Healthcare It News

APRIL 10, 2025

Morton is a neuroradiologist at Carle Health and Carle Foundation Hospital, a Level 1 trauma center and comprehensive stroke center in Urbana, Illinois. At that time, Carle Health had just two hospitals – but five PACSs from different vendors. Each hospital had different medical record numbering systems.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 17, 2023

In a sneak peek at athenahealth's plans for the HIMSS23 Conference and Exhibition this April, CEO Bob Segert said that a key highlight will be the company's focus on improving the patient creating a consumer-grade patient experience – including a showcase of new features.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 26, 2024

Since the onset of the pandemic, patient experience scores from Press Ganey, a firm with more than 40 years of experience in patient experience, have taken a drastic dive – with much of the data pointing to staffing shortages and other challenges as key indicators of the decline in scores.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 16, 2021

"The patients, the providers – they don't really care that much about the technology, how cool it is, what it can do from a technological standpoint. Jai Nahar, a pediatric cardiologist at Children's National Hospital, agreed, stressing the importance of human-centered AI design in healthcare delivery.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 15, 2022

Feature More than ever before, healthcare organizations are working harder to prioritize the patient experience. From appointment booking to post-discharge follow-up, hospitals and health systems are striving to innovate and personalize the way people navigate their care journey. Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years.

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Healthcare Success

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Doctors are central to the success of virtually every multi-location healthcare practice and health system we work with. Moreover, today’s doctor partners have strong opinions about marketing and growing their locations within the larger business. Do your doctors look, sound, and feel like they are a part of your organization?

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2024

We spoke with him about what he sees as the problem with the patient experience , his suggestion that it is necessary for providers to adopt digital tools, what may happen if hospitals and health systems embrace digital tools on the patient side, and an example of a common patient process today versus how it would go in a highly digital environment.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 14, 2024

As the population ages and life expectancy increases, delivering high-quality care that achieves optimal health outcomes, enhances patient experiences, and reduces costs is essential for the future of healthcare in the U.S. Did you really want to leave the house to sit in a doctor's office waiting room?

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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. Presently, it runs a chain of over 28 hospitals with more than 7,500 beds, making it one of the biggest healthcare providers in India. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Various capabilities have been incorporated into modern patient portals, including chatbots and digital twins, to maximise their potential for improving the patient experience. However, it may take a while for hospitals to apply the newer large language models to their patient portals.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

By Martin Jones Current and emerging medtech change how hospitals, clinics, and medical practices deliver care. Yet, healthcare organizations face workforce and security challenges – ones that must be met while also appeasing the growing demands from patients.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 2, 2025

Louis, Missouri, with 23 hospitals and more than 650 physician offices serving Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. "Historically, SSM Health's online website experience was educational and informational. SSM Health is a health system headquartered in St.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Most consumers using digital health devices felt more trust in the technology when coupled with doctors’ office reviews — another lens on the importance of trust-equity between patients and physicians. for trust/honesty as nurses, doctors, and pharmacists). for trust/honesty as nurses, doctors, and pharmacists).

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

"Patients don't have to [travel] all the way to be hospitalised and then centralised in the hospital. " Technology that cares A/Prof Low sees that the next wave in care is "technology [bringing] care to the patient," enhancing particularly the patient experience.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Queensland Hospital and Health Services is expanding access to the Virtual Emergency Department service to all individuals in the state. The company recently signed a five-year contract with the US-based business communications solutions provider to improve doctor and patient experience in its pathology and diagnostic imaging practices.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The system helped Prisma maintain efficiency, eliminating more than 1,000 backlogged specialty referrals in less than two weeks and provides analytics on staff efficiency as well as patient engagement. "It’s about improving care for our patients. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 24, 2022

Today’s consumers expect a healthcare experience as innovative and digitally advanced as any other industry. Hospitals, health systems, and medical practices must evolve to meet these changing needs to remain competitive or risk falling behind. Doctors tell patients that an ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In July last year, Alcidion signed an initial 12-month contract with the LHD to deploy its Miya Precision system to support the virtual care delivery of Sydney's RPA Virtual Hospital (rpavirtual) for COVID-19 patients in home isolation. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In administrative use cases, AI can help reduce the burden on staff by managing patient data, scheduling patients, billing, and similar tasks. With staffing challenges, many hospitals and health systems are already applying AI in this way. We doctors want more time with our patients, and our patients want more time with us.

