Automation Drives Optimal Use of Temp Nurses
Staffing has become alarmingly tight in health care, driven by aging and a less healthy population, an aging workforce, bureaucratic demands from payers that disincentivize staff, and the traumas of the COVID-19 crisis and increasing violence against staff. Temps, often traveling long distances, have been making up the difference between supply and demand in staffing. The critical shortage has interfered with well-intentioned regulatory goals.
ShiftMed, though, has been taking a sleeker and friendlier direction in temporary staffing.
On the institutional side, pressures to reduce staff costs intersect with desperate needs ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Craig Allen Ahrens Healthcare Burnout Healthcare Staffing nurse staffing Nursing ShiftMed Temp Nurses Uber UberHealth Source Type: blogs
Athelas + Commure: Merging to Create a $6B Healthcare Infrastructure Company
Press release written by Tanay Tandon, CEO at Athelas
We are beyond excited to share that Athelas and Commure – a leading provider of enterprise healthcare software – are merging, and I am taking over the combined entity as CEO, Deepika Bodapati as COO, and Dhruv Parthasarathy as CTO. We’re also raising fresh capital from General Catalyst, valuing the combined entity at $6B.
In the past few years, Athelas RCM and RPM have grown rapidly to thousands of healthcare providers and hundreds of thousands of patients. We process hundreds of millions of dollars in healthcare claims and power critical workflows for small pract...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Athelas Commure CommureOS Deepika Bodapati Dhruv Parthasarathy General Catalyst HCA Healthcare Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Hemant Taneja Jefferson Providence Qasar Younis Quentin Clar Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – October 22, 2023 – 57% of patients accessed portals or medical records in 2022, 21 orgs make Level 10 in the 2023 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Survey, 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.
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Nearly six in 10 (57%) of patients accessed online medical records or patient portals in 2022, according to the latest ONC data brief. This total has doubled since 2017. This compares to 73% of patients who were offered acc...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT @EqualityHealth 9amHealth Alliance for Pediatric Device Innovation Amazon Web Services Artisight Avidex CareCloud Censinet CHIME Densitas Fairtility First Health Advisory FOLX Health Health iPASS Healthcare IT T Source Type: blogs
La Isla Incantada
Tomorrow I ' m going to Puerto Rico for a conference, returning Wednesday night. It ' s the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare. I ' m doing a poster and an oral presentation, and moderating three sessions, so I ' ll be busy. I should still have time to post however and if there are any interesting highlights you ' ll get them.My own talk is about experiences of people with substance use disorder with health care. The technical term for my finding is that they are treated like shit. There ' s much more than I can fit in there but I ' ll give you a few quotations from my interviews. These are people who ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 21, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Specific Types of Help
This is the final article in a series about social determinants of health (SDoH). Previous articles covered the definition, collection, sharing, and use of SDoH. I’ll finish with a look at some specific areas of intervention.
We’ve seen the importance of personal interventions, through interviews and evaluating SDoH, to solve problems. In rural areas, where it might be daunting either to travel to a doctor or to schedule an online visit with poor Internet access, home visits fill the gap. Conduit Health Partners is one organization that does so. A patient can speak to a nurse immediately—as opposed to calling...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Case Management Cheryl Dalton-Norman Clara Lambert Conduit Health Partners Genpact Health Link Adviso Source Type: blogs
How Healthcare Communication Platforms Can Harness Generative AI in a HIPAA-Compliant Way
The following is a guest article by Nate MacLeitch, Founder and CEO at QuickBlox
The demand for AI-powered Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) in healthcare is evident: 75% of executives believe that generative AI has reached a stage where it is poised to reshape the healthcare industry.
When the sector is set to face shortages of between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034, generative AI could alleviate administrative work, such as summarizing patient calls and managing electronic health records (EHRs), to allow medical staff to focus on improving patient care. Yet, privacy laws and a fragmented market have kep...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Security and Privacy Communications Platform as a Service CPaaS EHR ePHI Generative AI HIPAA Large Language Models LLM Nate MacLeitch Natural Language Processing Source Type: blogs
Netsmart Advances Substance Use Disorder Solution Offerings Through Acquisition of Netalytics
Netsmart today announced the acquisition of Netalytics, a South Carolina-based addiction treatment software and practice management company, dedicated to developing technology for substance use disorder (SUD) providers focused on opioid addiction treatment. This acquisition will further extend the Netsmart CareFabric platform by enabling interoperable data sharing between opioid treatment program (OTP) facilities and the providers that treat and coordinate other types of care for individuals with SUD.
