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

JANUARY 10, 2024

Dot Havard, Head of Global Workforce at CPSI In the US, the healthcare workforce continues to experience staffing shortages and hiring concerns. Looking to 2024, automation will remain another valuable strategy to address shortage-related issues by digitizing manual tasks and streamlining workflows.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and Colin’s 2024 Healthcare IT Predictions Health Equity Predictions Healthcare Cybersecurity Predictions Telehealth and VR Predictions And now, check out our community’s Telehealth and VR predictions.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

For acute care in particular, the patient’s full care team – which includes various specialists, nurses, EMS, and others – must have access to the platform from anywhere at any time, including via mobile devices, to collaborate and communicate faster throughout the entire patient journey, not just at one specific point of care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

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. We expect to see more smart technology and automation in healthcare (i.e.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

Truly making a difference in mental health next year will require evolution and long-term commitment, otherwise, we’ll stay in the same hype-cycle and patients will continue to suffer from a lack of access to high quality mental health care. Carolyn Ward, M.D.

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