Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A promising trend emerging in health IT for 2024 is the integration of automation tailored for ambient documentation creation. This technology facilitates the capture of clinical documentation during most patient engagements. No doubt, these technologies will play an increasing role in EHRs and the overall healthcare ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2023

"Our value-based services nursing team then monitors these patients in between MH@H visits," Rubin noted. "We worked closely with our clinical leadership to develop acceptable ranges for the various readings so if a reading was out of that range, it would alert the nurses on the portal they monitor.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Part of Appalachian Regional Healthcare System, Wautaga Medical Center in rural Boone, North Carolina, already was busy before COVID-19 hit, and leadership knew their current hospitalist staff could not handle the onslaught of patients coming through during the pandemic. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. Documentation and billing still were to be completed within the EHR.” THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

We focused especially on systems that use advanced machine learning techniques to address the serious problem of physician burnout related to heavy workloads required to document patient care in electronic health record systems (EHRs). One source of burnout is the heavy workload required to document patient-provider interactions.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Evaluating This Study TPMG, as most readers know, is the largest medical group in the United States, with nearly 9,800 physicians and 44,000 nurses and other staff. ” The EHR also provided useful statistics, because the organization could track how much time doctors logged into it.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

When the sector is set to face shortages of between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034, generative AI could alleviate administrative work, such as summarizing patient calls and managing electronic health records (EHRs), to allow medical staff to focus on improving patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2023

With the addition of Corridor, WellSky expands its comprehensive services — including medical coding, clinical documentation review, billing, and collections services — that address these challenges within the post-acute and long-term care sectors. For more information visit corridorgroup.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

One challenge is that many doctors and nurses are skeptical that IT is going to help alleviate their burnout. Clinicians views are skewed because of how EHR software has impacted them and their work lives. Plus, we want it documented in a granular manner which takes work.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Andy Oram dove into the approach Health Note is taking to questionnaires, which includes combing EHR data to create specific questions relevant to each patient and customizing for different types of care providers , including schools and community clinics. Read more… CIO Podcast : Health IT’s Role in Leadership.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Here’s a look at the 2nd set of questions that ChatGPT provided us after this extra prompt: How is the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) changing the way doctors and nurses document patient care? So, we asked ChatGPT to make the questions more specific and interesting.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

When I watch doctors and nurses on Twitter talk about burnout, one common theme emerges. One of those core causes of burnout is the documentation burden and poorly created EHR interfaces which are built around billing rather than the physician or nurse workflow. Another wellness program or yoga room is not going to help.

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Digital Health Today

JANUARY 28, 2021

Since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was passed in 2009, healthcare has digitized rapidly, with electronic health records (EHRs) now ubiquitous across medical practices – except for within behavioral health. Why EHRs Haven’t Caught On in Behavioral Health.

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As an industry leader in healthcare data and clinical workflows, Cerner presents unique value for becoming the foundation for which Oracle will build their next generation EHR. Key takeaways: From a nursing perspective – focus on virtual nursing. How to be the eye in the sky.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. I’ve been talking with hospitals all over the country this year, and in recent conversations I’ve heard more and more about virtual nursing. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

"What we thought would take months took us days, and we leveraged the capability of our Epic EHR to stand up on-demand and scheduled video visits using Zoom for Healthcare and our own providers. "Our assets included an engaged leadership team that supported our virtual health strategy and was willing to invest in it," he said.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 24, 2024

According to Cindy Gaines, chief clinical transformation officer at Lumeon , many organizations just adapted their paper process to their new EHR and didn’t realize the efficiencies they expected. The opposite can happen too easily, as the industry saw after the adoption of electronic health records in the 2010 decade.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The combination of evolving data lakehouse architectures and powerful generative AI unlocks unprecedented value in loosely structured and unstructured data and, increasingly, machines are much less discriminating between a finely structured FHIR document and a poorly scanned PDF—and the latter may be richer than the former.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2023

" "To perform the model of telehealth correctly, it was vital that the medical assistants, nurses, LPNs and other support staff were fully engaged in the intake process to ensure a smooth visit for patients."

