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Seann Mulligan, Vice President, Strategic Delivery, HCTec

State of Healthcare IT/EHR Staffing in a World with COVID-19

by Seann Mulligan, Vice President, Strategic Delivery, HCTec 11/04/2021 Leave a Comment

State of Healthcare IT/EHR Staffing in a World with COVID-19

After a year dominated by COVID-19, and even with the rising challenges of the delta variant, Healthcare IT staffing is rebounding. To complicate matters more, the rising number of vaccine mandates across hospital systems has the potential to put the entire industry in a serious bind. Throughout 2020, the majority of US hospital systems were stopped in their tracks. Spending on capital projects was paused indefinitely, and leaders were forced to significantly
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How to Detect and Address Friction in the Healthcare Employee Journey Leveraging the Latest Technology

by Kristi Roe, Head of Healthcare Experience at Medallia 11/04/2021 Leave a Comment

How to Detect and Address Friction in the Healthcare Worker Journey Leveraging the Latest Technology

Whether you call it the great resignation, pandemic burnout, or the great discontent, the medical profession is not immune to the rising wave of employee turnover that's currently shaking up organizations across industries. In fact, the churn rate for staff nurses has grown by nearly 3% to just under 19%, costing hospitals between roughly $4 million to $6.5 million annually. Among physicians, 69% report feeling disengaged and 54% say they're planning to leave their current employer, with each
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Decentralized Clinical Trials: Keys to Optimizing Diversity and Inclusion

by Michael Delisle, VP, Practice Leader for Digital Health at GattiHR 11/03/2021 Leave a Comment

Decentralized Clinical Trials: Keys to Optimizing Diversity and Inclusion

The U.S. pharma industry and research intuitions have long struggled with increasing clinical trial diversity in an effective, sustainable, and scalable fashion. Clinical research, in general, acknowledges the universal struggle of recruiting enough participants from various demographic groups. For example, racial and ethnic minorities have been historically underrepresented in clinical trials—a problem that still persists today. According to Deloitte, African Americans comprise 13% of the
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Personalized Screening is Key to Breast Imaging AI Market Reaching $205M by 2025

by Dr. Sanjay M. Parekh Ph.D. , Sr Market Analyst at Signify Research Ltd. 11/03/2021 Leave a Comment

10 Factors Radiologists Should Consider When Selecting AI Vendors

As October draws to a close, so does Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM), or National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM) as it is known in the US. Breast imaging AI vendors are heavily promoting this initiative to raise awareness of the disease and highlight the importance of women attending breast cancer screening appointments. Breast cancer screening programs are an important public health intervention, and initiatives like the BCAM may prompt eligible women to attend their screening
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A State Roadmap To Successfully Deploy Medicaid Modularity (MMIS)

by Victor Sterling, Principal Industry Consultant & Tom Wriggins, Principal Solutions Architect at SAS 11/03/2021 Leave a Comment

In 2010, the Affordable Care Act ushered in a new era for Medicaid Modularity, an approach anchored by breaking down large, monolith systems into smaller, more nimble and self-contained modules that can de-risk healthcare delivery and unlock innovation. More broadly, Medicaid Modularity is about improving states’ Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS). In 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) followed by issuing guidance on how states should move forward with
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Is the Smartphone Key to Unlocking Frictionless Patient Registration?

by Daniel Cidon, CTO, NextGate 11/02/2021 Leave a Comment

Smartphones Key to Unlocking Frictionless Patient Registration

Since the beginning of healthcare’s digital revolution, organizations have been striving to achieve the Triple Aim of healthcare: better outcomes, lower costs, and improved patient experiences.   While reimbursement reforms and regulatory actions have helped realize measurable gains in population health and overall spending, progress on the patient experience piece hasn’t always been as clear-cut. Firstly, patient satisfaction is a hard concept to quantify.  And the
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How Hospitals Can Help Patients Meet Financial Obligation While Driving Revenue Excellence

by Randall Shafer, EVP and Head of Hospital Business at Firstsource 11/02/2021 Leave a Comment

How Hospitals Can Help Patients Meet financial Obligation While Driving Revenue Excellence

Medical debt in the US has reached crisis proportions.  According to a recent study published by JAMA Network, unpaid healthcare bills are one of the largest sources of debt for Americans, reaching $140 billion last year.  The impact is not limited to patients. Healthcare providers are feeling the pinch as well. On average, uncompensated care accounts for approximately 8% of a hospital’s expenses.   The inability to pay medical bills is strongly correlated with a lack of
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How Healthcare NLP has Evolved from 2020 to 2021

by David Talby, CTO, John Snow Labs 11/01/2021 Leave a Comment

NLP is Raising the Bar on Accurate Detection of Adverse Drug Events

Few industries have embraced natural language processing (NLP) as openly as healthcare. With the ability to identify new variants of COVID-19 and help speed up clinical trials for the vaccine, the pandemic is just one example of what NLP is capable of achieving. And while new research points to NLP budgets growing significantly across vertical industries, locations, company sizes, and maturity levels, healthcare is leading the pack. Big strides have been made in AI and NLP over the last year,
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Social Determinant of The Healthcare Professional: Why We Cannot Wait

by JohnMatthew Douglas, President And Founder at iPressForward, LLC 10/29/2021 Leave a Comment

Social Determinants of Health Trends in 2020: The End of the Beginning?

The following list provides examples of the social determinants of health, which influence health equity in positive and negative ways: Income and social protection, Education, Unemployment, and job insecurity, Working life conditions, Food insecurity, Housing, basic amenities and the environment, Early childhood development, social inclusion, and non-discrimination, Structural conflict, Access to affordable health services of decent quality. Working life conditions refers to the working
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The Role Blockchain Could Play in Strengthening Patient-Provider Relationships

by Matthew Doyle, COO & Head of Investor Relations at Chicago Pacific Founders 10/29/2021 Leave a Comment

The Role Blockchain Could Play in Strengthening Patient-Provider Relationships

With conversations about NFTs and blockchain prominent in the news today, the future of such technology is a hot topic. The integration of blockchain technology into a variety of industries has proved to be beneficial in productivity, efficiency, and security. Because of this success, it is imperative that the healthcare industry continue to effectively adopt and utilize blockchain technology to improve data security, expand collaborative opportunities, verify the authenticity and safety of
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