Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having a career in Health IT requires a lot of skills and qualifications, even more so if you want that career to be successful – but what are those skills and qualifications? A solid foundation in data infrastructure, security, and privacy protocols is crucial for anyone in 2024 looking to succeed in the healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

But in a time when our industry is facing high staff overtime and burnout, there’s simply no way that we can be aware of everything happening in health IT. What should be trending right now in health IT? So what trend isn’t being talked about enough? The following is what they had to share with us.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

“We’re now seeing some of the largest health systems in North America expecting more from their image exchange and adopting PocketHealth to drive patient retention, satisfaction, and finally solve their image exchange needs.” PocketHealth connected sites have seen improved patient experience, operational efficiencies, and cost savings.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

With so much happening in health IT, how do you keep up? At RSNA, Colin Hung caught up with Beau Jones at DataFirst and Jeff Emery at Envision Radiology to learn how managing imaging workflows across disparate providers contributes to faster turnaround times and improves the patient experience.

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APRIL 30, 2024

Exec Summary: The Digital Musculoskeletal (MSK) market is attracting growing investment in 2024, driven by several key trends: 1. Hybrid care is king: Patients are demanding flexibility. These trends indicate a dynamic Digital MSK market in 2024, with a focus on providing patients with convenient, effective, and value-driven care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

“Clinical transformation with AI is easier without patients.” 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. Move fast with AI and break things?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

The American Telehealth Association announced its policy priorities for 2024 ; they include making Medicare telehealth flexibilities permanent before the end of the year and removing the in-person requirement for the remote prescribing of controlled substances. Wellness app Vivoo launched an at-home digital UTI test.

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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. Florian Otto, CEO and Co-founder at Cedar Healthcare Affordability: Healthcare affordability will always be a problem, and it remains to be seen if 2024 will be better or worse than 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 26, 2024

The company optimizes the entire member/patient experience through service offerings for clinical operations, member engagement, provider solutions, payment integrity, claims cost containment, and analytics. Originally announced March 26th, 2024 Sagility has more than 34,000 employees across 5 countries. Visit birch.ai

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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. Now more than ever before, patients are interested in being active participants in their care, selecting the right health partner, and connecting with their providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

“The industry has been woefully behind in finding ways to automate the time-consuming and complex process of patient communication; current modes of communication are often generic, resulting in a poor patient experience,” said Ben Chapman, CEO at Vital Interaction. “We Originally announced January 30th, 2024

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2024

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. The most frustrating part of the experience for me was that I knew there was a better way.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

This strategic acquisition aims to improve the patient experience and expedite access to vital specialty medications, such as infusions and in-office injectables primarily covered by medical benefits. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the National Coordinator for Health IT. Originally announced April 18th, 2024

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2024

“The merger of Marathon Health and Everside Health will create a stronger combined organization even better equipped to build a primary care model designed with patient experience and outcomes in mind. Originally announced February 8th, 2024 For more information, visit marathon-health.com.

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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. Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC).

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. In the next year, we’ll see further evolution of hybridized care models where parts of virtual care are leveraged to improve access and patient experience. Stephanie Lahr, President at Artisight, Inc.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

However, if a healthcare organization doesn’t combine data across these systems, they can’t achieve the optimal patient experience that’s needed to create a welcoming digital front door.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 16, 2024

Using proprietary data analytics to tailor the engagement from preservice to post-service to payment, RevSpring improves the patient experience and outcomes for providers, members, patients, and other industries focused on payments. Originally announced March 12th, 2024 To learn more, visit revspringinc.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

“We are excited to join the Veradigm Network and leverage the additional tools and resources needed to help our clients achieve financial success and deliver a better patient experience.” Originally announced January 2nd, 2024

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 12, 2024

We’re using the most advanced LLMs, TTS (text-to-speech), and STT (speech-to-text) models that have just become available in the past few months to ensure an optimized patient experience.” And those things together are a major benefit to the bottom line of health systems where dollars are already stretched thin.”

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Acclara delivers cost-effective, innovative solutions to help healthcare providers across the United States improve the patient experience, minimize administrative burdens, and maintain regulatory compliance. million shares of R1 stock at a strike price of $10.52, including a 3-year lock-up. To learn more, visit r1rcm.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

By giving providers the flexibility to support multiple modes of digitally communicating with patients based on their lifestyle and care preferences, 98point6’s asynchronous virtual care module helps mitigate clinician burnout while enhancing the patient experience. “In Originally announced January 16th, 2024

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 31, 2024

We leverage our differentiated scientific network to create and finance companies that drive the translation of new therapies in patients and optimize the patient experience. Originally announced January 23rd, 2024 For more information, please visit yosemite.co.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2024

As a trusted partner, we collaborate with top-tier health systems and physician practices nationwide, sharing risk and operational responsibilities to implement the most effective value-based models tailored to each population. Originally announced April 22nd, 2024

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Oak Street Health is a leading multi-payor, value-based primary care company helping older adults stay healthy and live life more fully. With an innovative care model and technology platform designed to deliver consistently superior outcomes and patient experiences, Oak Street Health has demonstrated that its model is scalable.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2024

With how fast the world of healthcare is evolving, it is impossible to stay up to date on every single thing that is happening, especially once you factor in the amount of work that is required in every health IT job. Thankfully, we are here to make sure that none of you are left to handle all that work by yourself.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

The funding will also further improve 9amHealth’s already stellar patient experience through higher quality of care, improved health outcomes, and additional cost savings for both patients and employers. Originally announced February 20th, 2024 More at join9am.com.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2024

On February 22, 2024, I went to a CVS Pharmacy-Inside-Target in my community to fill a prescription for benzonatate 200 mg capsules. That’s TMI for me to write about in the Health Populi blog, but this story has a current-events twist: the pharmacist could not electronically link with my insurance company to transact my payment.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

Customers using Actium Health include Virtua Health, Catholic Health System of Long Island, Nuvance Health, and Legacy Health. Syllable’s Patient Assistant Syllable improves patient experience while reducing staff burden with AI. Originally announced March 20th, 2024

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2024

Their new product enhancements are all designed to improve the efficiency of practices, reduce the administrative burden, and improve the patient experience. They jumped into AI with both feet last year and have maintained that commitment. Watch this summary video for more. eClinicalWorks is a supporter of Healthcare Scene.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Andy took a deep dive into LexisNexis Health Equity and Inclusion Insights , which takes steps to provide more granular data by drawing on non-traditional data sources and evaluating data in the context of a patient’s environment. Read more… Healthcare IT Today Podcast : 2023 Health IT Recap.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2024

Of course, with this growth of technology we’ve also seen the growth of burnout and alert fatigue as devices send off warnings that aren’t useful and the volume of alerts that a nurse is getting is overwhelming.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

"We expect with increased use, AI will improve accuracy by processing and analyzing large volumes of data, learn from the pattern of patients' responses, and make predictions and decisions based on that data. We anticipate release of this updated product in Q1 2024." Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Adoption of Patient Self-Scheduling Will Double Patient self-scheduling solutions topped the list of most “in-demand” technologies – expected to grow from 34% adoption to 75% by the end of 2024. This is one of the solutions that encapsulates why we called the report ‘The Tipping Point’,” stated Bengtson. “It

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It’s why the healthcare industry is starting to use the technology to bridge the gap between patients, caregivers, and the information they need. According to AIM Research, by 2024, 40% of enterprise applications will have conversational AI built in. It may even be something you or your team are already thinking about.

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