Healthcare It News
JANUARY 13, 2025
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued its HHS Artificial Intelligence Strategic Plan , which the agency says will "set in motion a coordinated public-private approach to improving the quality, safety, efficiency, accessibility, equitability and outcomes in health and human services through the innovative, safe, and responsible use of AI.
Healthcare Success
MARCH 25, 2025
Forward by Stewart Gandolf, Chief Executive Officer At Healthcare Success, we understand that a patients journey often beings with a search query. In this blog, our Technical Program Manager, Victoria Shepherd, explores the critical role of symptom search optimization. She shares how organizations can leverage this healthcare marketing trend to engage potential patients early and offers key strategies for optimizing symptom-based searches to drive patient conversions.
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p3care
JANUARY 8, 2025
Independent physicians face many obstacles in handling their practices in the United States. Medical billing is one of the complex and significant components, affecting the revenue collection of the practice. It requires smooth navigation provided by an expert billing team. P3Care provides the best medical billing for independent physicians. It serves as a strategic solution in healthcare billing services.
Home Health Care
MARCH 10, 2025
Addressing social determinants of health (SDoH) is becoming increasingly important due to new regulations from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the shift toward value-based care payment models. With ongoing staffing shortages and a growing demand for home-based care services, social workers are taking on greater responsibilities to support the health care system.
Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health
AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 26, 2025
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reportedly rescinding $11.4 billion in funds to states, cities and organizations receiving grants for COVID-19 efforts.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Although the budget resolution does not mention Medicaid specifically, lawmakers would be hard pressed to find enough cuts to meet an $880 billion target without touching federal healthcare programs.
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HIT Consultant
JANUARY 8, 2025
Frank Fawzi, IntelePeer CEO In todays digital-first world, AI-powered automation is redefining how we approach both customer and healthcare patient experiences. While AI has already made its mark across industries, its application in healthcare introduces a unique opportunity to enhance patient experience (PX) at a time when the industry is grappling with unprecedented challenges, including staffing shortages and increased demand.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 3, 2025
Chatbots powered by artificial intelligence are emerging as meaningful tools in remote patient monitoring and chronic disease management, with the potential to improve diagnostic accuracy, support clinicians, and boost patient adherence. These were among the findings of a peer-reviewed study, "Revolutionizing Medicine: Chatbots as Catalysts for Improved Diagnosis, Treatment, and Patient Support," published in Cureus.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 8, 2025
The past year saw varying levels of digital transformations going around the health systems in Asia-Pacific. It has increasingly become evident that digitalisation – from nationwide networks down to individual hospitals – has become the rule in a post-pandemic world. AI and virtual care models continued to be the craze in healthcare, owing to their clear support for improving clinician productivity and patient outcomes.
Healthcare It News
MARCH 17, 2025
REM sleep behavior disorder, or RBD, is a condition that causes abnormal movements or brief repeated twitching during sleep, and occasional episodes of dream enactment. THE CHALLENGE RBD affects more than one million Americans and is almost always an early sign of Parkinson's or dementia, often preceding other symptoms by 10-15 years. That means it presents an unprecedented opportunity for developing therapies against Parkinson's disease or dementia and ultimately identifying those who w
Speaker: Jennifer Hill
Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 3, 2025
Hospitals and health systems have been discussing digital-first patient engagement for a while now, but fewer organizations than you might think have made huge strides forward on that front. Likewise, data-driven decision-making is a phrase that's been tossed around quite a bit in healthcare, but in many cases it's a dream that's yet to become reality.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 23, 2025
As healthcare continues to advance with accountable care organizations and value-based care models, the industry is starting to see some real traction after a decade of groundwork in the form of CMS claims for the Medicare Shared Savings Program. There are some critical elements driving success here. The role of medication adherence and patient engagement are pivotal factors for continuing to achieve ACO and VBC goals.
Healthcare It News
MARCH 21, 2025
Robert Slepin is chief digital officer and senior vice president at Markham, Ontario-based SE Health and emeritus CIO adviser at EHR giant Epic. SE Health is one of the largest diversified home health organizations in Canada that includes a dedicated research center, health career college, futures lab and global enterprise. The provider organization has facilitated transformation in the areas of aging, education, Indigenous health and end-of-life care.
Healthcare It News
MARCH 31, 2025
Several IT companies and healthcare organizations are making news in the behavioral health space recently. Talkspace, for instance, said its new mobile patient engagement tool can reinforce recommended practices between mental health visits. Additionally, ProsperityEHR debuted its AI-ready architecture for electronic health records that automates key workflows from patient intake to claims processing.
Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.
