Healthcare It News

MARCH 6, 2024

With 15,000 team members, 3,000 providers and $3.1 billion in annual operating revenue, Memorial Healthcare System is one of the largest public health systems in the U.S. Follow Bill's HIT coverage on LinkedIn: Bill Siwicki Email him: bsiwicki@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare It News

MAY 30, 2024

Desert Oasis Healthcare provides medical care and wellness services to communities in California's Coachella Valley, as well as in Riverside and San Bernardino. The group serves more than 60,000 patients. For clinicians, just telling their patients what they need them to do and how to behave is not enough.

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Sequence Health

JUNE 29, 2022

How do we define the “patient experience”? According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the patient experience is defined as the range of interactions that patients have with the healthcare system. The patient experience, however, is not the same thing as patient satisfaction.

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Healthcare Success

JANUARY 2, 2024

Now that the holidays have drawn to a close, it’s time to return to your 2024 marketing plan and make adjustments that ensure your business is taking advantage of the latest trends in healthcare marketing to reach patients and HCPs more effectively and make a lasting impression.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 11, 2022

Grant Harland, Retail and Hospitality Industry Analyst at Windstream Enterprise Melinda Cisnero, Healthcare Industry Analyst at Windstream Enterprise. When it comes to the quality of their healthcare journey, patients, it seems, are losing patience with their healthcare providers.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Prisma Health, the largest nonprofit healthcare provider in South Carolina, says that by integrating digital patient communications, it's decreased no-shows to the tune of $4 million in savings within the first two years. It may also help more patients arrive at their appointments on time.

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p3care

MAY 31, 2024

An ACO (Accountable Care Organization) works for the better care of patients. Consider it as a group that combines hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare specialists for the sake of providing healthcare and is a team in care decisions. Complying with all these regulations helps in avoiding penalties.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A study published this week from the patient experience vendor WELL Health found that the vast majority of frontline clinical support staff are reporting moderate to extreme burnout. At the same time, the majority say automating certain patient communications would be useful for job satisfaction. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 10, 2024

What You Should Know: Cedars-Sinai is expanding virtual healthcare for children and Spanish speakers in California through its mobile app Cedars-Sinai Connect, a fast-growing online option that allows patients to quickly access top healthcare professionals for acute, chronic and preventive care. and weekends from 8 a.m.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In managing volumes of data that health systems can now tap into, empowering patients to become transparent with, as well as knowledgeable about their condition, is imperative. "Patients need to clearly communicate their conditions to their healthcare providers to [allow them to] make enough informed decisions.

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Sequence Health

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Video is quickly becoming a vital part of the healthcare landscape. From patient care to training and communications, video is being used innovatively to improve patient outcomes and provider efficiency. For example, animated explainer videos educate patients on healthcare treatments, operations, and other procedures.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 12, 2024

ChatGPT has been making an impact on enduring healthcare challenges. Many providers and patients are reporting the artificial intelligence helping with preventative care and preventing non-emergent emergency department visits.

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Sequence Health

AUGUST 15, 2023

In today’s fast-paced healthcare environment, the doctor-patient relationship is more crucial than ever. Medical answering services have emerged as a pivotal tool in enhancing this relationship, offering a myriad of benefits to both healthcare providers and patients.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Thankfully, more patients are embracing technology-based programs that provide education and engagement to help improve diabetes outcomes, such as better understanding the importance of regular blood glucose monitoring and how to interpret key metrics like hemoglobin A1c. About Lucienne Marie Lucienne Marie Ide, M.D.,

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As the consumerization of healthcare continues to take shape, the next frontier of healthcare access may well be merchandising healthcare inventory, contended Derek Streat, cofounder and CEO of DexCare, a digital transformation platform vendor. Unfortunately, that's often not the case when a patient is seeking care.

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Cloud Blogs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Clinician burnout is one of the most significant and urgent challenges facing the healthcare industry today. According to an American Medical Association survey of nearly 21,000 healthcare professionals, almost half reported at least one symptom of burnoutand 43 percent said they suffer from work overload.

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Healthcare Success

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Years ago, it was common for healthcare providers to ask, “How did you hear about us?” For these reasons and more, manual call tracking for healthcare often falls to the bottom of the priority list in favor of other high-priority tasks, like scheduling appointments. What is Call Tracking for Healthcare?

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Manipal Hospitals has tapped Google Cloud to improve its virtual and remote care capabilities while leveraging AI to enhance patient experience. Additionally, the partnership will also allow Manipal to use Google Cloud's conversational AI tools to improve patient interactions, such as appointment booking and searching for doctors.

