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. This is inline with all the talk about ChatGPT that happened at HIMSS 2023. Work with genomics and rare diseases is underway.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

After deploying the Nabla ambient voice solution in October 2023, the organization quickly built up a large database of AI-generated clinical notes to run through their study. ” The EHR also provided useful statistics, because the organization could track how much time doctors logged into it.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The acquisition is expected to contribute approximately $10 to 12 million of revenue in the remaining four months of fiscal 2023 and will be accretive to adjusted EBITDA and cash flow within a year. The company plans to update guidance when it reports its fiscal 2023 third quarter results. About NextGen Healthcare, Inc.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

Healthcare IT and EHR Conferences and Events. We’ll be doing more of them in 2023. DoJ Joins False Claims Whistleblower Suit Against EHR Vendor Modernizing Medicine – Everyone seems to flock to judgments and lawsuits like this one. I think that will actually continue in 2023. Check out our top resource pages.

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MAY 23, 2023

The alliance was a bold gesture made ten years ago by leading EHR vendors to demonstrate their commitment to data sharing. Plus, Wilder shares what he was hearing about the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) at the HIMSS 2023 annual conference and offers up a few takeaways.

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MAY 16, 2024

According to our 2023 Cyber Insecurity in Healthcare report, 54% of surveyed healthcare IT security practitioners said their organization suffered a ransomware attack, up from 41% in 2022. According to Sophos’ recent State of Ransomware report, 67% of healthcare organizations surveyed globally were hit by ransomware in 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As 2023 uncovered some less-than-optimal situations where automation and AI were at odds on either side of the fence, my hope is in 2024 that deeper connectivity and collaboration will make those solutions obsolete in some form or fashion. Data minimalism can maximize clinical results.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

At the Epic user conference, hospitals and health systems are recognized for their implementation and use of the Epic EHR system. We all know about EHR systems that have been implemented and then the organization has not continued with upgrades or continued looking at ways to use the full functionality of the system.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 26, 2023

ROI Healthcare Solutions works closely with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, EHRs, and the systems that connect to them. Although their first focus is on revenue, through goals such as quicker and more accurate billing, Ursi emphasizes that the goal ultimately has to be improved patient care.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: What were the big announcements at Epic UGM 2023? Lastly, we wrap everything up by discussing what a health data utility (HDU) is. What was not talked about or announced at Epic UGM that you thought would be an important topic of conversation?

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AUGUST 28, 2023

Jeanie Heck, Education Services at e4 Services One change that significantly impacted the healthcare IT landscape was the restructuring of evaluation and management (E/M) codes by the AHA in 2023. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

These announcements were rapid-fire and met with applause from the audience: Slider Dicer NLP layer to allow researchers and clinicians to query the data using natural language like they would when talking to a colleague vs specific query language, available now URL Shortning & Engagement tracking for Cheers (Epic’s CRM), powered by Hello World, (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The 2023 MGMA Leaders Conference (#MGMALeaders), a gathering of healthcare professionals from medical practices, showcased new innovative approaches to addressing industry challenges.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

In the spirit of prevention of burn out, where technology can automate administrative burden, make chart reviews more efficient, use ambient listening capabilities to reduce time spent in the EHR will have a positive impact on the clinical burnout epidemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 2, 2023

For the 124th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are mixing together some of the recent health IT news with previews of some upcoming conferences to make our own little health IT potpourri! The first big news item we are discussing is UPMC and Intermountain moving to Epic. Then we discuss the acquisition of NextGen by Thoma Bravo.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Joel Diamond, MD, Co-Founder/Chief Medical Officer Aranscia; Co-Founder 2bPrecise at Aranscia Artificial intelligence was a major buzzword in the world in 2023, and that was also the case in the healthcare space. AI can listen to patient visits and integrate accurate notes and next steps directly into the EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

According to Manny Krakaris, CEO of Augmedix , this company has led the field of medical notes over the past 11 years from human scribes to full automation. To heighten accuracy, they use a combination of the most modern technologies. The transcript of the conversation is fed into a typical large language model (LLM) used by generative AI.

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MAY 18, 2023

Marcus Perez, President at Altera Digital Health is focusing the company on delivering results for clients. Teams are relentlessly focused on addressing current client pain points – like cashflow challenges, workforce frustration, and patient throughput – while also building capacity to handle future needs like care-at-home.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2023

A medical practitioner would retire. Thousands of dust-gathering paper records would sit in the good doctor’s basement, eventually to be trashed while patients start afresh with new doctors, losing decades of information.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

Small- and medium-sized medical practices are struggling. The uncertain economic environment, staffing challenges, and the increasing complexity of providing care is putting practice owners under tremendous stress.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

2023 was a tipping point for telehealth treatment. After a blockbuster year in 2023, Humana Medicare Advantage is projected to slow down in 2024 as efforts are made to increase the PMPY margin. Unfortunately, it can be extremely challenging for patients across the country to access affordable treatment that actually works.

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