Healthcare IT Today

MAY 15, 2023

In one example from Dr. Blackman, the team at Greenway noticed that in a particular clinical workflow, 90% of the time, the same data was entered into a particular field by clinicians across multiple organizations. Blackman was quick to point out that optimizing EHR workflows does not mean a complete revamp.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 6, 2024

Patient Portals Electronic health/medical records (EHR/EMR) have increased collaboration between healthcare providers, removing data silos and improving outcomes for patients. For example, a blood pressure monitoring device could connect to a mindfulness app that offers ways to relax and manage stress levels.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Building a Solid Foundation for Accurate Generative AI The success of generative AI in healthcare rests upon the synergy of critical components—enterprise knowledge graphs, industry-specific large language models, and unified data sources like Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and other healthcare-related systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Campaign Registration : Businesses must give examples of the messages they’re sending, as well as show proof patients opted-in to receive text messages from your practice. the EMR, call center solution, etc). The process is straightforward, though requires a W-9 form. Standard messaging and data rates apply.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2022

For example, in my experience name brand corn flakes are just better than generic ones. Turns out, the same is true with health IT software and more specifically legacy application and archiving solutions. We all know in life that there are some things that are just better than others.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Example: noise in drug interaction alerting. Another example of usability putting patients at risk. I could give more specific clinical examples, but this can also be applied more broadly as well. For example, if the EHR or other health IT software is difficult to use, it can cause two important patient safety issues.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Sides points to the use of AI to craft automated responses to patient inquiries as an example of over-hype: “I think there is a lot of attention being placed on doing simple things with AI technology – like using it to respond to patient emails. For example: “Was Test A ordered for Patient X?” I don’t find that very interesting.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Storage of Information in Various Systems While serving diverse medical institution needs, Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) parallel existence complicates information access and exchange between doctors, patients, and different medical centers.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Plus, they have the relationships with the interoperability experts at that vendor who can answer any health data sharing questions they may have on a new project. He shared an example of a pediatric EMR vendor that took weeks to integrate with initially, but only took days with their second client.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2024

I’ve always said that some of the most interesting things in health IT are when someone brings together the right mix of technology, partners, and users to do something that they couldn’t possibly do alone. I sometimes refer to this as health IT needing to put together the right packaging. The same is true in health IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2024

In fact, let’s start by expanding use cases that have already proven some early successes like screening and prioritizing medical imaging for Radiologist review or scanning large EMR data sets for increased risk for heart attacks, stroke, and other cardiovascular events. Tim Boltz, Healthcare Solutions Lead at Carahsoft Technology Corp.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Michael Blackman about new EHR features that capture and display health equity information at the point of care. The EHR can recommend food assistance programs if a patient lives in a food desert, for example, or suggest virtual visits if transportation to in-person appointments may be a barrier to care.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2022

One example of where automation can deliver significant results is patient access. While outpatient surgery might need post-discharge outreach tools today, for example, other departments might decide they could benefit from similar automated processes in six months. Patient Access as a Use Case.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Today, most health IT leaders seem sold on the potential healthcare AI deployment can offer, as its benefits are becoming clearer every day. It’s becoming almost a no-brainer to believe that AI can do great things for the practice of predictive analytics, for example.

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David Chou

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

At the recent Epic UGM, it was clear that the company is continuing to push forward aggressively, despite the turmoil in the health IT market. This solves a real problem for organizations in value-based contracts where the payers want access to the EMR records for the patient population. Payer Platform. Specialist and OR scheduling.

