What Tends to Go Wrong With Medication Adherence?
This article looks at special conditions that weren’t covered in previous articles.
Interventions Must Be Tailored
Reminders lie at the core of many IT solutions to medication adherence. But a mechanistic delivery of generic messages with no particular appeal to a patient’s needs and values will usually be a waste. As Bryan Hill, VP of digital health and innovation at Cognizant, says, “Nudge, but don’t nag.”
I am personally annoyed by the messages my pharmacy and insurance company send me to remind me to order my medication. These messages arrive when a couple months of my current prescription...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC AristaMD Babylon Health Bethany Doran Bryan Hill Carium Cognizant Colin Banas DrFirst Source Type: blogs
Utilizing Technology to Expand Language Access
The following is a guest article by Nic McMahon, CEO at United Language Group
Communication and connection are crucial in healthcare settings. To better connect with their community and ensure equitable access, healthcare organizations are shifting to a more human-focused, patient-centered care approach. Without a strong focus on language access, some groups of vulnerable patients may fall through the cracks.
As of 2019, almost 68 million people in the United States spoke a language other than English at home. A significant percentage of these people have limited English proficiency (LEP).
Research shows that patients ...
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Featured Health IT Job: Vice President, Compliance and Program Development
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Vice President, Compliance and Program Development position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Easterseals Louisiana Inc. and is in Louisiana, New Orleans.
Here’s a description of the position:
EOE Statement
We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic ...
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Helping People Take Their Meds
Lack of adherence to prescribed medication is a major failing of our healthcare system. (Dr. Omar Manejwala, CMO of DarioHealth, recommends using the term “adherence” instead of the more condemnatory term “compliance.”) A previous article listed some alarming statistics about the number of patients who don’t take their medications as advised, and the dire effects on life expectancy as well as costs to the health care system.
That previous article focused on ways to solve problems of cost and access, which in the United States and many other countries are big contributors to lack of adherence. ...
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Final #HITsm Chat – #HIMSS23 Preview
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this month’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 4/7 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This month’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) and we’ll be doing a “#HIMSS23 Preview.“ As the title implies, this will be the last regularly scheduled #HITsm chat that we’re going to do. It seems fitting that we discuss the mecca of health it conferences, HIMSS, as the final #HITsm chat since that’s where so many of the online #HITsm conversations turned into in-person meetings, friendships, work connections, and more.
First, let me address why we’re en...
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Quality Data Leads to Better Outcomes, Alignment & Informed Consent at ViVE2023
Collecting and managing data has become vital in healthcare. Doing this right, leads to many downstream benefits, including better patient outcomes, greater patient engagement, more efficient processes, happier staff, and improved payer + provider alignment. At ViVE2023 a number of guests stopped by to share their perspective on this topic.
Data Must Lead to Better Outcomes – Divurgent
According to Hannah Ellerbee, Chief Customer Officer at Divurgent, health data was a hot topic of discussion in the ViVE2023 exhibit hall. However, what she didn’t hear enough of, was how that data was leading to better outcomes. Sh...
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Accelerating Personalized Health With Healthcare Digital Twins
The following is a guest article by Steve Lazer, Global Healthcare & Life Sciences CTO at Dell Technologies.
One rapidly advancing trend in healthcare and life sciences is the shift from inefficient, expensive physical models to digital models tested in the virtual world. This is especially critical when time to value and cost are of the essence, as in the case of a global pandemic. One way to address this challenge, is to create a digital replica of a physical system or environment, accumulate data with sensors and collectors to monitor performance, and identify anomalies and trends to predict problems before they oc...
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Using Technology to Address Medication Access
In conclusion, the market for medications in the United States is broad, confusing, and often arbitrary.
Information gaps open the market to manipulative direct-to-consumer advertising by pharmaceutical companies. Perhaps the services described in this article could undermine the appeal for drugs that appear on major TV channels. If you’re told that the premium medication you’ve been sold on TV is essentially no better than a generic, you can save yourself and your insurer a lot of money.
