Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2025

Read more… 2025 Predictions: Patient Experience. Trends the experts expect to take off in 2025 include personalized engagement driven by AI, along with digital payment offerings as part of an increased emphasis on streamlining the patient intake process. Critically, this may mean EHR systems need a bit of a redesign.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2024

MedStar Health was fundamental in helping us build essential capabilities including our bidirectional and seemingly ‘invisible’ EHR integration, which is why we have the highest clinician adoption rates in the industry. Suki’s mission is to make healthcare technology invisible and assistive with an AI platform that powers the industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Innovaccer Acquires Leading Digital Marketing and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Platform to Transform the Patient Experience, Succeed with Value-Based Care, and Accelerate Growth Innovaccer Inc. We were looking for companies who could help us enhance our Experience pillar’s focus on improving patient experiences.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Studies Hospitals ended 2024 with operating margins of 6%, and health systems with margins of 2.1% , according to the latest data from Strata Decision. Lone Star Family Health Center selected athenaOne for EHR, RCM, and patient engagement. Inpatient and outpatient volumes are rising, while ED visit volume is falling.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 18, 2024

The 2024 conference was held in Toronto, ON for the final time. The healthcare solutions on display at Collision 2024 were grounded, practical, and backed by dedicated teams who understood how long it takes to become an overnight success in the healthcare industry.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

LAS VEGAS—HLTH—October 15, 2024— Xealth , the leader in enabling digital health at scale, is proud to announce that the company’s Chief Strategy Officer Cynthia Church will speak at HLTH. We are seeing technology support the provider and patient experience, a role that will strengthen in the coming years.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

“Clinical transformation with AI is easier without patients.” Not so fast, consumers say In its introduction to the company’s Tech Trends 2024 report , Deloitte called GenAI, a “force multiplier for human ambitions.” Move fast with AI and break things?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 4, 2024

Patient Experience Insights From the Qualtrics X4 Conference. John Lynn attended the event, which at its core emphasizes the value of data that directly reflects that patient perspective. Read more… Healthcare IT Today Podcast : Patient Experience Insights. Read more… Bonus Features For April 28, 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2024

Read more… What Patient Experience Technology Is Moving the Needle the Most ? Responses from the Healthcare IT Today community included telehealth, messaging (for patients and physicians), and access to care in non-traditional settings. Read more… Fast EHR and ERP Deployments at St. Barnabas Hospital.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2025

Trailblazing Technology Enhances Patient Engagement and Satisfaction, Leading to Improved Care Outcomes Relias , the trusted education and workforce enablement partner to 12,000 healthcare organizations, announces its acquisition of Feedtrail HealthcareXM , a company specializing in patient and employee experience, and reputation management.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2024

From flagging urgent findings to ensuring timely follow-ups, these technologies will bridge critical gaps, making precision care scalable and truly patient-centered. Sameer Bhat, Co-Founder and VP of Sales at eClinicalWorks In 2024, AI became accepted across the healthcare industry. billion in 2024 to $10.9

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Florian Otto, CEO and Co-founder at Cedar Healthcare Affordability: Healthcare affordability will always be a problem, and it remains to be seen if 2024 will be better or worse than 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2024

HIMSS 2024: Bold Statements from Hal Wolf. Read more… HIMSS 2024: A Closer Look at Sunoh’s Ambient Clinical Voice Solutions. Read more… Bonus Features for March 13, 2024: HIMSS Edition. Insights included emphasizing the impact on the patient experience, ensuring tight EHR integration, and routinely reviewing outputs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC).

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. 2024 will likely see continued hype regarding A.I. With the clinician shortage expected to continue – and possibly even worsen – in 2024, automation is key from the start of the clinician’s staffing journey (i.e.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Subsequently, the healthcare industry will continue to seek to find ways to harness AI and emerging technologies in 2024, with a focus on enhancing clinical processes, decision support, and workforce management.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Colin Hung chatted with Roger Murray at Telemynd and Venky Chellappa at CharmHealth about building the right APIs to enable bidirectional integration between EHR and CRM software to support mental health. Read more… Marrying Ambient Clinical Voice and Clinical Automation.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2024

Though less than 37% of healthcare workers trust AI in healthcare, 85% believe AI can improve the patient experience and 77% say AI can solve the labor shortage, according to a Carta Healthcare survey. Arizona-based Integrated Medical Services implemented athenahealth EHR, RCM, and patient engagement tools.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Exec Summary The athenahealth Patient Digital Engagement Index (PDEI) is a metric that tracks patient use of digital tools that interact with electronic health records (EHRs). The research tracked and measured the digital engagement of practices on the athenaOne network from 2021 to 2024.

