Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

These new ideas and technologies are only successful, however, if enough people collectively take notice and talk about it in order to make it trend. This then results in certain topics being neglected – regardless of their quality and how much you would personally like to see them trend. advertising platforms).

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Digital health organizations that translate investment dollars into quality outcomes will emerge as leaders by focusing on core challenges faced by major players across the healthcare industry. Recent trends shaping the digital health space will mean some organizations are better poised to be successful in the market.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis put a laser focus on how apparent it is that data and advanced analytics can be powerful weapons in the fight against pandemics. And the CIOs in this tenth installment of our Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era feature series will explain these lessons and how they are going to apply them moving forward.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

But even years into the shift, there remains no comprehensive guidebook for success. While providers are rewarded for higher quality care, determining how to get there is left to hospital leaders. While providers are rewarded for higher quality care, determining how to get there is left to hospital leaders.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2021

For years, Dr. Mariea Snell, a telehealth clinician at the Maven Clinic and assistant director of the Online Doctor of Nursing Practice Program at Maryville University, worked in an inner-city public health clinic. It offers access to doctors, nurse practitioners, nutritionists, mental health providers and many other resources.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery ? The following is what they had to share. The AI actively guides conversations, ensuring compliance.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2023

could see a shortage of up to 124,000 physicians by 2033 and will need to hire at least 200,000 nurses per year to meet increased demand and to replace retiring nurses. It’s estimated that the U.S. It’s estimated that the U.S. The pandemic accelerated the need for digitalization across industries, including healthcare.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This can be extremely difficult for leaders in today’s health care environment. This paper hopefully provides some insight to new managers on how to succeed in a competitive, challenging industry. This paper hopefully provides some insight to new managers on how to succeed in a competitive, challenging industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Doctors, nurses, technicians, revenue cycle specialists, cybersecurity experts, and even HR staff are in short supply. In light of this challenge, healthcare leaders could be excused for deprioritizing DE&I initiatives, but Ebrahim believes otherwise. Indigenous groups, visible minorities, and women are underutilized talent pools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2022

Kerry Barker, RN, manager, Epic services, at consulting firm CereCore, and a former ICU nurse and nursing instructor at Brigham Young University, left the bedside for the IT side. COVID significantly changed the landscape for IT and the electronic health record. Some tents were located in parking lots of shopping centers.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 30, 2021

My physician said he expects vaccine boosters to become a permanent part of the annual flu shot regimen. Hospital systems are experiencing mass resignations as burned-out doctors, nurses, and administrative teams throw in the towel and move on to brighter pastures in a completely different career. Greg Kefer, CMO of Lifelink Systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2022

Coupled with a worsening nursing shortage , this is a huge problem for rural American families. As hospital consolidation continues nationwide, rural areas are beginning to take a new shape – and it is not a pretty picture. Even before the pandemic, maternal and infant outcomes in the U.S. were shockingly poor.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As healthcare organizations experience the profound financial impact of nurse shortages, care guidance is providing an innovative and efficient solution. As healthcare organizations experience the profound financial impact of nurse shortages, care guidance is providing an innovative and efficient solution.

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Dossier

JULY 14, 2023

facing nurse turnover rates climbing above 20% annually and total spending a staggering >$5 billion on temporary nursing staff from agencies, rethinking task distribution is one approach that could help to equalize workload and allow team members to focus on their most critical functions. However, with hospitals in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. I’ve been talking with hospitals all over the country this year, and in recent conversations I’ve heard more and more about virtual nursing. Kelly Conklin, Chief Clinical Officer at PerfectServe.

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Dossier

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

German health leaders visited Norway to learn. IMPRESSED: Lorenz Trümper (left), managing director of the University Hospital in Göttingen, and Geir Arnhoff, managing director of Dossier Solutions, were impressed with how Oslo University Hospital has introduced the Competence Portal. Michael Chr.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Meeting this surge in demand with our current systems would be challenging even under ideal circumstances—but post-COVID attrition of nurses, physicians, and other skilled caregivers makes it clear that there is no hiring solution to fix the issue. A radical transformation in how care is delivered is necessary.

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Dossier

JANUARY 12, 2022

It was fantastic meeting with and learning from amazing frontline leaders in healthcare. At one session in particular, the speaker shared that it can take 12 to 18 weeks to onboard a PACU nurse. I wondered if and how digital competency management plays a role in reducing administrative work to allow for more training time.