“Now more than ever it is critical to integrate Netalytics clients’ SUD treatment and recovery facilities and their i...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Houlihan Lokey Mark Essex Mike Valentine Netalytics Netsmart Netsmart CareFabric Source Type: blogs
“ Low quality ” Interventions in “ high quality ” cath labs
Recently, I visited a seven-star cardiology center. It had a fascinating lab with a near-360-degree roaming arm and floor (even the roof, I think!). The lab also had provision for optional thoracotomy support by surgeons and a CT scan. What’s more, I was told that an adorable robot will soon be added to the cath lab workforce to assist in delivering and maneuvering catheters. It’s truly amazing to see the advancements in science!
I asked the chief staff nurse how many procedures are being performed per day. She pulled out an Excel chart from a gesture-controlled touch panel. It was clocking about 20 to 25 ca...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - October 20, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized comparative efficacy trials cost effectiveness in medicine ethics in medicine EVO;LUTE PRO SAPIENS XT health economics HYBRID CATH LAB TAVR TAVI VALVE IN VALVE Source Type: blogs
Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Acting on SDoH
Previous articles in this series introduced the importance of social determinants of health (SDoH) and explained how it can be captured and classified. In this article, I’ll show how many hospitals, payers, and other institutions are acting on that data.
Of course, the staff of a clinic or hospital don’t go around looking for apartments the way they actively look for a long-term care facility. Instead, their case managers partner with community institutions to help patients. But the clinic or hospital is a crucial linchpin in connecting the patient to this help. According to Dr. Victor Lee, vice president of cl...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability AdhereHealth Avanade Case Management CipherHealth Clinical Architecture ClosedLoop Source Type: blogs
Finding a Health Equity Partner for Language Services
The following is a guest article by Merrie Wallace, Chief Revenue Officer at Boostlingo
In today’s healthcare landscape, the shift to value-based care and expanding requirements from the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) have magnified the importance of language access. As patient outcomes have become the focus in an increasingly diverse patient population, interpretation becomes essential for driving improvements in care for limited English proficiency (LEP) patients. There has been a growing need for on-demand services and increased outsourcing to meet them, with many organizations turning to external vendors to fill t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations Boostlingo Health Equity Healthcare Language Services Healthcare Scene Featured Healthcar Source Type: blogs
Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data
This article shows how organizations are collecting it.
Andrew Eye, CEO of the healthcare data science company ClosedLoop, estimates that about 15% of physicians collect SDoH-related data from patients and use it to assess their needs. The percentage is much higher in some areas.
Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications.
He also says that collecting and processing the data is labor-intensive, because it can be hard to persuade patients to talk openly about financial and logistical problems. At the institu...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Andrew Eye Arick Morton Carta Healthcare Case Management Casetivity CDC Clinical Archictecture Cl Source Type: blogs
Why Generative AI in Healthcare Requires a Focus on Caregivers and Patients
The following is a guest article by Tina Manoharan, Global Lead of Data Science & AI at Philips
“Don’t overwhelm me with more data. Help me get more value out of the data I already have.”
This feedback from a physician has stuck with me ever since I gave one of my first public presentations on the opportunities of AI and big data in healthcare, many years ago. Today, with the groundswell of interest in generative AI, it’s a message that seems more pertinent than ever.
Much has already been written about how generative AI can boost healthcare innovation, in times when healthcare professionals are under more ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT AI Integration Clinical Workflow Generative AI People Centered Approach Philips Tina Manoharan Source Type: blogs
Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction
It’s always been pretty obvious that factors such as wealth, race, education, and the quality of food and water have enormous impacts on health. But only in the past few years have the medical professions tried to quantify and capture these factors. Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH). Data can both call out SDoH and help to address its effects.
An example of calling out SDoH was cited by Dr. Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They use claims data to track use o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Care Management SDOH Social Determinants of Health Source Type: blogs
The Evolution Of Clinical Documentation: From Paper To AI
Documentation is an essential heartbeat of clinical care. Like an EKG tracing illustrating the rhythm and health of a heart, clinical documentation captures the intricate narrative of a patient’s health journey. However crucial, documenting clinical care is a cumbersome task, contributing significantly to the burnout of healthcare professionals.
As we are witnessing global shortages in the numbers of medical professionals, streamlining and/or automating unpopular documentation tasks seems a very logical next step. It doesn’t really require the qualification of a trained nurse or doctor, so it is a great wa...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Healthcare Design clinical documentation AI in clinical documentation Source Type: blogs
Is a dog ’ s life monochrome?
Do dogs live in a black-and-white world?
As a child, I remember my mother telling me something she learned when she was an eye nurse – dogs are colourblind. Now, if I remember rightly, she didn’t mean they could only see in black and white as research in the 1940s had suggested, but that they had limited receptivity to the full colour palate. They were red-green colourblind, like some boys and men. The issue came up after they tested us boys at school for colour blindness with those spotty number colour charts.
The red colour of our lab’s collar would’ve looked grey to her
However, proof that the ca...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 11, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs
