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This post will be in two parts -- or maybe I ' ll just get to one part now and do the second part separately, we ' ll see how it goes. The first part is some empirical true facts about elections and electoral democracies, or republics if you prefer to use that term for representative systems such as ours. I don ' t want to get hung up on vocabulary. The second is philosophical -- how should we understand democracy, popular rule, We The People? How does that work and how can it work and how should it work?So, Part One. Many people assume that elections and the resulting legislative and executive (and in some states, judicia...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 11, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Quiet Hospital Unit and Other Benefits of an Open and Interoperable Communication Platform
Anyone who has been on a hospital ward, whether as clinician, patient, or visitor, has noticed the continual din of beeps and chirps—it can drive you crazy. It’s notable that one of the simple ways Rauland‘s communication system improves the hospital experience is to reduce noise by routing alerts quietly to the person who needs to handle them.
Another key benefit of using Rauland, according to Director of Product Management Joseph DeLisle, is that it checks the content of a call or alert and directs it to the right person. For instance, if the patient is just asking for a pillow, the call goes to a technicia...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 10, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Healthcare Alerts Healthcare Burnout Healthcare Falls Healthcare Interoperability Healthcare I Source Type: blogs
Altera Digital Health: Leveraging the Cloud to Address the Needs of Rural and Community Hospitals
Rural and community hospitals face the same challenges as larger health systems. However, with smaller pools of talent and fewer resources, they need more help from their digital partners to address those challenges. Altera Digital Health (Altera) is leveraging the cloud to help this important customer segment.
Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down with Mark Pratt, MD – Chief Medical Officer for Paragon at Altera Digital Health to learn more about the company’s efforts for rural and community hospitals.
Outsized Impact
Right from the start of the interview it was clear that Dr. Pratt is deeply passionate ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 10, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Altera Digital Health Ambient Clinical Voice Cloud EHR Community Hospitals Dr. Mark Pratt Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured HIMSS HIMSS 2024 Source Type: blogs
Transparency and Data Sharing Can Also Ease Patient Burn-Out
Grace Cordovano, PhD, Founder of Enlightening Results, co-Founder of Unblock Health, and a devoted patient advocate, says that administrative burdens and failures at data sharing affect more than clinicians and administrators: These glitches in the healthcare systems also contribute to burn-out among patients and their families.
Cordovano and Colin Banas, MD, MHA, Chief Medical Officer at DrFirst, talk in this video about recent regulatory advances in data sharing and how both clinicians and patients are helped by transparency in bureaucratic areas such as prior authorization.
Cordovano says that patient access to data has...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Regulations Colin Banas DrFirst Grace Cordovano Health Data Sharing Healthcare AI Healthca Source Type: blogs
Availity Fills in Staff Knowledge at the Point of Engagement with Patients
Health care is not one single system, but multiple systems offering a bewildering variety of diagnostic and treatment options, backed by a plethora of payment systems that vary from patient. According to Krisi Hutson, Senior Director of Solutions at Availity, AI can help administrative staff from the front desk to the billing office negotiate the maze.
Hutson points out that the average turnover of clinical administrative staff is 12-18 months. In this video, she lays out a typical scenario where a patient arrives for treatment and wants to know what the likely payment is. How can you expect an administrator to collect and...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Security and Privacy Availity Healthcare AI Ethics Healthcare Automation Healthcare Billing Healthcare IT Video Inte Source Type: blogs
Celebrating 500 Episodes: Reliving the Best Moments From the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast
Today marks a pretty significant milestone for our team: 500 episodes of the Healthcare IT Today Interview series! To celebrate we have a special treat for you, a chat with John Lynn, Colin Hung, and Brittany Quemby.
What started as a blog based largely around articles and our founder John Lynn’s experience in the healthcare IT industry, has grown into a vast array of knowledge provided by experts from across the industry and the world, as well as a few of our own experts using a variety of media to include articles, videos, and podcasts.
Like many things in this world, the Healthcare IT Today Interview podcast was...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: David Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Health IT Podcasts Healthcare IT Podcasts Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Podcasts Healthca Source Type: blogs
Advancing Healthcare with High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cybersecurity
Healthcare has become a data-driven industry as the volume of data continues to grow and organizations are able to use that data to provide more personalized care. However, data alone won’t advance healthcare. New systems and processing power that can turn data into insights is the key to accelerating discoveries and improving care.
At the HIMSS 2024 conference, we brought together an incredible panel hosted by AMD and Dell Technologies to discuss the ways high performance computing (HPC) is key to helping healthcare organizations solve the big challenges healthcare faces. Plus, we looked at how security has to be ba...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Security and Privacy AMD Dell Technologies Healthcare High Performance Computing Healthcare IT Video Intervie Source Type: blogs
Revolutionizing Healthcare: CareCloud ’ s Generative AI solutions Showcased at HIMSS 2024
According to Adeel Sarwar, Chief Technology Officer at CareCloud, doctors spend at least 20% of their clinical work time on administration. In this video interview, Sarwar and A. Hadi Chaudhry, Chief Executive Officer and President at CareCloud, talk about their use of AI, and now generative AI, to relieve doctors of this burden and achieve more face-to-face time with patients.
