Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Regular readers know that I think ambient clinical voice is one of the most exciting things to happen in health IT since the $36 billion in EHR stimulus money. The promise of automatic note generation is so beautiful and would solve so many of the pains associated with EHR software and more generally clinical documentation.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Providers must remain fully engaged with their client, while regularly dealing with traumatic narratives and overbearing documentation requirements. Upheal has revolutionized our clinical documentation process at Cartwheel. Id like to make Upheal my full EHR, said Matthew Howe, MA, LPC. Its like having a personal assistant.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Today, we’re featuring the EHR Strategic Advisory Specialist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. This position was posted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. and is a hybrid position located in Ohio.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

AI is becoming an essential tool in healthcare and is being leveraged to create new efficiencies this includes better documentation, streamlined data extraction, and predictive modeling that contribute to enhanced clinical efficiencies and higher-quality care. However, a strong foundation is crucial before leveraging such innovations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Most of the measured contributors to burnout have become less prevalent than they were at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new Provider Burnout and the EHR Experience report from the KLAS Arch Collaborative. "Providers also were less likely to report feeling burned out," the KLAS researchers found.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2021

If you read Healthcare IT Today regularly, or listen to our health it podcast, then you’re probably tired of hearing me talk about the potential of Ambient Clinical Voice in healthcare. For good or bad, I’m probably not going to stop. At least not until it’s proven that it can’t ever fulfill it’s potential.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Traditionally, a SOAP note documents a single visit. The tool is integrated with some 98 EHRs—Butler says it can work with any EHR used in the US or Canada—and they are working on deep integration with certain EHRs so that the tool can manage the problem list, check coding, and initiate billing.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

While at the HLTH 2024 conference in Las Vegas, we had a chance to catch up with Lebrun to hear about their growth as a company and how their product has evolved, from a solution focused on ambient clinical voice documentation to becoming a comprehensive AI assistant for clinicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. Documentation and billing still were to be completed within the EHR.” THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2024

As I said in my previous writeup at an EHR user conference, I believe there’s no way for the culture of a company not to appear at their user conference. Amazing to see how impactful an integrated solution with access to the EHR data can be. So, being able to upload the documents and process them electronically is a big deal.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2024

"In order to gain a relevant selected sample, the manual monthly build entailed reviewing hundreds of clinicians' calendars and appointments to identify and copy medical record links into the EHR in order to locate actual session notes for review," said Julia Dolan, associate director of behavioral operations at Cerebral.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2020

Coming into the year, one of the most exciting technologies I saw coming down the pipe was ambient clinical voice technologies and EHR AI Assistants. I thought this would be a major theme at the HIMSS20 Annual conference. Then, everything blew up included HIMSS20 being cancelled.

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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. Plus, we dive into the important topic of EHR integration. Singh also shares some more details on how deeply they are integrating with EHR vendors.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Healthcare Technology Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors Market Insights, Analysis & Predictions. Key Points: TPP's Strengths: TPP is a major player in the UK healthcare IT market, known for its electronic health record (EHR) system, SystmOne.

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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. Greenway Clinical Assist is helping providers reclaim 1-2 hours per day by reducing documentation burdens. Were seeing real benefits in areas like ambient documentation and revenue cycle automation. Patient experience boost with AI.

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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 News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow CIOs need to look beyond just EHRs and explore standalone platforms to enhance care delivery – keeping focused on reliable patient data and streamlined clinical workflows. Remote patient monitoring uses three primary FHIR resources: Patient.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Enhanced Data Insights: By analysing large amounts of data, Care Studio can identify patterns and trends that may not be apparent in traditional EHRs. AI-Powered Tools: AI-powered features can automate routine tasks, such as data entry and documentation, freeing up clinicians' time to focus on patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Part of Appalachian Regional Healthcare System, Wautaga Medical Center in rural Boone, North Carolina, already was busy before COVID-19 hit, and leadership knew their current hospitalist staff could not handle the onslaught of patients coming through during the pandemic. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2020

