Healthcare IT Today

MAY 4, 2023

According to 2022 NSI National Health Care Retention & RN Staffing Report , the average hospital can save $262,300 per year for each percentage point it reduces nurse turnover, with operating room nurses being the most difficult to recruit.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Combined with the nursing shortage, razor thin margins, the need to reduce hospital readmissions, […]. Our healthcare system is approaching a critical time in which an aging population will bring baby boomers into hospitals and post-acute care facilities in record numbers.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

Many skilled nursing facilities are short-staffed, so patients cannot always transition out of the hospital in a timely manner. At the same time, there simply are not enough nurses and other healthcare providers to care for the people who will need support and resources in the next five to 10 years.

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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? About Romina Elias Romina Elias is the Chief Nursing Informatics Officer Dell Technologies. A nurse by trade, she has over 17 years of healthcare experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

This makes it possible for health systems to ensure access for all patients, but especially for those who need care the most, such as patients at highest-risk for chronic conditions such as breast cancer and heart disease. “I I started Actium Health with the belief that EMR data was being underutilized.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 27, 2022

” Cloud computing, EMR integration, and medical device integration enable greater reach and scalability for your health care facility. Below, we’ve highlighted why scalability is essential to every health system, and how AGNES Connect™ supports expansion goals within healthcare systems. . Related Articles.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In this video at the Oracle Health conference, Senior Vice President of Product Management, Suhas Uliyar describes how Oracle Health is creating tools that accompany and augment the workflow of physicians, nurses, and patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It responds to natural language queries and can understand the context of a conversation, so that physicians and nurses can ask follow-up questions. The large language model is used in the experimental AI Labs service, currently intended for training, not for clinical use.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

Bryan Hill, VP of digital health and innovation at Cognizant , offered a theoretical grounding for behavior adjustment: the Fogg Behavior Model that asks the person to define motivations, triggers, and abilities. Ortiz talks about connecting patient needs with assistance from family, friends, a nursing agency, or other help.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Corti offers AI-based, ambient clinical voice support for physicians and nurses. Because the solution is fully automated and works in real-time, it can make recommendations during a patient interview, such as suggesting extra questions to ask or the direction for further investigations and treatment.

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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. Healthcare facilities will use AI from an administrative point of view because it’s very difficult to hire in healthcare – there’s a physician shortage, a nursing shortage, and a pharmacist shortage.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2023

Nurse and Physician Satisfaction and Productivity In the past, the patient’s health was always the number one concern. One of the most significant benefits of utilizing AI in a health system is the ability to automate repetitive tasks that can contribute to burnout.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

When I watch doctors and nurses on Twitter talk about burnout, one common theme emerges. One of those core causes of burnout is the documentation burden and poorly created EHR interfaces which are built around billing rather than the physician or nurse workflow. Another wellness program or yoga room is not going to help.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It can serve every user from the patient to the receptionist to nurses, doctors, counselors, billers, and the CFO. It still holds true. If the patient-clinician relationship is diminished, outcomes will suffer. In 2023, six decades after the introduction of the EHR, I’m convinced the EHR can serve all masters – people as much as institutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Alternatively, it could be interactive, multi-channel outreach (sequential email, text and voice communications) to assess patient status after a procedure to reduce the time nurses spend on these tasks. Look beyond immediate needs and break out of “silo thinking.” Make sure automated tools integrate with existing systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2022

More than 60% of the 1,700 doctors, nurses, and therapists surveyed by telehealth infrastructure firm SteadyMD are interested in full-time telehealth work. ONC released a framework to improve integration of health IT tools used to treat drug overdose patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2020

A large number of hospitalizations end with discharges to nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, and other types of post-acute care.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 16, 2023

According to Eli Ben-Joseph, CEO and co-founder at Regard, their tool “amplifies and empowers doctors and nurses who use it to be the best they can be.” ” Regard is also dedicated to reducing the administrative burden on clinicians, where so many tools ask them to do somethning extra.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Doctors and nurses needing to go back to pen and paper to have data to conduct medical procedures demonstrates that the operational resiliency strategies and /or business continuity plans (BCP) that were in place by Ascension were not satisfactory.

