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3 Questions Healthcare IT Leaders Should Ask Before Implementing AI in Their Operations

by Varun Ganapathi, Ph.D., CTO and co-founder at AKASA 11/09/2022 Leave a Comment

3 Questions Healthcare IT Leaders Should Ask Before Implementing AI in Their Operations

Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are no longer nice-to-have technologies for healthcare providers. They are mission-critical tools for addressing significant challenges many health systems and hospitals face today — from volatile patient volumes to ballooning labor costs and staffing shortages to low operating margins. Many of these challenges are macro-level economic trends that will continue to prevail for the foreseeable future.  According to research from Kaufman Hall,
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HCA to Deploy MEDITECH Expanse EHR Across Enterprise

by Fred Pennic 11/08/2022 Leave a Comment

HCA to Deploy MEDITECH Expanse EHR Across Enterprise

What You Should Know: - HCA Healthcare, one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services, has signed a new agreement for a large-scale deployment of MEDITECH Expanse. This landmark agreement identifies MEDITECH Expanse as HCA Healthcare’s primary go forward EHR platform and a key part of the company’s digital transformation. - Expanse is expected to support HCA Healthcare’s efforts to provide
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Greenway Health and Voyce Partner to Boost Health Equity

by Syed Hamza Sohail 11/08/2022 Leave a Comment

Greenway Health and Voyce Partner to Boost Health Equity

What You Should Know: - Greenway Health, a leading health information technology services provider, announced its partnership with Voyce, a virtual, on-demand language interpretation service, to integrate seamlessly, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act) compliant communication between patients and staff to improve patient outcomes, maintain compliance, and increase patient satisfaction. - Through this partnership, Voyce will provide Greenway’s healthcare provider
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Overcoming the Healthcare Staffing Shortage Through Back-Office Automation

by Kimberly Hartsfield, EVP of Growth Enablement at VisiQuate 11/08/2022 Leave a Comment

Overcoming the Healthcare Staffing Shortage Through Back-Office Automation

Today’s healthcare staffing shortage, fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic but years in the making, has left many hospitals and health systems scrambling.  To date, the shortage of front-line healthcare workers has received most of the attention, and for good reason: By 2025, the U.S. is likely to face a shortage of 446,300 home health aides; 95,000 nursing assistants; and 29,400 nurse practitioners, according to a report from consulting firm Mercer.  However, what is less appreciated
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How to Build Better Relationships with the Health Insurance & Payer Communities

by Dr. Jessica Badichek, Chief Informatics and Compliance Officer, MediTelecare 11/08/2022 Leave a Comment

How to Build Better Relationships with the Health Insurance & Payer Communities

Modern healthcare is an intricate dance between quality and quantity.  Payers and insurance providers want better patient outcomes due to the high cost of poor health, while health providers want to ensure their patients aren’t overlooked and are appropriately cared for.  To understand how we can satisfy the needs of both patients and payers, we’ll have to take a step back and look at the relationship between payer communities and telehealth services.  Behavioral
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Walgreens-Backed VillageMD to Acquire Summit Health for $9B

by Fred Pennic 11/07/2022 Leave a Comment

Walgreens-Backed VillageMD to Acquire Summit Health for $9B – M&A

What You Should Know: Primary care provider, VillageMD has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Summit Health-CityMD, a provider of primary, specialty and urgent care in a blockbuster M&A deal valued at $8.9 billion with investments from Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA). The combined company will create a multi-payor platform to deliver quality, affordable care for all patients and will enhance WBA’s robust portfolio of leading, integrated healthcare offerings across the care
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Rising Healthcare Costs Tops Reason Patients Defer Healthcare

by Syed Hamza Sohail 11/07/2022 Leave a Comment

Rising Healthcare Costs Tops Reason Patients Defer Healthcare

What You Should Know: - Cost concerns increasingly outweighed worries about the pandemic as the top reason Americans deferred healthcare, according to a new study by Qualtrics, the leader and creator of the experience management category.  - Between 2020 and 2022 the share of consumers deferring care because of pandemic-related health concerns decreased by 11 percentage points from 28% to 17% while the share of consumers deferring care because of cost concerns grew by four percentage
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How to Prevent a Healthcare Staffing Crisis

by Eric Ly, Co-Founder & CEO of KarmaCheck 11/07/2022 Leave a Comment

How to Prevent a Healthcare Staffing Crisis

The Covid-19 pandemic scrambled the business models and labor-market dynamics for many industries, but probably none as dramatically and directly as healthcare. Incredible, sustained demand coupled with regional disparities, political complications, and cultural challenges have left the healthcare industry on life support, especially regarding staffing. Healthcare workers are burned out and are quitting in huge numbers. Two-and-a-half years of relentless patient need, an inadequate workforce,
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Why The Stakes are Higher for Hospitals When It Comes to Data Loss & Inadequate Storage Infrastructure

by James Loveday, Healthcare Specialist at Loadbalancer.org 11/07/2022 Leave a Comment

James Loveday, Healthcare Specialist at Loadbalancer.org

According to the World Economic Forum, hospitals produce around 50 petabytes of data per year. And with 6,039 hospitals in the US alone, that amounts to a sizeable amount of data requiring secure storage. Data consists not only of confidential patient medical records but also of operational data retained by US hospitals such as personal and financial information.  This ever-increasing amount of patient data and growing risks associated with its loss, mean the stakes have therefore never been
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KLAS Report Reveals EMR Functionality & Value Top of Mind for Small Practices

by Syed Hamza Sohail 11/04/2022 Leave a Comment

KLAS Report Reveals EHR Functionality & Value Top of Mind for Small Practices

What You Should Know: - A new report by KLAS provides the latest view on how the major vendors in this market perform and which ones stand out in the areas that small practices (2–10 physicians) care about most. - Small practices provide a significant amount of outpatient care in the US, and their needs differ from those of their larger counterparts. When it comes to EMR/PM technology, these practices expect up-to-date functionality, steady product performance, solid implementation and
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