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2021

EHR auto documentation). Here's a look at the topic and questions we discuss on this episode: * Nurse Shortage/Physician Shortage - Is burnout causing them to leave? I hate my EMR) and others point to health IT as the potential solution (ie. In this episode we dive into those details.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. The AHA’s aim was to reduce unnecessary documentation and streamline the coding process.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

These announcements were rapid-fire and met with applause from the audience: Slider Dicer NLP layer to allow researchers and clinicians to query the data using natural language like they would when talking to a colleague vs specific query language, available now URL Shortning & Engagement tracking for Cheers (Epic’s CRM), powered by Hello World, (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

Jude employees working remotely during the initial pandemic response, we also had to look at effective leadership through a different lens." Nursing continues to explore ways to use telehealth for inpatient care to reduce the use of personal protective equipment and the number of times in and out of patient rooms."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

"Our vice president for patient care and chief nursing officer said, 'We have worked downtime out of our processes.' "Our vice president for patient care and chief nursing officer said, 'We have worked downtime out of our processes.' IT does make us more efficient and that is why we make these investments."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

With some 95 percent of healthcare providers having deployed EHRs, the healthcare system is officially digital. AI-powered clinical documentation boosts patient satisfaction and physician well-being. Springboard Enterprises Director Rebecca MacKinnon details how her firm helps with leadership development for female entrepreneurs.

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American Well

APRIL 29, 2021

To recognize these achievements and highlight those who have shown exceptional vision and leadership, Amwell is proud to announce its annual Client Awards in four award categories: Empowering Providers: For partnering with providers to enhance the virtual care experience for long-term adoption. New Models, New Normal. Cook County Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

For acute care in particular, the patient’s full care team – which includes various specialists, nurses, EMS, and others – must have access to the platform from anywhere at any time, including via mobile devices, to collaborate and communicate faster throughout the entire patient journey, not just at one specific point of care.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Corporate Development for Healthcare Technology companies in EMEA Healthcare Technology Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors – Market Insights, Analysis & Predictions. Pristine is a tech start-up at the forefront of developing Glass apps for surgeons, nurses and anesthesiologists for use before, during and after surgery.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 13, 2023

Clinicians consistently communicate their frustration with capturing proper clinical documentation from sessions within the EHR as one of the most challenging and disheartening parts of their role, and with these new AI virtual scribe applications, it seems likely that frustration level is likely to change substantially in the next couple of years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2021

"That attention to detail has really helped us reduce downtimes when performing routine maintenance on our EHR. " "We are extremely fortunate to have physicians and nurses who are very engaged and eager to interact with IT. "And the BAA is as important a document as is the contract language itself.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

We expect a majority of health systems will be engaged with AI (NLP, Gen AI) use in clinical documentation and conversational AI either in pilot or some level of scale form. AI can listen to patient visits and integrate accurate notes and next steps directly into the EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

Nurse compensation is needed to improve the healthcare system. Recognizing the pivotal role nurses play in patient care, there will be a growing emphasis on improving nurse compensation to enhance the overall healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

A successful revenue integrity program requires a multidisciplinary approach with the involvement of executive leadership and the establishment of a culture of transparency and accountability. Jordan Miller, Senior Medical Director of Dermatology at ModMed U.S.

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HIStalk Weekender

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

VA Secretary Robert Wilkie tells the Senate VA Committee that he and representatives at the DoD are working to create a “single point of authority” for their respective EHR projects with Cerner. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center leadership defends itself to its employees following reports that it gave for-profit AI startup Paige.AI

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2023

Dr. Ben Barlow, Chief Medical Officer at Experity Providers can utilize EHR documentation provided by social workers, community health workers, case managers, or nurses – all who are members of the community hearing firsthand from patients the health disparities they face.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

However, as the demand for contract employees and staff such as travel nurses got out of control, the cost and rates for these workers skyrocketed. Amy Campbell, RN, MSM, CCCDS-O, Clinical Documentation Improvement Manager, at Health Language. This is leading to 631 rural hospitals across the U.S. Rob Cohen, CEO at Bamboo Health.

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HIStalk Weekender

AUGUST 10, 2018

DoD will be first in line once it’s ready, so as to exhibit “leadership,”right?) However once you hit “whole organization” level systems, as you do with an organization-wide EMR/EHR, putting a bit of distance between you and the primary vendor becomes important. Now in a sense, that’s what a doctor or nurse does when they go in.

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