KevinMD

MARCH 19, 2022

What is it about the documentation of patient encounters that is so aggravating? How an AI bot transformed my EHR experience originally appeared in KevinMD.com. I was ecstatic to be part of the generation that entered the computer age in medicine. Read more….

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Regular readers know that I think ambient clinical voice is one of the most exciting things to happen in health IT since the $36 billion in EHR stimulus money. The promise of automatic note generation is so beautiful and would solve so many of the pains associated with EHR software and more generally clinical documentation.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 27, 2023

Powered by Amazon Bedrock, AWS will now offer artificial intelligence to quickly create clinical notes that can be added to EHRs. A new imaging service, meanwhile, could help reduce costs compared to self-managed infrastructure.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This shouldn’t come as a surprise since if ambient clinical voice is effective, then it could solve so many of the EHR documentation features that put such a burden on physicians in healthcare. If you read this site, then you know that my favorite topic right now is probably ambient clinical voice. The idea of […].

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2021

EHRs have been implemented for nearly two decades in healthcare and many usability issues still remain. Of these, one of the top issues reported by physician users in virtually every EHR usability study is clinical documentation. The following is a guest article by Michael Clark, CEO at DeliverHealth. The ONC concurs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The initiative, which is currently available to beta customers , is aimed at facilitating easier access to telehealth from within Cerner's EHR. Cerner users at hospitals, health systems, physician offices and clinics will be able to launch secure Zoom visits directly within EHR workflows, the companies say. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Today, we’re featuring the EHR Strategic Advisory Specialist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. This position was posted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. and is a hybrid position located in Ohio.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2024

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were designed to streamline operations and improve coordination across healthcare systems. And while EHRs have largely benefited the organizations that have adopted them, data accuracy is still a point of concern. Data entry is still fraught with human error.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Rapid City, South Dakota-based Monument Health, located in one of the current hotspots of the COVID-19 crisis, wants its physicians to be focused on caring for and engaging with patients, not typing up notes in the EHR. “Also, our physicians use Nuance Dragon Medical One to document in the EHR via voice.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 13, 2024

We haven’t seen this much universal interest in a health IT product since the government offered $36 billion in stimulus money for EHR software. Plus, we dive into the important topic of EHR integration. Singh also shares some more details on how deeply they are integrating with EHR vendors.

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Digital Health Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Telehealth is great for a lot of things, but reducing physician EHR burdens isn’t one of them, according to a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine. Time spent working in the EHR during PSHs increased from 4.53 Time spent working in the EHR during PSHs increased from 4.53 of all encounters. hours for every eight PSHs.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The tech giant signed an agreement with Epic under which the EHR vendor would become the first such organization to use the Teams connector function. Microsoft has announced two deals leveraging its Teams tool which could cast a long shadow over the rapidly evolving telehealth sector.

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 13, 2019

This variation—which leads to physicians searching different places in the chart for information or documenting the same information multiple times—is impeding safe and effective use of EHRs, according to a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) is more than just a healthcare buzzword; it’s a crucial process that significantly impacts patient care, healthcare quality, and financial outcomes. What Is Clinical Documentation Improvement? Optimized Reimbursement : Accurate documentation is essential for proper reimbursement.

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hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

It’s been widely-referenced that physicians spend large chunks of their days documenting patient encounters using electronic health records (EHRs), and now a new study has pointed to provider experience being a key factor in just how much time.

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TheraNest

APRIL 17, 2024

Thankfully, with e-prescribe integrated within your EHR, a powerful solution has emerged to improve medication management in mental and behavioral health practices. The e-prescribe tools integrated into your EHR help minimize errors and ensure precise medication management.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

"Having this kind of tool built into the clinicians' workflow by being embedded within the EHR is another level of convenience that is becoming table stakes at this stage." These tools aim to minimize clinician burden, reduce their time spent within the EHR, and answer patients after hours.

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KevinMD

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The administrative burden of medicine significantly contributes to physician and clinician burnout, electronic health systems, or EHR system design and workflow as a lead culprit. As such, recent EHR technology innovation tactics have focused on automating components of data entry and documentation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

By July 2020, clinicians were spending consistently more time in the EHR than before COVID-19. As researchers noted in the study, clinicians in the United States already have a greater EHR burden than those outside the country , potentially (but not always ) contributing to burnout. minutes of EHR active-use time.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are the central technology pillar for healthcare organizations. EHRs are vital to both clinical and administrative operations. Because of that, we wanted to dedicate an entire article to where EHRs are headed in 2023. What is your prediction for the EHR market in 2023?

