Bonus Features – December 24 , 2023 – 74% of orgs automating RCM operations, per-physician revenue exceeding expenses at U.S. hospitals, plus 19 more stories
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 Studies
Median hospital margins rose to 2% in November, according to the latest data from Syntellis, and per-physician revenue growth is outpacing per-physician expenses.
Nearly 3 in 4 (74%) healthcare organizations ar...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Accelecom Akasa Avel eCare Ayble Health Boston Children's Hospital Brightside Health Butterfly Network Cancer Moonshot Clarify Health Commure Engage Data Dimensions Digital Medicine Society Greenway Health Healthc Source Type: blogs
Self monitoring – focusing on pain too much? or an essential part of living with pain?
I was just a tiny bit surprised when I looked at the results of my self-management strategy survey: self monitoring was smack bang in the middle of the list! Take a look yourself –
Self monitoring is not something we discuss much in pain management circles. It’s like ‘Oooh if you keep noticing your pain you’re fixating on it and that’s bad!’ and yet I suspect it forms part of the background interoceptive awareness that most of us do whether we live with pain or not.
Let’s take a deeper look at it.
The ‘definition’ I used was ‘noticing your pain i...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - December 17, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Coping Skills Coping strategies biopsychosocial Chronic pain interoception pain management Research Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Matthew Perry ’ s enduring impact: Advocating for substance use disorder awareness and treatment
The sitcom Friends was a cultural phenomenon that produced waves of nostalgia in those of us who came of age in the late 90s and early 2000s. The decade it was on spanned the era of transition from landlines to cell phones and the advent of the internet as we know it. The characters were
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Matthew Perry’s enduring impact: Advocating for substance use disorder awareness and treatment originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 16, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Courtney Markham-Abedi, MD Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Do What You Do Better: Using AI Tools to Ease the Workload Burden on Faculty
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, Christy Boscardin, PhD, Brian Gin, MD, PhD, Marc Triola, MD, and Academic Medicine assistant editor Gustavo Patino, MD, PhD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss the ways that artificial intelligence (AI) tools can help ease the workload burden on faculty and staff, with a focus on assessment and admissions. They explore the opportunities that AI tools afford as well as ethical, data privacy, bias, and other issues to consider with their use. They conclude by looking to the future and where medical education might go from here.
This episode is now available through App...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - December 13, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine Academic Medicine podcast admissions AI artificial intelligence assessment ChatGPT Source Type: blogs
Conversational AI is Making Healthcare More Personal
The following is a guest article by Brett Petersen, Chief Revenue Officer at Inbenta
The Technology Uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to Give Artificial Intelligence a Human Touch
Picture this: It’s 3 a.m. and you’re not feeling well. You have burning questions about your symptoms or medication, but your doctor’s office is closed and you don’t want to endlessly search the internet for questionable information. Now imagine getting real answers fast, 24/7, 365 days a year.
That’s the power of conversational AI. It’s why the healthcare industry is starting to use the technology to bridge the gap between patie...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Brett Petersen Conversational AI Generative AI Healthcare AI Healthcare Conversational AI Healthcare Source Type: blogs
Occlusion myocardial infarction is a clinical diagnosis
Written by Willy Frick (@Willyhfrick). Willy is a cardiology fellow with a keen interest in the ECG in OMI.A woman in her late 70s presented with left arm pain. The arm pain started the day prior when she was at the dentist ' s office for a root canal. Her systolic blood pressure at the dentist was over 200 mm Hg. She was given nitroglycerin which improved her blood pressure, and she completed the procedure. Her arm pain abated. The pain returned that evening and woke her from sleep. She eventually fell back asleep, and woke up feeling normal the next day (the day of presentation). After dinner the day of presentatio...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - December 11, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Willy Frick Source Type: blogs
Study doesn ’t find evidence to link internet access with poorer psychological well-being and mental health
Is the internet bad for mental health? What the latest study really means. (Mashable):
… Enter a study published Tuesday by researchers in the journal Clinical Psychological Science, which tried but did not succeed in finding a compelling link between internet access and poor mental health and well-being.
Business Insider, for example, declared that the study found no link between social media use and “mental health harm.” Except that’s not what the researchers evaluated.
Instead, they contrasted internet access in the form of yearly per capita internet and mobile-broadband subscriptions and various measures of wel...
Source: SharpBrains - December 7, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation Internet internet age Internet-technology neuroscience psychological psychological well-being Source Type: blogs
The Most Overhyped Technologies in Healthcare
The hype about technological development in healthcare should not blind us in terms of the probabilities and possibilities of today’s healthcare and the future of medicine. To remain objective and conscious but still optimistic, let’s look at the most overhyped technologies and keep in mind the realistic development opportunities in healing.
