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Addressing Point-of-Care Ultrasound’s Shadow IT Problem

HIT Consultant

Across hospital settings, IT infrastructure has not kept pace with ultrasound innovation. Despite the many benefits of POCUS, the opportunity for wider implementation is hindered because today’s POCUS tools do not seamlessly integrate with existing hospital IT infrastructure.

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5 Must-Have Features for AI Platforms in RCM

HIT Consultant

Administrative processes account for about 30% of U.S. The number of AI-powered process automation systems continues to expand, promising to shorten payment times and simplify management while integrating with existing hospital IT investments. With so many options, revenue managers might wonder where to start.

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Newsletter, August 2023

Patient Safety Movement

2B: Create a learning ecosystem and shared accountability system to ensure that evidence-based practices are implemented and goals for reduced harms and risks of harm for all Americans are realized. 1B: Establish a multidisciplinary National Patient Safety Team (NPST) and ensure inclusion of persons from populations most affected.

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Exposing Healthcare Fraud with Jonathan Tycko| E. 68

Vie Healthcare

So what I would say is you can’t, and particularly in healthcare where it’s such a heavily regulated business, you can’t just view compliance as a problem. It’s a highly regulated industry. Not for a hospital, it wouldn’t be that much, but whatever it is. That you have to deal with compliance.

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Innovative Cost Savings Ideas For Hospitals In 2023| E. 60

Vie Healthcare

.” And I think that bringing these initiatives all together so you get a complete picture with complete visibility, cohesiveness, understanding what’s going on, and of course that terrible A-word which is accountability, bringing it all together, we’ll have just another level of savings because you just have a complete view.

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The Future of Digital Transformation in Hospitals

HIT Consultant

Additionally, digitized health records have been used to make patient information more easily accessible, first to meet Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and HITECH mandates, and now, increasingly, to meet the 21st Century Cures Act ‘Final Rule’ mandate, requiring timely and standardized access to all patient data.