Healthcare is on the cusp of a transformative era, with artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) demonstrating remarkable potential in streamlining clinical documentation, quality measurement, and medical coding. As these technologies mature, forward-thinking healthcare provider organizations are exploring ways to leverage AI to improve data quality, reduce clinician burden, and ultimately enhance patient care.
AI's Role in Clinical Documentation and Coding
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What Will It Take to Achieve Value From Digitally Enabled Diabetes Care?
A report from the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) found that many digital diabetes management platforms aren’t providing meaningful ROI for patients or the health system as a whole. Users of common technologies only see small, incremental clinical benefits, such as 0.23%–0.60% point reduction in HbA1c when compared to traditional care. Meanwhile, some health plans and employers are actually seeing an increase in overall costs as spending on these platforms can often
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5 Trends to Combat Staff Shortages & Boost Healthcare Efficiency
The challenge of staff shortages in healthcare continues to remain persistent in the United States. To help mitigate what could be a long-term challenge, according to an article in TIME, institutions are staffing facilities with temporary health professionals due to rising turnover, fluctuations in demand, and evolving appreciation for work-life balance. Fortunately, in this dynamic healthcare landscape, some technologies continue to evolve, offering solutions to help address these ongoing staff
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Back to Basics with Cutting-Edge Solutions for Medical Campuses
What do universities, colleges, and large medical facilities have in common? Expansive campuses comprised of halls, common areas, living spaces, labs, and outdoor areas. While serving vastly different purposes, these institutions share the need to secure both people and property over a sprawling geographic area. Though it may seem like they could have similar security technology needs, in reality, what’s happening on the ground on those campuses varies wildly.
Medical campuses, in
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Securing Your Hospital Network: Vendor Solutions Beyond Encryption
Modern healthcare environments are charged with processing massive amounts of patient data in tandem with an extensive network of connected clinical and administrative devices that can be infiltrated by hackers to access the entire system and hold mission-critical and patient-related information and services hostage. The robust data sets that can be exposed as well as the ensuing repercussions to reputation and profit means that the average cost of a healthcare data breach in 2022 was US$10.1
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Virtual Nursing: The New Solution Addressing Healthcare Challenges
In an age where technology consistently reshapes various sectors, healthcare and elder care stand transformed. The emergence of virtual nursing heralds a transformative approach to patient care, reshaping how we tackle healthcare hurdles. With an expanding population and surging healthcare needs, virtual nursing introduces groundbreaking remedies to bridge existing gaps.
Navigating Healthcare's Complexities
Globally, the healthcare system grapples with multifaceted
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Closing the Cell Therapy Access Gap with Closed Manufacturing Systems
Cell and gene therapies have the potential to revolutionize medicine. These groundbreaking treatments use living cells to target and treat disease, and they will have a profound impact on the treatment of cancer, autoimmune diseases, and beyond. However, while scientific advancements in this field are accelerating quickly, manufacturing these treatments has remained costly and slow.
The access gap between patients eligible for cell therapy and those able to receive treatment is overwhelming.
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Healthcare’s Data Deluge is Intensifying Misdiagnosis
In 2019, my aunt was admitted to the hospital with heart failure. It was a harrowing experience for everyone involved.
My family, desperate for answers, waited for hours for a doctor to check-in. When they finally did, their time was limited and felt rushed. But the whole time, we couldn’t shake the uncomfortable feeling that we were nuisances, that our welcome had run its course. We were stuck in that cycle for days until my aunt was deemed stable enough to be discharged. Except she
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Navigating the Digital Front Door: Overcoming Friction in New Patient Registration
In today's fast-paced digital age, traditional healthcare systems are under growing pressure to adapt their digital front-door strategies to meet the ever-changing needs of consumers. However, friction points stemming from the limitations of existing Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems often stand in the way of progress, particularly as it relates to consumers who are attempting to register as new patients at health systems.
Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems are the cornerstone of
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What Can We Learn From The History of Patient Experience?
Next year marks the 30th anniversary of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) program, which was created in 1995 to give the healthcare industry clear metrics for assessing patient experience and quality of care.
Yet the results have not improved after three decades of measuring patient experience. In 2023, a Harris poll reported that 73% of U.S. adults felt the healthcare system failed to meet their needs somehow, and two-thirds reported that managing
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