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Digital Health Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

Providers are lining up to see if ambient AI can live up to its promise of decreasing burnout while improving the patient experience and researchers are starting to wonder the same thing. Heres what they found. Over the course of the study, ambient scribe use was associated with: 20.4% less time in notes per appointment (from 10.3

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The Role of AI in Patient Flow Management Healthcare is changing, and traditional methods of managing patient flow and throughput are no longer sufficient. Hospitals often rely on siloed electronic health records (EHRs) and manual processes that lack the necessary insights to optimize patient flow.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

The American Telehealth Association announced its policy priorities for 2024 ; they include making Medicare telehealth flexibilities permanent before the end of the year and removing the in-person requirement for the remote prescribing of controlled substances. Sales Michigan-based McKenzie Health System implemented eClinicalWorks EHR v12.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 30, 2024

Leveraging an Outside Provider for the EHR Service Desk. Read more… Bonus Features for March 24, 2024: Data infrastructure investments have 124% ROI; meanwhile, 85% of healthcare workers believe AI can improve the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Telemynd , a leading behavioral health practice, has integrated its CharmHealth EHR with the Salesforce CRM platform to scale its delivery from coast-to-coast. The combined tech stack offers smooth patient experiences, more personalized care, and streamlined clinical workflows. So, they designed their platform with that in mind.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2025

2024 was certainly a year where hospitals were outperformed in the move to embrace AI. Wes Cronkite, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at TruBridge Revenue cycle automation rapidly evolved in 2024 with the introduction of new technologies including AI, ML, and RPA.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2024

Infinitus Systems released a report studying trends in prior authorization , finding a larger percentage of payors accepted fax submissions in 2024 than did in 2023 and 15% more payors returned prior auth determinations via fax in 2024 than did in 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2025

Although a patient portal could address this, typical portals do not make it easy for patients to share their images with other healthcare providers especially if those other providers are on a different EHR. It was great to work with a health system that prioritized the patient experience, state Nayyar.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2025

It is a rare behind-the-scenes look at how a big-name EHR solution provider is integrating AI. Patient experience boost with AI. Greenway Patient Connect uses AI to simplify scheduling, provider selection, and patient communication. That is time they can now spend with patients instead of fighting with their EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2024

While not every office is this disorganized, the patient experience when it comes to clipboards and patient forms has a lot to be desired at many healthcare organizations. The most frustrating part of the experience for me was that I knew there was a better way.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

How AI can democratize and enchant health care – the WHO perspective In January 2024 I explored the World Health Organization’s report on Ethics & Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health in my Health Populi blog. That’s just a quick snapshot of a nurse-patient encounter. Let me explain from a global to a local lens….

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2024

Only 17% of patients learned about GLP-1s and weight loss medications from a healthcare provider, compared to 36% who saw information on TV and nearly 25% who saw social media posts, according to a survey from Phenomix Sciences. Patient experience and payment platform Weave is now integrated with eClinicalWorks. and NIST CSF 2.0

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 3, 2025

Simultaneously, OCR scans a handwritten referral note or lab result on the desk, extracting key data like blood pressure readings.Generative AI then synthesises this, voice and text into a structured EHR entry, drafts a treatment plan, flags potential drug interactions, and even generates a patient-friendly summary in seconds.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 25, 2025

Read more… Bonus Features for January 19, 2025: 183 million patient records were exposed in cyberattacks in 2024; meanwhile, 74% of organizations rely on manual processes for workforce management. Third-party EHR integration vendor Red Rover raised $4 million in seed funding.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

Director at NTT DATA On February 8, 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1) Final Rule in the Federal Register, which took effect on March 11, 2024. The following is a guest article by Nitin Kunte, Sr.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 7, 2025

Why RPM Matters for Providers For healthcare providers, RPM offers a practical, evidence-based approach to enhance patient outcomes, streamline chronic disease management, and reduce financial strain on health systems. lbs (p=0.010) Total healthcare cost savings per patient per month – $1,076.64

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While it may be true that the EHR is the main tool for a clinician, the same is not true for patients. Patient data is stored in a wide variety of systems including a CRM, health system website, secure messaging systems, call center systems, survey systems, mobile apps, iPads in the doctor’s office, kiosks, and much more.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

This strategic acquisition aims to improve the patient experience and expedite access to vital specialty medications, such as infusions and in-office injectables primarily covered by medical benefits. These challenges lead to avoidable resubmissions and delays, frustrating healthcare providers and patients alike. and Canada.

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