Support Growing for Pharmacists to Ease Physician Workload
In a recent survey, Surescripts found growing support for pharmacists to prescribe a select number of medications to patients, thus easing the workload on physicians. Technologies like direct messaging and record sharing is making this possible.
Physician Shortage
Physicians everywhere are overworked. This is especially true in primary care where there are not enough physicians to meet the growing patient demand. This is leading to access challenges and to burnout.
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) predicts that by 2034 the US will be short:
Between 17,800 and 48,000 primary care physicians
Between 21,00...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability clinical direct messaging Collaborative Care Frank Harvey Health Data Sharing Immunizations pharmacist collaboration Pharmacists pharma Source Type: blogs
Wanted: Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry Branch Chief
We’re seeking a highly qualified scientist to serve as a branch chief in our Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry (PPBC). This is a newly created position for the Division as it reorganizes into three branches. Applicants should have significant interest and experience in the scientific areas managed by the Division, which will continue to encompass all the existing research portfolios and will generally be arranged into branches covering physiology and clinical sciences, biochemistry and molecular pharmacology, and chemistry and chemical biology. For a listing of the current scientifi...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - September 11, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Job Announcements Source Type: blogs
Wanted: Division for Research Capacity Building Branch Chief
We’re seeking a highly qualified scientist to serve as a branch chief in our Division for Research Capacity Building (DRCB). This is a newly created position for the Division as it reorganizes into three branches. Applicants should have significant interest in the programs managed by the Division, which seek to build capacity for conducting basic, clinical, behavioral, and translational research that fall in the mission areas of NIH. These include the Institutional Development Award (IDeA) program, which supports research, research workforce development, and research infrastructure improvements in states where levels ...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - September 11, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Job Announcements Source Type: blogs
Innovar Healthcare Knows How to Make Last Mile Interoperability a Reality
Patients, regulators, and payers are insisting on data exchange in health care. But despite the availability of FHIR and of APIs from many vendors, interoperability is often described as “difficult and “not frictionless” according to Loyd Bittle, CEO and Founder at Innovar Healthcare. It takes a real expert with the right connections to make interoperability a reality for healthcare organizations.
Innovar Healthcare, therefore, focuses on converting patient records between different formats and vendors and getting the patient data where it needs to go. State HIEs, which must deal with a bewildering asso...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Digital Health EHR Interoperability Health Data Sharing Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured HIEs Innovar Hea Source Type: blogs
Vital Makes Health Information More Accessible for Patients
Vital illustrates how the new wave of generative AI technologies can contribute to a better life for millions of people. Vital is using AI to take inscrutable test results and doctors’ notes, full of abbreviations and jargon, and produce meaningful explanations for patients in common English.
What about errors? According to Aaron Patzer, CEO, Vital’s doctor-to-patient medical note translator is more accurate on average than the summaries produced by doctors themselves. Plus, with Patzer’s background as Founder of Mint.com, he’s obsessed with making the user interface great for those that use Vita...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Aaron Patzer Ai4 Conference Healthcare AI Healthcare ChatGPT Healthcare Generative AI Hea Source Type: blogs
Security When Lives are on the Line
Computer vulnerabilities, threats, and security practices are similar in every industry. But health care presents particular challenges, discussed in this video with John Wilson, Director of Sales, SLED and Healthcare at SolarWinds and Scott Pross, Vice President of Technology, Monalytic, a SolarWinds company. Wilson and Pross make up part of the new dedicated team that SolarWinds has put together for healthcare.
Several factors make health care challenging. Patient data is particularly sensitive and highly regulated, leading Pross to say “We treat our health care customers the way we treat our DoD customers”...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Security and Privacy Healthcare Cloud Healthcare Cloud Security Healthcare Cybersecurity Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Security Source Type: blogs
Wanted: Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry Branch Chief
We’re seeking a highly qualified scientist to serve as a branch chief in our Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry (PPBC). This is a newly created position for the Division as it reorganizes into three branches. Applicants should have significant interest and experience in the scientific areas managed by the Division, which will continue to encompass all the existing research portfolios and will generally be arranged into branches covering physiology and clinical sciences, biochemistry and molecular pharmacology, and chemistry and chemical biology. For a listing of the current scientifi...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - August 30, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Job Announcements Source Type: blogs
Dr. Temi, The Autonomous Robot Will See You Now
It seems we’re just at the start of robots in healthcare. We see them moving around supplies. We see robots working in the pharmacy. Plus, we have a long list of robots doing virtual tasks. When I came across the Dr. Temi robot, it was the first application of an autonomous robot to assist nurses and doctors that I’d seen.
