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Bonus Features – December 17, 2023 – 97% of hospitals now capable of enabling electronic access to patient records, 70% of hospitals face hidden business continuity challenge, plus 31 more stories

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A survey from Turquoise Health found prices for “shoppable services” in healthcare are increasing roughly at the pace of inflation , though some vaccines have seen price increases of more than 20%. Home care EMR software maker Smartcare Software rebranded as Aaniie.

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Making the Patient Portal Relevant at Community Health Alliance

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Text Surveys CHA is also leveraging eClinicalWorks to push surveys to their patients via text. “We send out around 6,700 text message each month with a link to a post-visit survey,” shared Aros. ” The surveys are available in English and in Spanish. It’s a win for everyone involved.

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Patient Scheduling and Pre-Visit Intake: Let’s Give Patients What They’re Asking For

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Several surveys about the online patient experience were recently released. Surveys Show Widespread Dissatisfaction This article was inspired by an outreach to me by the company Notable , which offers an API to interact with health records and automate routine tasks during patient interactions. patients about their patient experience.

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Nextech Supporting the Independent Ambulatory Practice

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He cites a survey finding that 85% of patients would switch providers for convenience. Besides tight staffing and tight reimbursements, the practices tend to depend on elective services and have to satisfy people who are used to the conveniences of online retail and delivery services.

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In Survey, Many Healthcare Execs Unfamiliar With New Health Data Access And Sharing Rules

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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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Key Cybersecurity Defenses for the Healthcare Sector

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Unsurprisingly, a recent Gartner Peer Insights survey – Cybersecurity in the Healthcare Industry – also showed that nearly half of participating healthcare organizations have experienced a data breach in the past two years. Policy-based firewall tunnels allow this traffic to pass into the corporate network safely.

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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

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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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