Tuesday, March 27, 2012

The Medical Industry Needs End-to-End Solutions


As technology advances and the medical industry has more technological needs in order to manage it’s overwhelming communications and billing system, the need to have a one-stop shop is ever more apparent.

Tensoft, for example, a leading end-to-end ERP and supply chain solution provider for the technology industry, announced the release of version 5.5 of its Tensoft revenue cycle management service (RCM) application.

The newest release includes updates to its revenue cycle management service and enhancements that address specific customer requests that benefit significant sub-sets of the product's user community.

This is an incremental release that enhances and adds to functionality. The improvements allow customers to more easily choose when they would like to update, and supports IT best-practices like user acceptance testing.

The Tensoft products supports additional methods for uploading contracts into the system in terms of initialization and CRM integration, enhanced billing options, greater flexibility for contract administration, and streamlined transaction posting.

This will prove useful with revenue cycle management training. Not only is it crucial to have comprehensive systems, it is important to have skilled and knowledgeable staff management the systems.

Arlogix, a medical collections outsourcing company, is a leader in revenue and billing training, streamlining and building efficiency in the medical industry.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Top 5 Countries Using Solar Energy


Despite several years of economic difficulties, the worldwide solar energy market is booming – and countries all over are beginning to adopt this clean and renewable energy source on a widespread basis.  

The US comes out as number five worldwide for solar installation, producing 10% of the world’s solar energy.  As gas prices continue to pose problems for Americans, they’re searching harder and harder for an alternative energy source that can produce enough electricity to power their homes or businesses in spite of weather or location.  They’re also looking for an option that’s affordable, and government programs that offer incentives make this possible.

Over 60% of solar installations in the US are in California.  Due to programs like the California Solar Initiative, or CSI, solar energy San Diego enthusiasts (and regular California residents looking for a new way to power their homes) are able to finance their systems through a number of options and can even receive incentives for choosing solar energy.

Here are the top 5 countries for solar energy adoption based on megawatts of energy in 2010.

5. USA – 2,528 megawatts
4. Italy – 3,494 megawatts
3. Japan – 3,662 megawatts
2. Spain – 3,784 megawatts
1. Germany – 17,193 megawatts

Monday, March 19, 2012

What Does an Accounts Receivable Supervisor Do?

Accounts receivable represents the money that is owed to your firm from the sale of products or services by another entity.

Generally, the majority of businesses, accounts receivable are handled through invoices sent by mail or sent electronically. During accounts receivable training, one learns how to manage the process of invoicing the produces or services ordered by another business.
Once an invoice is delivered to the entity that owes money, they have to pay the bill within an established timeframe. The timeframe given is referred to as credit terms or payment terms. On a business’s Balance Sheet, accounts receivable, or money owed to the company is seen as an asset.

A supervisor that handles this part of the company’s balance sheet ensures that they receive the payment for their orders within the established timeframe. Additionally they are responsible for handling any delinquent accounts, monitoring for any potential payments problems, checking for errors in demographic and insurance information, and paying close attention to internal processing delays and errors. By working to improve collections for invoices they also work to increase workflow efficiencies within the business.

Advanced revenue cycle management training is another important aspect of being a successfully accounts receivable training, since the supervisor must analyze and trend the bookkeeping of the company.