You know the saying: the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the optimist says it is half full, and, well, the cynic asks who drank the other half? I’m truly an optimist – especially when it comes to the future of medicine and healthcare, but we need to ask the uncom...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Medicine 3d printing robotics virtual reality wearables GC1 hype organs Source Type: blogs
Embracing and Prioritizing Cloud-Based Care in Rural Communities
The following is a guest article by Nathan Shepard, SVP of Product at Azalea Health
As rural providers look to replace legacy solutions, they’re confronted with several critical decision points.
One of the most pressing questions that has far-reaching ramifications is whether they should opt for an on-premises or cloud-based solution.
While many providers see the benefits and name recognition of on-premises solutions and view a cloud-first system as less mature, eliminating the need for an on-premises system reduces the worries inherently tied to on-site solutions.
No matter what an organization selects, buyers yearn for...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 29, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring API Application Programming Interfaces Azalea Health Cloud Based Healthcare Cybersecurity Source Type: blogs
(We Don ’ t) Trust The Science
By KIM BELLARD
I know the A.I. community is eagerly waiting for me to weigh in on the Sam Altman/OpenAI dramedy (), but I’m not convinced this isn’t all a ploy by ChatGPT, so I’m staying away from it. A.I. may, indeed, be an existential issue for our age, but it’s one of many such issues that I fear we’re not, as a society, going to be equipped to handle.
Last week the Pew Research Center issued an alarming report Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Positive Views of Science Continue to Decline. Now, a glass half-full kind of person might look at it and say – no, it’s good news! Fifty-seven pe...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Creationism Education Kim Bellard Science STEM Source Type: blogs
Making the Patient Portal Relevant at Community Health Alliance
Patient portals and digital patient engagement stymie many healthcare providers, especially small ones with few resources. Community Health Alliance (CHA) a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving 27,000+ patients in Reno, Nevada, is using an old-school way to encourage use of its online patient portal – by having in-person conversations about it.
Healthcare IT Today sat down with Carlos Aros, Director of Operations at Community Health Alliance to find out how they are driving the adoption of and engagement their patient portal.
Adoption Though Conversation
CHA uses eClinicalWorks as their EHR. In 2021 they ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Carlos Aros CHA Community Health Alliance eClinicalWorks eCW FQHCs Healow Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scen Source Type: blogs
How Poor Connectivity Impacts Patient Outcomes
The following is a guest article by Doug Bierbower, Vice President of Solutions Engineering at SOLiD Americas
When delivering first-rate care, every aspect of the patient experience is critical. And in today’s always-connected 5G world, much of that experience depends on pervasive, secure mobile device connectivity. Physicians, nurses, staff, patients, and visitors need seamless indoor wireless coverage.
As a result, the health of a hospital’s in-building wireless network is more important than ever — from the patient intake process to the delivery of accurate medical device results to secure transmission of ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops 5G DAS distributed antenna system Doug Bierbower Healthcare 5G Healthcare Network LAN Local Area Network Source Type: blogs
Za ’atar
I’m excited about this season’s Za’atar, because its almost entirely from foraged or home-grown spices.
We picked the sumac along a dirt road in Northern New Hampshire in late June. It was the most luscious, oil-packed, fragrant sumac I’ve ever encountered. (Read about how to find and dry sumac here.)
The oregano and thyme hailed from Pennsylvania and New York City, grown in sis Rosemary and friend Paula’s container gardens, as well as my own window box in the mountains. I dried the sumac by laying them it for a couple of weeks on a cooling rack atop a baking sheet, and the other herbs...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - November 16, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Uncategorized food gifts handmade holiday gift homemade gifts spices Sumac Xmas gift za'atar Source Type: blogs
What does the angiogram show? The Echo? The CT coronary angiogram? How do you explain this?
A 70-something female with no previous cardiac history presented with acute chest pain. She awoke from sleep last night around 4:45 AM (3 hours prior to arrival) with pain that originated in her mid back. She stated the pain was achy/crampy. Over the course of the next hour, this pain turned into a pressure in her chest. She said this was midsternal and felt like a tightness. This originally radiated into her left arm. Over some time and the pain moved into her other arm as well as her jaw. She also had some shortness of breath. She was brought in by ambulance and re...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - November 15, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Workflow Automation To Help Deliver Services to Marginalized Populations
The recent turn to a more holistic health care system—such as the interest in dealing with social determinants of health, covered in a recent SDoH series on this site—places a new urgency on connecting patients to services that provide counseling, food, transportation, and other needs that affect their health.
Many people among impoverished and under-represented populations don’t use the services to which they’re entitled. The people might not realize these services exist, or don’t think they need help, or don’t think they deserve it. Many of these people enter the ecosystem of human resource o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Administrative Workflows Case Management Casebook Casebook PBC Diversity Equity and Inclusio Source Type: blogs
