Acclara: What ’ s Worth Automating?
So many new forms of automation and AI are entering the health care marketplace: Which ones will pay off and where should a healthcare organization start? In this video, Matt Haberman, Chief Technology Officer at Acclara advises a practical approach that balances effort with resulting value.
Haberman, whose company offers automated revenue cycle management (RCM) as a revenue cycle management and consulting firm, advises organizations to create a “backlog” of tasks that might be automated. Then ask, “How many hours are you actually saving?” In other words, is it cheaper to use automation than a human...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management Acclara Healthcare Automation Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare RPA Healthcare Scene Featured H Source Type: blogs
Demand Grows for Advancements in Healthcare ’s Digital Front Door
The following is a guest article by Clarissa Riggins, Chief Product Officer at Experian Health
Patients have increasingly high expectations for easy and efficient tech-enabled solutions when it comes to accessing healthcare services. They seek convenient self-scheduling options, accurate cost estimates, and the ability to pre-register through their smartphones, among other modern services. Experian Health’s recent report, “The State of Patient Access: The Digital Front Door,” explores the overall digital experience from both the patient and provider perspectives.
It’s no surprise that a significant 76% of patie...
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DexCare Closes $75M in Series C Funding, Led by ICONIQ Growth, to Accelerate Market Expansion of its Care Access Platform
Funding will Advance DexCare’s Product Portfolio of Innovation to help U.S. Healthcare Systems Capture Consumers, Manage Limited Resources, and Control Costs to Fuel Growth
DexCare, Inc., the leading patient demand and care access platform, today announced the close of its $75 million Series C funding round led by ICONIQ Growth. The funding will advance DexCare’s platform, which extends limited health-system capacity to serve patients faster and to precisely manage the supply and demand of digital-care access. The new funding brings the total raised to $146 million, including two oversubscribed rounds closed in less th...
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Ronin Uncovers the Data for Better Cancer Treatment
A recent article highlighting Boston’s renowned hospital systems reveals that the daily challenges these facilities face have transformed each day into an emergency. Short-staffing and other contributing factors have exacerbated the situation, calling for innovative solutions to alleviate the burden. Enter Ronin, a groundbreaking initiative that leverages the wealth of available healthcare data, the power of advanced data science, and a passion for delivering human-centric technology to empower oncology clinicians to make confident, personalized care decisions for every cancer patient.
At its core, Ronin focuses on c...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Cancer AI Healthcare AI Healthcare Burnout Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured IBM Watson Kathy Ford Ro Source Type: blogs
Digital Transformation Relies on Data Center Storage
The following is a guest article by Ken Parent, CEO at Element Critical
As the healthcare landscape continues to evolve, there has been significant disruption to budgets, manpower, and resources throughout healthcare facilities. From the bedside to the back office, healthcare professionals and administrative employees are consistently asked to do more with less. At the same time, healthcare systems must meet the rising demand from patients for a personalized, tech-enabled care experience. In fact, digital transformation has become more than a buzzword and includes new ways to provide value to staff and patients. 77% of hea...
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Featured Health IT Jobs – Epic Application Analyst/Coordinator
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Epic Application Analyst/Coordinator position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic and is located in Toppenish, Washington.
Here’s a description of the position:
Provides technical support services in an Epic environment. Designs, develops, implements, and maintains electronic systems. Manages and executes Epic system configuration activities. Epic Ambulatory and Epic Wisdom certifications are preferred.
This position can be f...
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LogicSource: Looking at Non-Clinical Spending
Healthcare organizations must seek out the same types of supply chain efficiencies as the leaders in other industries, particularly in the face of inflation, rising labor costs, and tighter reimbursement models that erode their revenue. LogicSource specializes in driving savings in non-clinical spending, which typically accounts for over 20% of a health system’s annual revenue.
