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Ambient Voice Transcriptions Endorsed in a Study by The Permanente Medical Group

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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Patient Scheduling and Pre-Visit Intake: Let’s Give Patients What They’re Asking For

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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Context Makes Innovaccer More than a Note Generator

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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Key Skills and Qualifications for a Successful Career in Health IT and How They’ve Evolved with Advancements in Healthcare Technology

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Tom Liddell, CEO at Harmony Healthcare IT A successful career in health IT leadership requires a unique blend of technical expertise, regulatory knowledge, and strong communication skills. Being academically strong greatly contributes to a healthcare leadership mindset. Epic), regulations and compliance requirements (ex.,

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This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

The following is a guest article by Sarah Bavar, RN, BSN, Director at ReMedi Health Solutions. At ReMedi , we frequently support health systems going through transitions at various stages of the EHR life cycle. There’s a misconception about data transfer and the format in which information is migrated to the new EHR.

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Weekly Roundup – December 9, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. 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.

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Health Care Portals: Looking Beyond the Patients’ Horizon

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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Weekly Roundup – December 3, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. 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. Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup.

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HTI-1 Final Rule: Implications for Healthcare Providers – Focus on DSI and Algorithmic Transparency

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

The following is a guest article by Nitin Kunte, Sr. Providers not using certified EHR may face downward payment adjustments to their Medicare reimbursements in the affected payment year. Yet, the benefits in decision-making, patient care, and the avoidance of medical errors are significant.

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4 Strategic Considerations for Digital Hospital Transformation

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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The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Board members, fellow C-suite officers, IT managers and workers in the trenches have much to learn from the expert guidance in this latest feature article in the series. 'A "The level of complexity in virtual health was high and prevented a consistent approach and consistent support; it has been a complex experience for patients.

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How Technology Drives Value-Based Care

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2024

The following is a guest article by Phyllis Wojtusik, Executive Vice President of Value-Based Care at Real Time Medical Systems. The referral is made, and the patient arrives at a SNF without the right information being communicated. We all know that CMS is pushing hard towards value-based care.

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Electronic Signatures Can Reduce Costs, Speed Care Delivery

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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Patient Engagement through Communication Platforms

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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Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. This is having an impact on the patient experience, as more consumers said they are satisfied with their insurance plan (76%) than with their hospital (74%).

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Maximize Value and Efficiencies with Effective Content Management

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The following is a guest article by Tom Romeo, General Manager of Healthcare IT at Quest Diagnostics. If your organization is interested in adopting enterprise content management through a DMI system, it is critical to determine the costs, evaluate the impact, and build an effective business case to share with leadership.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Defining and Sharing

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The previous article in this series gave some history of social determinants of health (SDoH) and the importance of addressing them in medicine. This article delves deeper into various aspects of data handling, and who is working in these fields.

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How Digital Health Companies Attract Software Engineers: Human Resource Management

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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Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. American Endovascular & Amputation Prevention implemented eClinicalWorks PRISMA search too and EHR system. Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features.

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Bonus Features – October 30, 2022 – 46% of Americans have gone into debt paying medical bills, 41% say retail and virtual care experiences are disjointed, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

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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Poor Healthcare Technology Experiences Erode Consumer Trust. AI Can Repair Relationships

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2023

The following is a guest article by Sanjeev Sawai, Chief Product and Technology Officer at mPulse Mobile The expansion and specialization of health networks has made it difficult for most consumers to navigate and advocate for themselves within today’s healthcare organizations.

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ChatGPT May Not be Ready to Revolutionize the Healthcare Industry Quite Yet, But There’s Promise for the Future

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 1, 2023

The following is a guest article by Heather Lane, Senior Architect of Data Science at athenahealth Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have transformed numerous industries in recent years, and healthcare is no exception. Another area ChatGPT has potential within healthcare is chart summarization.

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How Patient Portals Are Changing the Game in Patient Care

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The following is a guest article by Doreen DeGroff, Senior Product Director MEDITECH, CereCore. Patient portals have existed since the late 1990s, but the onset of a global pandemic triggered a drastic shift within the healthcare community and fueled interest in patient portals.

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Direct Primary Care Engages Physicians as Much as Patients

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 5, 2022

Check out the summary of the event in this article: Momentum Growing for Direct Primary Care. When physicians make the switch to DPC, there are many surprises…not least of which is that they no longer have to enter information into an EHR so that it can generate a claim to a payer.

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Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – November 15, 2022 – News from Amwell, Epic, Google, MEDITECH, Microsoft, and more, plus the dates for HLTH Europe

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. PEP Health showed that patient experience scores are on the rise for hospitals in Texas , with Stars Ratings steadily increasing since 2019.

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The Art of the Possible Practical: Five Lessons for Navigating the Journey to a Digital Hospital

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 12, 2021

The following is a guest article by Richard Scully from Atos. While the vision of the Digital Hospital has been much talked about in health systems all over the world, relatively few organizations have yet realized it.

