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Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions
As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.  We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.  In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.  Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media. All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 18, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC 2024 Health IT Predictions Aasim Saeed Amenities Health Andrew Harding Ankit Gupta Anthony Hare Ash Wellness Availity Bicycle Health Source Type: blogs

Navigating the Prior Auth Landscape in 2024: 3 Things to Know Before Implementing Automation
The following is a guest article by Dr. Steve Kim, Co-Founder and CEO at Valer Prior authorization automation is an essential consideration for healthcare organizations seeking to streamline their processes in the coming year. Automating prior authorization workflow offers several operational, financial, and clinical benefits, including fewer avoidable denials, procedure cancellations, and delays in care, better patient outcomes, improved staff productivity, and more. If you’re considering adopting prior authorization automation technology for the first time, or you’re potentially switching from an existing provider th...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 18, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Automation Dr. Steve Kim Prior Auth Prior Auth Automation Prior Authorization Prior Authorization Automation Valer Voluware Source Type: blogs

Improving Patient-Centricity: Raleigh Radiology ’ s Journey with PocketHealth
What does patient-centered mean for a radiology practice? For Raleigh Radiology it means providing patients with the convenience, control, and access they are expecting. Their team chose PocketHealth to accelerate their patient-centricity efforts. Learn how. Patient Centered Care The traditional doctor-knows-best model of care has not been viable for more than a decade. Smart and progressive healthcare providers have invested the time, effort, and resources to modernize their approach by becoming more patient-centric. This means implementing processes and technologies that cater to the needs of patients as much as clinicia...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Frank Manole Healthcare Interoperability Healthcare Scene Featured Image Sharing patient engagement Patient Experience patient-centered patient-centricity PocketHea Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – January 14, 2024 – Epic Research shows telehealth results in more follow-up visits that in-office care, Elevance Health to offer smartphones to qualified Medicaid beneficiaries, plus 21 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 Follow-up rates for telehealth and in-office visits have remained consistent since 2020, according to analysis from Epic Research. That said, telehealth visits are more likely to result in follow-ups at the 7-, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 14, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Abbott Alliance for Pediatric Device Innovation American Telemedicine Association Atropos Health Butterfly Network Caregility Cedar Gate Technologies Childre Source Type: blogs

Navigating medical uncertainty: a patient ’ s perspective [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join Ana María Caballero, a poet, artist, and author. Ana María delves into her book, A Petit Mal, and we delve into an unexpected encounter in the emergency room, with Ana María shedding light on both the medical and emotional dimensions of her narrative. Read more… Navigating medical uncertainty: a patient’s perspective [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 9, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Emergency Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: blogs

Growing up and growing apart: the evolution of lifelong friendships
It took four tries, but we synchronized the newest episode of Outlander perfectly. Just outside of Philadelphia, I’m watching the same scene in lockstep with my best friend, Corinne, one thousand miles away in St. Louis. We make all the same faces in response to the dialogue. We roll our eyes together when someone dares Read more… Growing up and growing apart: the evolution of lifelong friendships originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 5, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Pediatrics Source Type: blogs

To address youth mental health, we must address insurance barriers
It’s been two years since the American Academy of Pediatrics declared a national state of emergency in children’s mental health. Yet sadly, very little has changed. This year, 25 percent of youth have been diagnosed with a mental health condition. More than 20 percent of teens have seriously considered suicide, and more than 40 percent of high school Read more… To address youth mental health, we must address insurance barriers originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 30, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Policy Psychiatry Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: Disastrous Results for Professor Crawley ’ s Pediatric Online CBT Trial
By David Tuller, DrPH Pediatrician Esther Crawley, Bristol University’s methodologically and factually challenged grant magnet, has released what seem to be the first outcome results from her much-hyped but fatally flawed FITNET-NHS trial—and they are disastrous. The trial, a pediatric study of online CBT based on similar Dutch research that (falsely) claimed to have proven … Trial By Error: Disastrous Results for Professor Crawley’s Pediatric Online CBT Trial Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - December 30, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Crawley FITNET-NHS Source Type: blogs

What should you do if your child is diagnosed with bronchiolitis this cold and flu season?
The cold and flu season is already causing a surge of viral infections among children in doctors’ offices and emergency rooms. Health care providers are urging parents to brace themselves for what’s expected to be another season of COVID-19, influenza (flu), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and other common viruses all circulating at the same time. Read more… What should you do if your child is diagnosed with bronchiolitis this cold and flu season? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 26, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Pediatrics Source Type: blogs

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

A doctor ’s path to recognizing her own humanity
“Today is the first day of the rest of my life!” I’m sure you’ve heard that many times before; I’m sure I have. But in my obscure point of existence in this endless universe, that statement has never been more accurate than it is today. Being a physician has been a flame burning inside my Read more… A doctor’s path to recognizing her own humanity originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 22, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Pediatrics Source Type: blogs

Time to retire quarantine: Why 5-day isolation guidelines are doing more harm than good
I’m making morning rounds on the pediatric unit today: First up, 4-year-old twins with a severe asthma flare; next an infant with bronchiolitis on supplemental oxygen; then a dehydrated 3-year-old listless in bed. These children are all hospitalized with viral illness – but none of it is COVID-19. Meanwhile, their sniffling peers fill daycares and Read more… Time to retire quarantine: Why 5-day isolation guidelines are doing more harm than good originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 22, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

A new vision for success beyond the American dream
Being a first-generation immigrant growing up in the conservative South, I followed the “traditional” vision board. At the age of 40, I reached the American dream: successful mommy doctor entrepreneur, married, raising three kids, living in an affluent neighborhood, driving an environmentally friendly vehicle, investing in real estate, traveling the world, and making yearly charitable Read more… A new vision for success beyond the American dream originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 20, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Pediatrics Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Radiology and Cardiology Technology
The world of healthcare IT is ever-evolving. It seems as though every day there is a new piece of technology to talk about or an exciting update/new approach to old technology. Staying on top of all of this news for every piece of technology or area in healthcare can very quickly become overwhelming. This in turn almost always results in a development, new release, or even an entire area of healthcare left behind and forgotten. So today we are going to take a little pause to focus in on technology for radiology and cardiology. To get some insights on what is actively being done in these two fields of healthcare IT, we reac...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Braj Thakur Cardiology Cardiology Tech emtelligent Evan Ruff Experity Hayley Dezendorf Mark Dobbs Myndshft Technologies OXOS Medical Pure Storage Source Type: blogs

Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions
The following is a guest article by Natalie Tkachenko, Healthcare Software Solutions Consultant at NIX To obtain test results today, there’s no need to visit the hospital. Simply open a mobile app and download the report to your smartphone. Doctors remotely manage patient data without being tied to a specific medical facility. They also handle large volumes of data effortlessly within their hospitals. This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. However, along with advancements, challenges in digital healthcare are increasing. Let’s discuss how to tackle them and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Security and Privacy AI Amazon Web Services AWS Blockchain Cloud Storage Cybersecurity Data Management Digital Healthcar Source Type: blogs