Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2024

It was an awful experience for me as a patient and no doubt for them to have to review 3 different sets of forms. While not every office is this disorganized, the patient experience when it comes to clipboards and patient forms has a lot to be desired at many healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A new study by The Permanente Medical Group (part of Kaiser Permanente) offers confidence that ambient voice transcriptions can save time and improve the patient experience by generating clinical notes about patient visits. This article summarizes the key findings in that study.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 17, 2023

Ambulatory Patient Intake Automating the intake process and reserving staff resources for more valuable tasks. Drawing on the EMR for patient history and medication information. Medication Adherence Combining the digital human together with computer vision to monitor and document medication adherence.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | July 27, 2023 News AWS offers generative AI documentation through API, medical imaging at scale Powered by Amazon Bedrock, AWS will now offer artificial intelligence to quickly create clinical. In this regularly updated page, we offer their perspective and advice.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Conversational AI excels in answering common patient questions, the kind found in healthcare documents and databases. It’s no surprise that, according to EMR, the global AI market is expected to reach $6 trillion by 2026. It’s a fast-growing part of the healthcare IT landscape. Yet not all AI is created equal.

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AMD Telemedicine

JUNE 28, 2022

These disjointed systems meant patient data was still siloed and, in the long run, that could lead to increased overhead costs and inconsistent patient experiences. They often chose a vendor or platform based on one of two factors — low price or quick deployment — but failed to account for security or ease of use.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 30, 2023

AdvancedMD is a cloud-based service merging an EHR with a health care management solution, and has recently announced upgrades to its EHR, practice management, and patient engagement functions. So analytics must be based on firm research and be documented to show the ties to research.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2021

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) overcame this challenge by customizing their Cerner system to accommodate a special “This is Me” section where patients and clinicians could jointly document stories. Both patients and staff have benefitted […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2022

New use cases likewise might arise that could be addressed with digital solutions – streamlining the difficult process of distributing patient intake and preparation forms, perhaps, and ensuring consent and information documents are in order before surgery. Make sure automated tools integrate with existing systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 1, 2023

ChatGPT, or other AI-based language translation systems, can serve as a resource for multilingual interaction, simultaneous translation, and can help to communicate a message in a patient’s first language, reducing the language-based gaps in health care and improving the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2024

Integrating this solution into your organization can save your clinicians a lot of time through documentation automation. This technology allows for the technology to unobtrusively record the patient-physician conversation in the background and then convert that dialogue into a clinical progress note using generative AI.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC works to help New York State achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, delivering better health outcomes, and reducing costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

We will continue the journey to enhance physician and patient experience and usability, pivoting more aggressively towards providing actionable intelligence at the point of care. NextGen Healthcare – David Sides, CEO and President. This will have a positive impact on ‘Quadruple Aim’ outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2024

Each day that passes, I’m seeing how ambient clinical voice has become the most impactful part of health IT since the $36 billion of stimulus money for EHR software.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2023

Charting or documenting a patient’s medical records is time-consuming for nurses to do by hand and can become a problem if handwriting is difficult to read, leading to errors or misinterpretations.

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Mend

AUGUST 22, 2023

Enhanced Data Security If a paper document gets lost or falls into the wrong hands, your practice could face HIPAA violations. Digital intake forms help tighten security by ensuring that only authorized care teams can access patient data. Digital forms reduce the manual touchpoints for patient data, reducing the chances of human error.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Redefining the Clinician and Patient Experience The Ambience AI operating system consists of a holistic suite of applications, designed to alleviate clinician burnout, improve overall system efficiency, and enable high-quality care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2022

These may include a video conferencing app, patient registration portal for demographic and insurance information, EMR, e-prescription app and discharge system. Consequently, providers must toggle between separate software programs to review and enter patient data for a single encounter.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Along the way, we almost inevitably uncover challenges surrounding the quality of the patient data transferred to the new and existing EHR. They have more time to improve the patient experience and spend less time making sense of the EHR. It’s just a question of when this happens and who does the work.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 26, 2020

We know you are hearing from technology vendors, such as Epic Computer Systems, as documented in this news story on CNBC about Epic’s letter to its users asking them to resist our access. When she got to the new hospital, she brought a printout of the information from her prior hospital’s EMR.

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Mend

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This approach can boost staff productivity, drive faster revenue cycles, and create a more rewarding patient experience. Organizations can manage this through a sophisticated telehealth platform that integrates with their EMR and billing software. Jump ahead: What is Hybrid Healthcare? The Rise in the Hybrid Healthcare System.

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HIStalk Interviews

JULY 23, 2018

Then we will handle the nuances of getting the data out and putting the data back into the EMR. Examples of what we allow for writing data to the EHR would be discrete observations, documents, and notes. For all of us, it will mean a better patient experience, lower costs, and better outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

We expect a majority of health systems will be engaged with AI (NLP, Gen AI) use in clinical documentation and conversational AI either in pilot or some level of scale form. I’m excited to see how it will transform clinical workflows and, in the end, create a better patient experience in 2024.

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