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Dossier

JANUARY 12, 2022

It was fantastic meeting with and learning from amazing frontline leaders in healthcare. At one session in particular, the speaker shared that it can take 12 to 18 weeks to onboard a PACU nurse. I wondered if and how digital competency management plays a role in reducing administrative work to allow for more training time.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sarah Carroll, Senior Vice President, Center for Care Transformation at AVIA Health Medicaid and Medicare have become one of the biggest quiet crises in health systems today. There are so many exciting new ideas and technologies being implemented in the field of healthcare. But sometimes, these changes can be concerning.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

The six health IT leaders discussing their plans for the next five years in this sixth and final installment in the series include: Cara Babachicos, senior vice president and CIO at South Shore Health, a health system based in Weymouth, Massachusetts. What does this mean for healthcare and health IT? A lot of new challenges. Dr. Matthias J.

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Healthcare Blog

JUNE 7, 2022

Automated policy management solutions have become an indispensable part of running an efficient, successful healthcare organization. Who knows how much an organization could be wasting on futile searching in the wrong silo and the unknowing duplication of policies and procedures.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2022

During a discussion among a group of industry leaders, one respected colleague said she wished we would all quit using terms like “disruption” and “transformation.” Rather than belabor these realities, many leaders instead are implementing technologies to serve as the connective tissue to bridge gaps created by these challenges.

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YouCompli

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In this article she looks at specific ways to engage and communicate with Nursing, Physicians, Sales & Marketing, Revenue Cycle, and IT. As a practical matter though, how do we make that a reality within our organizations? As a practical matter though, how do we make that a reality within our organizations? Physicians.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 23, 2023

We ask seventeen healthcare IT executives for their insights on how health IT solutions could potentially help address clinician burnout, clinician staffing shortages, and deal with capacity. Employee retention efforts have never been more critical and leaders are looking to technology to help their staff work smarter.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 8, 2023

Health and hospital systems must take a purposeful approach to IT modernization — which includes embracing new technologies — to ensure success. Health and hospital systems must take a purposeful approach to IT modernization — which includes embracing new technologies — to ensure success. chatbots and assume it will save the day.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2023

Chris Larkin, Chief Technology Officer at Concord Technologies We see healthcare AI as becoming deeply imbedded in our systems. As a leader, I look for repetition of tasks, and standard answers to common questions. As a leader, I look for repetition of tasks, and standard answers to common questions. Colin Banas, M.D.,

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YouCompli

MAY 17, 2023

In my experience, the effectiveness and perception of your compliance program directly correlates to how you build and sustain relationships with others. In a previous article, I discussed relationships with operational areas such as Nursing Revenue Cycle, and IT. Build relationships across risk assurance functions.

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Healthcare Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In 2022, there were reports of physicians, nurses, nursing assistants, care technicians, and other healthcare industry workers seeking to unionize and, once represented by a union, collectively bargaining with their healthcare employers. Three Key Recommendations for Employer Preparedness.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

Technology leaders at U.S. health systems have learned a lot this past year-plus. They've gotten better with adaptability and rapid implementation of new workflows. Some have learned that 24- to 72-hour downtime processes are inadequate to prepare for a 23-day outage. Beth Lindsay-Wood, CIO at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

One great success story of sustainable healthcare that combines those forces begins with a nurse who sews. healthcare leaders have prioritized sustainability. The following is a guest article by Melissa Powell, COO at Genesis HealthCare. Healthcare is responsible for about 4.4 healthcare rose 6 percent from 2010-18.

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AIHC

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Part 1 is an overview of challenges many health care leaders face with shifting reimbursement. Part 1 is an overview of challenges many health care leaders face with shifting reimbursement. Additional articles will focus on various specific areas, such as data analytics, and key performance indicators (KPIs).

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 2, 2022

The new generation of practitioners is trained to ask and observe more socioeconomic factors, but how do they address them? How does a physician or nurse help alleviate housing or food insecurity or inadequate access to affordable healthcare? If you do not have the data, how can you even begin to effectively impact the problem?

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

While patient volumes surged and crashed, as did anxieties and expectations, urgent care providers learned to adapt and pivot from normal operations to what was clearly becoming the “new normal.” David Stern, M.D., cofounder & CEO of Experity. Subsequently, the pandemic is continuing to change the way patients use and view urgent care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. 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. Check out our community’s healthcare business and value based care predictions.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 24, 2023

For the first time since 2015, there was a year-over-year decline in the number of data breaches reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR), albeit only by 1.13% with 707 data breaches of 500 or more records reported. million records in 2021 to 51.9 million records in 2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is the sixth article in Healthcare IT News ’ Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 feature story series, and it focuses on the kinds of stresses telehealth managers face, how telehealth technology hurts managers’ abilities to cope with those stressors and how telemedicine tech helps them manage stress.

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