HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

. – Virtual Sitter aims to enhance patient safety, address workforce challenges, and improve care delivery for hospitals and health systems. By utilizing AI, a single remote staff member can now monitor up to 25% more patients, effectively increasing the capacity of inpatient care teams.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 17, 2023

WHAT IT'S ABOUT The startup signed a memorandum of understanding with Siloam Hospitals Group to automate and scale patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) across its hospital chain by powering Siloam's WhatsApp with the Bot MD Care AI chatbot.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2024

OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care. THE PROBLEM This issue stemmed largely from gaps in continuous care during transitions between these settings.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

"This technology involves uncertainties and risks, but also has the potential to dramatically increase efficiency, improve the quality of care, and create value for health care organisations," WA Medical Research Minister Stephen Dawson said about generative AI.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

What You Should Know: – Emory Healthcare , Georgia’s most comprehensive academic health system, and Emory Healthcare Network, the health system’s clinically integrated network, today announced a new population health collaborative (PHC) with Guidehealth, a nationally acclaimed, AI-enabled healthcare and value-based managed services company.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 7, 2023

The partners announced that they are building an integration roadmap so Cognizant can run current and future healthcare platforms on Microsoft Azure – and migrate new and existing clients from on-premise environments to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

As AI technology becomes more integrated into healthcare, hospitals and pharmacies are exploring new ways to improve patient outcomes, optimize operations, and ease administrative burdens. Beyond logistics, AI is transforming patient safety and quality of care.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

"In the digital world we live in, it is imperative that the connectedness of our patients and consumers of the services have the access they need to care not only through regulation requirements but integrated into their day-to-day care plans," she noted.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The patient administration system is one of the most critical foundational digital systems for individual hospitals or broader hospital jurisdictions. With over 252 hospital implementations, Dedalus' webPAS provides absolute confidence that your PAS foundation is deep, broad, and proven.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Since the pandemic, the rise of AI and its integration with telemedicine and digital health has seen significant investment growth, leading to enhanced patient care and reduced operation costs for healthcare providers and systems. Alongside this issue is the thorny problem of integration.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 23, 2024

Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves. With EHR integration, all patient information is available in real time for clinicians.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Hugh Cassidy, Head of Artificial Intelligence and Chief Data Scientist at LeanTaaS The costs of care are rising, and with them, the pressure on healthcare systems to manage resources effectively. This includes regular evaluations and adjustments based on new data and changing conditions. Verify the vendor’s data privacy and security measures.

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p3care

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Patient call report services in the US refer to an electronic Patient Care Reporting (ePCR) system used by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) clinicians during ambulance calls to record patient information, interventions, and other important details. Hospitals use these records to treat patients effectively.

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Cloud Blogs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

These shifting priorities have catalyzed the desire to track patient outcomes and cost-savings for improved quality of care. These goals require increasingly data-driven approaches to care. It empowers users to take a giant leap towards continuous, integrated care.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 12, 2023

The pace of innovation is picking up as health IT vendors seek to integrate artificial intelligence into their offerings for provider operations, medical testing, patient engagement and other use cases. Providers can include in-house clinical guidelines for their optimal and exclusive use. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 6, 2022

This led the health system to add telebehavioral health services in its hospitals to both increase access to behavioral health professionals and meet standards of care recommended by the Joint Commission. "Currently, the solution integrates with our native EHR," Mackenzie noted. THE PROBLEM. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2025

Decision Support Systems: AI integrated into electronic health records (EHRs) provides clinicians with evidence-based recommendations for diagnosis and treatment. This improves accuracy and reduces variability in care delivery. Addressing these challenges requires collaboration at every level.

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Readiness Rounds

DECEMBER 4, 2024

How Will CMS 2025 Affect My Hospital? How Can We Improve Quality and Patient Outcomes? What Are the Steps for Integration into Quality Improvement? What’s the Next Step for My Hospital? Understanding these measures will help your hospital align operations with the latest best practices in geriatric care.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2023

Healthcare IT News spoke with Autumn Gertz, project manager at the computational epidemiology lab at Boston Children’s Hospital and project manager of the Outbreaks Near Me team, to get answers and a deep dive into the survey results. Are these results surprising or expected? What do people expect from AI in healthcare?

