Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

“Patients, their care partners, caregivers, and advocates are already utilizing AI powered tools and creating their own LLMs in ways that the average physician, healthcare executive, and health IT vendors would not believe. But how to bake in “patient-first-ness?” ” Cordovano further explained to me.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Not only is it impacting physicians, but that has a trickle down effect on patient experience as well. That’s why we see so much focus on how to improve the physician experience. We all know that Physician Burnout is a big problem in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

So Yosi Health works with each care center to replicate its business and workflow needs. Similarly, clinicians have traditionally balked at patient self-scheduling because the patient doesn’t know what types of appointments are offered and how to choose the right one.

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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. ” Wolters Kluwer’s Health division also recently commissioned a survey of 1,034 U.S.

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

Our desire for data liquidity has eluded us across the health/care ecosystem for too long, notwithstanding American taxpayers’ $35 bn investment in EHRs dating to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that embedded the HITECH Act funding EHR adoption for hospitals and physician practices.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2021

One of the most exciting areas of healthcare IT is the automation of so many of the mundane tasks that exist in healthcare. In many cases, our first efforts in this regard were to outsource these mundane tasks, but now healthcare AI and other things like robotic process automation (RPA) have come along to help […].

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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. But programmers need to be sensitive to the unique needs of patients and clinicians.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Becoming patient centric in your organization isn’t something that you can do all at once. It’s a slow process that requires you to think about the patient experience in every single aspect of your organization. But how exactly does digital transformation impact the patient experience?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2023

So this article turns to other barriers patients face, and how health IT can help. Key Contributions of Health IT A few years ago I was prescribed an antibiotic to take on a typical schedule of three doses a day for ten days. DarioHealth (Figure 1) offers online coaching, including help about how to talk to your doctor.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Gary Hamilton, CEO at InteliChart The surge in healthcare consumerism is empowering patients to choose how and from whom they receive care, prompting healthcare leaders to adapt to patient preferences for retention and acquiring new patients.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2023

Mountain Park Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center serving the Phoenix Metro area, cleverly used a QR code to help staff and patients adopt a new technology. Internal champions collaborated with their EHR partner, eClinicalWorks, to double the use of their new patient portal in just twelve months.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Ultimately, the vendor provided a customized solution that would be both turnkey and intuitive, something that would work for the specific patient population, he said. The Sano Health team provided guidance on how to make telehealth accessible and easy to use," he explained. "This was an iterative process. MARKETPLACE.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Patient intake : Patient intake is the process of registering new patients and getting them started in the healthcare system. Providers are investing in patient intake software to improve the patient experience and to streamline their administrative processes.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Scott Pross, Vice President of Technology at Monalytic , a SolarWinds Company 2024 is going to be a transformational year for healthcare, as IT modernization efforts will improve the practitioner and patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

This federal regulatory document called for sharing EHR data with. patients to improve their engagement and independent health management. Patient portals. have to be made a key tool enabling patient onboarding, with providers who managed to enroll. their patients receiving a monetary incentive.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. This will allow the healthcare industry at large to use AI and Automation where it needs to be used, to provide a better patient experience and increase the quality of healthcare delivery, instead of used to increase or decrease profits.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 1, 2023

ChatGPT, or other AI-based language translation systems, can serve as a resource for multilingual interaction, simultaneous translation, and can help to communicate a message in a patient’s first language, reducing the language-based gaps in health care and improving the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

ONC published a blog post highlighting how to meet the 2015 Edition Cures Update requirements for ONC certification. Specifically, certified health IT developers have a Dec. Firefly Health and Sprinter Health are integrating Firefly’s in-home clinical services with Sprinter’s virtual primary care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

Are patients afraid that you want to replace in-person visits with online communication only? Are they not technologically literate enough to understand how to use the portal? More than just mentioning the portal to individual patients, you should also talk to your administration staff about getting the word out at your facility.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, a provider can use RPM to better manage the care of a patient with kidney issues or diabetes, receiving more regular updates on important activities or vital signs to diagnose and treat emergent or changing conditions much more quickly.

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HIStalk Interviews

JULY 23, 2018

We knew that the next generation of digital health solutions would require data liquidity. We thought we had an innovative way of providing advanced data exchange between health IT applications. How widely are APIs being used in healthcare? Most of the major EHR platforms have API or developer programs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Health Equity and SDoH. Healthcare AI. Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care. Healthcare Workforce. Telehealth and RPM. Elizabeth A.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Jim Wallace, CEO of DecisionRx , points out that physicians are not usually equipped to collect measures of wellness, nor does the typical electronic health record (EHR) have fields to store them. And as pointed out by Shanti, patient data may tell you a problem exists but not how to fix it.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

I was pretty struck by the title of a session at the upcoming HIMSS 2022 conference in Orlando, “Papercuts don’t have to hurt: How to gain physician adoption.” Janell Goff, RT, Project Manager at Singing River Health System, and Dessiree Paoli, Solutions […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Measurable goals, such as reducing the A1C of a diabetic patient or signing up for a screening, are set as part of the plan. Measurements of progress toward these goals are uploaded to the EHR, as structured data when possible and otherwise as a PDF. For instance, did the patient have trouble getting medication?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

The clinicians then have to learn how to hold the dialog with sensitivity. Another article recommended by Rose points out that medication adherence for some of the most important and effective medicines (statins, hypertension, diabetes) directly determine about 9% of the Star Ratings for Medicare Advantage health plans.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

GHC decided to use the OTTO Health telehealth platform, which would seamlessly integrate into the organization’s NextGen electronic health record system and enable GHC to quickly and efficiently launch telehealth services, said Lionel Yu, chief operating officer at Garfield Health Center. MARKETPLACE.

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David Chou

MARCH 5, 2019

Besides focusing on EHR optimization, organizations see automation as a way to become more efficient and cut costs, Chou adds. They also are trying to figure out how to create the next-generation patient experience using technology.” Optimizing the EHR to improve clinician productivity 2.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

To better understand ways that RCM can be optimized and how to best prepare for any needed adjustments, we reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights. To simplify this, Lego found ways to create arched pieces. Below is what they had to share on this topic!

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

At ReMedi , we frequently support health systems going through transitions at various stages of the EHR life cycle. Along the way, we almost inevitably uncover challenges surrounding the quality of the patient data transferred to the new and existing EHR. Clinicians vs. Abstractors: Who should do it?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

“I can now self-schedule, and see when the patient has checked in, and when they’re ready and waiting for me,” she said. Patients check in online, which gets everything else in place to run smoothly, such as having the EHR ready, the documentation in the right place, and everything integrated for billing.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Additionally, automating processes such as this help to relieve employee burnout and simultaneously improve the patient experience. Traditionally, patient experience has been defined by a paper survey at the end of a visit and employee experience as an annual engagement survey with a myriad of questions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

" "With these core values in mind, we set out to find a solution that could disrupt the current delivery care model patients are used to and reinvent it using a tech-friendly solution that would meet all our core values and provide a better experience for patients across the continuum of care," he said.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2024

Dr. Siegal and the team at Navv Systems recognized that the real problem of mobile device management is not how to manage a pool of 1,000 devices in a hospital, but rather, how to enable each team to better manage their own individual pools of devices – typically between 20 and 50 deployed in a single department.

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