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Healthcare Success

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As a result, healthcare providers still heavily rely on positive relationships with their referring doctors and other healthcare professionals (HCPs). And you know, in hospitals, if you were new to a hospital system, a health system, you would take it for granted. There's a team of physician liaisons that support the hospital.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 12, 2024

We interviewed Qureshi for a deep dive into how hospitals and health systems can harness ChatGPT and other LLM technologies to improve patient care, how provider organizations can use LLMs to ease clinician workload, and how providers can deploy ChatGPT and LLMs to empower patients.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

To further complicate matters, as healthcare consumers continue to prioritize patient experience, physicians are leaving private practices for hospitals and larger medical groups at an alarming rate. According to Avalere Health , nearly three in four doctors work for a hospital, health system, or corporate entity today.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

There has been a public perception that telehealth and virtual care consist solely of having a virtual doctor’s visit when you feel ill or following up on a routine treatment. Other examples include virtual care in patients’ homes and assisted living communities. In many ways, virtual care helped define the pandemic.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

It also makes data more easily accessible for practitioners and hospital administration staff. Healthcare is a highly regulated industry and patient data comes with special protections and compliance rules. Healthcare is a highly regulated industry and patient data comes with special protections and compliance rules.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2021

This has raised the importance of price transparency, which is based on the hypothesis that if patients had access to personally-relevant price/cost information from doctors and hospitals for medical services, and pharmacies and PBMs for prescription drugs, the patient would behave as a consumer and shop around.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The result is the rise of new AI-powered telemedicine tools, dramatically improving patient care when healthcare professionals are unavailable or offline or when patients are unable or unwilling to visit a clinic or hospital. This addresses health disparities, improves access, and enhances patient experiences and outcomes.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Paddy Padmanabhan For a while now, we have been watching how voice-recognition based artificial intelligence tools can improve physician productivity, reduce burnout and improve the quality of the patient experience. Big tech and voice-recognition in healthcare.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Albany Med - Columbia Memorial Health (CMH) in Hudson, New York, is a community hospital and health system serving more than 100,000 residents in Columbia and Greene counties. 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.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Doctors maintain their top status as U.S. patients’ most-trusted source of coronavirus information. Patients’ concerns of COVID-19 risks have led them to self-ration care in the following ways: 41% have delayed health care services. 42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Michelle Wyatt, Senior Director of Utilization Review Services, Xsolis Length of stay management in acute care facilities represents a critical frontier for providers and payers to improve their own bottom lines, and also improve patients’ experience with the healthcare system. Trickle-down effects How does this affect length of stay?

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 6, 2024

A South Florida-based academic medical center, Memorial operates six hospitals, including the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital; numerous primary, urgent and 24/7 care facilities; a health specialty center; and a nursing home. With 15,000 team members, 3,000 providers and $3.1

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Healthcare It News

MAY 14, 2024

Besides being all the rage in the industry, digital transformation is a key component to the strategy of forward-leaning hospitals and health systems today. It aligns healthcare organizations with its customers – highly digital patients.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 30, 2024

He holds a pharmacy doctorate. "It was clear we needed an innovative turnkey solution to effectively connect with our hard-to-reach patients and ensure they were sticking to their care plans, which is essential to our goal of promoting cost-effective population health ," he added.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 8, 2022

Serving predominantly rural communities, many of Geisinger's patients experience barriers to getting the care they need. For example, transportation to and from appointments is a challenge patients may face, especially those living in remote areas that have long drives to their appointments. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 11, 2022

The goal is to give patients easier access to all their health information in one place through MyChart – enabling them to see test results, schedule appointments and message their physicians. "All providers and organizations using Epic can easily exchange patient data, which will greatly improve patient care," he added.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 4, 2022

Hospitals and health systems are grappling with "ongoing labor shortages, increased workplace violence and many other burdens impacting the safety and wellbeing of pandemic-weary healthcare workers," said Collins. She emphasized the importance of fostering feelings of trust and safety – for patients and hospital staff alike.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 8, 2022

New technologies can help modernize the healthcare system and play a major role in enhancing patient experience, not least of which is blockchain. Accessing ever greater data is necessary to be able to properly assess a patient and their level of care. This type of system is heavily dependent on data.

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