HIT Consultant

MARCH 3, 2025

Bishan Nandy, Director of Hospital Administration at UI Health As healthcare evolves, operating rooms (ORs) are undergoing a profound transformation. These elements enhance surgical precision, optimize workflows, and improve outcomes, particularly in high-volume hospitals where maximizing resources is essential.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 24, 2025

With VA claims representing less than 5% of most hospitals’ patient revenue, providers often struggle to allocate sufficient resources to master these intricate processes, leading to delayed reimbursements, underpayments, and increased write-offs for VA patients.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 5, 2025

The study included organizations of all sizes and types, such as health networks, independent hospitals, independent physicians and physician groups, and ambulatory surgical centers, and DMEs. Integration challenges: Integrating AI with existing EHR systems can be complex.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Bishan Nandy, Director of Hospital Administration at UI Health Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often hailed as the frontier of technological advancement, and its impact on healthcare is profound. But the true question remains: how is AI revolutionizing the way hospitals function?

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Connie Moser, Chief Executive Officer, Navenio If any sector requires process improvement, it’s healthcare. Nurses need to be empowered to do their jobs efficiently and hospitals need ways of building sustainability into their operational improvement efforts. Why does process change typically fail?

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 23, 2024

– The partnership will integrate Tali’s voice-enabled AI assistant into Net Health’s EHR software, transforming documentation processes and empowering clinicians to focus more on patient care. Improved Accuracy: AI-powered transcription and analysis ensure accurate and comprehensive clinical notes. ”

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Integrating financial analytics into decision-making processes is increasingly vital as hospitals and health systems nationwide contend with high costs, narrow margins, shifts in patient demand, and other financial and operational pressures. With any data point, there are a variety of ways to get an answer.

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NCQA

JANUARY 27, 2025

WellSpan is an integrated health system with more than 23,000 team members across 13 counties in central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland, delivering high-quality, safe, reliable and equitable care in inpatient and ambulatory settings. Process Improvement. Data Collection.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Providers believe this has been a key driver behind a corresponding surge in claims denials , as well funded payers leverage technology to rapidly render these determinations and send them back to hospitals. This approach dovetails with hospitals ongoing labor shortage by freeing up RCM staff to focus on higher-value tasks.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 4, 2022

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic , the pressure has only accelerated; improvement in patient outcomes now can mean the difference between viability and non-viability for a hospital system. Collaboration is key to the ability to improve patient outcomes. Eliminating the silo effect.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2022

Kaiser Permanente uses digital twins through a system that improves patient flow within a hospital. It achieves this by combining structured and unstructured data to build a more complete view of each patient to anticipate what their needs will be at the hospital. can only be found in free-text data. About David Talby.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 5, 2023

George Valentine, AVP of New Groth & Development at Cox Communicaitons We recently spoke with George Valentine, Assistant Vice President of New Growth and Development at Cox Communications for his insights on the impact of leveraging smart hospital technology to power smart communities.

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CHQ Healthcare

MAY 10, 2023

Tarese Dubiel, MBA, CPRP Director of Physician & APC Recruitment & Onboarding Marshfield Clinic Health System Tarese is an integral part of the Marshfield community. Tarese holds herself accountable to her core values of putting people first, ethics and integrity, continuous improvement, and quality and professionalism.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This integration will empower healthcare professionals to spend less time on administrative tasks and more on delivering high-quality care to the three million patient interactions delivered by Tanner Health every year. Scalability and Seamless Integration Corti’s adaptability makes it an ideal solution for healthcare providers of all sizes.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 10, 2023

Understanding the problem the technology is supposed to solve helps determine the workflow changes needed and how to effectively measure key process improvements. It also improves the quality of the output produced. Like most solutions that offer AI and RPA technologies, the use cases are endless.

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Sequence Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Key Takeaways Tracking medication schedules is essential for enhancing patient care, boosting satisfaction, and improving health outcomes. Advanced technology like EHR integration and automated reminders enables accurate and timely patient information management.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 24, 2022

A recent report from the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) turned heads across the healthcare industry after pointing to a notable rise in inpatient hospital stays where upcoding was believed to be the culprit. In contrast with high severity growth, medium- and low- severity inpatient stays dropped by 22% and 12% respectively.

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Vie Healthcare

JANUARY 6, 2024

He also outlines the importance of recognizing patterns and trends in data, how a snow accumulator saved tens of thousands of dollars for one hospital, and why every CFO should care about recovery audits. You have to go back to what was harboring that control gap to actually implement process improvement.

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Vie Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2024

19:08 Applying economic theories to healthcare strategy Cole said education is important to help hospitals adapt to strategy. ‘’I I’ve been so privileged to sit with most of the CEOs of hospitals in the Philadelphia region. One thing I had been educated in is process improvement for hospitals, but not for ambulatory care systems.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 31, 2022

No matter the line of business, you need to break down all the processes into smaller pieces and look at streamlining operations, reorganizing the business through retooling, and workflow center alignment. KanTime was founded on these learnings to bring process improvements to the post-acute care setting.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2023

The quality of these healthcare services is measured by patient outcomes that are based on metrics such as rate of hospital readmission, timeliness of care, and overall patient satisfaction. Population Health Management Tools Another health IT needs includes improvements to current population health management (PHM) tools on the market.

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Geek Doctor

JULY 6, 2021

The ESM also did not identify 1709 patients with sepsis (67%) despite generating alerts for an ESM score of 6 or higher for 6971 of all 38,455 hospitalized patients (18%), thus creating a large burden of alert fatigue.” The delivery service has to seamlessly integrate into customers’ lives.

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Vie Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

This episode is sponsored by VIE Healthcare Consulting ® which has proudly helped hospitals save $758 million since 1999. The three continuums of the healthcare digital transformation journey and why hospitals need to reimagine virtual care. … That’s where wellness takes place.’’ What’s your end stage? Welcome, Tom Foley.

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Vie Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

So I think it’s absolutely critical for us to have a highly diverse, integrated and inclusive approach.’’ And then I joined the IT department for the hospital I was working with. So the clot released and through multiple clots through my brain, my heart and my lungs and I had an opportunity for a few nights’ stay in a hospital.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Using technologies to drive mutual benefit for providers and payers can extend to everything from concurrent authorization processes to discharge planning and care coordination. Many of the legacy platforms and associated workflow processes are often older and lack the integrated support provided by AI and other technologies.

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NASHP

JUNE 22, 2022

Assessing care coordination system capacity, gaps, and process improvements. For example, Iowa ’s Medicaid managed care program implemented a shared plan of care that can be electronically accessed by providers, families, the state, and other care team members through its Pediatric Integrated Health Home Program. [23].

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The effort significantly streamlined EAMC's processes, reduced manual effort and boosted staff efficiency, according to Melinda Johnson, the organization's radiology director. "This has also enabled us to expand care navigator roles to other clinical areas," she said in a statement.

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Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We have brutal wars going on where schools and hospitals are destroyed and used to protect combatants. They were used in the Covid period to help keep patients out of the over-full hospitals, alerting the caregiver and the patient via cell phone if their oxygen saturation declined below 92%. No patient should be found “dead in bed”!

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