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exec Summary: The intersection of large language models (LLMs), electronic health records (EHRs), and social determinants of health (SDoH) holds immense potential for revolutionising healthcare delivery and improving population health outcomes. Robust data governance and anonymisation techniques are essential.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Here, Lotan shares his expertise with the combined forces of telehealth and EHRs. When attempting to integrate telehealth with an EHR, what is the importance of synchronous versus asynchronous virtual care workflows? Furthermore, without EHR-telehealth integration, physicians would most likely have to input the same information twice.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

ECRI's Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety is working with the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association chart some of the common challenges involved in integrating behavioral health systems with primary care EHRs. Optimize clinical documentation for behavioral health and primary care integration. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2022

It’s also well known that many physicians remain disappointed with the charting and clinical documentation capabilities of hospital and specialty EHRs. According to KLAS Research’s Arch Collaborative, physicians want three basic things from their EHRs: strong user mastery, a sense of ownership and system personalization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The organization wanted an effective telehealth platform with new technologies to streamline the process for contacting physicians and improving documentation in its system of record. "They also offer a cloud-based, HIPAA-compliant platform that integrates with our EHR," she continued. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The Denver-based startup designed an AI system that lets doctors capture their conversations with patients and transfer those notes to EHRs.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2021

If you read Healthcare IT Today regularly, or listen to our health it podcast, then you’re probably tired of hearing me talk about the potential of Ambient Clinical Voice in healthcare. For good or bad, I’m probably not going to stop. At least not until it’s proven that it can’t ever fulfill it’s potential.

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33 Charts - Digital Health

JANUARY 31, 2018

If you got together the best user experience professionals in Silicon Valley and invested billions into the creation of The Best EHR in the World, doctors would still hate it. They would complain that The Best EHR in the World is destroying medicine and hurting patients. Sure design has a long way to go. I know because I was there.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

“We also needed to be able to conduct patient visits while simultaneously documenting the encounter, without disruption to our workflow,” he explained. But then his EHR vendor, athenahealth, recently launched athenaTelehealth. The experience was often frustrating.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

" By directly integrating video conferencing within the athenaOne EHR, the company says it hopes to streamline patient and provider experience. " Nurses can complete patient intake through the EHR and then initiate a so-called virtual handoff to practitioners.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The natural place to capture and display this type of information is in the Electronic Health Record (EHR). Greenway Health , a leading ambulatory EHR provider, has added new features to accommodate this non-medical information and make recommendations based on that data. EHRs have a role in addressing health equity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2024

THE LARGER TREND In August, Cerner added Suki's ambient voice technology to complete documentation with bidirectional sync and in September partnered with MEDITECH to integrate Suki Assistant into the company's Expanse EHR. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2020

What follows are some of the tools and capabilities that EHR vendors have added to providers’ arsenals in dealing with the pandemic. Company executives said its EHR technology is “helping health systems effectively screen and monitor their patient populations for potential cases of viruses.” Allscripts.

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 9, 2023

This HIPAA-eligible service is set to empower healthcare software providers by leveraging speech recognition and generative AI to revolutionize clinical documentation, enabling clinicians to save time on these tasks and enhance patient care. These notes encompass essential details, allowing clinicians to finalize documentation with ease.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Then, we debate whether we think ambient clinical voice will just do documentation or if it will become a two-way AI assistant. Lastly, we wrap the episode up by talking about how EHR vendors should be approaching ambient clinical voice and what it would mean for them. How should EHR vendors be approaching ambient clinical voice?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Increased workloads, difficult-to-navigate EHRs, documentation processes, administrative tasks, and more challenging work-life balance. One of the greatest burdens to providers is documentation. Electronic health records were introduced to make documentation easier and more accessible.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 26, 2024

At the end of a clinical session, Sunoh generates a structured note tailored to the EHR within 30 to 60 seconds. The doctor can edit the note manually or using voice detection, and the results are fully integrated into the EHR. They currently support eClinicalWorks , but are working with other vendors to support more EHRs.)

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