Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We asked members of the Healthcare IT Community to share their thoughts on the growing role of the Internet of Medical Things in managing healthcare data.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

One Healthcare Solution’s premier software and expertise in EMR integration will allow us to support practice owners and physicians more than ever before,” said Emmet Seibels, President of Verustat. As a result, the company has one of the highest compliance rates among its patient populations in the RPM industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2024

Using the enormous amounts of data gathered over this time, serving more than 40,000 providers, CareCloud can train accurate AI models for clinical and financial uses. Learn more about CareCloud: [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

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The following is a guest article by Dan O’Connor, Vice President of Service Desk at HCTec The healthcare industry has quickly evolved to be very data-driven, and the role of IT has become essential in the patient delivery experience. Managing and troubleshooting these diverse components can be overwhelming for IT teams.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 27, 2019

This week’s chat will be hosted by Larry Kaiser (@LarryKaiser) and Danielle Preizler (@ddowns916) from @OptimumHIT on the topic “Ongoing Training and Physician Burnout” Multiple factors have been identified as contributing to Physician burnout. It […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Thus, the doctor has to spend more time correcting the note than with a well-trained human scribe. Despite “staggering advances in natural language processing,” AI-generated notes are rarely correct in all details and sometimes have major lapses. There are also other advantages to using human scribes, assisted by AI.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Carlos Aros, Director of Operations at Community Health Alliance to find out how they are driving the adoption of and engagement their patient portal. ” CHA has trained their staff to “talk up” the portal with patients, where appropriate. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 16, 2023

AI analytics are trained on data from diverse sources to reduce the risk of bias, and the tools are vetted by doctors before being released for general use. Learn more about Regard: [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

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The 2023 MGMA Leaders Conference (#MGMALeaders), a gathering of healthcare professionals from medical practices, showcased new innovative approaches to addressing industry challenges. MGMA’s Future Focus MGMA’s commitment to supporting healthcare professionals was evident in its future-focused initiatives.

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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. Conduct cybersecurity training for employees.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2024

According to CEO Gautamdev Chowdary, they have trained their voice-to-text transcription on medical input and made it extremely accurate with full automation. The ambient voice solution at Medvise.AI focuses on the revenue cycle. They have also achieved 100% accuracy in billing through a few extra features. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

In search of an answer to this question, we reached out to our insightful Healthcare IT Today Community and this is what they had to share with us. To address this risk at an enterprise level, physician leadership (CMO, compliance officers) will need to establish that best practices are followed consistently across the physician population.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 17, 2023

Many healthcare and life sciences organizations are already using chatbots today. From customer support to virtual assistants and education and training, these technologies have become increasingly ubiquitous. Drawing on the EMR for patient history and medication information.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Organizations may be ready from an executive leadership, technology infrastructure, and information governance perspective, but success is unlikely if operational teams aren’t fully prepared. In such cases, executive leadership must step in to dissolve teams and ensure the right people are handling the right tasks.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

While there was a lot of gratitude for being back together, it was also great to see the transition of leadership that happened on stage. Cool to see the transition of leadership at @PointClickCare #connectatsummit. Something we’ve noted at Healthcare IT Today is the number of vendors that were interested in the LTPAC space.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 6, 2023

HealthTech Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors - Industry Insights & Analysis for Founders, Owners & Investors. Visit , [link] Case Study 1: Orange Orange Enovacom is a leading French player in healthcare data interoperability and telemedicine. Visit , [link]

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2019

Modern EHR systems now provide full revenue cycle management for healthcare organizations, in addition to traditional clinical record-keeping functionalities. The following is a guest blog post by Kerry Harbeck, Director of Learning Innovation, and Andrea Kamper is the Innovations Operations Manager for Breakaway Adoption Solutions at Atos.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 5, 2023

Cyber criminals will continue to target healthcare systems more frequently, and the resulting breaches have significant consequences, including loss of sensitive patient data, reputational damage, and operational disruptions. My challenge every day is to keep up with healthcare needs while making sure patient data is kept safe.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2023

While Watson has largely been a disappointment in healthcare, it was still a demo and building block for where we’re at today. ChatGPT has been trained like you have been trained to fill in the blank on sentences. This is key in healthcare. These technologies aren’t without their limitations.

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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? High-quality training data that accurately reflects real-world scenarios is crucial to produce models that generalize well and avoid errors.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2024

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. A KLAS executive survey reports that the number of healthcare organizations deploying generative AI will at least double in the next year.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2019

When Colorado-based integrated health system UCHealth set out to reduce the burden their Epic EHR imposed on clinicians, it started by prioritizing improvements that affected the largest number of clinicians possible, along with distributing EHR tip sheets and holding training sessions. To […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2023

Proper EHR training and well-managed IT help desks are proven to advance system usability and resolve issues that negatively impact clinicians’ productivity and day-to-day experience. 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

AUGUST 4, 2023

Customization for customization’s sake can become unruly and impact how organizations manage costs, system updates, training, and more. At the same time, EHR flexibility should have its limits.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In case you missed part 1 of the EHR Physician Satisfaction Series, be sure you read it to understand the research background behind these predictors of EHR satisfaction and to learn about the first two predictors of physician satisfaction: Training […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 1, 2023

Current Concerns: Why ChatGPT isn’t Ready to Substitute Humans In healthcare, accuracy is paramount, and a wrong diagnosis or advice from ChatGPT could result in severe consequences for a patient. This could result in biased or non-factual responses for patients and providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

A trained specialist validates the quality of the note, which also helps the AI learn over time, before the clinician reviews it in the EHR. The conversation is then digitized and consolidated into a comprehensive clinical note.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

Ease of Use of a Patient Portal Unlike clinicians, patients do not expect there to be any onboarding or training associated with using the portal. Therefore, it is paramount that the portal system uses standard representations of visual elements and functionality.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2023

Through these efforts clinicians at all CPSI customer sites have access to the application and training. With front line access to the clinical teams delivering care, the company made the progressive decision to offer EQ Health alongside their solution platform at no cost. The results are inspiring.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 6, 2022

Anytime a health system moves its whole set of applications to an outside cloud vendor, it’s good to give that deal an extra look. Such a deal is especially visible and noteworthy, though, when it involves an organization as large and influential as Geisinger. What’s going on is that Geisinger is taking what could be […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2024

A vendor dedicated to service desks, such as HCTec, can handle logistics such as scheduling and training the service desk staff. UI Health switched its EHR to EPIC in 2020, planning to do intensive training for service desk workers after the switch. It can better scale up and down to handle 24/7 services. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

Communication and Training: Maintain regular communication and develop comprehensive training programs for medical and technical staff. Conclusion: Key Takeaways for Healthcare Providers In a sector facing financial challenges, investing in certified health IT and predictive DSIs is vital.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2020

During a global pandemic and with stressed capacity for our Healthcare professionals at an all-time high, organizations have also found that they need to revamp their onboarding and education processes for staff. The following is a guest article by Nanette Koch, VP, Business Development at Atos.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The following is a guest article by GP Hyare, Managing Director at ReMedi Health Solutions One year ago, the average EHR go-live involved hundreds of support personnel flying to a hospital and working on-site for four to six weeks. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the inability for so many individuals to fly-in and stay in […].

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2022

New research on the future of clinical practice suggests that being technology savvy will be more critical than ever over the next decade — but that the majority of clinicians still don’t feel prepared. While I could have written this headline ten years ago, the problem seems to be a lot worse at this point […].

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