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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Key Challenges and Solutions to Enhance the Post-Procedure Experience
What You Should Know:
- Abbott today released the latest installment in the company’s multi-year Beyond Intervention series of global healthcare market research designed to uncover challenges that arise within the patient journey of people living with cardiovascular disease and to identify opportunities for patient care improvement.
- The latest report stems from a survey of more than 2,000 patients, physicians and healthcare leaders, and reveals
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Accenture Report Reveals Staggering Health Inequities and the Role of US Healthcare Ecosystem in Addressing Them
What You Should Know:
- Health equity – or the lack thereof – is one of the biggest challenges facing US healthcare organizations today.
- A new report from Accenture, US health inequity: beyond the statistics, analyzes the role US healthcare ecosystem participants can play in addressing health inequities due to race and ethnicity. The statistics are staggering.
Analysing Key Trends Concerning Health Inequities
To understand the human and economic
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Survey Reveals Accelerating Use of AI to Overcome Workforce Challenges
What You Should Know:
- Given the severity of labor shortages and staffing constraints facing health systems nationwide, C-suite executives are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to fill gaps and improve productivity, according to a recent survey conducted by The Health Management Academy (The Academy) with support from Outbound AI.
- Almost half of executives (47.5%) report their health system is currently using AI solutions for the workforce, while all others
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17 Execs Share How Health IT Can Address Clinician Burnout, Staffing, & Capacity
Clinician shortage has reached a new level of urgency as we face rising demand and healthcare costs, according to a recent Accenture report. Healthcare workers are increasingly burned out and leaving the industry altogether in droves. Those who remain to do the work are overburdened. We ask seventeen healthcare IT executives for their insights on how health IT solutions could potentially help address clinician burnout, clinician staffing shortages, and deal with capacity.
Staffing levels
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Aledade Expands Access to Value-Based Care for More Medicare Advantage Customers
What You Should Know:
- Aledade is continuing its strong momentum today, announcing that Cigna Healthcare Medicare Advantage customers can now receive value-based care from Aledade’s network of independent primary care practices.
- Participating practices can access Aledade’s cutting-edge data analytics, user-friendly guided workflows, and health care policy expertise, as well as integrated care services supported by AledadeCare Solutions.
- This news comes shortly after Aledade
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AHN/RHS Partner with Unite Us to Support Integrated Behavioral Health and Social Care
What You Should Know:
- Unite Us is partnering with Advance Health Network IPA and Recovery Health Solutions IPA (AHN/RHS), behavioral health independent physician association's (IPAs) operating in affiliation and comprised of 47 behavioral health and human service organizations serving the New York City and Long Island communities, to advance the integration and coordination of care for individuals with both behavioral health and social needs.
- Through this relationship, AHN/RHS
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5 Trends to Look for in Healthcare Cost Transparency
Over two years have passed since the hospital price transparency rule was enacted. Unfortunately, America still struggles with high, painfully opaque pricing across healthcare that hurts employers, workers, patients, and taxpayers. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently announced that in 2021, the nation spent $4.3 trillion on healthcare, nearly twice the average of other nations in the developed world. Noncompliance and price gouging still exist in a market where consumers are
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Q/A: Dr. Johnson Talks Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Care
What You Should Know:
- A recent study published in JAMA found that conventional genomic tests commonly used for breast cancer tumors can be less accurate for Black women. This news comes at a time when Black women with breast cancer are experiencing mortality rates that are 41% higher than white women.
- Dr. Nathalie Johnson, MD FACS and President of The American Society of Breast Cancer Surgeons is among numerous doctors who advocate for Agendia and its tests which look beyond race,
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KLAS: 340B 2023 – Functionality & Pricing Drive Purchase Decisions
What You Should Know:
- Purchasing energy in the 340B market has been high in recent years as (1) healthcare organizations have sought to increase savings, particularly in cost centers like pharmacies, and (2) 340B vendors have expanded the types of customers they serve, according to a recent KLAS report.
- This new report examines 49 recent purchase decisions validated by KLAS between October 2020 and October 2022 to understand why certain vendors are seeing the most purchase energy and
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