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AUGUST 8, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years News Brooklyn provider automates patient experience tracking to spot health equity gaps At One Brooklyn Health System, tools such as the Brooklyn Health Equity Index survey are helping.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 19, 2020

A new survey of healthcare workers has concluded that in the struggle to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, fewer HIT execs are involving employees in health IT investment decisions. This is not a good sign, as it suggests that we may see a new wave of Health IT investments that end users hate. The survey, […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

New healthcare AI and Machine Learning research conducted by Healthcare IT Today suggests that many industry leaders are serious about adopting healthcare AI and machine learning tools and what’s more, that these technologies are being used as part of mission-critical efforts rather than one-off pilot tests.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

New research from a consulting organization suggests that while new technologies beckon and COVID continues to disrupt operations, healthcare leaders remain focused on the problems they’ve struggled with for many years. In […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A new survey concludes that many health IT executives are not too familiar with new federal regulations which, among other things, require that patients have more access to their health records and forbid providers from hampering health data sharing across networks.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2024

A survey showed that 85-90% physicians depend on their ambient voice, which leads to a 50% reduction on average in documentation, and thus saves 6 to 7 minutes per encounter. Learn more about Nuance: [link] Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In 2022, as cyberattacks globally rose by 38% year-on-year, healthcare became the third-most-attacked industry (behind government and education), recording an increase of 74% and reporting up to 1,463 incidents per week. Policy-based firewall tunnels allow this traffic to pass into the corporate network safely.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Lastly, most healthcare IT expenditure over the last ten years has been focused on digitizing patient records, and investment in cybersecurity capability has lagged other industries. Threat actors know healthcare is a prime target for extortion and target them accordingly.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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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. CDA can be utilized in numerous medical applications.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For healthcare providers, that means patients aren’t getting critical appointment reminders and confirmation text, as well as billing, test result links, patient satisfaction surveys, prescription confirmations, etc. the EMR, call center solution, etc). Some tools make the process easier than others.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2023

Better Provider Matching Helps Balance Patient Load – Kyruus Last year, Kyruus completed the acquisition of Epion Health to add patient engagement capability to their leading search and scheduling platform. We also spoke about how improving search and provider matching can help organizations better balance patient load.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. as executive director.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2023

There were a number of Health IT companies that came by at #ViVE2023 to share their latest product developments and company news. Here is what CPSI , Linus Health , Imprivata , Mediktor , and Fortified Health Security had to say. Yet only 25% of respondents had been offered a cognitive test.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The researchers added surveys to verify anecdotal evidence that patients like the AI solution. For instance, transcripts achieved, on average, 48 out of a possible 50 points on the “free from bias,” “synthesized,” “internally consistent,” and “succinct” domains.

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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. In a recent survey by medical malpractice insurer The Doctors Company, […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2022

While this trend hasn’t gotten as much attention as one might expect, US healthcare organizations are reaching a new level of AI acceptance. In fact, if a recent Optum survey is any indication, the vast majority of healthcare players have AI strategies in place.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

Today, only about half of practices use RPM, but surveys show that there will be dramatic growth – reaching about 76% of practices within the next year. And, by 2025, more than 70 million U.S. patients – 26.2% of the population – will benefit from some kind of RPM.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A recent report from Cigna indicated 60% of consumers expect their digital healthcare experience to mirror that of retail – and 50% say that one bad digital experience with a healthcare provider ruins the entire experience with that provider. Patient Access as a Use Case. Make sure automated tools integrate with existing systems.

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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). Healthcare has highly specialized requirements for AI and other technologies.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

He says that forms can be created through a drag-and-drop interface, similar to creating surveys on the popular SurveyMonkey platform. Weave also provides templates for common forms such as health histories. Figure 1: Registration form for a clinical visit I talked to Cam Holt, director of product at Weave.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2020

A new survey of independent medical practices and billing companies has found that they are leaning heavily on telehealth to keep generating income. The survey, which was conducted by Kareo, connected with more than 600 medical practices and 140 medical billing companies. The vendor conducted the research in late March.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

One annual survey found that 53% of physicians say they are burnt out, and in 2018, that figure was 42%. Health IT has come a long way, but today’s providers deserve elevated EHRs that go beyond electronic versions of paper charts. Here’s how.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 26, 2019

Not long ago, I shared the results of a survey concluding that healthcare organizations generally felt pretty confident about the state of their cybersecurity defenses, despite having had WannaCry wipe the floor with them just two years before. The survey, […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2020

A new survey has concluded that the vast majority of patients believe that remote monitoring of their condition can make a difference in their overall health. The research was conducted by Sony’s mSafety Wearable Platform Division, whose mSafety platform helps healthcare organizations build remote monitoring applications.

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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. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Healthcare AI. Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

New research has found that healthcare organizations around the world have big plans for digital transformation but often stumble when it comes to implementing this process.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2022

If you’ve followed our coverage of health IT conferences for any amount of time, you know that we love to attend user conferences. They usually include big announcements on stage from the company and you get to spend time with the real boots on the ground of healthcare IT. Next up was Prisma and search insights.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2023

While EHRs deliver valuable benefits to patient outcomes and the healthcare industry, they are often cited as a drag on clinician productivity. About Bill Lewkowski Bill Lewkowski serves as the Vice President of Client Services for HcTec, a comprehensive healthcare IT solutions provider.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The use of computer-assistant coding has been percolating along for a while now but hasn’t taken over the healthcare industry. However, it could find a much more extensive place in the industry in coming years as AI becomes more widely accepted within healthcare organizations, a new survey suggests.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

To all the other factors that hold people back from taking their meds, he adds social and religious factors, concerns about side effects and interactions, the stigma to admitting that the patient has a condition (particularly concerning mental health), and sometimes even opposition by family members.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

This could include surveys, focus groups, or a feedback option within the portal itself. Finally – and this goes back to the “talk to your patients” advice – I’d also recommend you regularly collect and incorporate patient feedback to improve the portal’s design and functionality.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2020

A new report from Stanford Medicine suggests that after years of holding it at arms’ length, physicians are becoming more comfortable with the use of patient-generated health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

There are now four different partnership categories (note: not levels): Member Services for established integrations providing complementary value Pals for companies with new products in new key areas…like abridge for clinical conversations and Talkdesk for contact center workforce management Partners for established market leaders in specific areas…like (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

If health plans and providers had any doubts that they live and die on the strength of their data management tools, they’re fading fast. A new survey has found that payers and providers are fully on board with investing in predictive analytics tools, and what’s more, expect them to yield great results. The survey, which […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2019

Health plans are eager to grow their Medicare business but may not be able to meet their goals unless they build out their tech and administrative infrastructure further, according to results from a survey backed by health plan technology vendor HealthEdge.

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