Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Gary Hamilton, CEO at InteliChart The surge in healthcare consumerism is empowering patients to choose how and from whom they receive care, prompting healthcare leaders to adapt to patient preferences for retention and acquiring new patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery ? The following is what they had to share. This is just the beginning.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 21, 2023

Here’s a preview of the topics we will be rolling for in this episode: Artificial Intelligence Hospital Finances RPA Epic Cerner/Oracle Health ONC Healthcare Analytics Patient Experience Workforce Patient Privacy Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 30, 2024

In pursuit of a better patient experience, most healthcare organizations have invested heavily in digital transformation, including the widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). In other cases, the same solution provides different experiences on computers versus mobile devices. Only 12% of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. This will allow the healthcare industry at large to use AI and Automation where it needs to be used, to provide a better patient experience and increase the quality of healthcare delivery, instead of used to increase or decrease profits.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Scott Pross, Vice President of Technology at Monalytic , a SolarWinds Company 2024 is going to be a transformational year for healthcare, as IT modernization efforts will improve the practitioner and patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Patches Seely, Executive Vice President of Clinical Solutions at Carenet Health Clinicians’ burnout is in both a state of prevention and cure.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Greg Wujek, Global Health Industry Consultant at SAS Robots as providers comes of age. AI can listen to patient visits and integrate accurate notes and next steps directly into the EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023. With healthcare professionals working longer hours and dealing with increased workloads, patient experience has fallen to the wayside.

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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 20, 2024

While it may be true that the EHR is the main tool for a clinician, the same is not true for patients. Patient data is stored in a wide variety of systems including a CRM, health system website, secure messaging systems, call center systems, survey systems, mobile apps, iPads in the doctor’s office, kiosks, and much more.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

“Patients, their care partners, caregivers, and advocates are already utilizing AI powered tools and creating their own LLMs in ways that the average physician, healthcare executive, and health IT vendors would not believe. ” Cordovano further explained to me.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

"Leveraging our deep experience in telemedicine, it made sense to apply bidirectional audio/video technology to assist our nursing colleagues in addressing some of the issues we hoped to alleviate as we piloted a new model of nursing care," Trepanier said. Executive sponsorship/leadership.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

At ReMedi , we frequently support health systems going through transitions at various stages of the EHR life cycle. Along the way, we almost inevitably uncover challenges surrounding the quality of the patient data transferred to the new and existing EHR. Clinicians vs. Abstractors: Who should do it?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2023

Several surveys about the online patient experience were recently released. It won’t surprise anyone who follows healthcare professionally—or who has used a healthcare portal—that patients are frustrated and disappointed. ” Wolters Kluwer’s Health division also recently commissioned a survey of 1,034 U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

As you can imagine, we’ve been innundated with COVID-19 related health IT news. We’ve done our best to cover the areas we thought were most important to healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

Key Dates and Implementation Timelines March 11, 2024 : The HTI-1 Final Rule takes effect, initiating the transition phase for health IT developers and healthcare providers. Providers not using certified EHR may face downward payment adjustments to their Medicare reimbursements in the affected payment year.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2023

John Lynn and Dr. Shiv Rao at Abridge chatted about the power of going beyond speech recognition to build trust with physicians thanks to EHR integrations and maps to ontologies such as SNOMED and LOINC. Read more… CIO Podcast : Teamwork and Leadership. Read more… Keeping Large Language Models and AI Tools Honest.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It is currently offered in ambulatory settings and integrates with major EHRs. He says that a “comprehensive” tool such as InScribe can save “pajama time” as well as “manage patient experience better.” ” Watch the video for details for these experts’ insights on clinical workflow.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We recently had a chance to sit down with Jessica Beegle, Senior Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer at  Lifepoint Health , who shared with us that her past experience has given her a unique view in crafting the patient experience. This would help to create the type of care experience patients now expect.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2021

If you read Healthcare IT Today regularly, or listen to our health it podcast, then you’re probably tired of hearing me talk about the potential of Ambient Clinical Voice in healthcare. For good or bad, I’m probably not going to stop. At least not until it’s proven that it can’t ever fulfill it’s potential.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

With Novacap, we will invest in technologies that will improve the patient experience. HealthData Platform™ enables a higher quality of coordinated care and information access for healthcare organizations and their patients by integrating with leading inpatient and outpatient electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Prasad says that Yosi Health has solved the self-scheduling problem, offering an “airline check-in experience,” by integrating in real time with EHRs and other systems. They also analyze the questions asked by staff to recreate them in the self-scheduling software.

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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 News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. " Dr. J.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Colin Hung spoke to Eric Dick and Darren Moser at IEHP about advancing their work with GIS and getting the leadership team to buy in. At the CHIME Fall Forum, John sat down with Hannah Ellerbee at Divurgent about what leadership should look out for, whether it’s inadequate staff training or poorly performing technology tools.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 14, 2023

To kick off this episode we talk about how patient engagement has changed over time from when Temple first started out in health IT to what it is today. Temple then shares with us some of the projects he is currently working on in the areas of patient engagement that he feels haven’t gotten enough attention.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 8, 2022

We couldn’t be more excited to partner with Josh, Aaron, and the incredible team at Health Note,” said Wayne Hu, Partner at SignalFire. Health Note will use the funds to accelerate market expansion, expand EHR integrations and invest in further R&D to build additional offerings for clinical support. About Health Note.

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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 19, 2023

Epic started out as a rather inert data repository, but decades of use and growth have allowed it to look beyond the EHR itself. According to Project Manager Erika Koch, they have taken on the pressing challenges of health care: making doctors’ work lives easier, reducing costs, and improving the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2021

Balancing all of those competing IT projects that can provide value to their organization and improve the workflow for clinicians and patients is what makes being a CIO so challenging. When a CIO looks at their healthcare organization, they see hundreds of opportunities to improve their processes and better leverage technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

"There was a complete lack of integration with existing clinical workflows and the EHR, which meant that these visits were disconnected from the established health IT environment," he said. " Second, the organization needed to provide multiple channels (text, email and chat) to easily communicate with patients, he added.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 8, 2022

In fact, he talks about how things are different today than they have been in the past (Partial Spoiler Alert: One example is the EHR data is there to trigger actions).

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Lloyd Price

MAY 19, 2024

Wearable devices will allow continuous health data collection, enabling preventive care and early intervention. Improved Patient Experience: Telemedicine offers convenience and flexibility for patients, leading to increased patient satisfaction and improved treatment adherence. Visit www.nelsonadvisors.co.uk

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2021

In another in our ongoing series that highlights issues with the EHR vs how a health system configures the EHR comes this tweet from Stacy Hurt: In ongoing Epic/MyChart saga, tech support told me I have to fill out this proxy request form and ?? MAIL it to my dr’s office to send attachments ????? […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Digital virtual assistants can then construct true dialogs that “learn” from the patient to zero in on intent and context so relevant, accurate information is provided. Many healthcare organizations use disparate EHRs and communication tools that may not seamlessly integrate, leading to data silos and communication gaps.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Everyone from practice leadership to billers should be educated about information blocking rules. There are numerous resources available from the ONC and practices can also look to their health system partners’ compliance teams for guidance. The vast majority of offices already know this. Ramesh Ramani, CEO at ExpertusONE.

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