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Healthcare IT Today

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

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Candance Lemke, MS, RN, NP-C a Nurse Practitioner at Bowen Health, for example, had her comment enlarged on several signs displayed at the UGM. Ambient Assist promises time savings for clinicians who are buried with too much documentation. Several NextGen customers have high praise for the new solution.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Evaluating This Study TPMG, as most readers know, is the largest medical group in the United States, with nearly 9,800 physicians and 44,000 nurses and other staff. This study provides encouraging data on some of these questions.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. Preparation ahead of the mandatory deadline is crucial for success and ACOs with multiple EMRs will face unique challenges.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The following is a guest article by Jessica Campbell, DNP, RN, Clinical Informaticist at LogicStream Health and Tiffany McCauley, MSN, RN, Clinical Executive at Elsevier. Much of that documenting rests on the shoulders of nurses, who use health information technology to help juggle their many roles: […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2023

When a PA, Nurse, or other advanced practice professional takes on the additional role of note-taking, their workload increases and they suffer the same frustrations. To overcome this burden, many teams add an additional care provider to the room to help with documentation.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to speak with Julia Hanigsberg, President and CEO of Hollard Bloorview (winner of the 2022 Medigy HITMC Award for Health IT Trailblazer of the Year) to find out more about their approach to innovation. Innovation at HBRKH. Holland Bloorview is Canada’s largest children’s rehabilitation hospital.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

These announcements were rapid-fire and met with applause from the audience: Slider Dicer NLP layer to allow researchers and clinicians to query the data using natural language like they would when talking to a colleague vs specific query language, available now URL Shortning & Engagement tracking for Cheers (Epic’s CRM), powered by Hello World, (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2022

The HPG consulting team includes IT and informatics experts as well as nurses, pharmacists, lab technicians, radiology experts, certified revenue cycle professionals, medical executives, program managers and project managers.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2019

As patients move from acute-care facilities to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), the sharing of critical patient information and associated data is extremely important for coordinating care. The following is a guest article by Sean Vandeweerd, Sr. Product Manager, PointClickCare Technologies Inc.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2019

Dozens of nurses and therapists. When multiple specialists and post-acute providers are serving the same patient, getting the right information to the right person in a timely manner becomes more challenging. Several doctors. Various settings. The complexity adds […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In many EHR, these messages are part of an EHR messaging system where doctors get notifications from patients, nurses, billing staff, etc. Patients love it and doctors are coming around on the idea that these messages can actually save them time since then they don’t have to play phone tag with the patients.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

JANUARY 5, 2015

Through Twine, patient collaborates with her nurse coach “We were looking for a way to help our Hypertensive patients get their blood pressure under control more quickly”, explains Dr. Katherine Rose, Brigham and Women’s Advanced Primary Care Associates, South Huntington. Care Collaboration for Hypertensive Patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2022

All around the globe, healthcare systems are beginning to strain and fray as physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals leave their positions or scale back their hours. Restoring our health systems and re-energizing staff is going to require change and improvement on many fronts. There is no silver bullet. Worrying Trend.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

However, EHRs have also produced a generation of doctors, nurses, and others who have had to become both caregiver and data-entry clerk. They also integrate related digital tools, such as those that flag potentially dangerous drug interactions.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As we continue our ongoing coverage of Fall Health IT conferences , I’m happy this week to finally being able to attend the PointClickCare Summit. I’ve been invited for a long time, but the timing never worked out. If you’re not familiar with PointClickCare, then you probably don’t work in the LTPAC space.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2023

Those that have been impacted the greatest of any group have been our physicians, nurses, therapists, and other healthcare professionals. The human brain is not designed to withstand the stimulation and endless distractions of modern, technology-laden lifestyles.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 1, 2024

UPDATE: Obviously this is an April Fool’s Day joke based on the number of health IT companies who tell me that they can’t get any media coverage but if Judy Faulkner from Epic sneezes, all the health IT media cover it (Shoutout to all the healthcare communication pros out there). Nursing Direct is hiring magicians.

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