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Bonus Features – March 24, 2024 – Data infrastructure investments have 124% ROI, 85% of healthcare workers believe AI can improve the patient experience, plus 28 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2024

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. News and Surveys More than half (52%) of provider organizations use entirely manual workflows for credentialing and network management , according to a survey from Medallion.

Patient Experience

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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.

Patient Experience

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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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Bonus Features – November 5, 2023 – Only 24% of healthcare organizations have successfully disrupted ransomware attacks, 83% of healthcare leaders say AI is or will be an essential skill, plus 20 more

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Studies and Reports So far in 2023, only 24% of healthcare organizations were able to disrupt a ransomware attack before attackers encrypted their data , according to a Sophos survey.

RCM

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Technology of Digitized Patient Intake Forms

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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Providence’s Long COVID Research Featured in “Nature”

Xealth

JANUARY 3, 2024

As part of the health system’s My COVID Diary (MCD) study, patient experiences were captured using a prospective and longitudinal patient-reported outcomes survey and free-text narrative submissions. Digital health helped follow COVID patients early in the pandemic to help clinicians characterize long COVID.

Digital Health

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Philips surveyed health care professionals and consumers living in 15 countries, from North America to Asia, and found that these health systems share one over-arching objective: to provide quality care with improved experiences for both patients and healthcare professionals.

Interoperability

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Weekly Roundup – November 26, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 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. Read more… I nbound Communication Can Improve Patient Experiences. Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. The Top Innovations at HLTH 2022.

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Bonus Features – June 18, 2023 – 68% of health systems lack the staff to handle another health crisis, 46% of Americans are using consumer health tech, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Reports More than two-thirds of health systems lack the nursing staff to handle a large-scale health crisis , according to an Incredible Health survey.

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Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

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. Patient experience vendor Vital surpassed 1 million users across more than 100 hospital clients.

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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. While 95% of these patients said they’d seek care from these types of providers in the future, 41% said the experience felt disjointed. News and Studies.

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The Rise of Chat in Healthcare and Remaining Concerns

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 19, 2023

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. Its technology integrates with leading EHR/PM systems in the United States.

Patient Experience

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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. Two-thirds of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes when they leave the doctor’s office , according to the latest survey from data platform Carta Healthcare.

Digital Health

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Helping People Take Their Meds

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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Bonus Features – July 10, 2022 – Sequoia Project releases TECFA identity verification documentation, IBM Watson Health is now Merative, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. At the HFMA conference, revenue cycle management vendor R1 shared data from a survey of more than 200 healthcare CFOs and finance VPs. Grants and Funding.

RCM

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How to Improve Patient Satisfaction in Virtual Care

Mend

APRIL 20, 2022

We define patient satisfaction as the measure of how well a patient perceives the level of care they receive from you. There is a debate about the connection between the patient experience and health outcomes. It integrates into your EHR or PMS to predict patient no-shows with up to a 99% accuracy!

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HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. Ahead of HIMSS19, Acxiom published a paper on this topic , summarizing a HIMSS survey on social determinants of health and data analytics. That was tweeted ten years ago. Life is long; HIMSS20 is but 366 days from today.

Health IT

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How to Automate the Patient-Provider Working Relationship

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The following is a guest article by Stephen Dean, Healthcare CRM Expert and Co-Founder of Keona Health. Many health care professionals think the strength of the patient-provider relationship is determined solely by the face-to-face interactions between patients and physicians, and that all problems begin and end there.

Telehealth

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Bonus Features – August 7, 2022 – Patients like digital health but have security concerns, healthcare leaders optimistic “seamless” care is coming, and more

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 7, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. athenahelth is using the DrFirst RxInform patient engagement tool to provide patients with information about their prescriptions, including cost-saving opportunities.

eCare

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Is Patient Portal a Thing of the Past?

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

The following is a guest article by Liza Dzhezhora, Healthcare IT Analyst at Itransition. For years, patient portals have been considered the most efficient tool for patient engagement. This federal regulatory document called for sharing EHR data with. Patient portals. their patients receiving a monetary incentive.

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Rethinking Medication and Information Technology

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

Previous articles in this series looked at barriers to taking medication and possible solutions , including special conditions that produce challenges. This final article in the series turns the question on its head. Can patients get better without the medications?

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Bonus Features – November 20, 2022 – 90% of healthcare buyers prioritize virtual care but want a clear roadmap, wearable data helped predict COVID-19 infections 12 days before the CDC, and more

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Mobile engagement platform Gozio Health expanded its integration with Artera , a patient outreach tool. Ascension is using Qualtrics for gathering patient experience feedback.

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Patient Portals Improve Healthcare Outcomes. So, Why Don’t Patients Use Them?

