“Management of revenue cycle performance improvement opportunities, in a post-live integrated EHR environment, will be vastly different than how you operated in the previous legacy environment,” she said. “Many of the new opportunities will be highly integrated and require input and collaboration with various operational stakeholders and subject matter experts to solve.”
Ms. Capretto recommended that organizations consider how these highly integrated issues will affect technology, day-to-day operations and workflows, policies, procedures and performance metrics.
“Cross-functional collaboration is critical for success,” she added.
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