It’s daunting to pull together all the public sources of help, but well-designed technology can do it fast enough to h...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC AdhereHealth athenahealth Babylon Health Cognizant Colin Banas DrFirst Medication Access Source Type: blogs
How AI can Tackle the Rising Tide of Staff Shortages in Healthcare
The following is a guest article by Roni Jamesmeyer, Senior Healthcare Manager at Five9
The healthcare crisis is dominating headlines, with the industry dealing with complicated challenges across multiple areas. After the trials of COVID, physicians continue to face seemingly insurmountable pressure. The average number of patients per primary care doctor is at an all-time high of 20 per day. It is not only the physicians suffering but also the clinicians and vital support staff that are the backbone of healthcare as a whole – whether in private practices, hospitals, or urgent care clinics. The country faces a shortage of...
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Experience Management – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 111
For the 111th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are diving deep into experience management! We start off by examining where we are today with our approach to experience management in healthcare. Next, we look towards the future by discussing some ways that we should be working to improve patient experience management. Then, we do the same with employee experience management. Lastly, we take a look at other industries and how they approach experience management to see if there are any methods that healthcare organizations should take notes from.
Here’s a preview of the questions and topics we discuss in this episod...
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Florence Launches Modern Healthcare Experience With $20M Seed Round Led by Thrive Capital, GV, and Salesforce Ventures
Starting with emergency departments, the company aims to digitally streamline patient access, increase capacity, and drive efficiency for healthcare workers
Florence, an innovator in healthcare enablement software, has launched out of stealth mode after raising $20 million in seed funding. The health tech startup’s round was led by Thrive Capital, GV (Google Ventures), and Salesforce Ventures with participation from Vast Ventures, BoxGroup, and Atento Capital.
Comprised of physicians and engineers from leading health systems and technology companies, the Florence team has created a technology solution that provides a...
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Bonus Features – April 2, 2023 – 63% of nurses say AI will cause a generational divide among nursing staff, 67% of consumers prefer electronic medical bills but 78% of providers still use paper, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
In this week’s edition, one story is, let’s just say, a little foolish. It is the beginning of April, after all.
News and Research
The American Telemedicine Association’s ATA Action submitted two letters to the...
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Weekly Roundup – April 1, 2023
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.
Diversity, Data, and Customer Relationships: Key Themes from ViVE 2023. Colin Hung and John Lynn had many interesting conversations in Nashville. Find out what they learned in interviews with industry experts from Divurgent, Laurel Road, Santa Clara Valley Health System, 314e Corporation, and Clinical Architecture. Read more…
At ViVE 2023, It Seems...
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This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare
The following is a guest article by Sarah Bavar, RN, BSN, Director at ReMedi Health Solutions.
At ReMedi, we frequently support health systems going through transitions at various stages of the EHR life cycle. Along the way, we almost inevitably uncover challenges surrounding the quality of the patient data transferred to the new and existing EHR.
Eventually, that information must be reconciled in the new system with all of the disparate sources, including legacy system(s), scanned documents, continuum of care documents (CCDs), and various databases (archives, HIEs, pharmacy databases, state registries, etc.). It’s jus...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT HIM Hospital - Health System CCDs Clinical Data Abstraction EHR Consulting EHR Data EHR Data Quality EHR Switching Healthcare Scene Featured Source Type: blogs
Cybersecurity: Hoping for the Best, but Preparing for the Worst
In an ideal world we wouldn’t have to worry about cybersecurity for healthcare. But unfortunately that is just not the case. Instead with how deeply personal and important the information and data that we hold is in the world of healthcare, we need to be prepared for the absolute worst. All systems should have protections in place against even the worst of cyber threats.
But doing so is a very daunting task since technology is so deeply embedded into everything we do. So where do we start? What areas could your organization be overlooking? We reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for th...
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