Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2025

A poll of over 500 acute care hospitals by healthcare improvement company Premier showed that roughly $10.6 Healthcare has been stuck in a frustrating loop for decades when it comes to the insurance claim process and providers and health systems getting paid. Whats Needed: An Evolution or Revolution?

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Consumers are looking for smarter ways to save on healthcare, forcing insurance providers to make marked changes to the way they conduct outreach and how they interact with their members. Inflation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and healthcare staffing shortages have reshaped the industry landscape.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Exec Summary There is a growing body of evidence that suggests that large language models (LLMs) can be effective in a variety of healthcare applications. For example, LLMs can be used to identify potential drug interactions, suggest treatment options, and predict patient outcomes.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 25, 2023

However, it is important to note that LLMs are still a relatively new technology, and there are some potential risks and limitations to their use in healthcare. For example, LLMs can be vulnerable to bias and security attacks. These are just a few examples of how LLMs are being used in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2023

Workflow automation that uses AI to infer clinical meaning and ML to improve its performance over time may not directly contribute to the care of my patient but improves my ability to do so. For example, using automation with AI to replace manual data entry, lengthy progress note writing, phone calls (and faxes – still!)

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 14, 2023

Effective healthcare strategies play a vital role in driving better health outcomes for patients and populations. This blog post discusses examples of effective healthcare strategies and provides tips for developing and implementing them. This approach reduces errors, duplication, fragmentation, gaps, and delays in care.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Tech-enabled healthcare has the potential to improve the quality, access, and affordability of healthcare. Here are some examples of how tech-enabled healthcare is being used today: A patient with chronic heart disease can use a wearable device to track their heart rate and blood pressure.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 11, 2023

Medical ICOs are a relatively new trend, but they have gained attention as a way to raise funds for healthcare-related innovations quickly and efficiently, while also allowing investors to get in early on potentially groundbreaking projects. Medici Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in healthcare blockchain companies.

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Digital Health Hub

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Many healthcare providers and payors have begun to adopt digital transformation to reduce healthcare costs. The triple aim framework, developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, has been the core of many of these digital transformation initiatives. Better healthcare outcomes. The three aims are: 1.

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Digital Health Hub

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Many healthcare providers and payors have begun to adopt digital transformation to reduce healthcare costs. The triple aim framework, developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, has been the core of many of these digital transformation initiatives. The three aims are: 1.

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care innovations

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Specifically, they note, the telehealth adoption has been shown to: Expand access to healthcare. Improve outcomes and quality of healthcare delivery. healthcare industry seems to have no choice but to embrace the innovations that are inevitably coming.”. “But Increase patient engagement. Reduce costs.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In a moment I’ll share a recent example. The center sits in the epicenter of healthcare reform and improvement in the U.S., located just a few miles away from the influential Institute for Healthcare Improvement and its compelling lessons in Person- and Family-Centered Care.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 10, 2023

Strategies for Improving Patient Safety Improving patient safety and quality improvement is a critical topic in healthcare today. The Patient Safety Authority and Institute of Healthcare Improvement are just a few organizations dedicated to advancing health care quality and promoting patient safety.

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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 ).

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Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 26, 2018

of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) when it appeared in 2009: “The experience (to the extent the informed individual patient desires it) of transparency, individualization, recognition, respect, dignity and choice in all matters, without exception, related to one’s person, circumstances and relationships in healthcare.”.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2025

For example, a Realyze Intelligence analysis found that by using the software, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center saw seven times more patients matched to trials and twice as many enrolled, compared to the same timeframe without using the software.

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