Pharmacy Interoperability and Pharmacy Perspectives Coming Out of the ONC Annual Meeting
It never ceases to amaze me how integral the role of the pharmacist could be to a patient and how many pharmacists are relegated to counting pills and checking insurance. I first experienced this in my first healthcare job which included handling IT support for the pharmacy. Yes, the pharmacist has to make sure the prescription is filled properly and the patient gets the right number of pills. However, I quickly learned that pharmacists can be some of the best sources of medical information for me as a patient. Not to mention, they generally more accessible to talk about the medication and how it works than the doc...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Regulations Cam Deemer DrFirst ePrescribing Healthcare Interoperability Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Source Type: blogs
Nashville ’ s Neighborhood Health Takes to the Streets with NextGen ’s Mobile Technology
Equipped with NextGen Healthcare’s mobile application and other tech, Neighborhood Health, an FQHC in Nashville TN, is bringing care to the streets of the city – literally. Learn more about this grassroots approach to meeting patients where they are.
Healthcare IT Today caught up with Anthony Villanueva, the CIO of Neighborhood Health after he presented at the NextGen User conference. Together with Dr. Ebony Funches from Venice Family Clinic, Villanueva shared insights and strategies for street medicine programs.
Street Medicine
Neighborhood Health faced a significant challenge when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in Mar...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Anthony Villaneuva mHealth Mobile Healthcare Neighborhood Health NextGen NextGen Healthcare NextGenUGM23 patient access street medicine Source Type: blogs
Econoclasm Chapter Two: Medical Economics
You hear all the time politicians and pundits saying that we should let the Free Market ™ work in health care, that Free Market™ solutions are the best. But it should be
obvious that Medicine exists in a world even less like Economics 101 than most
industries. To begin with, while our basic needs for food, clothing and shelter
are predictable and roughly similar for everyone, our n eed for medical services
is largely unpredictable, and it varies radically from person to person and
time to time. Some people go for decades without really needing any at all,
although there are some preventive measures or screening tests t...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 23, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Advantages of Human Scribes for Clinical Notes
Speke is a premium service that provides scribal services to clinicians. While many companies boast of creating clinical notes purely through natural language processing and AI, Speke leverages ambient clinical voice together with human scribes to create a higher quality note for the clinician.
Executive Vice President Vadim Khazan justifies the choices made by Speke, which is part of the company ScribeAmerica, by posing a trade-off. Despite “staggering advances in natural language processing,” AI-generated notes are rarely correct in all details and sometimes have major lapses. Thus, the doctor has to spend mo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ambient Clinical Voice EHR Note Creation Healthcare IT Video Interviews Human Scribes Medical Scribes Physician Burnout ScribeAmer Source Type: blogs
NextGen Focusing on AI to Improve Workflows and on Street Medicine
NextGen Healthcare is taking a methodical approach to AI and deploying it in places based on customer demand and where it will have maximum positive impact. Right now, that means using ambient clinical voice to generate SOAP notes. The company is also delivering more mobile capability to enable street medicine.
In an exclusive interview with Healthcare IT, David Sides, Chief Executive Officer and Dr. Robert (Bob) Murry, Chief Medical Officer at NextGen Healthcare (NextGen) sat down to explain their AI strategy, their view on AI in healthcare, and their plans to support customers with street medicine programs. We caught up ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ambient Assist Ambient Clinical Voice American Health Network Brian Heimer David Sides Dr. Bob Murry Dr. Ebony M. Funches Dr. Robert Murry FQHC He Source Type: blogs
Positive Feedback for NextGen ’s Ambient Assist
At the 2023 NextGen Healthcare User Group Meeting (#NextGenUGM23), Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to speak with Sri Velamoor, Chief Growth & Strategy Officer. We wanted to learn more about the company’s AI plans and what the initial reaction has been to their AI-powered ambient clinical voice solution called Ambient Assist.
According to Velamoor, the early response to Ambient Assist has been very positive and exceeded the company’s expectations. Proof of that was very visible at #NextGenUGM23 where there were dozens of quotes from happy clinicians who had used Ambient Assist.
“Getting the SOAP notes into...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ambient Assist Ambient Clinical Voice Healthcare AI Nabla NextGen Healthcare NextGenUGM23 Sri Velamoor Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 11th 2023
In this study, a single treatment at the peak of disease resulted in the ablation of senescent cells in the lung and attenuation of key fibrotic and inflammatory markers, which ultimately resolved fibrosis. Deciduous Therapeutics has used computational assisted design to synthesise a suite of proprietary therapies that could be used in the clinic to re-activate tissue-resident iNKT cells. To date, the company's lead program has shown single-dose efficacy in resolving both metabolic and fibrotic diseases along with a favorable safety profile at doses significantly higher than the efficacious dose.
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Source: Fight Aging! - December 10, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Abridge Aims at Transparency, Reliability, and Credibility with Their Ambient Clinical Voice Solution
Started in 2018, Abridge now offers analytical generative AI to more than 55 specialties and many languages. In this video CEO and co-founder Shiv Rao, MD discusses their approach to quality, and how they can help with clinical notes, ordering, coding billing, and other aspects of health care using ambient clinical voice.
