagine the patient intake process. With an abundance of digital tools at our disposal, gone are the days of filling out paper forms and manually entering data—at least for most healthcare practices. Learn how InteliChart streamlines the patient intake process for practices, patients, and providers alike.

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