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OntarioMD Looks to Help with AI Adoption and EMR Improvements
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OntarioMD is embarking on two ambitious initiatives. One is aimed at helping EMR users in Ontario drive down costs and have a bigger voice with vendor...
The Evolution of Suki's Ambient Clinical Voice Solution and What Differentiates It in the Market
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When I first had a chance to interview, Punit Soni, CEO of Suki, two years ago I was impressed with his accomplishments and intrigued by his unique vi...
Suncoast Community Health Centers Saved Money and Reduced Frustration with eClinicalWorks' Cloud EHR
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For Suncoast Community Health Centers, moving to a cloud-based EHR was a no-brainer. Not only did it save them money, but it also reduced staff frustr...
Oracle Health Goes Beyond Visit Summaries with Its Use of AI in Their EHR
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many companies are jumping on the AI bandwagon to offer services ranging from risk stratification to auto-generation of patient notes after a visit. O...
Driving Patient Behavior and Connecting Patients with Their Care Teams
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
According to Rich Steinle, CEO of Carium, many healthcare organizations haven't created a culture of "my health is every day" even thoug...
TPGi Enables Healthcare Teams to Empower All Patients with Digital Accessibility
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve all been there: you arrive at a healthcare provider for an appointment, and there’s no one available at the check-in area. You might just se...
Profile of a New Health Data Exchange Company healthKERI
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When someone confronts potentially fatal health issues in their life, it's always interesting to see how they react and what they do after that ex...
A New FHIR Analytics Tool from SAS Health
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Most data about patients exists in EHRs or other repositories in a variety of legacy formats. Analytics, though, requires you to compare apples and ap...
A Look at Nabla Copilot's Automatic Clinical Documenation
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Check out our interview with Lebrun to learn more about the Nabla solution and how it compares to other ambient clinical voice solutions in the market...
MeldRx Is Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To better understand the newly launched MeldRx product, I sat down to chat with Patrick Schiess, President & CISO at Darena Solutions. In the v...
Not All Prescription Management and Clinical Decision Support Are Created Equal
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When I first discovered Synapse Medicine, I was fascinated by the depth of work they had done to handle prescriptions and clinical decision support in...
TEFCA, QHINs, HDUs, and Interoperability with Civitas CEO Lisa Bari
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Civitas Networks for Health is a non-profit consortium that brings together a broad community of organizations interested in health data exchange. Man...
ELLKAY Selected as CommonWell's New Technical Service Provider
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the biggest networks for sharing health data in the country is CommonWell Health Alliance. After some changes in the industry and some acquis...
CyncHealth Optimizes Health Data Sharing to Enhance the Patient Experience
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As health data sharing continues to evolve, the mere collection of patient data is no longer sufficient; it's imperative that the data collected h...
Support Growing for Pharmacists to Ease Physician Workload
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent survey, Surescripts found growing support for pharmacists to prescribe a select number of medications to patients, thus easing the workloa...
Vital Makes Health Information More Accessible for Patients
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vital illustrates how the new wave of generative AI technologies can contribute to a better life for millions of people. Vital is using AI to take ins...
Striving to Make Culturally Safe Care The Norm with Dr. Alika Lafontaine
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare currently places a significant burden on patients and clinicians. Patients must explain their situation repeatedly to strangers who only ha...
Evernorth Uses SAS Analytics to Help Determine Next Best Step for Member Care
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Evernorth Health Services is using advanced analytics from SAS to help determine the next best action a patient can take to improve their health outco...
Holon Tackles Provider Burnout With Help From AI Technology
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One standout, however, is the problem of healthcare burnout, a struggle that healthcare industry leaders and workers alike face every day. In fact, ac...
Security When Lives are on the Line
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Computer vulnerabilities, threats, and security practices are similar in every industry. But health care presents particular challenges, discussed in ...
Moving the Industry Forward with First-Of-Its-Kind RCM Technology Adoption Model for Healthcare
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Adoption models, which are very popular in computing and organizational change, define stages for the adoption of a process or technology and helps or...
Streamlining Workflows Increases Access for Children with Autism
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There are not enough licensed behavior analysts to help children in the US diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To improve access, CentralRe...
FOLX Health Meeting Patients Where They Are With Telehealth
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
FOLX Health (FOLX, pronounced “folks”) is the leading healthcare providers for the LGBTQIA community. Today they serve over 12,000 members. FOLX u...
Provider-Led Value-Based Care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this video, Dr. Brittany Cunningham, Vice President for the Episodes of Care Office, Population Health and Dr. C.J. Stimson, Chief Medical Officer,...
AWS and 3M Join Forces to Automate Clinical Note Creation
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We recently noted the announcement of Amazon's AWS HealthScribe with 3M as a partner that's leveraging the solution. The combination of thes...
