Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

This familiar scene exemplifies the unnecessary burdens traditional EHRs have placed on providers, patients, and the overall healthcare system. As a former ER physician and current digital health professional, I’ve dealt with these challenges firsthand—and see the enormous potential EHRs hold to change care experiences for the better.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In this video at the Oracle Health conference, Senior Vice President of Product Management, Suhas Uliyar describes how Oracle Health is creating tools that accompany and augment the workflow of physicians, nurses, and patients.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The program brings two-way virtual care communications to the hospital bedside to increase nurse assistance, improve patient safety, and advance care model innovation within the regional health system. The platform integrates with Epic, allowing staff to launch virtual visits within the native electronic health record (EHR) environment.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Pete Heydt, President at PatientPay In recent years, we’ve seen EMR vendors promote internal solutions for patient financial responsibility communications and payments. This is where nursing leaders must step in, bridging the gap between clinical excellence and strategic integration.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Currently they are integrated with Epic, athenahealth, Oracle Health (Cerner), and eClinicalWorks EHRs, and attempt to make that integration fast at each clinical site. Although currently “laser-focused on acute care,” they are planning expansion into hospices, wound care, nursing, and eventually general medicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 1, 2024

Some wondered if this may be the start of Epic slipping from it’s place on top of the EHR world. Here are 2 that I loved: They also had another that said that “ABC Chooses Epic as the Official EHR of Grey’s Anatomy.” Nursing Direct is hiring magicians. Check out the Magic Med Mash-Up One-pill wonder.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2021

There’s a classic software problem that many who use an EHR don’t understand. This was highlighted in a recent tweet by Dr. Graham Walker: While Epic is certainly responsible for a lot of issues with its EHR, at least half of the complaints I see on social media from doctor/nurse users are actually due to […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | September 21, 2023 News Oracle Cerner adds generative AI to its EHR platforms The Oracle Clinical Digital Assistant tool can also respond to conversational voice prompts from. The process.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2024

It revolves around the integration of external and local health records into a unified Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. By integrating the records, all types of healthcare providers—doctors, nurses, and other clinical staff—could access the information they needed swiftly and more efficiently.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 16, 2023

According to Eli Ben-Joseph, CEO and co-founder at Regard, their tool “amplifies and empowers doctors and nurses who use it to be the best they can be.” ” Regard is also dedicated to reducing the administrative burden on clinicians, where so many tools ask them to do somethning extra.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Clinicians have become dependent on these devices for documenting and accessing the documentation in the EHR and other locations. I can already see a doctor or nurse scrolling through the 15 page medical record or report using the infinite scroll. My guess is that it would really depend on the EMR.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The acquisition adds revenue cycle capabilities to Elation’s clinical-first EHR and Best in KLAS , virtual care platform. The company was founded in 2017 by registered nurses Kelly Schoenfeld and Brian Esser. ” Lightning MD is a convenient billing solution focused on user experience for independent medical practices. .

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Corti offers AI-based, ambient clinical voice support for physicians and nurses. ” Watch the video for more details about testing, the quality process, and how the solution integrates with EHRs and CRMs.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Increased workloads, difficult-to-navigate EHRs, documentation processes, administrative tasks, and more challenging work-life balance. A 2019 article published in the American Journal of Medicine estimates that 37% of the time primary care providers spend with patients is actually spent interacting with EHRs.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

You can imagine the EHR Product Manager that had the great idea to alert physicians to a drug to drug interaction or an allergy issue. In many EHR, these messages are part of an EHR messaging system where doctors get notifications from patients, nurses, billing staff, etc.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It responds to natural language queries and can understand the context of a conversation, so that physicians and nurses can ask follow-up questions. Watch the video for more details, along with Bonis’s comments on EHRs, workflows, ambient voice, barriers to the wider adoption of AI in health, and more.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

When I watch doctors and nurses on Twitter talk about burnout, one common theme emerges. One of those core causes of burnout is the documentation burden and poorly created EHR interfaces which are built around billing rather than the physician or nurse workflow. Another wellness program or yoga room is not going to help.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It has been an up and down year for the ambulatory EHR maker and its customers in this ever changing climate. Candance Lemke, MS, RN, NP-C a Nurse Practitioner at Bowen Health, for example, had her comment enlarged on several signs displayed at the UGM. Their UGM was a chance to reset and chart a clearer path forward.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2021

