Webinar Recap: Provider Directory Data Management & Audit Tips and Tricks
This month our webinar featured Gorman Health Group, Oliver Wyman, and Get Governed. These organizations work with many health plans to tackle provider data challenges. Our presenters shared their unique perspectives on how health plans have managed data. We heard from: Ellie Martin, Senior Director of Provider Innovations at Gorman Health Group Frank Roberts, Engagement […]
Meetup Recap: Provider Data Quality Must Be Fixed
A few weeks ago we hosted a meetup at our office about Provider Data and its quality. Around 50 healthcare data experts, developers, and data scientists joined to listen to the following three amazing speakers: Abe Gong from Superconductive Health, Morgan Templar from Get Governed, and our very own Andrew Kobylinski. Currently, the industry standard for provider data accuracy is between 70% and 80% for provider […]
Blockchain in Healthcare: Separating Hype from Reality
Is blockchain the biggest innovation since the internet? The hype and buzz about blockchain technology is just beginning in multiple industries. What will this new technology offer the healthcare industry? How will it change the industry manages data? We dive into the basics of blockchain, what the applications can be, and what challenges the industry […]
Managing Provider Data: Addressing the Complexities that Lie Within
Provider data management is complex. We all know that. What we do not always do is go into deeper exploration to learn where exactly that complexity comes from. BetterDoctor provider portal helps thousands of doctors, office managers and administrators on a daily basis to update their provider directory information. Here is what we learned about […]
The Spotted Trends at HIMSS 2018
If there’s one thing clear to the BetterDoctor team after this year’s HIMSS, it is that the healthcare industry is fundamentally shifting and there’s a lot going on to that end. We noticed four underlying trends happening simultaneously and much of it is due to the advancements of technology that have shaped consumer expectations. On top of that, […]
2017 CMS Medicare Advantage Provider Directory Audits Are Out. The Results? Not So Good.
Medicare Advantage Plans’ Provider Directory Data Still Found Inaccurate In January 2018, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the results of their second round of Medicare Advantage (MA) online provider directory audits. The 2017 CMS provider directory data audit covered 12,780 locations for 55 Medicare Advantage health plans and found that 52.6% of […]
BetterDoctor 2017 Highlights and Progress Toward More Accurate Provider Data
In 2017, BetterDoctor made great progress toward our mission of fixing the nation’s provider data. Our business grew in multiple areas. We closed $11M B-round funding and 14 new amazing people joined the BetterDoctor team. In this post, we recap some of the biggest milestones we hit as a company. In 2017 our provider data management and […]
Event Recap: How Machine Learning Can Be Used to Maintain Accurate Provider Directories
Last week, Virta Health, a health tech startup that helps patients reverse type 2 diabetes, hosted a meetup called, ‘Machine Learning in Healthcare.’ We joined to discuss the potential of these learning algorithms and heard five talks focused on how machine learning could improve healthcare. Lightning talks were given by: Abe Gong, Superconductive Health Catalin Voss, […]
Student Feature Case Study: Provider Data Powers Doctor Search with Speech Recognition
This Summer, Brandeis University students Eben, Claire, R, and Nila, joined the Justice Brandeis Semester Program for a course on Voice, Web, and Mobile Apps. Without knowing each other before and all coming from different fields of study, they created “DocFinder” to give everyone a chance to find a provider near them by using a simple voice command. Tell […]
June 2017 BetterDoctor Provider Directory Webinar Recap
This month Ryan Panchadsaram, Former Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States & Innovation Fellow at HHS, talked to us about CMS data regulations and how machine readable data formats were standardized to support healthcare.gov in helping consumers find doctors. From the BetterDoctor team, Andrew Kobylinski gave 6 key learnings from our work on […]
