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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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2024

It was an awful experience for me as a patient and no doubt for them to have to review 3 different sets of forms. While not every office is this disorganized, the patient experience when it comes to clipboards and patient forms has a lot to be desired at many healthcare organizations.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2022

The Sequoia Project has released additional documentation support the implementation of TEFCA , the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement for health IT interoperability. And all respondents said labor shortages are causing an operational strain that’s adversely impacting the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 27, 2020

“Athenahealth’s clients frequently collaborated on topics such as telehealth solutions, revenue cycle management practices and ways to support their new remote patient experience,” she said. At Whole Life Health Care, the advice has made a real difference, Coombs stated.

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Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 13, 2023

AI scribe tools use speech recognition and natural language processing to capture and transcribe conversations between a physician and a patient during clinical encounters. For those who have tried AI scribing and have decided not to purchase yet, they are also looking to EHR vendors to provide a solution.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As someone who has written about health IT and EHR for 18 years, I like to think there’s nothing about health IT that I haven’t written about. However, more important than the cost, there’s a real patient experience and provider burnout aspect to this as well.

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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

MARCH 30, 2023

AdvancedMD is a cloud-based service merging an EHR with a health care management solution, and has recently announced upgrades to its EHR, practice management, and patient engagement functions. What do I care how many steps the patient is taking?” Doctors say, “When will I have to look at this data?

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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 Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

In a letter, the EHR Association warned that ONC’s proposed information blocking disincentives may be less effective than intended. Partnerships DeepScribe deepened its integration with Epic , now pushing documentation into specific fields of a patient’s chart.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

They know that modern platforms will improve their internal operations, help increase revenue collection, and improve the patient experience. But just like comparing different types of aircraft, the options for EHR solutions are widely separated in terms of complexity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow Workforce A balanced approach to deploying new IT that reduces the burden on employees and provides patients with enhanced services is key to stabilizing and advancing healthcare industry processes.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2021

There is a lot of valuable information lying dormant in paper and electronic documents in healthcare. Although EHRs have almost eliminated the use of paper charts, the same cannot be said for faxes. Fax continues to be a common method for sharing health information between providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

By giving providers the flexibility to support multiple modes of digitally communicating with patients based on their lifestyle and care preferences, 98point6’s asynchronous virtual care module helps mitigate clinician burnout while enhancing the patient experience. “In In more than two years on the platform, Bright.md

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | September 27, 2023 News AI-enabled efficiencies can improve patient outcomes and reduce clinician burnout "By prioritizing healthy data management practices through the deployment of AI, IT leaders. In this regularly updated page, we offer their perspective and advice. The process.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2021

Patient stories are powerful, but there is no easy way to capture them in a standard EHR. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) overcame this challenge by customizing their Cerner system to accommodate a special “This is Me” section where patients and clinicians could jointly document stories.

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Mend

MAY 5, 2022

Reducing the time they wait for staff to enter the data into their electronic health record (EHR). Provides a Better Patient Experience. For many patients, attending an in-person doctor’s visit is worrying. Visits to the doctor are less scary for the patient, and their medical documentation is ready before they get there.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The best document management systems drive improvements by not only storing digital healthcare data, but by also ensuring data is easily accessible enterprise-wide. Learn more about preparing your organization for enterprise content management and the adoption of a document management and imaging (DMI) platform.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

Virtual care aligns with strategic imperatives to improve health outcomes, enhance patient safety, and optimize the patient experience for populations with medical complexity and high healthcare needs. As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Paperless downtime documentation procedures were created to support the virtual nurses' EHR workflows. Additionally, we are tracking how these changes in skill mix may impact caregiver experience, patient experience, the cost of care delivery, and other nursing sensitive quality indicators."

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

General’s emergency room, the hospital’s care team documented a number of indicators that appeared to be related to a neurological issue. It’s no secret that time spent on administrative responsibilities, including time spent in poorly designed EHRs, are contributing to physician burnout and ultimately, workforce shortages.

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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. Three of them are expected – access to care, patient experience, provider experience – but the fourth one is where they really excelled: Measurement.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

At this year’s event, now part of Oracle World, John learned about Oracle Health’s plans to go international, build a bridge between EHRs and ERPs, and transition Cerner infrastructure to the cloud. Read more… How Virtual Observation Elevates the Patient Experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2024

Each day that passes, I’m seeing how ambient clinical voice has become the most impactful part of health IT since the $36 billion of stimulus money for EHR software.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

Supporting organizations include Epic, the HIMSS EHR Association and HCA Healthcare. HCA was in the news for other reasons, too – hackers got their hands on HCA patient data and put it up for sale in an online forum. Patient experience vendor Vital surpassed 1 million users across more than 100 hospital clients.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Colin Hung spoke to Neighborhood Health CIO Anthony Villanueva about enabling a grassroots approach to care by giving care teams NextGen mobile technology to document encounters well beyond the clinical setting. Cloud-based behavioral health EHR Valant received an investment from Resurgens Technology Partners.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2022

And the ONC has already received over 300 complaints of information blocking; most from patients and their representatives. Demonstrate and document your efforts to meet the EHI request. This means staff can get more done with less stress — a huge win for office morale, practice efficiency, and patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 22, 2023

Studies show that for every one hour spent directly caring for patients, physicians spend two hours on their EHR and other administrative tasks. This can lead many clinicians to spend more than six hours per week on EHR tasks, outside of their traditional working hours. But unfortunately, that’s the case these days.

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Xealth

JUNE 14, 2023

Paige Stocks, Director, Partnerships Digital health and DTx solutions pave the way for better patient experiences and outcomes. If a patient has a pacemaker, they get a phone call to check in on their pacemaker. There are documented pain points in cardiology that digital health can help alleviate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Physicians faced difficulty accessing lab results and other electronic health record content while on the call with the patient, which resulted in further delays. The practice’s providers have immediate access to patient data, including labs, X-rays and other tests. “Patient outcomes are the No. ” RESULTS.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2020

" EHRs: Automation can help. "Amidst the ongoing health crisis, clinicians need relief," said David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems, which develops EHR optimization tools. "The old way of sending transactions, clinical documentation and policy changes transformed overnight."

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 30, 2024

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. Patients are evaluated on the contents of the EHR, pharmacy data, and claims data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2023

Charting or documenting a patient’s medical records is time-consuming for nurses to do by hand and can become a problem if handwriting is difficult to read, leading to errors or misinterpretations. AI-powered charting software uses NLP algorithms to identify and extract key data points, like medical conditions or drug dosages.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 8, 2023

For the next step – directing patients to the portal – the health system put QR codes everywhere, from exam room walls to employees’ badges, and doubled the number of portal users in 12 months. Read more… Improving the Patient Experience With Online Scheduling and Chatbots.

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