The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 30, 2025
Most adults aged 50 to 80 in the United States are now using digital health technologies (DHTs), with patient portals leading adoption rates, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. The analysis, based on data from over 2,100 participants and conducted by University of Michigan and Veteran Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System, also revealed significant disparities in usage driven by race, income, education, and geography.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Doctors are finding more time for patients each week at John Muir Health, according to its Epic electronic health record data. The EHR metrics also show a decrease in after-hours time spent entering clinical notes, Ambience, the health system's partner on artificial intelligence-driven clinical documentation and care coordination, said. Also this week we are highlighting a new partnership that aims to push the development of AI to achieve autonomous operations in command centers by starting
Healthcare It News
APRIL 1, 2025
LifeBridge Health, based in Owings Mills, Maryland, faced two primary telemedicine challenges: improving operational efficiency and increasing patient adoption. THE CHALLENGE Dr. Jonathan Thierman, president and chief executive, ExpressCare and Children's Urgent Care, at LifeBridge Health, previously had set up the LifeBridge Health Virtual Health Center.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 15, 2025
Dozens of health systems representing millions of patients across the United States are collaborating with the Truveta Genome Project, Regeneron Genetics Center and genomic sequencing company Illumina to sequence the exomes of their first ten million volunteers. As part of what may be the largest and most diverse sequencing project of genotypic and phenotypic information ever assembled, the health systems said in Truveta's announcement Monday that their collaboration would aid in the develop
Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll
Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha
Healthcare It News
APRIL 9, 2025
Tungs' Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital is the latest in Taiwan to get validated for the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. The EMRAM measures an organisation's adoption and maturity of their EMR capabilities. WHY IT MATTERS Tungs' Hospital was validated for Stage 6 of the EMRAM almost two years ago. In preparing for the highest EMRAM stage validation, Dr Min-Che Tung, chief superintendent of Tungs' Hospital, revealed to Healthcare IT News that they adopted a "digi
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Made possible through pilot funding and informed by user experience research, Mayo Clinic's Clinical Trials Beyond Walls initiative leverages telehealth, remote assessments and other hospital-at-home innovations to bring all or some trial aspects into patient homes or a local community. While decentralized clinical trials began emerging before the COVID-19 pandemic, the public health crisis accelerated the trend.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 21, 2025
As the healthcare industry faces growing patient demand , artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are giving hospitals and health systems the opportunity to rethink how they deliver care. However, many organizations struggle with where and how to deploy these technologies. “AI is not a hammer looking for a nail,” emphasized Dave Henriksen, Head of Value Based Care at Notable.
Healthcare It News
MARCH 19, 2025
Healthcare is a dynamic landscape. Opportunities to improve processes, address concerns and deliver exceptional care experiences are a patient expectation, a regulatory metric and at the heart of the reason many professionals choose to work in healthcare. THE CHALLENGE Oftentimes, when people encounter healthcare, this includes a surgical visit in an inpatient or outpatient setting.
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Healthcare It News
JANUARY 15, 2025
SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital is an inpatient and outpatient pediatric medical center based in St. Louis, Missouri. And Missouri has a serious healthcare problem – a massive behavioral health provider shortfall. THE PROBLEM The demand for behavioral health services is overwhelming across the country, but it's particularly acute in Missouri, where approximately only 200 of the state's 1,000 licensed psychiatrists actually reside in the state to serve a populati
Healthcare It News
MARCH 24, 2025
Korea University Medical Center has recently revealed several major projects integrating AI into its treatment systems, enhancing privacy and its use of medical data, and transitioning to precision medicine. The five-campus hospital organisation shared it has been working to incorporate cloud and AI technologies in the emergency department. In particular, it is creating an AI-based system for tracking, monitoring, and managing bed occupancy and medical resource utilisation, including major equip
Healthcare It News
APRIL 10, 2025
Dr. Doug W. Morton is a neuroradiologist at Carle Health and Carle Foundation Hospital, a Level 1 trauma center and comprehensive stroke center in Urbana, Illinois. He holds a PhD in neurobiology. A program lead for the Carle Enterprise Imaging Team, he directs a group in implementing and managing imaging informatics systems. As an IT leader, physician and engineer, he believes medical technology – when designed with the end user in mind – can dramatically increase clinician engageme
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
As is the case with any industry, it is important for healthcare organizations to understand the consumer of their services. What drives their engagement and what are their pain points? During the pandemic, hospitals and health systems saw how quickly digital health and virtual care programs could be rolled out. This offered confidence and lessons to inform a more guided approach to offering a more digital patient experience that smooths areas of frustration – while not interfering with wh
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Healthcare It News
JANUARY 27, 2025
In a complex, multimodal imaging environment, with radiology and other images and reports scattered across any number of PACS systems and electronic health records, clinical and technology leaders at Cleveland-based MetroHealth had one "guiding North Star," says Dr. David Kaelber, the health system's chief health informatics officer and VP of patient engagement technologies.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
BNH Hospital, the first international private hospital in Thailand, has fully gone paperless following its implementation of an integrated HIS and EMR system. Founded by King Rama V 127 years ago as a modern hospital for foreign expatriates, BNH now provides tertiary-level care known for its Spine Center and Mother and Child care. 25-year journey It was only over two decades ago the hospital began using electronic records, BNH assistant director Dr Apichai Chaiyaroj told Healthcare IT News.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 30, 2025
The American Medical Association estimates that the number of physicians in private practice has dropped 13% in the last decade, largely due to financial pressures and administrative burdens. 1 In the face of these economic headwinds, many doctors have decided to sell their practices. The decrease in the number of physicians in private practice is a rising concern because these systems are critical to the well-being of local communities, offering patients a greater choice in care and a setting f
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 17, 2025
The pressures on healthcare are significant. But many experts believe digital health can help hospitals and health systems cope with these pressures. There are various challenges in healthcare driving up costs, impacting both providers and patients. But there are advancements in care delivery helping alleviate inflationary pressures. Digital health has a role to play in lowering costs and bridging these divides for providers as well as patients.
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