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

The following is a guest article by Oakkar Oakkar, Co-Founder and CEO at Keona Health Imagine a tool that puts your health information right at your fingertips. That’s what patient portals promise – a simple, digital way to access medical records, book appointments, and chat with doctors.

Health Information

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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.

Health IT

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Integrating Ambient Clinical Voice Technology – The Impacts, Challenges, and Benefits

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2024

This decreases the amount of time the physician spends in the electronic health record and allows them to focus on the patient and all the non-verbal subtleties that can give physicians valuable information that will ultimately help with patient care. We are entering a new era in healthcare efficiency and patient care.

Patient Experience

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Bonus Features – December 10, 2023 – 84% of physicians still use manual processes to manage care transitions, 70% of executives prefer managed services for RCM, plus 26 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Roughly 5 in 6 (84%) of ambulatory care physicians use manual processes to manage transitions of care , according to a survey from WellSky.

RCM

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Zealous for Wellness: How to Replace Hype with Data

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This article begins a series that looks at useful measures of health and how the companies that promote wellness programs demonstrate their success. We’ll see measurements of objective outcomes, patient-reported outcomes, and what payers look for when they can’t get direct evidence of improvements in wellness.

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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 – February 12, 2023 – Epic tops Best in KLAS for 13th straight year, 89% of healthcare finance leaders remain confident in 2023, and more

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. for the thirteenth consecutive year and was also the top EHR in Canada and Europe. Partnerships CareCloud integrated Medicomp Systems ’ Quippe Clinical Data Engine into its EHR system.

eHealth

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Bonus Features – October 8, 2023 – 67% of Women are Having Issues with Getting a Clear Diagnosis – of which 25% are Still Waiting for Diagnosis or Gave up Entirely, Health Gorilla has 17 Healthcare Organizations Commit to Joining their QHIN, and More!

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. PEP Health’s AI-powered Patient Experience Platform releases its first report offering quantitative and qualitative insights on the patient experience.

eCare

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How to Plan for & Profitably Operate a Telehealth Program

Mend

MARCH 21, 2022

A 2017 article published in the New England Journal of Medicine identified five key drivers for the growth of telehealth: Drivers of telehealth program growth: 1. Advances in EHR and clinical decision support systems that can “talk to” telehealth service platforms. Patients Desire Telehealth. How do we ensure satisfied patients?

Telehealth

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

In full disclosure, last year when this issue was being curated, I was part of a team that proposed to submit an article for the publication, but our submission was not accepted]. patients in 2019 — patients, consumers, people, health citizens? I’ve argued that, instead of allocating over 18% of U.S.

Digital Health

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Connected Health Pulse

Bonus Features – March 24, 2024 – Data infrastructure investments have 124% ROI, 85% of healthcare workers believe AI can improve the patient experience, plus 28 more stories

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

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

Bonus Features – November 5, 2023 – Only 24% of healthcare organizations have successfully disrupted ransomware attacks, 83% of healthcare leaders say AI is or will be an essential skill, plus 20 more

Technology of Digitized Patient Intake Forms

Providence’s Long COVID Research Featured in “Nature”

Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Weekly Roundup – November 26, 2022

Bonus Features – June 18, 2023 – 68% of health systems lack the staff to handle another health crisis, 46% of Americans are using consumer health tech, and more

Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

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

The Rise of Chat in Healthcare and Remaining Concerns

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

Helping People Take Their Meds

Bonus Features – July 10, 2022 – Sequoia Project releases TECFA identity verification documentation, IBM Watson Health is now Merative, and more

How to Improve Patient Satisfaction in Virtual Care

HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

How to Automate the Patient-Provider Working Relationship

Bonus Features – August 7, 2022 – Patients like digital health but have security concerns, healthcare leaders optimistic “seamless” care is coming, and more

Is Patient Portal a Thing of the Past?

Rethinking Medication and Information Technology

Bonus Features – November 20, 2022 – 90% of healthcare buyers prioritize virtual care but want a clear roadmap, wearable data helped predict COVID-19 infections 12 days before the CDC, and more

Patient Portals Improve Healthcare Outcomes. So, Why Don’t Patients Use Them?

Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Integrating Ambient Clinical Voice Technology – The Impacts, Challenges, and Benefits

Bonus Features – December 10, 2023 – 84% of physicians still use manual processes to manage care transitions, 70% of executives prefer managed services for RCM, plus 26 more stories

Zealous for Wellness: How to Replace Hype with Data

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 – February 12, 2023 – Epic tops Best in KLAS for 13th straight year, 89% of healthcare finance leaders remain confident in 2023, and more

Bonus Features – October 8, 2023 – 67% of Women are Having Issues with Getting a Clear Diagnosis – of which 25% are Still Waiting for Diagnosis or Gave up Entirely, Health Gorilla has 17 Healthcare Organizations Commit to Joining their QHIN, and More!

How to Plan for & Profitably Operate a Telehealth Program

Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

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