What Health IT Trend Has You Most Excited?
Burnout is something that can slowly creep up on you but take a long time to crawl out of. This serious problem is something that happens with you are overworked and overstressed from the problems you are tasked with at work. In the world of healthcare, where we are constantly looking for ways to make things better, it is no surprise that we are facing a high burnout rate. While burnout is hard to recover from, it is possible. Taking time off and finding things that you enjoy and are excited about are key to letting your brain reset and being ready to get back to work.
While there are countless problems and struggles in he...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 28, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System 86Borders Arcadia Authenticx AVIA Health Blake Richards Dan McDonald Elucid Eric Prugh Health IT Trends Healthcare AI Source Type: blogs
Generative AI in Your Desk Drawer: Back Office Applications in Health Care
This article delineates the advantage of generative AI over earlier forms of AI and machine learning. We’ll look at several areas in health care where generative AI is in use, and discuss ways to make it widely available to small clinical organizations with few resources. We’ll also see how different organizations are training their models for maximum accuracy and value.
The Generative AI Advantage
The impacts of generative AI throughout society will be hard to assess for some time because it is so new and has become the darling of computer science so fast. Stepro describes the pace of change as “extrem...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 26, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Administrative Burden Amazon Web Services Arcadia Artificial Intelligence AWS Back Office Bikham Caen Contee ChatGPT David Kereiakes Gauri Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – February 24, 2024
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.
Which Health IT Trends Deserve Even More Attention? We asked the Healthcare IT Today to weigh in on the topics that the industry isn’t talking about enough. Interesting answers included whether data really needs to be cleaned up before it’s ingested and how to get providers and payers on the same page. Read more…
Introducing Designing f...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 24, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Three Ways AI is Preventing Revenue Leakage
The following is a guest article by Dan Parsons, Co-Founder and CPO at Thoughtful
Revenue leakage poses a significant challenge to healthcare providers, and the traditional methods used to mitigate these losses are becoming increasingly difficult to scale.
Healthcare providers need an adaptable and scalable solution to address these issues permanently. RCM automation, powered by artificial intelligence, can achieve this – saving considerable time and adding millions of dollars to the bottom line. Additionally, automation simplifies adaptation to the evolving payer landscape for healthcare providers.
Andreessen Horowitz p...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management a16z Andreessen Horowitz Automation Claims Processing CPT Dan Parsons KaufmanHall ProPublica RCM Revenue Lea Source Type: blogs
How will you save this critically ill patient? A fundamental and lifesaving ECG interpretation that everyone must recognize instantly.
Written by Pendell MeyersA woman in her 30s called EMS for acute symptoms including near-syncope, nausea, diaphoresis, and abdominal pain. EMS arrived and found her to appear altered, critically ill, and hypotensive. An ECG was performed:What do you think?Extremely wide complex monomorphic rhythm just over 100 bpm. The QRS is so wide andsinusoidal that the only real possibilities left are hyperkalemia or Na channel blockade. Hyperkalemia is by far more common.Indeed, further history revealed two missed dialysis sessions. And of course on exam she has a dialysis fistula.EMS reportedly gave 4 grams of calcium (unknown w...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - February 22, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Computer Assisted Professional Coding is Helping St. Joseph ’ s Be More Resilient
The team at St. Joseph’s Health in NJ implemented computer assisted professional coding (CAPC) to streamline their revenue cycle management processes. The resulting improvements are helping the organization be more resilient in these challenging times.
Dr. Beth Kushner, Chief Medical Information Officer at St. Joseph’s, recently sat down with Healthcare IT Today to discuss the revenue cycle management (RCM) improvements her team has made.
Efficient RCM Processes are Critical
Dr. Kushner has a passion for RCM. She strongly believes that having efficient RCM processes are critical in these tight economic times or a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT HIM Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management AGS Health AHIMA CAC CAPC clean claim rate Computer Assisted Coding computer assisted professional codin Source Type: blogs
Ambient Voice Transcriptions Endorsed in a Study by The Permanente Medical Group
This study provides encouraging data on some of these questions.
Evaluating This Study
TPMG, as most readers know, is the largest medical group in the United States, with nearly 9,800 physicians and 44,000 nurses and other staff. After deploying the Nabla ambient voice solution in October 2023, the organization quickly built up a large database of AI-generated clinical notes to run through their study.
