Bill of Health

MARCH 9, 2024

As I (and many , many others) have documented elsewhere, although they hold themselves out as medical centers for pregnant women, CPCs do not provide the care they promise, troubling given our current crisis in maternal morbidity and mortality particularly among Black women and in communities of color generally. We do all this creepy stuff!

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 12, 2024

We interviewed Hayward for a deep dive into genAI and to find out what her main message is to attendees of HIMSS24 in the exhibit hall. Healthcare organizations we work with agreed, but to gain the benefits of AI in their contact centers, they needed a solution that accounts for their unique requirements and workflows.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2024

Never has any modern tool promised greater efficiency and support than what generative AI offers. We interviewed him to discuss how their partners in Asia-Pacific and the United States have received genAI, where this trend can go in 2024, and how healthcare stakeholders can effectively extract genAI's immense value.

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Doctors Hospitals Governance Health Insurance 239

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2024

For the 71st episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Richard Clark, PhD, Senior Vice President and Chief Analytics Officer at Highmark Health to discuss data, analytics, and AI! We then shift from AI to data and analytics, and debate over how much data is enough data. How much data is enough data?

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Hospitals 102

MRO Compliance

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We then chatted about the need for payers and providers to work together in order to improve patient experience, and more broadly, requester experience. So, can you describe what clinical data exchange is, and its relationship to medical records? So, we launched a new product in June of this year at the HFMA Conference in Nashville.

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Medicare Medicare 169

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 13, 2024

We haven’t seen this much universal interest in a health IT product since the government offered $36 billion in stimulus money for EHR software. However, this feels very different since healthcare organizations are evaluating ambient clinical voice solutions on their merit versus chasing government money. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 25, 2023

"Unsurprisingly, we experienced a surge in demand much like other specialties in our system. "We quickly saw that increase to a maximum of 19,000 outstanding referrals," he continued. As a department, we were at a point where it would take close to six months for patients to get in to see one of our providers."

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Telemedicine 308

Bill of Health

JUNE 22, 2022

What is a patent? You disclose to the public your invention, that’s what a patent does. What is a patent waiver, and what effects does it have? We still have the know-how problem and the raw materials problem. What other IP protections do COVID vaccine manufacturers use? What is mRNA?

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So oftentimes, they simply don’t do it." MEETING THE CHALLENGE "We used our existing coworkers, who are trained and certified to perform the exam," Shirar noted. Our teams align the individual's head in the camera, take two images of each eye (without dilation), and 40 seconds later we have a diagnostic result.

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Patient Satisfaction FDA 265

Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

But what can provider organizations do to accelerate virtual care adoption? What are workflows that showcase the potential of hybrid care delivery – in-person encounters and virtual sessions – in the future of healthcare? Telehealth solutions also can be used to share knowledge from experienced nurses.

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Nurses Doctors Hospitals COVID-19 358

Healthcare It News

MAY 4, 2023

"The problem: We needed to track these critical SDOH factors and link them to outcomes," he continued. "Paper records are inefficient, and we couldn't quantify or objectively examine the data. "We implemented the EHR so people could apply data insights and illustrate its value," he continued.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 5, 2023

What is the goal of this project? Over the past decade, the implementation and adoption of digital solutions that enable patients to communicate with their care teams more easily between visits have brought tremendous benefits in terms of experience and engagement. What will you be cautioning your providers about LLM AI?

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Health Outcomes 283

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2024

We have more monitors at our fingertips than ever before that are all watching and alerting us of potential problems for the patients that need to be addressed. Doing so allows an organizations to enhance clinical decision support tools and also foster a more holistic approach to healthcare delivery.

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Nurses Hospitals 90

Bill of Health

MAY 11, 2022

On the contrary, being adopted into a white family and raised in a majority white community has been filled with the tension between the realities of what I was experiencing and feeling, and what others thought I should be. I believed what I had been told: that my mother of origin loved me so much, she wanted me to have a better life.

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Public Health 359

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2024

“What can we do today that can directly influence patient care and care-givers?” ” Plus, he dives into age old questions like: How do you balance leveraging existing technology vs new solutions? Should a healthcare organization use a vendor neutral solution or a closed ecosystem?

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Hospitals 73

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

What was the main message you heard at the conference? What were the overarching themes? Overall, health systems are trying to provide high-quality care to all of their patients, and they're starting to see that you can't do that in certain markets without the use of telemedicine. What came out of that discussion?

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Telemedicine Doctors Nurses Licensing 253

HIT Consultant

MAY 1, 2024

What You Should Know: – Prescryptive Health , a leading healthcare technology company, today announced the National Community Pharmacists Association’s (NCPA) renewed endorsement of Prescryptive AI Pricing. This AI-powered solution empowers independent pharmacies to optimize cash pricing and enhance their competitive edge.

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MARCH 26, 2024

I’ve always said that some of the most interesting things in health IT are when someone brings together the right mix of technology, partners, and users to do something that they couldn’t possibly do alone. We have a plethora of amazing technologies, but we need to do more work on how we package them.

