Healthcare It News

MARCH 11, 2024

Patient engagement is high on the list of important trends that healthcare CIOs and other health IT leaders at provider organizations are working on. Intelichart, in Booth 3920 at HIMSS24, is a vendor of patient engagement technologies for provider organizations. Those days are over.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 22, 2024

Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care. In some European countries such as Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia, Poland and Hungary, patients can access national portals that contain their prescriptions, referrals, discharge letters, etc. What do patients worry about?

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Healthcare It News

MAY 6, 2024

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Arthur M. It was built from the ground up with the very latest healthcare information technology. Meller is chief information officer at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Arthur M. Blank Hospital is scheduled to open this September. It cost more than $2 billion. Blank Hospital.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

To better support personalized care, Qualtrics patient experience data will be integrated with Epic to flag potential problems or concerns for patients. If a patient reports scheduling frustrations, Qualtrics can flag it in Epic for the right team through the new integration.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2024

Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. In addition to providing many crucial health services, they are the traffic cop to all the other forms of healthcare throughout a health system. Please explain how, and the value virtual primary care adds here.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 23, 2024

Many of the virtual care and digital health systems in development, as well as those pursued over the past several years, are geared toward addressing three macro challenges healthcare currently faces: workforce shortages and burnout; hospitality capacity and throughput; and care fragmentation or patient access. " Dr. Kenneth W.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Nuance Communications, part of Microsoft, announced the general availability of Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience Copilot for documentation assistance in Epic electronic health records. Nuance noted patients surveyed were positive about the use of genAI during appointments.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 7, 2024

ASX-listed medication management platform MedAdvisor is working to introduce conversational AI to elevate the patient experience for its partner pharmacies. Conversational AI can also assist in providing patients with accurate education about medications.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Connected care at-home technologies enable behavior change and empower individuals and clinicians to make informed decisions about healthcare treatment. By using them, providers can enhance patient engagement, allowing for personalized and proactive care management that drives better health outcomes and better care experiences.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 8, 2024

THE PROBLEM Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center (TBRHSC) staff know that with limited health resources throughout Northwestern Ontario, it's very important they work together across all hospitals that provide surgical services to improve access to care for remote and rural patients.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 11, 2024

The initiative is designed to give experienced nurses the tools and empowerment to offer remote, system-wide support through Geisinger's 24/7 virtual nurse center, where registered nurses handle admissions, discharges and virtual rounds, enabling bedside nurses to prioritize hands-on patient care.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Hospitals and health systems, especially larger ones, are using AI in myriad new ways – including leveraging it for improved patient experience, and for better patient engagement with the goal of reducing health inequities. How did you originally see AI being a fit for improving the patient experience?

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HIT Consultant

MAY 6, 2024

Michael Zacharski, CEO of Brand Engagement Network (BEN) When it comes to the patient experience, time isn’t on our side. Even when patients get an appointment, they wait again (in the waiting room, exam room, and to be checked out) which affect patient satisfaction scores. What’s standing in the way?

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Launched to help address health equity challenges facing Black cardiology patients, ChristianaCare said its digital medication adherence platform, developed with Story Health, has delivered significant improvements in outcomes for patients with hypertension and heart failure – two to three times in some key metrics.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Even in regions where healthcare delivery mechanisms are abundant, demand can be overwhelming while other healthcare operational challenges interfere with patient outcomes. "They understand their customers and they understand the fact that they need to not completely upset the workflow."

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 28, 2024

WHY IT MATTERS The plan, which extends through the rest of this decade, is organized around four key goals to improve the experiences and outcomes for health IT users and the policy and technology aspects needed to support health IT and electronic health information users.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 4, 2022

Whether they are about mental health, COVID, general health concerns or any number of other issues, healthcare provider organizations constantly are managing droves of calls from patients. Frost & Sullivan recently surveyed 129 healthcare decision makers to discover how contact centers changed as a result of the pandemic.

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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

MARCH 12, 2024

Patty Hayward, vice president and general manager for healthcare and life sciences at Talkdesk (in Booth 1991 at HIMSS24), said genAI has a clear and non-clinical use case in contact centers – which is perfect for healthcare since experts agree it's best to prove genAI in non-clinical settings first.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 12, 2022

Trying to correct health inequity is part of the job for Toni Land, head of clinical healthcare experience at Medallia, a patient and customer experience management company. Why do you believe prioritizing health equity is the key to the future of healthcare after the pandemic ends?

