Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Friend of the Pharmacist RFID relies on tiny tags smaller than postage stamps affixed to each medication container, kit, and tray. These tags store critical information and respond by reflecting radio waves from RFID readers. With an RFID-driven automated management system, hospitals gain complete visibility into medication inventory.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

It involves automating the most time-consuming forms of outreach and giving patients “admin” access so that they can self-service various functions at the touch of a button (via a text or chatbot). Those high-patient-priority capabilities identified by KLAS, like appointment scheduling, can be driven by EHR data and are primed for automation.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Voice-enabled tools fall in the broad category of conversational AI, along with chatbots and other productivity and automation tools. Region Tag: Global Edition. However, the maturity of the tools, especially in a clinical context, is a long way off from the promise of the technology. He is the founder and CEO of Damo Consulting.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Here is one example of how payer exchange is being automated today. Solutions are designed to remove the manual burden from staff and automate four FTEs annually in HI departments. Medical record requests are digitized, and specific data requirements are tagged. The definition of quality here includes four specific pillars.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people. These tags come in a variety of sizes and will vary in range and data quality.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) have benefited greatly from the acceleration and adoption of technologies such as AI, Machine Learning (ML), and Robotic Process Automation (RPA). By automating processes, clinicians can spend more time being clinicians and less time on non-clinical administrative and operational tasks.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Introduce advanced medical equipment to enable monitoring and alerting services Robotic process automation. Region Tag: Global Edition Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Healthcare's new equation = technology + operations Featured Decision Content: Mike Restuccia is the chief information officer of Penn Medicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

This includes an incident command dashboard of automated metrics to help assess the evolving situation. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: UW Medicine CIO's advice: prepping IT systems for COVID-19 Featured Decision Content: Keep everyone connected and regularly updated.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

AI-software automates and helps guide the telehealth tasks required to build, strengthen, and expand the patient-provider relationship. Automation allows providers—without any additional staff resources and without sacrificing physician control—to give patients better service by streamlining a host of capabilities: Appointment scheduling.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Ironically, this affordable-pricing strategy was pioneered by ransomware attackers in recent years, who have moved away from huge price tags that had their victims defiantly abandoning data, and become clever in sizing ransoms such that a business’s easiest choice is to pay up.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

As they roll out new leading-edge technologies – AI and automation, telehealth and remote monitoring, EHR optimization and patient engagement – they're realizing lasting positive outcomes for their patients and their bottom lines.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Andrea Fox | August 29, 2023 News HCA working with Google Cloud on clinical generative AI The healthcare giant will expand its work with Google to help automate workflows and streamline. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Patient Engagement

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Many of the early DIY tools omitted the clues that disabled visitors depend on—for instance using raw markup to make a phrase look like a heading when they should use an HTML tag for headings. The next article in the series looks at the relationship between automated and manual reviews of accessibility, and discusses some automated tools.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2022

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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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

the opposite of a simple price tag. As a stopgap measure, digital health tools can decrease the outward flow of people leaving the industry by automating some tasks and reducing administrative burdens. That includes improving price transparency.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2023

But while self-service helps by automating common requests, such solutions are often not sufficiently integrated to cover the entire customer journey. While the former collects customer requests, the latter tags and categorizes the requests , to automatically resolve a portion of them, and to forward more complex requests for human review.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Digital enterprise vaccination management platforms will have to be built to inform the public, schedule vaccinations, automate mobile facilities, monitor outcomes and manage the supply chain for COVID-19 vaccines. The end goal is to move closer to the quadruple aim of healthcare … but digitally.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Learn more about the survey, and the role of automation in supporting patient scheduling, communication, and engagement, in the recent Healthcare IT Today interview with Stericycle’s Matt Dickson.). DoseData released an RFID-tagged drug database to help pharma companies monitor drug supplies within hospital inventory systems.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Additionally, these services can have a substantial price tag for pharma manufacturers, adding further to the financial burdens of compliance. Automation also enables on-demand report generation based on triggering events, which helps user organizations ensure that filings are timely. State Price Transparency Software Solutions.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 26, 2022

Other industries like banking and retail can get away with more automation and fewer humans. Digital health platforms can lean on similar solutions to automate some outdated processes. Phone tags and missed calls are common. Healthcare is different. A Zoom call can replace an in-person visit for a common cold.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In addition to providing doctors with relief from unnecessary administrative burden, patients are looking to DPC for higher quality healthcare with a transparent price tag. HintOS is the leading platform designed for providers of any size to manage the unique complexities of a membership-based primary care model.

