Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2021

There is a lot of valuable information lying dormant in paper and electronic documents in healthcare. Although EHRs have almost eliminated the use of paper charts, the same cannot be said for faxes. Fax continues to be a common method for sharing health information between providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2025

Greenway Clinical Assist is helping providers reclaim 1-2 hours per day by reducing documentation burdens. Patient experience boost with AI. Greenway Patient Connect uses AI to simplify scheduling, provider selection, and patient communication. Key Takeaways AI is saving clinicians time.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The HealthEx solution is one of the first AI platforms that enables healthcare organizations to easily create, collect, and enforce patient consent and preferences, and allow health systems to fulfill their roles as trusted stewards of patient data.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Delivering Seamless Staff and Patient Experiences for Source Healthcare. John was there to hear Micky Tripathi’s farewell address, along with many thoughts on TEFCA, QHINs, interoperability, and data security. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

Virtual care aligns with strategic imperatives to improve health outcomes, enhance patient safety, and optimize the patient experience for populations with medical complexity and high healthcare needs. As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 21, 2024

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. However, its potential to improve clinical decision-making, enhance patient experience, and increase efficiency makes it a valuable tool for healthcare organisations.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services unveiled the long-anticipated ONC Cures Act Final Rule for health data interoperability. That’s a wonky phrase that translates, simply put, into how our health data will be made available to us patients, consumers, health plan members, caregivers all.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The best document management systems drive improvements by not only storing digital healthcare data, but by also ensuring data is easily accessible enterprise-wide. Learn more about preparing your organization for enterprise content management and the adoption of a document management and imaging (DMI) platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2022

The Sequoia Project has released additional documentation support the implementation of TEFCA , the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement for health IT interoperability. And all respondents said labor shortages are causing an operational strain that’s adversely impacting the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2025

Improving the accuracy of patient claims helps connect patients with the best resources and help that they need to get better, stay better, and prevent disease progression. AI-based tools are a promising way to reduce RCM costs and improve both the employee and patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Many CHWs work in small, community-based organizations, which operate off of short-term programmatic grants, have limited administrative support, and use outdated documentation tools, including paper and Excel spreadsheets. Unfortunately, this collaboration between CHWs and traditional healthcare providers isnt as easy as it sounds.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

We asked our talented Healthcare IT Today Community – in the context of interoperability, what challenges and barriers exist in achieving standardized and secure data exchange across different healthcare systems, and how can these obstacles be addressed? Data-sharing and interoperability are key. The following are their answers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2024

News HHS revealed disincentives for providers that commit information blocking , with organizations subject to lower scores and reduced reimbursements under the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program and ineligible for MSSP participation for at least one year. The public comment period runs through the end of August.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Additionally, automating processes such as this help to relieve employee burnout and simultaneously improve the patient experience. Traditionally, patient experience has been defined by a paper survey at the end of a visit and employee experience as an annual engagement survey with a myriad of questions.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 9, 2024

We’re moving away from a world where people need to spend countless hours combing through medical documents to manually extract key information to put into a prior auth or other encounter. Ultimately, the integration of true AI and machine learning in RCM contributes to greater accuracy, reduced denials, and a better patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2025

Read more… Reframing the Benefits of Interoperability. Narvaez at Northwell Health to hear about how deployments of smart TV and digital whiteboard solutions have created a better patient experience. Read more… CommonWell: Forging Ahead With Data Exchange and Patient Access. John also connected with Juan A.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

In 2023, ModMed we will be focusing on the following deliverables for our customers: Interoperability/FHIR and better communication between systems and healthcare participants. Patient Engagement improvements for both patients and practices. In 2023, I foresee EHR vendors paying more attention to interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

We won’t see accelerated adoption of interoperability standards (e.g., Almost everything we see in healthcare tech innovation falls into two buckets: patient-focused, or operations optimization-focused. Left behind are staffing shortages and workload problems that drive up billions in costs and degrade the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 18, 2023

Medical Transcription These models can automatically transcribe patient-doctor conversations, generating accurate and detailed records for future reference and improving overall documentation quality. This lack of interoperability could lead to communication and integration issues, potentially compromising patient care quality.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 30, 2023

Clinical Architecture provides solutions to help solve challenges around healthcare data quality, interoperability, and clinical documentation. At #ViVE2023 I spoke with Charlie Harp, CEO at Clinical Architecture about this data quality challenge.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2023

Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC works to help New York State achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, delivering better health outcomes, and reducing costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2024

It was an awful experience for me as a patient and no doubt for them to have to review 3 different sets of forms. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

They know that modern platforms will improve their internal operations, help increase revenue collection, and improve the patient experience. About Nathan Shepard Nathan Shepard has been working for over 15 years to understand the problems physicians face in improving patient care and profitability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2024

In fact, the growing use of EHRs has increased the burden of faxing, because sending documents using this method is so easy and reliable. Most records that come in from other institutions arrive as faxes—even other clinical sites that use EHRs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2024

Read more… 2024 Health IT Predictions: Interoperability, Data, and the Cloud. Our experts agreed that interoperability isn’t a goal unto itself but will continue to support efforts to provide clinicians with context at the point of care and make it easier for organizations to advance their cloud strategies.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Fern Cowan at DeepCura AI talked to John about applying lessons from hospitality to healthcare AI , as well as the benefits of deep EHR integration for clinical documentation. Read more… Harness Ambient Listening to Revolutionize Documentation. Read more… Mental Health Screenings Ensure Healthy Children and Parents.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

We expect a majority of health systems will be engaged with AI (NLP, Gen AI) use in clinical documentation and conversational AI either in pilot or some level of scale form. As sponsors adopt new tools, they will increasingly seek strategies that enable a harmonized, interoperable ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC works to help New York State achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, delivering better health outcomes, and reducing costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Digital virtual assistants can then construct true dialogs that “learn” from the patient to zero in on intent and context so relevant, accurate information is provided. Vijay Verma, VP of Product Strategy at TeleVox A common shortcoming in healthcare communication systems is interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Read more… How Envision Radiology Is Setting a Fast Pace for Interoperability. At RSNA, Colin Hung caught up with Beau Jones at DataFirst and Jeff Emery at Envision Radiology to learn how managing imaging workflows across disparate providers contributes to faster turnaround times and improves the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 8, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to tell us what topics need more attention, and answers included maintaining visibility into healthcare operations, making sense of the data deluge, improving patient communication, and understanding the value proposition for interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2024

We talk a lot about how different AI applications and tools could save us time or how they could improve the patient experience. Additionally, they enable personalized treatment approaches by analyzing individual patient data and tailoring interventions to meet specific needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As cases are automated on communication platforms, there is a growing need to interoperably share care plans for patients/persons beyond the case worker team and out within the community’s ecosystem of stakeholders. Once you understand this, you can focus on which regulations have to be considered, such as HIPAA and GDPR.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC works to help New York State achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, delivering better health outcomes, and reducing costs.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 7, 2024

Challenges and Opportunities While MRA offers immense potential, challenges remain, such as: Data interoperability: Ensuring seamless data exchange between different systems. Data security: Protecting sensitive patient information from breaches. Document management: Organising and storing electronic medical records efficiently.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Research from conversational intelligence vendor Authenticx concluded that healthcare organizations spend $726,000 annually to resolve disruptions in the patient experience. Payment and interoperability vendor Edifecs unveiled its Payer-to-Payer Data Exchange and Member App for FHIR products.

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