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Data’s Role in Health Equity: Digging into the Root of the Problem

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2023

This can be achieved using a data engineering framework that is flexible enough to handle structured, unstructured and semi-structured data-sets to create a Patient LHR (Longitudinal Healthcare Record) to get a 360-degree view of the patient’s health.

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Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

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. Instead, we anticipate a more mix and match, custom approach to EHRs.

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The Importance of Patient Portal Usability

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dr. Bruce Bassi, Advisory Board Member at CharmHealth Most patients have almost certainly received an invitation to join their electronic medical record communication system, or portal for their particular doctor’s office.

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Interoperability Between Hospitals and EMS is a Light Switch Away

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2020

The following is a guest article by Emily Burch Harris, Freelance Health Writer. DirectTrust recently hosted their second annual Summit (recordings still available), an event focused on connecting DirectTrust members and non-members with some of the nation’s greatest healthcare and interoperability experts.

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RCM: Fixing the Old and Adjusting to the New

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

When done right, revenue integrity management supports the delivery of high-quality care, enabling providers to reinvest in staff, infrastructure, and technology, and ultimately improve patient outcomes. Thank you to everyone that submitted a quote for us and thank you to everyone reading this article. So much to consider here!!

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DirectTrust Passes 2 Billion Messages – Healthcare Interoperability in Action

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The response to my article asking the question “Are we at the end of the healthcare interoperability tunnel?” ” was quite interesting. I think some people thought that I was hammering on all the work that’s being done on healthcare interoperability.

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Beyond the Four Walls: Using Technology to Address Your Patient’s Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Needs

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2019

The following is a guest article by Hannah Landes, Senior Associate at NowPow, and Niko Skievaski, Co-founder and President at Redox. healthcare industry has made a big investment in moving to a value-based care model, both in terms of reimbursement structure as well as medical practice.

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SNF Setback: Acute Care Providers Share Limited Data when Transferring Patients to Post-Acute Care

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The following is a guest article by Sean Vandeweerd, Sr. As patients move from acute-care facilities to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), the sharing of critical patient information and associated data is extremely important for coordinating care. Product Manager, PointClickCare Technologies Inc.

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It’s Time for Hospitals and Skilled Nursing Facilities to Break Down Patient Data Silos

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The following is a guest article by Sean Vandeweerd, Sr. Product Manager, PointClickCare Technologies Inc. Our healthcare system is approaching a critical time in which an aging population will bring baby boomers into hospitals and post-acute care facilities in record numbers.

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is the sixth article in Healthcare IT News ’ Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 feature story series, and it focuses on the kinds of stresses telehealth managers face, how telehealth technology hurts managers’ abilities to cope with those stressors and how telemedicine tech helps them manage stress. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Ambient Voice Transcriptions Endorsed in a Study by The Permanente Medical Group

Patient Scheduling and Pre-Visit Intake: Let’s Give Patients What They’re Asking For

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Context Makes Innovaccer More than a Note Generator

Key Skills and Qualifications for a Successful Career in Health IT and How They’ve Evolved with Advancements in Healthcare Technology

This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare

Weekly Roundup – December 9, 2023

Health Care Portals: Looking Beyond the Patients’ Horizon

Weekly Roundup – December 3, 2022

HTI-1 Final Rule: Implications for Healthcare Providers – Focus on DSI and Algorithmic Transparency

4 Strategic Considerations for Digital Hospital Transformation

The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health

How Technology Drives Value-Based Care

Electronic Signatures Can Reduce Costs, Speed Care Delivery

Patient Engagement through Communication Platforms

Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes, and more

Maximize Value and Efficiencies with Effective Content Management

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Defining and Sharing

How Digital Health Companies Attract Software Engineers: Human Resource Management

Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

Bonus Features – October 30, 2022 – 46% of Americans have gone into debt paying medical bills, 41% say retail and virtual care experiences are disjointed, and more

Poor Healthcare Technology Experiences Erode Consumer Trust. AI Can Repair Relationships

ChatGPT May Not be Ready to Revolutionize the Healthcare Industry Quite Yet, But There’s Promise for the Future

How Patient Portals Are Changing the Game in Patient Care

Direct Primary Care Engages Physicians as Much as Patients

Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – November 15, 2022 – News from Amwell, Epic, Google, MEDITECH, Microsoft, and more, plus the dates for HLTH Europe

The Art of the Possible Practical: Five Lessons for Navigating the Journey to a Digital Hospital

Data’s Role in Health Equity: Digging into the Root of the Problem

Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

The Importance of Patient Portal Usability

Interoperability Between Hospitals and EMS is a Light Switch Away

RCM: Fixing the Old and Adjusting to the New

DirectTrust Passes 2 Billion Messages – Healthcare Interoperability in Action

Beyond the Four Walls: Using Technology to Address Your Patient’s Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Needs

SNF Setback: Acute Care Providers Share Limited Data when Transferring Patients to Post-Acute Care

It’s Time for Hospitals and Skilled Nursing Facilities to Break Down Patient Data Silos

Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

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