A term usually found in aviation, military operations and nuclear engineering industries are now making a significant impact in healthcare. “Situational awareness” — maintaining an understanding of what’s going on around you at every moment and using that information to mitigate risk — is helping more and more healthcare providers and hospitals improve patient outcomes.A new white paper just launched by Amplion Clinical Communications, a company focused on transforming the legacy nurse call to
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Top 10 Challenges, Issues and Opportunities for Healthcare Executives in 2019
After 2.5 days of thought leadership discussions during its 30th Anniversary Annual Forum, executive participants of the HealthCare Executive Group (HCEG) voted on and ranked the 2019 HCEG Top 10 critical challenges, issues and opportunities they expect to face in their organizations in the coming year. Background/MethodologyThe rankings were developed in partnership with Change Healthcare and have been published for the last seven years. Executives from the payer, provider, and technology
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EHRs Need More Bananas, Fewer Oranges to Improve Care
Physicians are people, too, as it turns out.Well of course they are, you say, perhaps while acknowledging that we may have expected doctors to perform superhuman feats since television feeds us a steady diet of doctors as boy geniuses, adult geniuses, other types of geniuses and personally troubled but ethically unassailable walking Greek tragedies.In the real world, we know that doctors these days are engaged in very human struggles to pay off massive medical school bills, walk the gauntlet of
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Volume to Value: The Transformation Poised to Revolutionize Medicine
With healthcare access a perennial hot-button issue, it becomes imperative to take stock of the major shift happening among providers, one that perhaps has not dominated headlines. As America’s population ages and the need for quality healthcare becomes ever more important on an individual level, new developments in health payment functionality allow for care that’s truly catered to each patient according to need. This system promises to give each patient the course of care that their affliction
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Nuance Debuts AI-Driven, Cloud-Based Clinical Documentation Solution
Today at the AHIMA conference, Nuance introduced Nuance CDE One, a cloud-based workflow management, collaboration and insight system designed for clinical documentation improvement (CDI) teams. Driven by AI-powered capabilities, CDE One enables smarter workflows, and its powerful analytics provide health system executives with key insights into the staff, physician and program performance. CDE One works seamlessly with CDE Triage, Nuance’s cloud-based solution that prioritizes cases requiring
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M*Modal, Enjoin Partner to Enable Physician-Led CDI Consulting Services
M*Modal, a provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding™ solutions, and Enjoin, a physician-led clinical documentation integrity solution, today announced a technology-driven CDI (Clinical Documentation Improvement) advisory solution to help healthcare organizations succeed in risk-based population health. Putting providers at the heart of every HCC (Hierarchical Condition Category) CDI program, this clinically-focused solution provides a holistic view of the patient by combining
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Value-based Care Success: 7 Stages of the Health Data Life Cycle
Back in the day – the late 1960s, when social norms and the face of America was rapidly changing – a familiar public service announcement began preceding the nightly newscast. “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?” Today, as the healthcare landscape changes rapidly with a seismic shift from the fee-for-service payment model to value-based care models, there’s a similar but new clarion call for quality healthcare: “It’s 2018. Do you know where your data is?”Compliance with the
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Cedar Unveils Next Evolution of Patient Payment Platform to Optimize Revenue Cycle
Cedar, a patient payment and engagement platform, announced the next evolution of its flagship solution, Cedar Pay. The enhancements now allow providers to offer a truly unified patient billing experience and simple checkout options.Healthcare executives still struggle to help patients understand and pay healthcare bills, with 50 percent of provider executives reporting the need to improve the patient billing and payment experience, according to a recent Cedar study. The next evolution of
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Innovaccer Launches Physician Engagement Solution From The CURES 2.0 Database
To assist physicians of California in meeting the CURES compliance and control drug overuse, Innovaccer has launched ‘InNote for CURES’. The solution delivers key insights from the CURES 2.0 database to physicians within the EHR, right at the point of care, as they prescribe Schedule II, III, or IV controlled substances.CURES OverviewThe opioids epidemic and drug abuse have become a huge challenge for the US healthcare. To ensure proper prescribing and administering of controlled substances,
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Spectrum Health & Human Services to Implement Cerner’s Community Behavioral Health Cloud
Spectrum Health & Human Services, a Western New York-based provider of behavioral health services has selected Cerner to implement the Cerner Integrated – Community Behavioral Health deployment model designed to meet the unique needs of organizations that treat psychological disorders.The implementation will help support Spectrum’s work to improve the mental well-being of the people it serves throughout its health and human services agency in Western New York. Spectrum will receive a
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