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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

In his testimony on healthcare market’s consolidation effects on quality, cost and access, Paul Ginsberg, Director of Public Policy at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics cites some key drivers of consolidation. There are many considerations when EHRs collide. Other non-clinical considerations.

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The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

Health Populi

In 2014, ECRI pivoted the title of this annual report to “patient safety concerns,” a nuance away from health technology. While technology is embedded in this list, the headlines have more to do with social, mental, and behavioral health than pure-play technology and devices.

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Netsmart Advances Substance Use Disorder Solution Offerings Through Acquisition of Netalytics

Healthcare IT Today

Netalytics plans to enhance the Methasoft+SMART electronic health records (EHRs) with its integration into the Netsmart CareFabric platform with digitized, real-time referrals, patient health record history and alerts. Houlihan Lokey served as the exclusive financial advisor to Netalytics on this transaction.

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Bonus Features – August 6, 2023 – 83% of hospitals are collecting SDoH data, 46% of hospitals planning to use large language models in the call center, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Wolters Kluwer and Unbound Medicine released a mobile app that digitizes Lippincott’s Nursing Drug Handbook. Scripta Insights is integrating Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company ‘s discounted pricing into its Med Mapper program for self-insured employers and health plans. Value-based care platform Privia Health named David S.

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How UCHealth's Virtual Health Center has enabled innovation, scaled capability and capacity

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Suddenly the demand was more than the health system ever conceived it would be. "Scaling this virtual visit capability and capacity was an extreme effort by our virtual health technology team to add on the infrastructure to support the new demand that no one could have predicted." " Kathy Deanda, UCHealth.

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Three Ways Technology Can Address Healthcare’s Growing Pains

Mobile Health Matters

Currently, the process for documenting ECG strips in many hospitals requires clinicians to print the rhythm strips, then manually cut and paste snippets onto a piece of paper, before scanning them into the EHR. Technology applications are now available with the capability to digitally capture ECG strips and transmit them to the EHR.

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Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

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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