Last week I started a project to create a list of all of the telehealth options out there. Mostly, I wanted to be able to provide my friends and readers answer to the question I’m certain to get over the next year, “Which telehealth solution is best?” ” It may take me another week to finish […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Providers are saving more than two hours daily on clinical documentation, improving efficiency and the quality of notes. AI medical scribes have transformed patient visits by silently working in the background, turning patient-provider conversations into draft clinical documentation, and drastically helping alleviate burnout.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Hospitals often rely on siloed electronic health records (EHRs) and manual processes that lack the necessary insights to optimize patient flow. According to one respondent, the technology extracts data from their EHR to assist in patient movement, capacity management, and demand forecasting.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2025

Another topic for the experts in the Healthcare IT Today community highlighted AI use cases such as RCM automation, diagnostic efficiency, clinical documentation, and predictive analytics. Read more… When Numbers Talk: Bridging Gaps in Healthcare Leadership.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Baha Zeidan, Co-founder and CEO of Azalea Health. In this series, we talk with EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth. If […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 11, 2023

"The goals were to facilitate the care of emergency patients by speeding up the door-to-triage time, lowering ED length of stay as appropriate, enhancing the patient’s experience and satisfaction level, and making sure all patient data lands in the patient’s EHR," he continued.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

As electronic health record (EHR) systems become nearly universal and interoperability initiatives gain momentum, many healthcare providers assume their revenue cycle challenges are solved. In 2008, 9% of hospitals and 17% of office-based physicians used EHR systems. By 2021, these numbers had soared to 96% and 78%, respectively.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Then, we debate whether we think ambient clinical voice will just do documentation or if it will become a two-way AI assistant. Lastly, we wrap the episode up by talking about how EHR vendors should be approaching ambient clinical voice and what it would mean for them. How should EHR vendors be approaching ambient clinical voice?

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

Key to the potential power of this vision is that Copilot’s access to data would go across all aspects of Microsoft 365, from notes and text to apps and workflows – even within electronic health records ( more on the example of Epic EHR below ). Further value could be realized by integrating Copilot into the EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Massachusetts Health Data Consortium , which will design, test and complete a documented prototype for Electronic Prior Authorization integrated with the EHR. Former MAeHC CEO and President Micky Tripathi – now serving as National Coordinator for Health IT – also joined Arcadia's leadership team at the time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2021

As a way to be creative and to extend its healthcare program to those seeking services via telehealth, Bee Busy purchased mobile phones for clinical staff and iPads for providers to engage with patients who had iOS or Android systems, but failed in attempts at expanding its EHR to be compatible to offer telehealth. " RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2024

For EHRs faced with the daunting task of revamping platform technology and innovation roadmaps, the “ Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) ” final rule is like the elephant in the old proverb: too hard to consume all at once, more doable bite by bite.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2024

Most records that come in from other institutions arrive as faxes—even other clinical sites that use EHRs. In fact, the growing use of EHRs has increased the burden of faxing, because sending documents using this method is so easy and reliable. But the health care field as a whole has not made such intrepid advances.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

But it kept the leading experts among those scribes to work closely with them to review the notes being generated by AI to make sure they could reproduce the physician’s style as well as documenting the information being recorded accurately.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

"The pilot development process was highly collaborative among nursing and telehealth leadership and representatives from ancillary services," he continued. Paperless downtime documentation procedures were created to support the virtual nurses' EHR workflows. Executive sponsorship/leadership.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

When front-end speech recognition technology was broadly introduced across all specialties 10-15 years ago, at first, speech recognition accuracy tended to be good enough to reduce the administrative effort of clinical documentation, but also low enough to strongly encourage diligent proofreading.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Experts have documented an urgent and critical need for behavioral health services in the US,” said Steve Sloane, Partner at Menlo Ventures. About Eleos Health Eleos Health turns behavioral health conversations into documentation and intelligence that drives better care. And the data shows they are already doing just that!”

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

IKS Health’s market leadership in the ambulatory market will be coupled with AQuity’s market leadership in the acute care market to create an entity that enables Clinicians and their Enterprises to deliver better, safer, more efficient care across the continuum of care delivery. India , Australia , Canada , and the U.K.

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