How Technology Can Help Us Achieve Health Equity
There has been an incredible rise in technological advancements in the world of healthcare recently due to our sudden need for everything to be digital when COVID hit. While the cases of COVID have gone down and we’ve settled into a new normal, that isn’t the only crisis that we need a tech fix too. We need to start searching for how we can use technology, new or old, to fix health inequality and discrimination.
We reached out to our beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on the role technology can play in working towards health equity. The following is what they had to say and be sure to...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Regulations Alex Rothberg Andrew Kobylinski Ben Zaniello MD Bronwyn Spira Cardio Diagnosti Source Type: blogs
Strategies for effective patient communication: a guide for physicians with the aid of ChatGPT
This article will explore strategies to help you communicate more effectively with your patients
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Strategies for effective patient communication: a guide for physicians with the aid of ChatGPT originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 13, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Harvey Castro, MD, MBA Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs
Elaborate Announces $10M in Funding to Modernize Lab Results
Elaborate’s technology offers doctors a way to contextualize health data and deliver clear, action-oriented communications to their patients
Elaborate, the tool that doctors and their staff use to deliver contextualized, action-oriented lab results to patients, announced today it has raised $10 million in Seed funding. The funding round was led by Tusk Venture Partners, with participation from Founder Collective, Company Ventures, Bling Ventures, and Arkitekt Ventures, as well as renown investors such as Elliot Cohen (Pillpack, Amazon), Sara Wajnberg (Oscar), Scott Belsky (Behance, Adobe), and Sean and Peter...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Adobe Advantia Amazon Amy Esposito Arkitekt Ventures Behance Bling Ventures Company Ventures Digital Patient Communication Doctor-Patient Communication Elaborate Electronic Medical Records Elliot Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Chatbot Explosion on The Way?
While healthcare providers have been relatively slow to put chatbots to work, the time may have come for a chatbot explosion. With ChatGPT generating frenzied global interest, we may be at the tipping point for using chatbots in our daily lives, and providers will have good reason to meet consumers where they are.
Over the last few years, there has been a slowly growing movement toward using chatbots in clinical care. One of the highest-profile projects involves the deployment of a chatbot created by Babylon Health to triage patients seen in several hospitals within the UK’s National Health Service.
Providers have al...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Babylon Health ChatGPT Colin Hung Generative AI Healthcare Chatbot National Health Service Pie Source Type: blogs
Health Care Portals: Looking Beyond the Patients ’ Horizon
This article addresses the entirety of the patient experience, and its interdependence with the staff experience. Technology has the potential to improve both simultaneously.
Vendors Help Create a Future
athenahealth has copious uses besides the ones mentioned in the previous article. athenahealth’s integrations with hospital EHR systems allow the platform to receive discharge instructions when a patient leaves a hospital. From there, athenahealth can trigger workflows such as contacting a patient to make sure they schedule a follow-up visit, or reminding the patient to make a payment.
The previous article also intro...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring athenahealth Azalea Health Brandon Neish Bu Source Type: blogs
Improving Patient Experience with Digital Transformation
Becoming patient centric in your organization isn’t something that you can do all at once. It’s a slow process that requires you to think about the patient experience in every single aspect of your organization. This is especially important when you are establishing new practices in your organization, such as when you’re integrating digital transformation. That way your organization will be patient centric from the beginning, rather than having to go back and re-do it.
But how exactly does digital transformation impact the patient experience? We reached out to our lovely Healthcare IT Community for their ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 28, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Brad Genereaux Brad Kittredge Branden Neish Brightside Health Cala Health Dan Rodrigues Source Type: blogs
Third-Party Risk Management Actions to Avoid Data Breaches
The following is a guest article by Aaron Kirkpatrick, CISSP, CRISC, CIPM, GCIH, GCC, Chief Information Security Officer at Venminder.
Without a doubt, the healthcare industry is growing and thriving. It’s one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing industries, and the global healthcare market will reach $665.37 billion by 2028. As the industry grows, more service and operational needs arise, resulting in increased outsourcing, and additional vendor risk.
It’s not uncommon for vendors to have access to sensitive patient data, such as electronic health records (EHRs) and patient communications. Therefore, you need ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 21, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy Aaron Kirkpatrick Health IT Risk Health IT Security Controls Healthcare Breach Healthcare Scene Featured Healthcare Security HIPAA Breac Source Type: blogs
6 Potential Medical Use Cases for ChatGPT
The internet is buzzing with news on ChatGPT, and how everyone uses it to write love poems, homework, summaries of articles, or python codes. ChatGPT is the latest generation of a large language model, designed to generate text upon user input. There is a lot of discussion regarding its potential use in medicine, so let’s see, what you can expect from it and what you should not use it for – at least in its current form.
