| Software Will Allow Patients To Pay Now, Not Later |
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| Written by Casey Ney | ||||||||
| Tuesday, 10 June 2008 19:25 | ||||||||
If you are searching for a software solution that allows patients to pay their medical bills sooner than later, there may be an answer to your needs in the near future. Healthation recently developed a software program that develops an instant bill for patients visiting their doctor or hospital. The billing system, a business infrastructure called Information Currency Exchange, processes bills and disperses a patient's insurance information to all the parties involved. This includes the patient's insurance company, employer, physician, etc. From that point, the program determines how much the patient owes for the visit. The program is supposed to operate much like an ATM machine. The patient makes a transaction and the results are instant. It also allows patients to determine who pays for their medical care and allows them to review their medical records. Healthation is promoting its real-time billing system along with a health care administration software and infrastructure, AcceleHealth. To date, less than 30 physicians are utilizing the system across the nation. Experts, however, project the system will grow in popularity much like electronic records. Healthation hopes the federal government will eventually sponsor the exchange responsible for processing payments. This isn't projected to take place, however, for another three to 10 years. | ||||||||
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About the Author: Jeff Merron is a full-time freelance editor, journalist, and copywriter who has written for the New York Times Magazine, ESPN.com, Slate, Byte Magazine, Macworld, Consumers Digest, and many other national publications. He's also a regular contributor to IT Business Insider and 108, a baseball magazine. He has a Ph.D. in Mass Communication Research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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