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. Partnerships.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

Moreover, they are essential for billing and receiving reimbursement for patient care from insurance providers. However, EHRs have also produced a generation of doctors, nurses, and others who have had to become both caregiver and data-entry clerk. We determined that providers saved an average of 5.1 minutes per patient encounter.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. It’s amazing to think that PCPs are being notified about their patients so that they can ensure quality continuity of care. It’s easy to ignore these alerts when pressed for time.

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EHR Primary Care Hospital IT HIPAA 101

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2023

A 2019 article published in the American Journal of Medicine estimates that 37% of the time primary care providers spend with patients is actually spent interacting with EHRs. 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

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

AutoScribe embeds deeply into the EMR workflow and operates in real-time, which means that the AI-generated notes are immediately available to review, edit, and sign off without breaking provider workflow. It feels like I made a clone of myself and my clone is taking my notes for me,” shared Lynn Noyce, Nurse Practitioner at Pine Park Health.

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HIStalk Interviews

APRIL 10, 2019

I’ve been in healthcare IT for a long time. What are the benefits and challenges for hospitals in getting discharged patients placed and coordinating their care afterward? The big EMR push, Meaningful Use, and even ICD-10 took people’s attention away from the post-acute care side. That model is unsustainable.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 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. We expect to see more smart technology and automation in healthcare (i.e. As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.

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