Raft Digital Therapeutics is Helping Kids with SMA Win with a Physiotherapy Game
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Physiotherapy is hard. It is even harder for children who get bored and tire quickly from the repetitive motions that doctors prescribe for them. Raft...
MedEssist is Helping to Transform Pharmacies into Pharmacy Health Clinics
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The healthcare system in many countries is stretched thin. To help relieve the pressure, governments are starting to allow pharmacists to treat a grow...
Uncovering Diagnostic Information in the EHR with Regard
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When doctors first see output from Regard’s AI analytics, they often say, “This is what I imagined the electronic medical record would be like whe...
When Patients Know Things the Doctor Does Not
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The knowledgeable patient can still be seen as a threat, even by a medical resident. While every institution talks about how they much they care about...
Recent Clinical Efficiency Improvements in eClinicalWorks
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At the recent eCW Enterprise Summit, I learned how Version 12 of eClinicalWorks includes important conveniences that are saving time and reducing clin...
Healthcare IT Departments Need to Plan for Explosive IoMT Growth According to NETSCOUT
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The expected explosion in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) represents both an opportunity and a challenge for healthcare IT departments. Connect...
Environmental Health Surveillance with GIS Enhances Public Health at San Bernardino County
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
San Bernadino Public Health knows that monitoring the mosquito population benefits community health directly. This is why the public health team is tr...
Rochester Regional Health is Achieving Interoperability One Practical Byte at a Time
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rochester Regional Health is using a measured and practical approach to data interoperability. They have purposefully chosen NOT to turn on the fireho...
Public Health Transparency Leads to Better Outcomes at San Bernardino County
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Maps are important tools in infectious disease surveillance. They depict where cases are occurring and where treatment resources are needed. San Berna...
Leveraging Great People and AI to Improve Revenue Cycle Outcomes
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When TruBridge, a revenue cycle division of CPSI, decided to automate more of their operations, they didn't just ask managers to choose. They brou...
San Bernardino Public Health’s use of GIS Technology Blossomed from a Single Map
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The San Bernardino County Department of Public Health (SBCDPH) uses geographic information system (GIS) technology to improve decision-making and use ...
MRO Satisfies Payer Medical Record Requests Automatically
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Requests for medical records have grown enormously in recent years—and that’s as it should be. Because data allows for better decision-making, pat...
City of Tempe Public Health Using GIS to Help Become a 20-Minute City
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For the City of Tempe Arizona, public health has a broad mandate - enabling people to be healthier and make healthier choices. This means ensuring eve...
Bridging the Trust Gap is Key for AI to Succeed in Healthcare with Dr. Stephen Kearney
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform healthcare. It is already helping to reduce clinician workloads and speed the analysis of ...
High Vendor Churn May Be On the Horizon in Healthcare
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
During the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of technologies were rapidly acquired and deployed by healthcare organizations like telehealth, remote patient mo...
Striving to Make Cuturally Safe Care The Norm with Dr. Alika Lafontaine
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare currently places a significant burden on patients and clinicians. Patients must explain their situation repeatedly to strangers who only ha...
Acclara: What’s Worth Automating?
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So many new forms of automation and AI are entering the health care marketplace: Which ones will pay off and where should a healthcare organization st...
Ronin Uncovers the Data for Better Cancer Treatment
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A recent article about Boston's famed hospital systems says that short-staffing and other factors have made every day like an emergency in a typic...
LogicSource: Looking at Non-Clinical Spending
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare organizations must seek out the same types of supply chain efficiencies as the leaders in other industries, particularly in the face of inf...
How a QR Code Helped Mountain Park Health Center Adopt New Technology
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mountain Park Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center serving the Phoenix Metro area, cleverly used a QR code to help staff and patients ad...
Patient Focused Features from Online Scheduling to Chatbots
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this video, Richard Eells, Vice President of Operations Administration at United Digestive, shares how his organization uses the healow suite of ap...
Process Automation Requires More than Just Technology
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare sites are desperate to cut costs and reduce staffing needs through automation: As explained by Logan Lewis, Chief Operating Officer, EnterB...
Holon Tackles Provider Burnout With Help From AI Technology
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One standout, however, is the problem of healthcare burnout, a struggle that healthcare industry leaders and workers alike face every day. In fact, ac...
Centralization and Specialization Allows Financial Stability and Growth
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
During the COVID-19 shutdown, when many providers lost sstaff or even closed, Pioneer Physicians Network, Inc. actually grew. This Ohio primary care p...
Enable Cyber Resiliency and Business Continuity Across On-premise and Multiple Cloud Environments
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Setting up a modern healthcare technology environment spanning on-premise and multicloud locations requires a comprehensive strategy that takes time,...
