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Why voice recognition is the new competitive battleground in healthcare's digital transformation

Healthcare It News

It is common knowledge that the most significant burden for many caregivers is documenting and annotating clinical encounters in electronic health record systems; Voice recognition is one of many tools that can alleviate the problem and reduce clinician workloads today.

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Is healthcare too hard for Big Tech firms?

Healthcare It News

So that leaves us with the obvious question: What will happen with Amazon's healthcare efforts? Amazon's recently launched Amazon Care has run into scaling issues almost from the get-go, with the unit's head acknowledging they will need " thousands of employees " to scale. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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With telehealth, one size won't fit all

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A significant percentage of ambulatory care will never return to a clinic. At Intermountain, a health system that serves a sizable rural population in Utah, telehealth programs were launched over a decade ago to extend specialty care in rural clinics. Some of this shift to virtual care will be permanent.

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How health IT's leading innovators are using AI now, and where they see it going

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

And many forward-thinking CIOs and other technology leaders see how fast AI tools are evolving, and they are looking excitedly to a future where further clinical innovation will occur at rapid speed. But they're also gaining big benefits in quality improvement, cost efficiency, and more.

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Healthcare's newest pivot: consumer identity as the cornerstone of digital health

Healthcare It News

This is akin to how consumers set up media preferences and shopping choices on advanced platforms such as the New York Times and Amazon. The fragmented nature of the data means that stitching together clinical, financial, and demographic data from internal and external sources is one of the biggest tasks for healthcare today.

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The best time to develop an enterprise CRM strategy is now

Healthcare It News

In a market with ever-increasing customer choices, including those offered by non-traditional players such as Amazon and CVS, differentiating requires a significant focus of time and effort. When developed from an enterprise perspective, a CRM strategy enables business, clinical, and financial objectives.

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Digital Health Disconnect Creates Unnecessary Roadblock to Patient Engagement

HIT Consultant

In the race to roll out telehealth offerings and digital patient engagement tools during the height of the pandemic, many providers and health plans inadvertently created a rag-tag assortment of patient portals, health apps and clunky websites that can be impossible to navigate and even more difficult to integrate with existing tech infrastructure.

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