Weekly Roundup – February 24, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week. Which Health IT Trends Deserve Even More Attention? We asked the Healthcare IT Today to weigh in on the topics that the industry isn’t talking about enough. Interesting answers included whether data really needs to be cleaned up before it’s ingested and how to get providers and payers on the same page. Read more… Introducing Designing for Health. John Lynn spoke to Dr. Craig Joseph at Nordic, who co-authored a book about recognizing the importance of system design and making it easy for those in the system to do the right thing. Read more… Improving Resilience With Computer-Assisted Professional Coding. Colin Hung learned how CMIO Dr. Beth Kushner at St. Joseph’s Health wanted clinicians spending more time with patients and less time looking up CPT codes online. CAPC technology helps staff identify the right codes – including those that may be missing – which has improved efficiency in more ways than one. Read more… Using Predictive Analytics to Improve Care and Identify Suicide Risk. Using data from three dozen behavioral health providers, Netsmart trained algorithms to identify ED patients facing behavioral health risks and pair them with PCPs, the company̵...
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