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

OCTOBER 28, 2024

You could see that eCW had put a lot of focus on improving the speed of documentation including number of clicks and time spent documenting. I think time spent documenting matters a lot more than clicks even if clicks are often cited as the problem. It literally showed how much time was spend after hours documenting.

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 3, 2025

The Billion-Dollar Case Market Need: Clinicians spend 35% of their day on documentation (Annals of Internal Medicine, 2023), contributing to burnout, 50% of U.S. Patient Experience: Instant summaries in plain language (e.g., The process starts with an input: a scanned document, a photo, or a PDF. cases (BMJ, 2023).

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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 18, 2024

Michael Sherling, Cofounder and Chief Medical and Strategy Officer at ModMed AI integration is the key to unlocking a future with less administrative burden and more streamlined clinical workflows, particularly documentation.

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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 News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

"Leveraging our deep experience in telemedicine, it made sense to apply bidirectional audio/video technology to assist our nursing colleagues in addressing some of the issues we hoped to alleviate as we piloted a new model of nursing care," Trepanier said. Executive sponsorship/leadership.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2025

Dashboards will evolve into real-time KPI analytics giving leadership deeper insights into claims, denials, and reimbursements. 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.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

He’s part of Philips’ leadership team, and as such design informs corporate strategy at the company. The consulting team assesses both patient experience and care pathways, beyond just the historical role of selling medical devices to health care providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2025

Lani Bertrand, Senior Director of Clinical Marketing & Thought Leadership at Omnicell With the healthcare sector grappling with staffing shortages and burnout, technology will be key in filling gaps and improving workforce efficiency. Big data and AI will play an increasing role in this. Pharmacy vacancy rates average 4.3%

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

While their increased retirement has been anticipated, the associated timing compounded staffing challenges within the healthcare industry and left leadership seeking solutions. Healthcare professionals have remained resilient over the course of the pandemic and the resulting stress has been well documented.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2025

Contreras, CPXP, Director, Patient Experience at North Shore University Hospital/Northwell Health, smart means not just capturing a lot of information, but using it to deliver better care. This video highlights insights about patient care and team coordination from Contreras and Joseph A. ” According to Juan A.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

" GenAI could help address nursing shortage by easing patient documentation burdens , making the task faster, and surfacing needed information quickly in electronic health records, according to Jill Lashay, healthcare attorney, and Carly Barnes, associate, at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 8, 2022

SignalFire, UnityPoint, Northwell Holdings, Cedars-Sinai back innovations in documentation automation to improve care delivery for clinicians and patients. The conversation develops based on the patient’s answers; it’s both interactive and intelligent, using complex clinical decision trees to ask questions a doctor would ask.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2023

Several surveys about the online patient experience were recently released. It won’t surprise anyone who follows healthcare professionally—or who has used a healthcare portal—that patients are frustrated and disappointed. patients about their patient experience.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

Consider automating administrative tasks from patient scheduling appointment, supporting clinical decision making based on patient data across the continuum of care and regardless of site of care, easing clinical documentation, and providing real-time understanding of risks and areas for improvement.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

He says that a “comprehensive” tool such as InScribe can save “pajama time” as well as “manage patient experience better.” ” Watch the video for details for these experts’ insights on clinical workflow.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2022

I am going to bet that the joy pie for clinicians will not have things like “administrative tasks”, “documentation”, or “more barriers to caring for patients” on it. These statements remind me of a leadership training course I took many years ago. And it isn’t just their workplace.”.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

EHRs provide critical data for patient orders and clinical documentation, but AI-enabled patient flow technology fills the decision-making gaps that EHRs alone cannot address. A key distinction between these platforms and EHRs is the ability to manage operations at scale, integrating AI to deliver better outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

"Because we traditionally used telehealth so rarely, there was no standard way to conduct and document the visits. "Our new platform had to be HIPAA secure in a technical sense, but we also had to think about the unique challenges of ensuring privacy on the patient's end when family members or other people could be nearby."

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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

JULY 18, 2024

To work a claim and determine the next step, service agents typically review the account’s history and research multiple payer documents (clinical and administrative policies, contracts, electronic/non-electronic correspondence, etc.).

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2025

Check out our community’s Wearable Devices and Mobile Applications predictions: Trea Zemaitis, Senior Security Engineer at Core4ce The integration of IoT devices in healthcare has transformed patient care, enabling continuous monitoring and personalized treatment.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A new study by The Permanente Medical Group (part of Kaiser Permanente) offers confidence that ambient voice transcriptions can save time and improve the patient experience by generating clinical notes about patient visits. This article summarizes the key findings in that study.

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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

MARCH 31, 2023

Along the way, we almost inevitably uncover challenges surrounding the quality of the patient data transferred to the new and existing EHR. They have more time to improve the patient experience and spend less time making sense of the EHR. It’s just a question of when this happens and who does the work.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Future plans include robotics (perhaps exoskeletons to support PT), more spaces for researchers and students, and ambient documentation. Tomlinson says that the latter will be a “game-changer” because nurses spend so much time on documentation that they could spend instead on their patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A promising trend emerging in health IT for 2024 is the integration of automation tailored for ambient documentation creation. This technology facilitates the capture of clinical documentation during most patient engagements. But it will also mean figuring out how AI can make healthcare more efficient and effective.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

From updating patient records, scheduling follow-up appointments, or completing insurance paperwork, administrative work can feel all-consuming. According to one report , 33% of physicians spend two or more hours completing documentation outside work hours daily, and 58% of those physicians believe that this is not an appropriate use of time.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 7, 2023

New AI technologies can provide information from large collections of documents with what Rogers calls a “laser focus.” ” Instead of just bringing up a large document from a site such as WebMD, the new AI can summarize the key information answering a question such as, “How do I deal with COPD?”

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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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Lloyd Price

JULY 25, 2024

Healthcare Technology Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors – Market Insights, Analysis & Predictions. Predictive Analytics: Leveraging vast amounts of patient data, AI algorithms will predict disease progression, identify high-risk patients, and suggest preventive measures.

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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 News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2022

"Supportive leadership and persistent visionaries decided telemedicine was the solution to this continuously growing problem of too few specialists and pediatric patients with complex healthcare needs scattered and isolated all over rural Kansas and Missouri," she added.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

.” He adds that “by allowing insurance plans and policies to be queried through natural conversation, AI creates a more engaging and understandable experience for patients. This approach demystifies the often complex language found in healthcare documents.”

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

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. Read more… How to Develop and Nurture Leadership Skills in Health IT.

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