Online Patient Payments Are Appreciated Regardless of Demographic
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The healow suite of apps from eClinicalWorks opens up many common healthcare tasks to patients. In our recent video interview at the eClinicalWorks En...
Hyndman Area Health Centers Improves RCM Process with Help from eClinicalWorks
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the sudden and unexpected departure of financial leaders at Hyndman Area Health Centers, new management was able to quickly improve their reve...
Multicloud Madness: The Complexity and Cost of Managing Multiple Healthcare Cloud Platforms
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many healthcare and life sciences orgs today manage multiple Cloud platforms by default. This mix of public, private and Edge Cloud architecture provi...
Navigating Population Health Data and HEDIS in an Ambulatory Practice
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eileen Testa, Administrator at Ninth Street Internal Medicine Associates, explains in this video interview how her team is using the eClinicalWorks HE...
How eClinicalWorks Integrates Disparate Data
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Data sharing and interoperability are spreading too slowly in health care, and even if a doctor manages to get all the data, its varied formats make i...
Belong.Life Creates Online Patient Communities That Work
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Patients throng to communities where they can get practical life advice in a depth that only fellow patients can offer. Belong.Life is an online commu...
Interoperability Saves Lives and Builds Trust at HHM Health
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For HHM Health, an FQHC serving the Dallas area, interoperability and access to medical records is vital for establishing trust with their patients an...
Why We Need to Think Differently About Storage in Healthcare
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Managing health data is no longer as simple as archiving it for the odd retrieval by a clinician down the road. Today, health data is a strategic asse...
Urban Health Plan Leverages AI from eClinicalWorks to Reduce No-Shows by more than 50%
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Urban Health Plan, a federally qualified community health center with locations in New York City, uses artificial intelligence from eClinicalWorks to ...
HealthWorks of Northern Virginia Gained More Control After Moving to eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Troubleshooting EHR and system issues at HealthWorks of Northern Virginia used to involve up to five different vendors. It was a nightmare. By moving ...
Evernorth Uses SAS Analytics to Help Determine Next Best Step for Member Care
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Evernorth Health Services is using advanced analytics from SAS to help determine the next best action a patient can take to improve their health outc...
From Healthcare Dashboards to Valuable Action
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Randolph Health upgraded to what they call “data-driven operations,” they thought their staff would be excited to pull up dashboards with inf...
Surescripts Makes Interoperability Official
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Surecripts is a company that is synonymous with e-prescribing. Increasingly, healthcare organizations are using the company’s platform to exchange m...
A Data Network to Tackle Real-Time Eligibility and Claims Along with Many Other Health Data Problems
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
According to CEO Stuart Hanson, clients of Avaneer Health are subscribing to the first solutions on the network to determine coverage and eligibility ...
Do You Understand the Quality of Your Data and the Value Clean Data Can Provide?
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a messy world (and a biased one), so hardly any organization can claim to have data as accurate as they want. According to Mike Noshay, Fou...
Why Trustworthy AI is Key to Preventing the Erosion of Trust at Scale
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“With Artificial Intelligence we now have the ability to erode trust at scale” Reggie Townsend, Vice President of Data Ethics at SAS made that s...
Healthcare Has A Data Resolution Problem
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
According to Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture, even if we solve the interoperability challenge in healthcare, the data we collect will still...
Outsourcing Clinical Notes to an Expert-Machine Collaboration Using Ambient Clinical Voice
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OnPoint Healthcare Partners is the latest ambient clinical voice technology we've found that combines expert human authors with AI to take one of ...
Learning by Listening: A Winning Formula for The Health Management Academy
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Health Management Academy is a hidden gem. For years they have been bringing together leaders from healthcare providers and industry innovators in...
Fax As An On-Ramp for Interoperability
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The journey to achieve interoperability in healthcare has been too long and too expensive. To address this, companies have put effort into creating in...
Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Data in Action
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To integrate the third type of data, Health Gorilla joined forces with LexisNexis® Risk Solutions. Access to such data helps clinicians identify wher...
Six Months to a Virtual ICU at Houston Methodist
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle Stansbury, VP of Innovation and IT Applications at Houston Methodist Hospital, discusses in this video their virtual hospital programs as wel...
Simple Basics Are Still Needed to Thwart Cyber Threats
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every business can suffer financially and reputationally from Denial of Service attacks or ransomware, but in healthcare, patient safety is at risk. I...
Just Get Connected Already
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paul L Wilder, Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance and Liz Buckle, Director of Product, discuss CommonWell's vision, achievements...
