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

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. patients about their patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

However, these questionnaires can also be intelligent and customized to each patient. This article discusses the service provided by Health Note , which illustrates the capabilities of modern patient interaction using AI and integration with the EHR. Integration with the EHR, according to Rau, was difficult.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… What Area of Healthcare Needs More Investment ? Read more… Keeping Large Language Models and AI Tools Honest.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The following is a guest article by Ram Krishnan, CEO at Valant Communicating with patients – in a compliant manner – is essential for behavioral health practices. To protect patient privacy and respect patient communication preferences, these laws require certain guidelines to be followed.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Mississippi-based Southland Recovery selected eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 31, 2023

A previous article, “ Patient Scheduling and Pre-Visit Intake: Let’s Give Patients What They’re Asking For ” discussed technological solutions to patients’ frustrating scheduling experience. As the success of the companies in this article shows, change is happening.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. As ambient voice has gotten a lot of attention lately, this was a good question to pose to the Healthcare IT Today community.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… I nbound Communication Can Improve Patient Experiences. The Top Innovations at HLTH 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

So what are these key skills and qualifications and how have they evolved with advancements in healthcare technology ? We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community for their thoughts and the following is what they had to say. HIPAA), and healthcare data and interoperability standards (Ex.,

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The following is a guest article by Nathan Shepard, SVP of Product at Azalea Health As rural providers look to replace legacy solutions, they’re confronted with several critical decision points. They know that modern platforms will improve their internal operations, help increase revenue collection, and improve the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Supporting organizations include Epic, the HIMSS EHR Association and HCA Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Where Do We Need Less – or More – Healthcare IT Regulation ? Privacy and data quality company Integral secured a $6.9

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

The following is a guest article by Dr. Guillermo Diaz, Chief Medical Information Officer at Los Angeles Department of Health Services – Ambulatory Care Network , and Ali Modaressi, CEO at Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services (LANES) When Alex was brought into L.A. He has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 12, 2024

According to McKinsey & Company’s 2021 research , one-quarter of the United States’ healthcare costs are spent on healthcare administration, and tens of billions on patient services such as call centers. Wang is a former UCSF medical student with seven published articles about healthcare AI at Stanford.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Why AI’s Risks and Remedies Are Different in Healthcare. Read more… Healthcare IT Today Podcast : 2023 Health IT Recap.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Who better to talk to the Healthcare IT Today community about interoperability than the National Coordinator himself? million investment.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2024

The following is a guest article by Kaeli Tully, Healthcare Systems and Solutions Engineer at Intel In the quiet hours of the night, hospital executives toss and turn, grappling with the daunting reality of staffing shortages that plague their institutions. ER, OR, and ICU). And perhaps, we all can get better sleep.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

A major goal of clinicians now is to replace paper with convenient forms that patients can fill out on mobile devices at home. I covered the trend in my recent article Patient scheduling and pre-visit intake: Let’s give patients what they’re asking for. Weave has formed strong partnerships with EHR vendors.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

The following is a guest article by Bevey Miner, Executive Vice President, Healthcare Strategy and Policy at Consensus Cloud Solutions Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, and with so much hype around it, healthcare organizations are rightfully cautious about deploying AI solutions. On average, physicians spent 1.84

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Erin Jospe at World Wide Technology about how these initiatives also have a positive impact on patients and the community.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 8, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. What Aren’t Enough People Talking About in Healthcare ? EHRs aren’t suited for providing real-time data.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The following is a guest article by Vivian Liu, COO at Braid Health One thing in healthcare remains constant: the need for answers. This is why radiology is a pillar of our healthcare system because, without a diagnosis, there is no treatment. The same is true in healthcare. The result?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Grants and Funding. The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services received a $3.8

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Texas-based behavioral health practice Life is a Journey selected eClinicalWorks EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Post-acute care EHR PointClickCare is now integrated with Net Health , an EHR designed specifically for wound care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 19, 2023

Although widely used in many other industries, its adoption is just beginning to take off in healthcare. In fact, as healthcare leaders increasingly prioritize patient access , chat’s success in other businesses has spurred the rapid onboarding of chat solutions to help address healthcare-specific engagement and accessibility challenges.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The following is a guest article by Charlie Hutchinson, CFO at InSync Healthcare Solutions. The growth in substance use disorders [SUD] across all demographics and income brackets has impacted the role of primary-care providers [PCPs].

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 30, 2024

The first article in this series laid out what we know about body weight and obesity today. Their technology is based on real-world data from hundreds of millions of patients. NLP can extract details such as what treatments the patient has already tried, and their reactions. Some verge on behavioral health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2021

The following is a guest article by Stephan Herron, President and CEO of Scriptel Corporation. Our modern Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems’ origins can be traced back to the 1960s. Fifty-five years ago, slightly over 100 clinical information and/or storage systems existed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner appointed Jennifer Csik Hutchens as Global Head of Health Care.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The previous articles in this series discussed what kinds of programmers do well and enjoy working in a digital health company. This final article looks at some important aspects of culture and how to cultivate the developers you have. Predictably, this did not impress my friend, who had much more urgent features to ask for.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2023

”) A previous article listed some alarming statistics about the number of patients who don’t take their medications as advised, and the dire effects on life expectancy as well as costs to the health care system. So this article turns to other barriers patients face, and how health IT can help.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 7, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Please include any relevant links and let us know if news is under embargo.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The following is a guest article by Tom Romeo, General Manager of Healthcare IT at Quest Diagnostics. The best document management systems drive improvements by not only storing digital healthcare data, but by also ensuring data is easily accessible enterprise-wide. Healthcare technology continues to evolve.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Over time, most stopped complaining about this problem, though I’d wager it was because they simply had worse things to worry about during the painful initial period of EHR adoption. According to the article, an increasing number of health systems in metro Chicago – as well as elsewhere in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2023

The following is a guest article by Josh Coleman , Managing Partner at Treacy & Company by Cherry Bekaert Healthcare has undergone massive changes over the past few years. However, using AI in healthcare also raises concerns about job displacement and the need to focus on people and quality.

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