In today’s consumer-driven healthcare industry, Revenue Cycle continues to have to evolve and change to fit the market demand. With declining reimbursements, high deductible plans, and increasing complexity around multi-payor interactions for payment, the ability for RCM to continuously improve becomes ever-more difficult by the day. The ability to cut costs and increase productivity is…
Lee Reiners is a smart guy. At least the Wall Street Journal thinks so. They published an opinion commentary by Mr. Reiners, the Executive Director of the Global Financial Markets Center at Duke Law in which he makes a bold, if not realistic suggestion. Ban Cryptocurrency to Fight Ransomware. Reiners says “the existence…
A proper discovery assessment report is really a business plan as it relates to your technology. It’s an investment in what you might not know Software application ideas may make things easier from an IT perspective, but does it provide enough data to company leadership and administrators? Sound discovery reports should be a…
The COVID-19 pandemic has put a plethora of new healthcare technologies on the fast track. Telehealth, Contact Tracing, Artificial Intelligence, and advancements in security have all made headlines since March of 2020. Bakul Patel, who runs the Digital Health Center for Excellence says the FDA is working on guidance to continue to bring-to-market things that…
Blockchain and Healthcare’s Interoperability Problem Blockchain has the potential to revolutionize healthcare IT In healthcare, blockchain can lead to better care, improved transparency, and added protection for all trusted parties Estonia: A golden model of blockchain Pain point: Interoperability Data management is one of the most pressing issues in the healthcare sector and the biggest barrier to true interoperability. The problems are many: Data Location Data Format: There…
While Bitcoin and cryptocurrency may have been the first widely known uses of blockchain technology, today, it’s far from the only one. In fact, blockchain is revolutionizing most every industry. Here are just a few of the practical examples of blockchain technology. Food Safety Traceability In the food distribution and retail industry, there are…
One of the recent endeavors here at Liberty Fox was to create a knowledge base and wiki with the goal of creating a single, well-maintained, and central location for everything Liberty Fox does. Confluence, an Atlassian product, provides the tools necessary to accomplish this goal. At its core, Confluence is software that allows anyone to…
One of the fundamental aspects of running a website is understanding your user base. A solid understanding of who comes to your website, what they look at and for how long, when they come back and in what intervals is crucial to understanding your users. Google Analytics is a free web service that makes all…
Effective communication is a key to success in any walk of life. Here at Liberty Fox, all of our team members interact with clients on a daily basis, making it vital to have clear, concise, and cogent communications. Grammarly is a tool that makes cleaning up emails, documentation, work logs, and notes, a simple and…
While working on <PROJECT_NAME_HERE>, I began to run into an issue on the UAT server. Several test cases were failing while running under Jenkins, all with the same cryptic error message. You may have seen this error in your own tests as well. It states: System.InvalidOperationException: The Entity Framework provider type ‘System.Data.Entity.SqlServer.SqlProviderServices,EntityFramework.SqlServer, Version=6.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089’ for the…