Clinical pathways are the currency of health tech | TechCrunch
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- Clinical pathways as defined by the Children s Hospital of Philadelphia are the standardization of care that translates guidelines and or evidence into localized infrastructure and processes
- These processes have significant financial implications as they can decrease payer insurance denials
- Pathways provide a currency for patients providers payers and technology companies to prove a return on investment ROI both clinically and financially
- The Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services CMS under advisement from several healthcare companies is now implementing an approved format for hospital charges as single machine readable files MRFs which will be leveraged to standardize all charge information
As healthcare becomes more entrenched in the digital revolution, the need for an approved set of protocols for care delivery clinical pathways is becoming increasingly critical.Clinical pathways, a [+4235 chars]
