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Bonus Features – June 18, 2023 – 68% of health systems lack the staff to handle another health crisis, 46% of Americans are using consumer health tech, and more

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Reports More than two-thirds of health systems lack the nursing staff to handle a large-scale health crisis , according to an Incredible Health survey. A staggering 94% of executives said the nurse shortage at their organization is critical, in part because 53% of nurses have less than five years of experience.

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Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes, and more

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The survey of provider, EHR, lab, and digital health executives found that 69% of digital health companies experience gaps in their data sets, while 60% of health systems report that data retrieved from HIEs is duplicative or incomplete.

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Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

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Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023. With healthcare professionals working longer hours and dealing with increased workloads, patient experience has fallen to the wayside. Almost 75% say that this impacts patient care moderately to severely.

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A Wide Range Of Problems Still Holding Back Health Data Interoperability

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A new health data interoperability survey by Healthcare IT Today with 82 responses suggests that when it comes to interoperability, healthcare organizations are struggling with many of the same challenges they faced five or even 10 years ago. Without a doubt, respondents are still interested in fostering health data sharing.

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Bonus Features – December 10, 2023 – 84% of physicians still use manual processes to manage care transitions, 70% of executives prefer managed services for RCM, plus 26 more stories

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Roughly 5 in 6 (84%) of ambulatory care physicians use manual processes to manage transitions of care , according to a survey from WellSky. Nearly all (95%) of healthcare executives are interested in end-to-end managed services to solve RCM challenges, according to a survey from Ensemble Health Partners.

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Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

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A patient survey from Global Healthcare Exchange found that half of Americans are avoiding hospital care due to staffing shortages , while one-third fear that they won’t get to see the right doctors or spend enough time being cared for. Notable holdovers from last year’s list include Xealth, Redox, and Maven Clinic.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

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They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). That data can reveal important information that might not make it into the patient’s own record, such as an emergency room visit. See a survey cosponsored by Genpact.) ” The U.S.