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Sequence Health

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

As a medical provider, you know the importance of having happy patients. And when it comes to measuring their happiness, there are two important metrics to evaluate: patient satisfaction vs. patient experience. What Is Patient Satisfaction? What Is Patient Experience?

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Yet, healthcare organizations face workforce and security challenges – ones that must be met while also appeasing the growing demands from patients. Digital health medtech presents an opportunity for executives to improve care levels and efficiency, simultaneously improving experiences and lowering costs.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The healthcare industry continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic with innovation and grit. They erected field hospitals in parking lots and converted nonclinical spaces into auxiliary ICUs to provide care to sick patients. Physicians turned to virtual visits to continue providing care. Investing in patient-centric care.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Patients would look for their symptoms on Google and seek care at other hospitals and health systems in the region that had a stronger digital presence. In a hyper-localized business like healthcare, this situation put CMH at a disadvantage against its competitors.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Healthcare is a sector that stands to gain tremendously from this revolution. Here are eight specific ways AI will transform the future of healthcare, making it more efficient, personalized, and proactive. This not only saves healthcare providers a considerable amount of time but also improves the accuracy of medical records.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Jacob DeWitt, MD, U H SM Ambassador and Founder, Integrative Direct Primary Care In an era when healthcare costs continue to soar, a deviation from the status quo is becoming increasingly necessary. Enter the Direct Primary Care model, a revolutionary approach to modern medicine that can be likened to “Netflix for healthcare.”

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Robin Manke-Cassidy, Director, Solution Marketing at Cradlepoint In the world of healthcare, new technologies aren’t just about being on the cutting edge of the latest trend. The latest 5G technologies, an increase in IoT devices, and the right network architecture create a perfect innovation combination for today’s healthcare sector.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 14, 2024

What You Should Know: – HealthTap , a virtual healthcare provider, just announced a major step towards making quality primary care accessible to all. – Patients in all 50 states can now use their insurance when seeking virtual visits with board-certified doctors on the HealthTap platform. Their Dr.A.I.™

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 19, 2023

John Vivoda, Senior Director of Patient Strategy at Wolters Kluwer Health, Technology has drastically changed the way we consume information in our daily lives. That goes for healthcare information, too. Historically, a lack of patient empowerment has been a struggle in healthcare. According to the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

These and other important health consumer insights are revealed in the firm’s latest report, Waiting for Consumers – The Oliver Wyman 2018 Consumer Survey of US Healthcare. These are natural patient work-flows that are well-understood and time-tested. This survey was conducted among 2,509 U.S.

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Etactics

APRIL 12, 2024

I recently entered a job that revolves around the healthcare industry. My point in beginning with this is that I write weekly blogs about healthcare and human resources and I STILL find myself getting pretty confused on all the different components that come into play with medical billing. More specifically, medical billing.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As embedded finance becomes more popular and companies begin to embrace automation technologies, there’s a clear opportunity for healthcare providers to embrace digital payments. Through the use of digital payment technology, healthcare professionals can make their services easier for their vendors, suppliers and patients.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2021

COVID-19 has no doubt been catastrophic, but let it also be the wake-up call we need to improve experiences for both patients and healthcare providers alike. So far, healthcare organizations and facilities have had to work quickly to deliver care on a functional level. Healthcare innovation must serve inclusion.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 14, 2022

Healthcare IT has always faced unique challenges. Among these challenges are the increasing mobility of healthcare workers. Healthcare providers are always on the move throughout hospitals. Today, the task of effectively managing an entire endpoint fleet in the healthcare environment is more challenging than ever before.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 22, 2024

David Sides, CEO at NextGen Healthcare Doctors do so much to keep our communities thriving. Exacerbated by the volume of clinical notes required at the end of the day, physician burnout can adversely affect patient care, leading to errors and reduced care quality.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

the use of telehealth services tripled in the past year, as healthcare providers limited patients from in-person visits for care and patients sought to avoid exposure to the coronavirus in medical settings. In the U.S.,

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 11, 2024

What You Should Know: – Virtual healthcare platform hellocare announced a groundbreaking integration with Alexa for Healthcare at the HIMSS 2024 conference. Enhanced Patient Experience: Patients can now leverage Alexa to: Place calls directly to doctors and nurses.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Charlie Lougheed, CEO of Axuall The future of healthcare innovation over the next decade will be shaped by insights from clinician big data and AI, otherwise known as workforce intelligence. How we shape healthcare’s workforce, peer networks, and processes comes down to how we use data to surface meaningful information.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2023

Jason Warrelmann, Global Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences, UiPath Today’s healthcare facilities are facing critical staffing problems. Caused primarily by the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses and doctors have left hospitals and healthcare clinics because of the dangerous, high-stress conditions. Over 19% of U.S.

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