The healthcare industry continues to evolve, and many healthcare systems and hospitals are seeking opportunities to become more fully integrated and achieve greater efficiencies among their various facilities, departments, and functions. For example, integration between medical staff services and enrollment for a hospital’s employed practitioners is increasing due to the similarity in information required for both processes.
As an enrollment specialist, you are responsible for the first step in ensuring that your organization gets paid. In fact, enrollment specialists are pivotal employees in collecting payments for their providers and facilities.
Although the increasing presence of technology in the healthcare industry has boosted efficiency, communication, and accessibility to research, it is important to not undermine the inherent risks involved. The frequency and severity of cyberattacks rise, as evidenced by an infiltration of Change Healthcare in February in what the American Hospital Association deemed “the most significant cyberattack on the U.S. healthcare system in American history.”
Endocrinology is the subspecialty of internal medicine and pediatrics concerned with the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and investigation of hormone-related diseases and conditions. The endocrine system includes the hypothalamus, thyroid, pancreas, adrenal glands, ovaries, and testes.
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