Unlike the text-to-image tool Midjourney, which we introduced earlier, and which is a GAN (generative adversarial network, explained here) algorithm, ChatGPT is a different kind of algorithm R...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 19, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI chatbot AI text generator AI in heaalthcare ChatGPT Conversationlal_AI Source Type: blogs
Hint Health Acquires AeroDPC to Offer End-To-End Platform for Direct Primary Care Providers
The company also welcomes Dr. Brad Brown from AeroDPC as the new Medical Director
Hint Health, the company powering the direct primary care (DPC) movement, today announced the acquisition of AeroDPC, a practice management and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) designed for DPC clinics. This elevates Hint from being a trusted enrollment, membership management, and billing platform, to a comprehensive solution that provides everything a DPC doctor needs in one innovative platform.
The existing U.S. healthcare system, which operates on a fee-for-service insurance infrastructure, is leading to increased provider burnout, patient...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT AeroDPC Direct Primary Care Dr. Brad Brown Electronic Medical Records Equal Health Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Hint Connect Hint Health Hint S Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 29th October, 2022.
This report presents CDC findings on telehealth use trends in 2021. It includes data from the National Health Interview Survey, a nationally representative household survey conducted throughout the year by the National Center for Health Statistics. -----https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-10-13/women-older-adults-more-likely-to-use-telemedicine-in-2021Who Used Telemedicine in 2021?New data shows which groups have been most likely to use a health care option popular during the pandemic.By Christopher WolfOct. 13, 2022, at 12:01 a.m.More than 1 in 3 adults used telemedicine in the past year in 2021, ac...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – October 23, 2022 – Pennsylvania providers dominate CHIME Most Wired list, 61% of patients research providers online, 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
CHIME has released this year’s lists of Digital Health Most Wired organizations. Seven of the 18 Level 10 acute care providers are based in Pennsylvania – UPMC, Geisinger Health System, affiliates of Jefferson H...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 23, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Advocare Alayacare Apexon Authenticx Automation Anywhere CareSignal Cedar CHIME eClinicalWorks ECRI eCW Edifecs Feel Therapeutics Gainwell Technologies GE Healthcar Source Type: blogs
The Shifting View of Automation in Healthcare with Matt Dickson from Stericycle
As I think about my years in health IT, tech people have always been interested in automation. It’s one of the beauties of many technologies. You can automate processes in ways that weren’t previously possible. However, the same wasn’t always true for healthcare workers. Some people in healthcare saw automation as a threat to their jobs. Many clinicians were afraid of automation since they didn’t think they could trust it with something as important as patient care. Others just simply didn’t want to deal with the changes that came with automation.
While some of these views still pr...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 20, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Healthcare Automation Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured Matt Dickson Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 8th October, 2022.
This report aligns with the reality that healthcare organizations are facing in terms of the effects to patient safety, " said Anahi Santiago, chief information security officer at Delaware-based ChristianaCare.She and other healthcare cybersecurity leaders spoke withHealthcare IT News about the connection between cyber hygiene and patient safety and how to prepare for healthcare cyber attacks. -----https://ehrintelligence.com/news/meaningful-use-ehrs-may-be-key-to-improved-quality-of-care‘Meaningful Use’ EHRs May Be Key to Improved Quality of CareHospitals that meet the “Meaningful Use” EHR requirements were ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – September 25, 2022 – More than 90% of patients prefer providers who offer telemedicine, Sequoia Project releases info blocking resources, 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 Studies
More than 90% of patients prefer providers who offer telemedicine, and 62% of patients prefer to consult with physicians remotely when possible, according to a poll of 1,002 patients from Software Advice. At t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring 21st Century Cures Act American Diabetes Association American Heart Association Atrium Health Bruce Johnson Butterfly Networ Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 12 September, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----It is amazing how many senior roles at the ADHA are being advertised it seem. Some at $150,000 plus!To keep busy we have vapourware interop plans being discussed and bullshit educational sessions being run for lesser salaries!Otherwise it has been a pretty boring week I have to say!-----https://www.ama.com.au/gpnn/issue-22-number-...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 12, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