For nearly 25 years, CareCloud has offered a comprehensive health care platform combining practice management, remote patient monitoring, patient engagement, business intelligence, and preventive care. Using the enormous amounts of data gathered ove...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 4, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT A. Hadi Chaudhry Adeel Sarwar Ambient Clinical Voice CareCloud CareCloud AI Digital AI Assistant Healthcare AI Healthcare AI Acq Source Type: blogs
Bringing Contextualized Health Data into the Diagnostic and Treatment Process
Healthcare has always relied on data. What’s changed is the explosion of data in healthcare and the availability of this data to clinicians as well as a whole host of healthcare professionals. Bringing context and meaning to this vast amount of data including unstructured health data is going to be key for every healthcare organization. We sat down with Dr. Paulo Pinho, Chief Medical & Strategy Officer at Discern Health, and Dr. Tim O’Connell, Co-founder and CEO at emtelligent, to learn more about what they’re doing to contextualize data and improve processes for providers, payers, and researchers a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 3, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Discern Health emtelligent Explainable AI Healthcare AI Healthcare Data Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare LLMs Healt Source Type: blogs
Nabla Ambient Clinical Voice Demo at HIMSS
It’s no secret that ambient clinical voice is one of our favorite topics here at Healthcare IT Today. We clearly believe that it’s going to be one of the most impactful technologies to be implemented in healthcare. As a doctor friend recently told me, “It’s the most useful single piece of IT technology I’ve seen in a long time from the doctor’s perspective.”
That’s why at the HIMSS annual conference, I was excited to check out a demo of the Nabla ambient clinical voice solution which we captured on the video below for all to see their technology in action. Dr. Ed Lee, Chi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 3, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ambient Clinical Voice Automatic Note Creation Dot Phrases Ed Lee EHR AI Assistant Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Source Type: blogs
MRO Lets Payers and Providers See the Same Ledger
Health care payers, such as CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, traditionally have only billing data on their patients. That’s why Mo Weitnauer, chief product officer at MRO, calls clinical data “the hottest commodity” in health care.
Piyush Khanna, Vice President Clinical Services at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, would like to store all their data in a single repository and use it for “bidirectional conversations” between the payer and providers. This can provide doctors with data at the point where the clinical decisions are being made—for instance, to perform dialysis at-home or in the clin...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Healthcare Information Exchange Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Payers Healthcare ROI Healthcare Scene Featured Mo Weitnauer Source Type: blogs
The unspoken skill of touch in health care
What drew me to spending my gap year as a medical assistant was the advertised “direct patient care experience.” While patient care is my favorite part of the job, it comes with its own unique challenges for a first-time health care worker. An unexpected challenge that I had to overcome with patient care was learning
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The unspoken skill of touch in health care originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 31, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Natalie Enyedi Tags: Education Medical school Source Type: blogs
The Evolution of the EHR Service Desk and Leveraging an Outside Provider
Dan O’Connor, Vice President, Service Desk Delivery at HCTec, says that resolving a customer service call involves a lot more than fixing the problem that the customer bought. You have to leave the customer feeling that you cared about them. Conveying that sense of care might be more important than solving the problem.
Furthermore, every call is about patient care, even if it’s helping a staff person use their computer. That’s because they are all ultimately serving a patient.
In this video, O’Connor explores service desks with Audrius Polikaitis, Chief Information Officer at UI Health, which serves...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 29, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Audrius Polikaitis Dan O'Connor EHR Help Desk EHR Service Desk EHR Support HCTec Healthcare IT Video Int Source Type: blogs
Infinx Reduces Errors, Turnaround Time, and Staff Burdens for RCM
Many factors make revenue cycle management (RCM) a big headache for U.S. health care providers. Aakarsh Sethi, Senior Product Manager at Infinx, lists the forms of “fragmentation” in payments: not just many different payers, but different plans with different coverage at each payer, along with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and other third party managers, and rules that are constantly changing.
Establishing eligibility, getting prior authorization, and billing are a “very manual process today,” which not only slows down the revenue cycle but leaves a lot of space for inaccuracies to enter and trig...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 27, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management Aakarsh Sethi Healthcare AI Healthcare Automation Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare LLMs Healthcare S Source Type: blogs
VBA Provides A Suite of Tools for Payers and TPAs Including a New Generative AI Product
VBA offers numerous portals to payers and their clients (which include doctors, patients, brokers, and more)—”one-stop shopping” for a large range of services. To ease the user experience with these services, the company has started using generative AI for training on their platform through a tool called VBA Assist.
At the HCAA conference, President and CEO Mike Clayton cites their mission to “make the health care experience better for everyone” and explains some of their services: 24/7 self-service for patients, real-time chat, notifications for picking up meds or scheduling visits, risk modeling...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 26, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Regulations HCAA HCAA 2024 Healthcare AI Healthcare Generative AI Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Payers Healthcare TPAs Source Type: blogs
