Unpaid caregivers are the backbone of society, providing an essential service, yet often feel invisible and without support. In recent years, that backbone is starting to break with research showing that 70% of caregivers, including parents and caregivers of adults, have at least one significant mental health impact. Even more worrisome, the same study indicated that more than half (52%) of those considered part of the sandwich generation - caring for an aging parent and a child at the same time
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KLAS Reveals Some Providers Lack Confidence in Oracle Cerner’s Roadmap/Vision
What You Should Know:
Cerner, one of the major software vendors in healthcare IT, has gone through significant changes over the last year and a half. In October 2021, they announced a new CEO and introduced RevElate as their go-forward patient accounting platform. Two months later, Oracle announced their intent to acquire Cerner. Customers soon reached out to KLAS, wanting to know about their peers’ experiences with these changes.To gather this information, KLAS has been meeting regularly
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Report: Razor Thin Hospital Margins Becoming The New Norm
What You Should Know:
- Hospital finances are beginning to stabilize as razor-thin margins become the new normal, according to the newest data from Kaufman Hall. The National Hospital Flash Report draws on data from more than 900 hospitals from Syntellis Performance Solutions.
- The latest National Hospital Flash Report shows that the high level of variance that plagued hospital margins over the past
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5 AI-Driven Healthcare Trends and Solutions in 2023
Enterprise-level healthcare is a massive business sector with seemingly infinite moving parts. With patients’ lives at stake, liability is huge, leaving little room for error. Yet human error is common in healthcare, and minor mistakes can cost millions in legal fees and lawsuits, not to mention risks to patient health. Healthcare enterprises are quickly embracing artificial intelligence solutions to mitigate loss, streamline operations, improve efficiency, and enhance customer
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KLAS: Independent Ambulatory Patient Portals Performance 2023
What You Should Know:
Patient portals (tools used by healthcare providers to engage with patients) can greatly influence a patient’s ability to seek and receive care. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, healthcare organizations have become keenly interested in technology that gives patients ownership of their health and enhances office efficiencies.Though KLAS has historically looked at how portals perform in the IDN setting, this report examines the experience of customers in the independent
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Exec Hires: AVIA Appoints Scott Cullen, M.D., as EVP of Strategic Innovation and Chief Clinical Officer
What You Should Know:
- AVIA, the nation’s leading healthcare digital transformation partner, announced today that Scott Cullen, M.D., has been appointed Executive Vice President of Strategic Innovation and Chief Clinical Officer to lead the company’s strategic insights and advisory practice.
- An experienced leader in both clinical care and driving strategic success, Dr. Cullen joins AVIA at a critical time for health systems, as healthcare’s changing landscape forces them to
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Rethinking Behavioral Health Support in the ED: 3 Keys for Innovation
About one out of five Americans with serious illness struggled to access care during the pandemic, and rates were significantly higher among disadvantaged populations, a 2022 study found. Now, as mental health-related visits in emergency departments (EDs) continue to rise, healthcare professionals must consider: “How can we create better behavioral health supports for people in crisis?”
It's a question that has significant implications for quality of care as well as cost.
The High Cost of
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Everly Health Launches Diagnostics-Driven Virtual Care Program
What You Should Know:
The future of healthcare depends on access to digital-first solutions rooted in diagnostic insights that support individuals along their health journey. Everly Health, isn’t just enabling a better lab testing experience, they’re enabling a better diagnostic experience through innovative products and clinical services that are insightful and actionable, leading to more comprehensive treatment with speed that offers overall better outcomes.Additionally, Everly Health
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Survey Reveals 94% of Leaders to Invest in Software/ 90% Admit to Lost Data
What You Should Know:
Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO), a healthcare data enablement company, conducted a survey of more than 300 provider leaders who are responsible for implementing and purchasing technology at healthcare provider organizations. The survey, titled ‘Intelligent Insights: Data challenges, tech investments, and shifting provider priorities’ uncovered many surprising findings and some seemingly universal truths about the challenges U.S. provider organizations are facing and
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How Search Makes Clinical Natural Language Processing Useful in the Real World
Clinical Natural Language Understanding (cNLU), the technology by which computers extract meaning from clinical text, is quickly becoming a common feature in the healthcare IT landscape. In 2021, 30% of surveyed healthcare organizations were either using or exploring the technology. (Gradient Flow, 2021). Similar adoption is occurring in the UK as well. (Wu et. al, Nature, 2022). Today, cNLU is being applied to billing/coding, trial enrollment, registry creation, clinical decision support,
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