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Doctors Hospitals 84

Healthcare It News

APRIL 12, 2024

We interviewed Qureshi for a deep dive into how hospitals and health systems can harness ChatGPT and other LLM technologies to improve patient care, how provider organizations can use LLMs to ease clinician workload, and how providers can deploy ChatGPT and LLMs to empower patients. ", "What doctor can help me with my foot pain?",

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Doctors Hospitals Nurses Patient Satisfaction 310

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We had three key questions for him: What is the top “must-have” technology? What is technology is at the bottom of the priority list? Adoption of Patient Self-Scheduling Will Double Patient self-scheduling solutions topped the list of most “in-demand” technologies – expected to grow from 34% adoption to 75% by the end of 2024.

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Hospitals Telemedicine 99

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

For the most part, these changes can be the very necessary answer to a problem we’ve been facing for a long time. While everyone seems to be excited about it, you might be left with questions and concerns about what its impact will be. What health IT trend has you concerned? But sometimes, these changes can be concerning.

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Medical Device Industry Medicaid Medicaid Nurses 110

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2023

households do not have in-home internet access and approximately 5.5 million households do not have a computer, according to the U.S. What does it look like, and how does it play into telehealth? households do not have in-home internet access and approximately 5.5 Approximately 11.7 million U.S. Census Bureau.

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COVID-19 Telemedicine Health Insurance 133

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 30, 2023

What can be expected in healthcare and health IT now that the PHE has ended, and what does this mean for the future of telehealth? Further, what should CIOs and other health IT leaders at hospitals and health systems be doing to address new telemedicine challenges?

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Telemedicine COVID-19 Governance Medicare 181

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2022

“If we look at a typical acute episode for this type of patient, it looks like this: Call 911, get evaluated, transported to the hospital ER, evaluated again, seen by ER physician who calls for consults, multiple consults, run blood work, get some imaging, review findings, admit the patient,” he explained. ” MARKETPLACE.

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Telemedicine Doctors Hospitals Nurses 181

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2024

Amanda Bury, chief commercial officer at Infermedica, a digital health company specializing in AI-powered systems for symptom analysis and patient triage, noted that experts at ATA "emphasized the pivotal role of technology in shaping healthcare's future while acknowledging it's only one part of the solution.

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Nurses Telemedicine Patient Satisfaction Licensing 128

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

What do I mean? As technology grows, we have fallen into the practice of taking images of our private health data and have also stored them in smart devices using wallets. Technology is growing faster than we can catch up, and we are giving away our personal information too soon.

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HIPAA Licensing Doctors Nurses 93

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2023

But what's next for virtual care? And what about the blossoming trend of virtual-first hybrid care? Why do you feel virtual-first makes sense? ” As we saw during the pandemic, delaying care can have dire results, and virtual-first all but solves the issue. And what does this ultimately mean for telehealth?

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Telemedicine COVID-19 Doctors Public Health 163

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 2, 2023

But, all the cool kids are doing it…or so it seems. So, what is it? Near the end of 2022, we dreamed as an #HITsm community about what would come from the fall conference season. We anticipated great networking and connections and improved collaboration. If so, what was one thing that struck you about it?

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Health Outcomes 117

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As we continue to push the world of healthcare forward with innovation and digital transformations, it’s important to remember to do so safely. All of our progress is for naught if we can’t use any of it without breaking regulations or if it puts our patient’s safety at risk. I’ve never had a better meal!

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Regulatory Compliance Compliance Nurses Doctors 111

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

There are an endless amount of problems that you are being tasked to find solutions for, endless amounts of technology to look into and consider for your organization, and endless considerations on how to make your organization better for both your employees and your consumers. What can be done about it?

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Hospitals 98

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 31, 2024

In case you missed it, we had a great webinar recently with Shereese Maynard, MS, MBA, Co-Founder at Nostradata Medical , Dan Sloshberg, VP Product & Customer Marketing at Exclaimer , and myself discussing IT compliance and automation. Needless to say, we don’t share a pretty future for them. Tell us what you think.

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Compliance Hospitals 105

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Rapid and Flexible Interoperability Silverback is an enterprise-grade imaging interoperability, integration, and workflow solution that helps healthcare organizations easily connect/manage the inflow and outflow of images. We have seen our partners go through mergers and splits,” explained Emery. “We That’s what we do at DataFirst.

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Hospitals 91

Provider Trust

MAY 9, 2024

We grew up doing what had to be done. By switching to an automated solution, the client could quickly identify and address gaps in their prior manual monitoring and verification efforts. Our featured client is a prominent Southern payer organization serving 2.3 million members. The laws have come so fast and so furiously.

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Compliance Compliance Officers Licensing Medicaid 52

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having a career in Health IT requires a lot of skills and qualifications, even more so if you want that career to be successful – but what are those skills and qualifications? So what are these key skills and qualifications and how have they evolved with advancements in healthcare technology ?

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Compliance Governance Telemedicine HIPAA 113

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

What do patients worry about? There are worries about the affordability and accessibility of digital health solutions. Improving digital literacy and involving patients in the development of solutions are crucial for building public trust and ensuring a positive user experience. Is it safe?

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