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Compliancy Group

JULY 29, 2022

For the 12th consecutive year, healthcare breaches had the highest price tag. Other ways organizations can lower breach costs include: Deploying security automation and AI: saving $3.05 Each year IBM works with Ponemon Institute to research breaches across several sectors of the economy. This is an increase of 9.4% compared to 2020.

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Dot Compliance

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Today’s eQMS platforms feature fully automated workflows, end-to-end visibility, and control over all quality related processes in one place. Do your research to determine the capabilities and overall value solutions providers can offer compared with their price tags.

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Healthcare Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

However, MCN can provide you with a solution to Create policies and procedures Maintain policies and procedures through automated policy approval workflow processes Update policies and procedure Ensure easy policy accessibility Tracking and reporting Employee acknowledgment of new and updated policies and procedures So, What Is the Next Step?

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

ASCA members can view an ASC-specific surveyor tag tool. They use robust billing software with regulatory guidelines, automated coding checks, and auditing functions. Refer to the Interpretive Guidelines in Appendix Z of the State Operations Manual and this website for additional information.

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Healthcare Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Automated Processes: Using the software, the organization is able to assign approvals, revisions, and policy management to the appropriate personnel within each policy’s lifecycle at the designated time. Automated Policy Distribution: Quickly assign policies and procedures to staff for review and acknowledgement.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Many hospital leaders are turning to digital transformation tools like generative AI and intelligent automation to reduce administrative burdens and support efficient operational workflows. Intelligent automation tools are also designed to be integrated into nurses’ workflows rather than be a disruption.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Remote monitoring and automated communication. A vast and growing array of automated communication tools allows caregivers to use rule-based messaging to push everything from health coaching, post-discharge care instructions, and appointment reminders through IVR, text, SMS, and mobile alerts.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Many of those interviewed expressed that most of the workflows and processes involved in their day-to-day are manual – due to a lack of technology solutions, systems, and automation. RTLS implementations have an immediate impact by automating proactive patient communications, and sharing status details, wait times, and directions.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2023

Beneficial visibility is achieved through IoT-enabled location technology, badges, tags, and sensors. Implementing a single RTLS solution such as asset management or using sophisticated workflow automation tools in only the most critical locations can still provide valuable insights and cost savings.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2022

Analytics and automation can also reduce administrative burdens, allowing care providers to focus less on administrative demands and more on interactions with patients. Region Tag: Global Edition. The vision of future healthcare will look different across agencies.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

These automated models can monitor so many people efficiently that they have potential applications in public health as well as diagnosis and treatment. Readers of this publication probably have heard of the impressive advances in analyzing voice patterns for disease. Koye in turn is promoting a Sonde app to clinicians.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

There are a lot of “blockbuster” drugs coming to market today and in the near future with eye-watering price tags. They reported, among other things, a 90+% automation rate for their claims processing function. David Cordani, Cigna’s CEO, shared an interesting “big picture” perspective.

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 2, 2023

Cloud-based credentialing platforms organize, expedite, and simplify credentialing by intelligently automating much of the process. Thankfully, there’s an answer to modern-day credentialing that expedites the process without lowering the bar for quality: online credentialing software.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 7, 2022

– Tap into analytics: Whether it takes place inside the EHR or elsewhere, automation and analytics are key to improving operations and care. Data availability—as well as the proper tagging systems and training—is the foundation to enabling the digital transformation needed in healthcare.

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Redox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

According to the 2020 CAQH index , PA is the single largest expense for the healthcare industry with a total price tag estimated at about $767 million annually. Manual transactions are about 34% of the total PAs processed, and another 45% are partially electronic. Just 21% are fully electronic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Any abnormal responses or vital stats are tagged and reported to: a healthcare organization partnering with the employer, a clinician on the employer’s staff, or a human resources professional, for a referral to a COVID-19 testing site to confirm an infection and prevent spreading the virus in the workplace.

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