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Support Growing for Pharmacists to Ease Physician Workload

Healthcare IT Today

This is especially true in primary care where there are not enough physicians to meet the growing patient demand. Pharmacists, for example, are trained and licensed to prescribe and renew a small number of medications. This is leading to access challenges and to burnout.

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Bonus Features – April 21, 2024 – 89% of physicians said generative AI vendors need to be transparent about where info comes from, 73% of consumers expect a 4-star rating before they’ll engage with a provider, plus 21 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Another 13% do it to transition to retirement, and 13% more do it because they’re in between phases of training. Less than 26% of patients said they’d experienced a high level of care , according to a report from Soliant. That’s compared to more than 36% who said they were dissatisfied with their care experience.

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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

“Encouraging generative AI adoption in healthcare depends on instilling models with empathy and domain-specific knowledge, mitigating bias by connecting the data ecosystem and continuously fine-tuning models, keeping humans in the loop and developing more cost-effective ways to train and run multi-modal foundation models,” the paper recommended.

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Crystal Ball Chronicles: Reflecting on Out of Pocket Health’s 2024 Predictions

Redox

Original prediction: We won’t see accelerated adoption of interoperability standards (e.g., HL7 ® , HL7 ® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources or FHIR ® ). The argument makes sense in the abstract or hypothetical use of large swaths of healthcare data for ML training and insight. Data standards rendered obsolete?

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The Future of Health Is “Now,” Deloitte Says; But Are Consumers Living and Loving It?

Health Populi

” Self-care in the pandemic drove virtual health care visits up across generations due to elective procedures and primary care shifting to telehealth platforms, and some consumers’ concerns about heading back to brick-and-mortar health care settings for in-person high-touch care.

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COVID-19 and digital transformation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Government & Policy Interoperability Telehealth The director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay writes about significant acceleration of digital transformation across the UK. In the space of weeks, primary care services in the UK have switched from 1.2

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Weekly Roundup – December 3, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

At the CHIME Fall Forum, John sat down with Hannah Ellerbee at Divurgent about what leadership should look out for, whether it’s inadequate staff training or poorly performing technology tools. Read more… Direct Primary Care Well Represented at #HLTH2022.