Improving Internal Communications Leads to 50% Stroke Workflow Improvement
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
TigerConnect has seen its customers improve their stroke workflows by more than 50% when staff have access to and embrace the use of communication tec...
TCMHCC and Trayt Health Addressing Youth Mental Health at Scale
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
State and local governments, along with non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and healthcare organizations are teaming up in Texas to ta...
A Talk with Epic at HIMSS23 Including Their Work to Incorporate ChatGPT and Generative AI
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Epic started out as a rather inert data repository, but decades of use and growth have allowed it to look beyond the EHR itself. According to Project ...
Altera is Relentlessly Focused on Addressing Client Pain Points
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marcus Perez, President at Altera Digital Health is focusing the company on delivering results for clients. Teams are relentlessly focused on addressi...
Working Together for Stronger Healthcare Security - A Look At 405D
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There are new tools for protecting clinic and hospital security that every healthcare organization should know about. In this video, two leaders, Erik...
Greenway’s Focus on EHR Optimization is Paying Off
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Greenway Health continues to focus their efforts on optimizing their EHR. They are not just making it more user-friendly. The company is working hard ...
Querying Patient Databases Through Chat by Atropos Health
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Generative AI systems such as chatGPT produce impressive summaries of documents on the Internet, including clinical studies. But Atropos Health can tu...
Better Servicing Patients and Staff at Scale with VMware
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
*VMware is a sponsor of Healthcare Scene. In this video, Michael Robinson, VP of Healthcare, says that even five years ago, the health care industry ...
Small and Medium Medical Practices Need Business Support - EverHealth at HIMSS23
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Small- and medium-sized medical practices are struggling. The uncertain economic environment, staffing challenges, and the increasing complexing or pr...
Take AI Out of the Conversation Completely and Focus on Results
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When designing analytical systems for clinicians, "Take Ai out of the conversation completely," advises Sameer Sethi, Senior Vice President...
5G Improves Patient and Staff Experience at NGHS
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
5G means much more to healthcare than just faster cellular speeds. 5G is a technology that can help improve both patient and staff experience WITHOUT ...
Secondary Uses Come to the Fore with MediQuant's Active Archive
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Watch this video with Jim Jacobs, CEO of MediQuant, to see the value of archiving for both immediate clinical workflows as well as for modern data cru...
The Changing Dynamic Between Clinical Operations and IT
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past two decades the relationship and dynamic between IT and Clinical Operations has changed. The two must now work in close collaboration wi...
Connected Health Initiative with Brian Scarpelli
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) is a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of all health IT vendors. They are a trusted resource and ...
For CVS, Enterprise Resilience Means Being Able to Help Communities During Disasters
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Access to medication, water, and food are critical before, during, and after natural disasters. With over 9600 retail pharmacies across the US, CVS is...
The Promise of ChatGPT Will Be Buried Inside Health Care
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The stunning achievements of chatGPT (along with the enormous work that remains to be done) raise the questions of how generative AI will change indus...
Charging Ahead with Enovate Medical and JAR Systems
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A nurse or technician in a hospital is asked to do a patient intake or capture their vital signs. In modern hospitals, the staff are likely to grab a ...
ROI Healthcare Solutions Provides the Returns Healthcare Organizations Want
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In these days of tightened payments and higher costs, organizations need to "do more with less" by finding better prices for their purchases...
How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
HCA Healthcare, one of the leading providers of care in 20 states and in the United Kingdom, has smartly been investing to improve the quality of the ...
IEHP Succeeds with GIS By Showing Stakeholders What is Possible
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Geographic Information System (GIS) team at Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) successfully created internal advocates by educating their peers and ...
Tracking the Patient Experience Using Qualtrics at Intermountain Health
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We all benefit from sharing out concerns communally. "What, you had the same problem I did?" We say to a friend. "How did you handle it...
Medication Safety & Affordability Improving According to Surescripts Data - Frank Harvey at ViVE2023
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
According to the latest National Progress Report from Surescripts, over 2.5 billion medication histories were requested through their platform in 2022...
The Reach of ChatGPT into Health Care Expands
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The recent release of GPT-4, the newest version of OpenAI's platform, shows that generative AI is evolving even more quickly than we can find uses...
Nuance Announces DAX Express Fully Automated AI Note Creation for Doctors
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nuance recently announced DAX Express and I had to learn more about it and dive into the details of what Nuance is planning to offer. I sat down wit...
Generative AI Takes On Administrative Burdens
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most frustrating burdens on health care workers today is the drag of administrative tasks. New AI technologies that interpret and generate ...
What's the Impact of Connectivity on Patients and Providers?
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I recently sat down with Heather Hudnall, BSN, RN, Director of Connected Industry, Healthcare at NTT, and Heather Haugen, PhD, VP of Healthcare Pract...