At the HIMSS annual conference, we sat down with Yaron Yoels, CMO at Temi Robot, to learn more about Dr. Temi, an autonomous robot for patient care. What’s cool about this robot is that it doesn’t need a nurse to get to the bedside. The robot can go to the room request...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Autonomous Robot Dr. Temi Healthcare IT Video Interviews He Source Type: blogs
Streamlining Workflows Increases Access for Children with Autism
There are not enough licensed behavior analysts to help children in the US diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To improve access, CentralReach is using technology to simplify, automate, and streamline the many manual tasks related to Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) – a key therapy that helps people with autism learn helpful behaviors.
Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down with Chris Sullens, Chief Executive Officer and Nissa Van Etten, Director of Assessment & Clinical Training at CentralReach to find out more about their solution and about the current state of autism services in the US.
Insu...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 29, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT ABA ABLLS-R AFLS Applied Behavior Analysis ASD Autism Autism EMR Autism Spectrum Disorder CentralReach Chris Sullens Nissa Van Etten Source Type: blogs
FOLX Health Meeting Patients Where They Are With Telehealth
FOLX Health (FOLX, pronounced “folks”) is the leading healthcare providers for the LGBTQIA community. Today they serve over 12,000 members. FOLX uses technology, like telehealth, that allows patients to access care when it is convenient for them and in a place where they feel comfortable and safe. Their use of technology and the personalized care they deliver has led to extremely high patient satisfaction scores and patient loyalty.
Healthcare IT Today had the chance to sit down for a one-on-one conversation with Liana M. Douillet Guzmán, Chief Executive Officer at FOLX to find out more about their use of telehealth a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring FOLX Health intake forms LGBTQIA Liana Guzman patient engagement Patient Intake Telehealth Source Type: blogs
Provider-Led Value-Based Care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
In this video, two experts at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in Tennessee describe how they implemented value-based care from the provider’s point of view. They distinguish provider-led from payer-led bundles, reveal how VUMC had to evolve, and describe which medical conditions are most appropriate for value-based care.
Value-based care is not new. Kaiser Permanente, a well-known employer-based provider, started in 1945. Even earlier, in 1937, the member-owned Group Health Association (GHA) formed in Washington, D.C.
But in the current wave of taking on risk, payers dominated. According to C.J. Stimson, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management Brittany Cunningham CJ Stimson Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured HFMA HFMA 2023 H Source Type: blogs
A Demo of the Real Time Health System with Zebra and Oneview Healthcare
A few months ago, many of you may remember our review of the new medical tablet from Zebra. It’s a great tablet that’s designed for healthcare’s unique challenges. While at the HIMSS conference, we were able to see a demo of the tablet in action at the bedside with Zebra’s partner Oneview Healthcare.
In the demo video below, Rikki Jennings, BSN, RN, CPN, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Zebra, shares about Zebra’s efforts to enable real time health system and that impact on patient experience. Plus, she introduces us to Steve Yerkey, Director Solutions Architecture at Oneview Healthc...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Bedside Computing Solutions Bedside Infotainment Healthcare IT Video Intervie Source Type: blogs
AWS and 3M Join Forces to Automate Clinical Note Creation
We recently noted the announcement of Amazon’s AWS HealthScribe with 3M as a partner that’s leveraging the solution. The combination of these two companies was extremely interesting to me since you may recall that 3M acquired a company called M*Modal which has been working in the voice recognition space for a while. I figured it was only a matter of time before 3M came out with their own ambient clinical voice solution to compete with Nuance’s DAX solutions, Ambience Healthcare, Suki, and OnPoint Healthcare Partners to name a few.
To learn more about this announcement we sat down with two leaders at 3...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System 3M Amazon Healthcare Ambience Healthcare Ambient Clinical Voice AWS AWS HealthScribe Detlef Koll Heal Source Type: blogs
Cool Demos of Healthcare VR Applications with HTC VIVE
We’ve all heard about the progress VR is making in healthcare, but that was never more clear than when we stopped by the HTC VIVE booth at the HIMSS annual conference this year. While there we had a chance to talk with Dan O’Brien, GM Americas at HTC VIVE, and he introduced us to some of the healthcare partners that were developing healthcare applications for their VR and AR devices. These applications included: VR surgical models, helping the aging process, VR Therapy, a radiology reading room in VR, and immersive VR to replace anesthesia.
Check out the video demo below to learn more about the healthcare VR s...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Arjun Puri Chris Brickler Dan O'Brien David Wheeler Healthcare AR Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare VR HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS23 HTC Source Type: blogs
Helping Kids with SMA Win with a Physiotherapy Game
Physiotherapy is hard. It is even harder for children who get bored and tire quickly from the repetitive motions that doctors prescribe for them. Raft Digital Therapeutics (Raft) created an interactive video game to help children with a rare degenerative neuromuscular disease – Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) – to maintain their physical abilities, improve outcomes, and promote a higher quality of life. Their game has found success with children, parents, and clinicians.
Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Geoff Frost, CEO of Raft and practicing physiatrist, to find out about their game, their re...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Cloud Bazaar Collision 2023 Collision Conference Digital Therapeutics Dr. Geoff Frost gamificia Source Type: blogs