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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. For example, athletes’ recovery times from ACL/UCL reconstructions basically halved in time from what they used to be. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

A HIMSS statistic cited the average healthcare system as having 18 EMRs. I see five trends in health IT infrastructure that people should be watching: cloud computing, digitalization, information exchange, AI, and wearables. This is common in healthcare, especially with the merger and acquisition activity that occurs in our industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

And how can we make sure these devices are affordable, scalable, secure, and can interconnect with current healthcare technologies such as EMRs? Jeff: The examples Romina shared illustrate the intelligent use of ‘active data’. How will it change the healthcare landscape?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Using a collaborative, inclusive, and open approach, Holland Bloorview is blazing a trail and setting an example for other organizations. Innovation Examples. Hanigsberg shared three examples of innovative projects that her team is working on: Brain-computer interfaces.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 1, 2023

In one example from a health system utilizing Memora’s postpartum care program, over 32,000 messages were exchanged with Memora’s platform and less than 150 required a manual response from clinical staff.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 30, 2024

For example, one key way that AI is reducing administrative burden for front-desk staff is by enabling insurance selection, which reduces the frequency of claim holds and thereby saves significant time. Despite these advancements, the full potential of AI—to increase care access, reduce costs, and improve population health—remains untapped.

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Iris Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Behavioral health integration is not a new idea. It started to garner mainstream traction in the 1970s, and as we sit here in 2024, nobody disputes the idea that we should integrate mental and physical health. One example of this is data has also unlocked our ability to determine who should receive care when.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2021

One example of a […]. Balancing all of those competing IT projects that can provide value to their organization and improve the workflow for clinicians and patients is what makes being a CIO so challenging.

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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. Integrating diverse systems–BD analytics, predictive tools, medical devices, patient portals, EMRs, and more–facilitates real-time information flow, for real time decision making.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

At least in the early days, health system administrators were very excited about giving patients the ability to trade messages with clinicians, as they believed that getting patients to do so was a great way to get them more engaged with their care. In so doing, it joined Northwestern Medicine and Lurie Children’s Hospital.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

A few examples are obtaining permission to share information with third parties, having patients “opt-in” to communications, and putting the right data security measures in place. Technology plays a crucial role in HIPAA-compliant communication for behavioral health.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For example, a physician should be able to see all of her appointments for the day at a glance in one panel. For exampl e: Gather up patient summaries, codes, and claims, total them up, and send them to the CFO. Key terms would be normalized (e.g., revised to client , patient, or member as the organization prefers).

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Patients often have trouble getting access to health cares services, suffer from serious illnesses, and need a lot of reassurance and communication to establish trust. CareSTL, for example, makes use of the new AI-powered tool from eClinicalWorks that can help identify patients who are a most likely to miss their appointment (ie: no-shows).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

One of the nice things about living in Las Vegas is that almost all the health IT conferences come to Las Vegas. However, now that Oracle bought Cerner , the Oracle Health conference is now co-located with Oracle World and is being held in Las Vegas. Many EHR vendors are using AI, but only for very basic tasks.

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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

MAY 1, 2023

Although this type of technology can be beneficial, and the chatbot can help facilitate interaction between patients and providers, there are concerns about the accuracy of answers and whether it can consider each case’s uniqueness when being used as a summarization tool, for example.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2019

You missed out on an amazing coming together of the best community of health IT professionals out there. If you weren't able to join the health IT community in this event focused on practical innovations, you'll enjoy this podcast which looks back at the event and provides a feel for what happened.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

For example, a pharmacist will likely want quick access to a medications and allergies list, while a med-surg nurse might prefer seeing a snapshot of vital signs. Health IT has come a long way, but today’s providers deserve elevated EHRs that go beyond electronic versions of paper charts.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2022

2022 ATA’s annual conference had sessions discussing the barriers and successes to implementation and adoption of telemedicine and digital health under traditional revenue models. One thing to also consider: believe it or not but you don’t have to have to always go with your EMR’s solution or have all your software integrated.

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Digital Health Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

This formulary could become accessible through a clinician's Electronic Medical Record (EMR), but not exclusively, as the German physician’s adoption to EMRs remains relatively low as of now. At Therappx we make sure that this aspect is considered before adding an app to our formulary, as does Australia’s Vic Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

All organizations, including those in critical infrastructure industries such as healthcare, need to consider a three-pronged approach to protecting sensitive data: monitoring user behavior, looking at content accessed by users, and applying additional controls to the most highly targeted users—for example, those with privileged access.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Patient education is just one example of many where pharmacists could take a more active role in the healthcare system and we could all benefit from pharmacists’ expertise. Not to mention, they generally more accessible to talk about the medication and how it works than the doctor.

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