Why referrals lag: Many practices still rely on fax and paper forms, causing delays, lost documentation, and incomplete follow-up. Tech to the rescue: Interoperable EHR systems and secure portals ...

Healthcare document intelligence-focused startup Tennr Inc. today announced it has raised $101 million in a funding round to fix what’s wrong with patient referrals. The Series C investment was led by ...

A health system's new AI tool is helping clinicians target the right specialist for a referral, prompt appropriate workups before a referral, and eliminate unnecessary referrals. Providence health ...

Hospitals are losing millions every year to a hidden but fixable problem: referrals that never get scheduled. Patient referrals can stall because of administrative bottlenecks, leading to both lost ...

Patients with elevated atherosclerotic CVD and kidney failure risks may never have received a nephrology referral, according ...

Managing patient referrals is a critical yet often fragmented part of healthcare. New AI-powered and EHR-integrated referral tools are transforming this process, ensuring patients don’t get lost in ...

Physician referrals are an important strategy for most medical practices to gain patients. In fact, as I've seen with my clients, many practices hire dedicated physician liaisons to build ...

Following implementation of the kidney allocation system (KAS) in 2014, dialysis facilities referred more new dialysis patients and transplant centers evaluated more new patients even though fewer ...

This article demonstrates that few patient encounters with indicators of need for diabetes self-management education result in a provider referral to the service. Objectives: This study measured the ...

Hospitals with preferred provider networks often push patients with severe mental illness to non-affiliated nursing homes, but regulatory and payment incentives may be changing that trend. A new study ...

A rapid cycle improvement approach was used to optimize GI referrals to the CR program. Barriers to CR referral were identified through a literature review and informal interviews of GI clinicians.