Healthcare looks a lot different than it did a few years ago. Healthcare leaders need to address rising consumerism, persistent labor shortages, systemic equity gaps, and a critical shift toward value-based care.
It’s worth asking: If the healthcare landscape has changed so much, why do foundational electronic health record (EHR) systems stand largely unchanged?
Sure, the walled gardens surrounding the EHR have dropped a bit, as the EHR giants have been badgered into interoperability
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Why an Enterprise Master Person Index is Foundational for Health Tech Innovation
Healthcare is poised to become the world's fastest-growing source of data in the next year (RBC Capital Markets), accumulating from sources that are as varied as they are numerous, including hospitals, doctors’ offices, retail clinics, and wearable devices. While this wealth of information holds immense potential to revolutionize healthcare, accurately managing it is cumbersome and leveraging it effectively is challenging.
A substantial driver of this challenge is that correctly
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The Benefits of AI-Powered Healthcare Data Management
As we step into the promising terrain of 2024 and beyond, the healthcare industry stands at the cusp of a transformative era, propelled by advanced technology solutions. For healthcare IT professionals, there will be many challenges and opportunities – especially as there is more patient data than ever before.
However, there are new solutions that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to help address the trove of patient data that is being created. Let’s look at how it can help address
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The Era of AI – A Renaissance or Revolution for Healthcare?
The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) portends a potentially monumental shift in the history of human civilization, an inflection point that urges us to pose a profound question.
Are we in the midst of a renaissance of human creativity, rich in artistic and intellectual flourishing, or will AI’s rapid advancement lead to a revolution that fundamentally reshapes industry sectors, government institutions and the structural dynamics of human society?
A renaissance, derived from the
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Revenue Integrity in 2024: Reducing Leakage Points in a Complicated Cycle
The concept of “revenue integrity” hasn’t really changed over the years, but the roles, responsibilities, and oversight have become far more complex and difficult to gain industry consensus around. What began as several defined systems of controls by which hospitals guarded against revenue loss, revenue integrity has seemingly turned into more narrowly focused controls in many organizations, leaving critical gaps in what once was a more holistic approach to fiscal
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How Israel’s Largest Medical Center Used AI to Save Lives During Israel-Hamas Conflict
Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the relentless demands of wartime have propelled local medical teams to adapt and integrate new technologies at an unprecedented pace.
We, leaders at Israel's largest Medical Center, have faced a brutal three-pronged assault: a daily influx of injured civilians and soldiers, a depleted workforce due to medical personnel called to military duty, and the looming danger of relocating the entire medical center to missile-proof shelter.
Faced with
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Harnessing Clinical Intelligence to Advance Health Plan Member Education
In an era where accessing health information is easier than ever, determining what is reliable poses increasing difficulty for health plan members. The complexity of modern health plans and their myriad of services further compounds confusion, creating a paradox of choice. This is where clinical intelligence tools prove transformative by revolutionizing how members access, comprehend, and leverage health data to make informed care decisions.
These tools tap validated sources to supply
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Nurse Burnout: How Digital Transformation Can Be the Antidote
The COVID-19 pandemic has catalyzed a profound transformation within the healthcare sector, revealing an urgent need to modernize and enhance the way care is delivered. Amidst the global crisis, healthcare providers were compelled to swiftly adapt and integrate new technologies, striking a balance between ensuring medical accessibility and adhering to social distancing mandates. This period of accelerated digital adoption has provoked hope regarding the potential of cutting-edge generative
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Revolutionizing Healthcare with Data Extraction Technology
In the evolving landscape of the healthcare industry, technology advancements play a pivotal role in enhancing efficiency, accuracy, and helping reduce the workload on overburdened staff. Despite significant progress in interoperability, traditional methods, such as faxing, continue to be a cornerstone of document exchange in healthcare organizations. However, the industry is now turning to Intelligent Document Capture and automated data extraction solutions to propel healthcare workflows into
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How AI Is Bringing Patient Experience Back to the Forefront for the Medical Community
When it comes to the patient experience, time isn’t on our side. U.S. adults spend the equivalent of an entire workday each month coordinating care for themselves and/or their family, according to a Harris poll. The same poll found that 56% of American adults wait more than a week for an appointment, while many others skip healthcare altogether, with 30% saying they don’t have the time and 25% saying it takes too long to get an appointment. Even when patients get an appointment, they wait again
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