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 11, 2024

" Provider experience has been a crucial healthcare imperative in recent years – starting, arguably, a decade ago, when the Institute for Healthcare Improvement updated its famed Triple Aim to the Quadruple Aim , "adding the goal of improving the work life of health care providers, including clinicians and staff.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2023

The 2023 Healthcare Experience Trends report aims to provide healthcare leaders with a global snapshot of insights and recommendations on what patients expect and what employees need. Patients' payer experiences were also flagged. Digitize and humanize every experience to make stronger connections.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Panel biomarker testing can unlock some of the mysteries of treating patients so that they experience fewer side effects, better quality of life, longer survival rates and potentially, lower costs. At least 22 states are opening up, or looking at how to open up access to it. Roxanne Persaud in the announcement.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

SA Health and the Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health (CEIH) recently announced the first go-live of the South Australia Statewide Patient Reported Measures (PRMs) Program. She also detailed how they are maintaining cybersecurity for both patients and clinicians amid growing threats.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 10, 2023

Virtual care has proven that it can be a big help in connecting patients with the right specialists , and in a timely manner. Specialty care is where the cost and complexity lives in healthcare. Today, too many patients are lost in the labyrinth of the U.S. What is the state of specialty care in the United States today?

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 7, 2023

If you aren’t already, pretend you’re the owner of a successful specialty healthcare practice. Or maybe you’re an administrator for a large regional healthcare system. How would you keep your organization afloat if more than half of your patients suddenly walked out the door and never returned?

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 3, 2022

The emergency room is a stressful and unplanned way to begin a patient journey, and the Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles is one of the nation's busiest. "Patients have numerous interactions throughout a hospital visit. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. " Claude Stang, Cedars Sinai.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Matthew Gitelis, CEO of PatientIQ, a health IT company deriving insights from patient-reported outcomes data, has some thoughts about healthcare information technology in 2023. For one, that patient experience will be king in the year ahead. You predict the patient experience will be king in 2023.

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Healthcare Success

JUNE 23, 2023

The healthcare marketplace is crowded. As patient expectations continue to evolve, the need for thoughtful environmental designs that prioritize peace, tranquility, and healing cannot be overstated—they play a vital role in patient experiences and the perception of overall quality of care.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Consumers have become more savvy – and more choosy – about where and how they receive their healthcare services, and they can be tough customers if the care that's delivered to them does not meet expectations. They've come to expect convenience, affordability and accessibility.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 11, 2022

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Smart health systems are realizing that they must think about their sustainable growth strategies in terms of end-to-end user experience. Paddy Padmanabhan Healthcare's newest pivot: consumer identity as the cornerstone of digital health.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2022

Rebecca Pinn, director of innovation strategy at EPAM Continuum, specializes in creative thinking about experience design. Pinn joined Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard to talk about how hospitals could do better using wearable devices and sensors, TV monitors, machine learning for clinical notes and more.

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Healthcare Success

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Do you want to position your healthcare products and services where your target audience actively seeks them? No matter how many locations you have, you must remember that each is its own microcosm and deserves a unique marketing strategy and budget. Do you want to compete in each of your local markets? Why is this so important?

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 3, 2024

THE PROBLEM This was something staff was looking into even before COVID, as they were thinking about what was best for their patients and their families when it comes to being admitted to the hospital. " MEETING THE CHALLENGE The virtual ICU enables the virtual providers to interact with patients via a telemedicine cart.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 7, 2023

Louis, Missouri, has a special patient experience project coinciding with the opening of the Mercy Center for Performance Medicine and Specialty Care. The organization is bringing new capabilities to improve patient experience, lower cost and improve outcomes. Mercy, a massive health system based in St.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 31, 2023

The participating primary care practices, all part of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s clinical research network, were either general, family, ambulatory internal medicine, preventive medicine or geriatric medicine practices. However, the scheduling volume of visits was "a broadly cited acute problem."

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of all kinds of healthcare information technology, from telehealth to artificial intelligence. Crunchbase estimates that healthcare technology companies have raised a record-breaking $36.6 Each locale collects patient data, but the data sets don't talk to each other.

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