Note that this study was carried out by the team at TPMG who installed the ambient voice solution. A study by an independent organization would be more authoritative. But results were strong enough for us to pay attentio...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 19, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ambient Voice Technology EHR Clinical Documentation Healthcare Generative AI Nabla PDQI-9 The Source Type: blogs
The 7 Decade History of ChatGPT
By MIKE MAGEE
Over the past year, the general popularization of AI orArtificial Intelligence has captured the world’s imagination. Of course, academicians often emphasize historical context. But entrepreneurs tend to agree with Thomas Jefferson who said, “I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
This particular dream however is all about language, its standing and significance in human society. Throughout history, language has been a species accelerant, a secret power that has allowed us to dominate and rise quickly (for better or worse) to the position of “masters of the un...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI ChatGPT History of AI Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Acute dyspnea in an older woman, is it OMI?
Written by Willy FrickA woman in her 90s with a history of end stage renal disease and complete heart block status post dual chamber pacemaker presented from home with acute onset dyspnea. ECG is shown below.What do you think?The ST and T wave abnormalities jump off the page, but let ' s set that aside just for a moment to review the tracing systematically. The rate is 60 (and remember, slower heart rates are often seen in OMI). Close inspection revealsventricular pacing spikes, best seen in aVL. Many ECG readers will not comment any further on rhythm once ventricular pacing has been identified, but it...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - February 18, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Willy Frick Source Type: blogs
More epistemology
Many people find it uncomfortable to live with deep mystery. They want their questions answered. Many people also need to be handed meaning and purpose on a platter -- it ' s too difficult to make their own, especially in the face of hardship and injustice. Making up stories that seem to satisfy the need for explanation and meaning is a temptation that many just can ' t resist. But for other people, testing stories against empirical reality is more important. Whatever dissatisfaction or psychological distress we suffer from choosing to live in reality is worth it to us, because we want the truth more than anything. On...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 17, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A Few #HealthPolicyValentines
Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you! May your lives be filled with love this day. In the world of health IT and healthcare policy, this is the day we love to share our love (and some disdain) for healthcare in what we call #HealthPolicyValentines. Be sure to check out our coverage of previous #HealthPolicyValentines as well as some that we found interesting this year below. We hope you’ll enjoy a nice break this Valentine’s day.
Roses are red, violets are blue
CMS’s plan to abruptly migrate Medicare/Medicaid research to the expensive VRDC
Will be bad for researchers and bad for health polic...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 14, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Healthcare IT #healthpolicyvalentines Fun Friday Health Policy Personal Musings Valentine's Day Source Type: blogs
The 2024 Word of the Year: Missense
By MIKE MAGEE
Not surprisingly, my nominee for “word of the year” involves AI, and specifically “the language of human biology.”
As Eliezer Yudkowski, the founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and coiner of the term “friendly AI” stated in Forbes:
“Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence—in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement – wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.”
Perhaps the ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Biology Crispr DNA Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Emerging Technologies Shaping the Health IT Landscape and How They Contribute to Improving Patient Outcomes and Healthcare Delivery
It’s been said many times before, but the truth remains the same: the world of healthcare is ever-evolving. We are learning and growing every day, which means we are also coming up with new ideas, technologies, and practices every day. But with all of this constant news of new technologies and changes in practices, it can be really tricky to stay on top of it all. To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery? The following...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 12, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Regulations athenahealth Azalea Health Baha Zeidan Caregility CenTrak Deepi Source Type: blogs
PointClickCare Acquires CPSI Subsidiary, American HealthTech
CPSI Selects PointClickCare to Support AHT Customers with Access to a Best-in-Class Suite of Products and Solutions, and the Most Expansive Care Collaboration Network
PointClickCare Technologies, a leading healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful collaboration and access to real‐time insights at every stage of the patient healthcare journey, today announced the acquisition of American HealthTech Inc. (AHT), a subsidiary of Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. (CPSI) and a leading provider of electronic health record (EHR) solutions and related services for the post-acute care market. CPSI, a community healthca...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AHT American HealthTech Chris Fowler Claire Stephens Computer Programs and Systems Inc. CPSI Dave Wessinger Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A John Pulliam PointClickCare PointClickCare Technolo Source Type: blogs
One Man ’s View On What We Can Do To Control AI
This appeared last week:
How we can control AI
By Eric Schmidt
The Wall Street Journal
12:26PM January 31, 2024
Today ’s large language models,
the computer programs that form the basis of artificial intelligence, are
impressive human achievements.
Behind their remarkable language
capabilities and impressive breadth of knowledge lie extensive swathes of data,
capital and time.
Many take (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - February 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