Abridge offers “deep integration” with the EHR so doctors can use its capabilities within their workflows. He says that, as a clinician, he wants “technology that makes me feel done before I leave the room.”
To Rao, “trust consists of transparency, reliability, and credibilit...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Abridge Ambient Clinical Voice Ambient Clinical Voice Research Healthcare AI Healthcare IT Video Interviews Source Type: blogs
How Wolters Kluwer Health Keeps Large Language Models and AI Honest
Wolters Kluwer Health offers a service called UpToDate, consulted by doctors around the world to help their clinical decision making. In this video, chief medical officer Peter Bonis explains how they are working to add a large language model (LLM), the technology currently popular in generative AI. Bonis also offers a broad overview of trends in digital health.
The impetus behind UpToDate is the explosion of information in medicine. No one can keep up with the discoveries in each field. And there are intriguing—if currently less trustworthy—additions from self-monitoring devices, pharma clinics, and predictive analyti...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Clinical Decision Support Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare LLMs Large Language Models Peter Bonis UpToDate Source Type: blogs
Corti Becomes Part of the Conversation
Corti offers AI-based, ambient clinical voice support for physicians and nurses. Because the solution is fully automated and works in real-time, it can make recommendations during a patient interview, such as suggesting extra questions to ask or the direction for further investigations and treatment.
The tool can take input from a local microphone and display its recommendations on the clinician’s computer screen or device. The clinician has control over the amount of intervention the solution provides. It can also generate notes, suggest coding, and do other tasks for the clinician.
In this video, co-founder and CTO...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Ambient Clinical Voice Automated Clinical Documentation Corti Healthcare IT Video Interviews Lars Maaløe Source Type: blogs
Predictive Analytics from eClinicalWorks Serves Front-line Clinics
CareSTL Health has to conserve resources. As a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in St. Louis, MO, CareSTL Health serves people with no insurance. Patients often have trouble getting access to health cares services, suffer from serious illnesses, and need a lot of reassurance and communication to establish trust. Analytics in their eClinicalWorks EHR helps this front-line organization in several ways, according to Chief Medical Officer Hari Nallapaneni, M.D.
CareSTL, for example, makes use of the new AI-powered tool from eClinicalWorks that can help identify patients who are a most likely to miss their appointment (...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT CareSTL Health eClinicalWorks eCW FQHC FQHCs Hari Nallapaneni Healthcare AI Healthcare Analytics Healthca Source Type: blogs
A Longevity Industry Feature in Biopharma Dealmakers: Repair Biotechnologies, Deciduous Therapeutics, and More
In this study, a single treatment at the peak of disease resulted in the ablation of senescent cells in the lung and attenuation of key fibrotic and inflammatory markers, which ultimately resolved fibrosis. Deciduous Therapeutics has used computational assisted design to synthesise a suite of proprietary therapies that could be used in the clinic to re-activate tissue-resident iNKT cells. To date, the company's lead program has shown single-dose efficacy in resolving both metabolic and fibrotic diseases along with a favorable safety profile at doses significantly higher than the efficacious dose. (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - December 4, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Longevity Industry Source Type: blogs
Synthetic Data and LLMs Power the World ’ s Most Powerful Research Assistant
The next public health pronouncement or clinical treatment might emerge from synthetic data: rows of totally invented people that contain no real data but reflects the actual characteristics of a population such as race, gender, and medical conditions.
Synthetic data plus large language models (LLMs), which lie at the base of current generative AI, provide “the world’s most powerful research assistant” in the words of Josh Rubel, chief commercial officer for MDClone. This video contains a wide-ranging discussion between Rubel and interviewer John Lynn about the current applications and future possibilitie...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Generative AI Healthcare AI Healthcare Data Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare LLMs Josh Rubel Large Language Models MDClone Synthetic Data Source Type: blogs
Getting the Patient Into the Office at Sun Life Health
Sun Life Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) near Phoenix, Arizona, is leveraging their eClinicalWorks EHR platform to persuade patients to get the care they need. By closing these care gaps, not only are they better serving the community, Sun Life Health is also able to secure more federal funding.
Taming the Paper Tiger
In an interview with Healthcare IT Today Trey Davis, Director of Information Systems at Sun Life Health, shared insights into how the healthcare organization has leveraged eClinicalWorks’ technology to enhance patient care and maximize efficiency.
Sun Life Health operates as a FQHC wi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Administration Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Healthcare IT care gaps eClinicalWorks eCW FQHC FQHC incentive payments Healow Insights Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured Population He Source Type: blogs
MRO – Bridging the Trust Gap Between Providers and Payers, One Record at a Time
MRO wants to make the exchange of data between providers and payers more frictionless.
They have developed a new solution that caters to this payer-provider interface. By bridging this data gap, MRO aims to enhance trust between providers and payers.
Two Decades in Data Exchange
MRO has been a key player in clinical data exchange for over twenty years. Founded in the release of information space, the company has helped to modernize what has traditionally been a very analog and manual process. MRO has been recognized by KLAS as a category leader more than ten times – a rare feat for any company.
Recently, the company anno...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 29, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT HIM Hospital - Health System Interoperability AHIMA Blue Cross Blue Shield CareFirst Health Data Exchange Health Information Exchange Matt Wildman MGMA MRO Payer Exchange Pay Source Type: blogs