I hate my EMR) and others point to health IT as the potential solution (ie. EHR auto documentation). Here's a look at the topic and questions we discuss on this episode: * Nurse Shortage/Physician Shortage - Is burnout causing them to leave? * The ironic part is that some point to health IT as the problem (ie.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2023

Nurse and Physician Satisfaction and Productivity In the past, the patient’s health was always the number one concern. Charting or documenting a patient’s medical records is time-consuming for nurses to do by hand and can become a problem if handwriting is difficult to read, leading to errors or misinterpretations.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This seems to me a reasonable way to identify duplicates, although one can question what happens when an EHR automatically generates text. That question would call for yet another study, which would interview the nurses and doctors themselves. Several respondents pointed out that the primary purpose of EHRs is billing, not treatment.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

At ReMedi , we frequently support health systems going through transitions at various stages of the EHR life cycle. Along the way, we almost inevitably uncover challenges surrounding the quality of the patient data transferred to the new and existing EHR. Clinicians vs. Abstractors: Who should do it?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

We focused especially on systems that use advanced machine learning techniques to address the serious problem of physician burnout related to heavy workloads required to document patient care in electronic health record systems (EHRs). EHRs have multiple benefits. EHR workloads have become a significant cause of physician burnout.

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InTouch Health

JULY 20, 2020

Based on the discussions from several virtual roundtables* that First American recently hosted, the telehealth-related items that are top of mind for hospital and health system CFOs include: Compatibility with EHR. But a challenge for hospitals will be determining which telehealth system to use and making sure it’s compatible with their EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Evaluating This Study TPMG, as most readers know, is the largest medical group in the United States, with nearly 9,800 physicians and 44,000 nurses and other staff. ” The EHR also provided useful statistics, because the organization could track how much time doctors logged into it.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

million clinicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals access our platform on a daily basis to deliver patient care to approximately 1.6 ” The company has made particular progress as a provider for skilled nursing facilities. They write to me, “More than 1.2 million patients and collaboratively share clinical data.”

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

And how can we make sure these devices are affordable, scalable, secure, and can interconnect with current healthcare technologies such as EMRs? About Romina Elias Romina Elias is the Chief Nursing Informatics Officer Dell Technologies. A nurse by trade, she has over 17 years of healthcare experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

I started Actium Health with the belief that EMR data was being underutilized. It does this by assisting patients in searching for providers and departments, managing appointments, refilling prescriptions, finding patient rooms or nursing stations, and answering frequently asked questions.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2024

However, more and more evidence suggests that sharing the right information from acute care with post-acute care settings, like Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs), leads to remarkable outcomes that benefit acute care providers, SNFs, and most importantly, the patient. Joseph’s Health. billion dollars for CMS.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2020

A large number of hospitalizations end with discharges to nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, and other types of post-acute care.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Combined with the nursing shortage, razor thin margins, the need to reduce hospital readmissions, […]. Our healthcare system is approaching a critical time in which an aging population will bring baby boomers into hospitals and post-acute care facilities in record numbers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2023

AWS announced the AWS HealthScribe service for building clinical applications that use generative AI and integrating them with EHRs and other systems. One culprit is staffing in post-acute care – 87% of nursing homes report moderate to high staffing shortages. Nearly two-thirds (63%) of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

AutoScribe embeds deeply into the EMR workflow and operates in real-time, which means that the AI-generated notes are immediately available to review, edit, and sign off without breaking provider workflow. It feels like I made a clone of myself and my clone is taking my notes for me,” shared Lynn Noyce, Nurse Practitioner at Pine Park Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2024

Next, we talk about the effects of being Epic Gold Star Level 10 on the doctors, nurses, and patients around him. Then we talk about what’s next for Melgar in terms of Epic usage and making the most of his EHR. How do you see doctors, nurses, and patients being impacted by this effort? What went into that decision?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 27, 2024

Joseph’s Health , and shares their experience rolling out a successful post-acute skilled nursing network strategy. You should definitely read the full article for all the details , but one of the key elements was providing a dedicated nurse navigator at St. Let’s take a look at just a few of the results. To solve this problem, St.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2024

Etienne Boshoff, Managing Director at EHR Enhancify The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) into healthcare is indeed revolutionizing the sector by enhancing hospital operations, optimizing resource allocation, and boosting overall system efficiency. These challenges can be solved with AI-powered solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The siloed nature of such data repositories can be attributed to various factors, including using different EHR systems, varying data capture standards, and a historical lack of emphasis on system interoperability. EHRs are real-time, patient-centered records that make information available instantly and securely to authorized users.

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