What You Should Know:
- Nearly three-quarters of hospital leaders are either
moderately (52%) or extremely (22%) concerned about the financial viability of
their organizations without an effective treatment or vaccine for COVID-19,
according to a new report from Kaufman Hall entitled, “2020 State of Healthcare
Performance Improvement Report: The Impact of COVID-19”
- One-third of respondents saw operating margin declines
in excess of 100% in the second quarter of 2020 compared with the
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Cerner Releases Open Call for EHR-Integrated Voice Assist Testing Partners
Cerner announces an open call for additional health systems to sign on as testing partners of their EHR-integrated Voice Assist technology. Voice Assist will allow clinicians to interact with the EHR by just using their voice. Clinicians will be able to issue voice commands to complete a range of tasks that can save significant time and reduce the administrative burden on care teams by replacing manual data documentation.
How Voice Assist Technology Works
Using the phrase
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The Future of the ICU? How Clinical Decision Support Is Advancing Care
Kelly Patrick, Principal Analyst at Signify Research
Without a doubt 2020 has been a devastating year for many; the impact of COVID-19 on both personal lives and businesses has had long-term consequences. At the end of September, the number of COVID-19 cases fell just short of 350 million, with just over 1 million deaths reported. The expectation of a second peak in many countries exposed to the deadly illness is being handled with care, with many governments attempting to minimize the impact
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The Future of Patient Access: From Appointment Reminders to Automated Patient Journeys
Rick Halton, Vice President of Marketing, Lumeon
The concept of 'Patient Access' has evolved significantly. We all remember the good old days when patient access was an inbound responsive model – patients dialed into a call center phone number and were connected "round-robin" to the next available staff member with their call script. Then outbound voice and email messages and patient appointment reminders became common, and now access centers have begun to deploy more advanced communication
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Patient Leakage & Keepage: State of the Industry Report
What You
Should Know:
- “The Patient Keepage & Leakage Report” offers an in-depth, state of the industry look at health system executives’ views on the challenge of patient leakage, in which patients seek care beyond their networks. Although 96% of health system execs surveyed said that addressing patient leakage is a top priority, very little research had been done on this topic—until now. - The report, conducted by an independent market research firm, includes responses from a random
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Veterans Affairs Expands Telehealth Services Using Nuance Dragon Medical One
What You Should Know:
- Nuance Communications, Inc. announced the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is using the Nuance Dragon Medical One
speech recognition cloud platform and its mobile app, PowerMic Mobile.
- The solution helps VA doctors better document patient
care in-person, and now remotely through expanded telehealth services necessary
in the COVID-19 era.
Nuance® Communications, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is using
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Can Technology Help Reduce Cases of Hospital Negligence?
For most healthcare professionals, providing care to their patients is mandatory. However, there are times when their desire to give patients the best care possible becomes a necessity for compliance, particularly now that hospital negligence has been a constant stress factor for both professionals and patients.
It is a given that any medical treatment has the potential to go wrong. There is never a perfect process, and healthcare workers are very much aware of this, especially when the
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Imprivata Launches Touchless Palm Vein Scanner to Address Patient Safety Concerns from COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- Imprivata launches a new palm vein scanner solution: Imprivata PatientSecure to power touchless biometric patient identification for healthcare.
- The next generation palm scanner, developed in
collaboration with Keyo, will help healthcare organizations solve the challenge
of patient ID amidst the COVID-19 pandemic by eliminating the need to touch any
surfaces. (It's also a core component of the Imprivata digital identity
framework for healthcare, which provides a
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Banner Health Taps Innovaccer’s Data Activation Platform to Power Digital Transformation
What You Should Know:
- Banner Health, one of the country’s largest non-profit healthcare systems, has partnered with Innovaccer for its digital transformation.
- Banner Health will leverage the platform to create unified patient records that drive comprehensive, preventive, and whole-person care solutions for patients across the care continuum.
Banner Health,
one of the country’s largest non-profit healthcare systems, has partnered with Innovaccer, Inc., a leading
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HP Launches EMR-Integrated Print Solutions to Digitize Point of Care Workflows
What You Should Know:
- HP launches patient-first print technologies to help healthcare
workers stay safe and spend more time caring for patients.
- Innovations co-developed with healthcare professionals
include industry’s first sterilizable printers, exclusive EMR-compliant
workflow solutions, and services to improve patient safety and privacy.
Today, HP Inc.
officially launched new print solutions for the healthcare industry. Based on
deep customer insights and co-developed
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