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p3care

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Not only that, but it determines the quality of care within hospitals, practices, and clinics should meet certain standards. The quality category replaced the PQRS (Physician Quality Reporting System) and reflects the efforts to improve the quality of care.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have launched the Coalition for Care Partners to strengthen healthcare's capacity to systematically identify, engage and support care partners effectively through existing patient portals. OpenNotes and The Roger C.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

PROPOSAL Memorial Healthcare System works with several vendors to help it achieve its virtual care goals. "Telehealth also has played a crucial role in keeping patients like these 'frequent flyers' out of the hospitals, so as to not burden the ED and inpatient admissions with additional patients."

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 28, 2022

These are the questions Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth, Mississippi, asked as part of an initiative to improve outcomes for congestive heart failure patients, who are the highest source of the hospital's readmissions. " To keep CHF patients out of the hospital, adherence to these medications is critical.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 21, 2025

What You Should Know: – MultiCare Health System , a large healthcare network in Tacoma, Washington, has partnered with IllumiCare to integrate its clinical decision support (CDS) solution directly into its Epic electronic health record (EHR) system. This helps them avoid unnecessary costs and improve the quality of care.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2024

Virtual primary care serves as the access point to bring individuals into the healthcare system and by bringing the healthcare system to the individual, where they want to receive care. You further say virtual primary care can improve access to care and improve the patient experience.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2023

What You Should Know: Ichilov Hospital, Israel’s largest acute-care facility Tel Aviv launches an AI-based triage pilot integration in its Sourasky Medical Center Emergency Department with Kahun , an evidence-based clinical reasoning tool for physicians.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Population health management has become an important competency for hospitals and health systems. Because data isn't always integrated seamlessly across various points along a patient's healthcare journey, providers and other organizations don't always get a full picture of patient compliance and tracking of outcomes.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Hospital at Home (HaH) is a sustainable, innovative and next-generation health care model. From the physician’s perspective, it offers person-centered medical care and keeps patients out of the hospital, away from possible complications and on to better outcomes.

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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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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

It is well-established that longer patient wait times negatively impact patient satisfaction , specifically regarding patient confidence (in the provider) and perceived quality of care. According to Avalere Health , nearly three in four doctors work for a hospital, health system, or corporate entity today.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Connexall’s mission is to empower healthcare organizations to become “connected hospitals” by leveraging technology to improve communication, streamline workflows, and enhance patient care. ”

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 17, 2022

We’re facing another surge in COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations, plus other health care demands. [00:12:00] In addition to that, the HHVBP demonstration program showed how much could be saved just in reduced hospitalizations via home health care. There’s a continuum of care in terms of need.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 14, 2023

Co-Founder and CMO at TigerConnect The world we live in is becoming increasingly integrated, and as it does, the amount of data also increases. These workflow solutions not only integrate with hospital systems like EHRs; but also work outside of them and will remain operational in the event of an outage. Andrew Brooks, M.D.,

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Cloud Blogs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

These shifting priorities have catalyzed the desire to track patient outcomes and cost-savings for improved quality of care. These goals require increasingly data-driven approaches to care. It empowers users to take a giant leap towards continuous, integrated care.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Health care systems are focused on providing cost-effective, high-quality care that reduces hospitalizations and prevents complications, Anderson explained. Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED), one of the nations largest home health providers, also has seen increased demand for more sophisticated wound care.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2025

Mancuso will focus on empowering primary care physicians to deliver holistic, longitudinal care that moves beyond traditional reactive models. Prioritize preventive care: Shift the focus from reactive sick care to proactive preventive care, improving long-term health outcomes.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 12, 2024

Learning from Telehealth: A Precedent for AI Integration The anxiety surrounding technology’s impact on the patient-clinician relationship is not new. This precedent suggests that with careful implementation, generative AI can similarly be integrated into healthcare in a way that complements rather than replaces the human elements of care.

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