Your grandparent has arthritis in their knees, which can make it difficult for them to walk around their home. What if they had access to robot limbs to help them move around more independently without experiencing pain? Your parent has been diagnosed with a heart condition, and your entire family is constantly worried about their health. What if a device worn on their wrist could monitor their vitals all day, alerting you and their caregivers of anything concerning? Your grandparent has been
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RCM: Average Length of Clinical Notes Continues to Increase
What You Should Know:
In 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented changes to evaluation and management (E/M) CPT billing codes aimed to reduce the administrative documentation burden on providers.Epic Research just came out with a new study that shows the average length of clinical notes has continued to increase over the last three years.
Understanding Why Clinical Notes Remain ‘Bloated’
The study evaluated 1.7 billion clinical notes written by 166,318
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Leveraging Personal Health Nurses to Connect the Dots Across the Care Continuum
Our nation is getting sicker. Research by the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that the number of people who spend $100,000 or more each year on healthcare increased by 50% between 2013 and 2021. The majority of conditions most represented in these costs included “nervous system disorders, heart disease, respiratory conditions, cancer, and musculoskeletal conditions.” Nearly half of all annual healthcare spending in the U.S. comes from just five percent of the population.
The Impact
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Accenture Federal Services Wins $98M Defense Health Agency Contract
What You Should Know:
Accenture Federal Services was awarded a $98 million Defense Health Agency contract to operate and enhance the Joint Medical Common Operating Picture (MedCOP), which provides medical command and control situational awareness for the DoD, combatant commands and the military services.The specific capabilities and services Accenture Federal Services will deliver include cloud, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, agile software development, field service engineering, user
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Northwell Health and Nebraska Medicine Deploys Laudio’s AI Workflow Solution
What You Should Know:
Laudio, the management solution for healthcare, today announced partnerships with new health systems including Northwell Health and Nebraska Medicine.This rollout will add more than 15,000 frontline leaders across clinical and operation functions to the Laudio platform, empowering them to do the best work of their lives, all while improving retention, labor productivity, service, quality, and safety.
AI-Driven Partnerships Focused on Improving Healthcare
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Innovaccer, Arcadia, Epic Named Most Considered Population Health Vendors
What You Should Know:
As more healthcare organizations start to leverage population health management (PHM) technology in their journey toward offering value-based care, they are sometimes uncertain about how well vendors can fulfill their unique needs, as PHM programs vary in breadth and complexity.A new KLAS report provides an overview of several PHM offerings to help readers understand (1) what types of organizations typically use the solutions, (2) what the customer experience
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Q/A: Cox Exec Talks Impact of Leveraging Smart Hospital Technology
We recently spoke with George Valentine, Assistant Vice President of New Growth and Development at Cox Communications for his insights on the impact of leveraging smart hospital technology to power smart communities.
How can IoT be leveraged to streamline traditionally siloed hospital processes and provide higher-level operational insight for the C-suite?
George Valentine, AVP of New Growth and Development at Cox Communications: Automation and process improvement are just two of the
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Now Is The Time to Maximize the Efficiency of a Digital Front Door
Patients aren’t just patients anymore, they are consumers, meaning they won’t hesitate to change providers and health plans if their expectations aren’t met. At the same time, providers and payers are facing a shortage of skilled technical workers, making it more difficult to resolve lingering issues around data silos, patient engagement and more. Add in an uncertain global economy driving intensified competition and it’s clear that it’s time to make the digital front door as effective as it
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M&A: ResMed Acquires Somnoware to Expand Sleep Management Offerings
What You Should Know:
ResMed, the #1 global producer of CPAP machines and masks to treat sleep apnea acquires Somnoware, a U.S. leader in sleep and respiratory care diagnostics software. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Somnoware software streamlines the processes of physicians and sleep labs for diagnosing and evaluating a patient’s sleep and respiratory care test results, ordering treatment equipment, setting up appointments, tracking therapy compliance,
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How Health Systems Can Transform Fragmented Data Into a Unified Patient Experience
Imagine a giant clock where each single cog wheel contributes to displaying the time accurately. In this complex web of machinery, individual cogs can break, and the clock stops – rendering it useless. Healthcare organizations are at risk of facing a similar fate as they encounter fragmented IT infrastructures with disconnected data environments and silos. Failure to address this growing issue could have serious consequences, leading systems to falter sooner than anticipated.
In a recent
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