In this video, David Kirshner, Managing Partner, and Susan Tyler, Managing Director of Healthcare, discuss the valuable insights that LogicSource brings from working across diverse industries outside of healthcare. They also shed light on why ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Revenue Cycle Management David Kirshner Healthcare Costs Healthcare GPOs Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Non-Clinical Costs Source Type: blogs
Anonymizing Patient Data: Why, How, and What Healthcare Leaders Need to Know
The following is a guest article by Philip Russmeyer, Founder and CEO at FITFILE
Patient health and activity data has the potential to be an invaluable resource for healthcare organizations. The vast quantity of data points generated each day could be used to improve treatment pathways, manage demand and capacity, raise safety standards, and accelerate research projects. However, confusion and concerns around the safe and compliant use of patient data are preventing many of these benefits from being realized. With regulations on data use evolving as rapidly as the opportunities and technologies, here’s what healthcare le...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT HIM Regulations Security and Privacy Anonymization Anonymized Health Data FITFILE Health Data Security patient data Patient Privacy Philip Russmeyer Source Type: blogs
Health Tech Startup, Outbound AI, Completes $16M Raise to Accelerate Growth of AI Agents Performing Administrative Tasks
Purpose-Built to Augment Human Talent, the Company’s Virtual Agents and Software Consoles have Gained Widespread Popularity Among Healthcare Providers and Service Organizations Nationwide, Uniquely Leveraging Conversational AI, Generative AI, and Machine Learning to Maximize Workforce Performance and Job Satisfaction
Never have healthcare’s administrative burdens been so acute than in the face of post-pandemic resource and budget constraints, which is why demand is on the rise for Outbound AI‘s pioneering virtual agents and software consoles powered by its proprietary Conversation AI Cloud. The tech start...
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What ’ s Your Health IT Legacy? – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 118
For the 118th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are doing a tribute episode to some bright lights in healthcare that we lost recently, Paddy Padmanabha, CEO at Damo Consulting, John Moore, Founder of Chilmark Research, and Casey Quinlan, Patient Advocate. In honor of these amazing individuals, we are sharing the fond memories we have with them and looking at all of the good they put out into the world. We transition that into the legacy of CIOs, CMIOs, CTOs, etc., what should they be and what do we want ours to be? So join us as we reminisce and reflect on the lives of 3 incredible individuals.
Here’s a preview of...
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How Automation Tech is Fixing Healthcare ’s Broken Hiring Pipeline
The following is a guest article by Dr. Kit Latham, Co-Founder and CEO at Credentially
Workforce burnout is a major problem across the US healthcare system, with approximately one in three physicians experiencing burnout at any given time, according to research. As a doctor, I’ve seen first-hand how the pressure that it places on clinicians and administrative teams can have serious knock-on impacts on organizational outcomes and patient safety.
Much has already been written about how clinician workload and patient demand can be safely reduced. But I believe that, because burnout is fundamentally a capacity problem, the f...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Administrative Burden Clinical Workload Credentially Dr. Kit Latham Healthcare Automation Healthcare Burnout Healthcare Credentialing Hiring Process Source Type: blogs
Aledade Secures $260 Million Series F Financing Round to Expand and Enhance Services for its Nationwide Network of Primary Care Practices
Company Adds Two Board Members and a Senior Executive to Lead its Medicare Advantage Business
Aledade, the largest network of independent primary care practices in the country, today announced the closing of a $260 million Series F funding round to enhance and acquire services and technology to support its practices. The round was led by new investor Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Venrock, Avidity Partners, OMERS Growth Equity, and Fidelity Management & Research Company.
The funds raised in this financing will be used to further accelerate the growth of Aledade’s primary care network and strate...
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Bonus Features – July 9, 2023 – Providers spend 11% less time writing clinical notes than they did three years ago, 54% of surgeons unsure about first-to-market products, 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.
News and Research
The Connected Health Initiative released recommendations for state-level policymakers to strike a balance between protecting personal health information and supporting the use of digital health tools. Overall, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Carenet Health Clarify Health Connected Health Initiative EHR Association Epic Epic Research Ethicon Harvard Medical School Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features HIMSS Inovalon Laudio Lauren Struck Loyal MCG Health Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – July 8, 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.
What Aren’t Enough People Talking About in Healthcare? With so much happening in healthcare, it’s easy for some topics to get lost in the weeds. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to tell us what topics need more attention, and answers included maintaining visibility into healthcare operations, making sense of the data deluge, improvi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
What ’ s Something Not Enough People are Talking About in Healthcare?
The world of healthcare is already so huge and yet it keeps expanding. Every day we see new faces trying to make a name for themselves with new ideas or new takes on old ideas. Technology continues to advance, allowing us to finally accomplish things we had previously only dreamed of. And we continue to grow and learn and fight to be more inclusive in our practices. But with so much out there to work on and talk about, it’s easy for some topics to get lost in the weeds.
In order to help remedy this, we gathered a bunch of the most amazing health IT experts to get their insights on what isn’t being talked about ...
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