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Why Patients, Not EHRs, Deserve our Undivided Attention

by Prayus Tailor, MD, FASN 02/24/2021 Leave a Comment

Why Patients, Not EHRs, Deserve our Undivided Attention

We cannot earn patients’ trust and respect if we are tethered to a computer in the exam room, navigating the EHR concurrent to a visit or otherwise in a hurry to finish so we can return to our office where data entry to the EHR awaits us. ______________________________________________________ I am a physician married to a physician, and for years, our evenings consisted of putting the kids to bed, then sitting next to each other, laptops open, finishing our charting. If you are a
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Powered by Amazon Echo, Frontive Launches Smart Personal Health Platform

by Jasmine Pennic 09/25/2019 Leave a Comment

Powered by Amazon Echo, Frontive Launches Smart Personal Health Platform

- Powered by Amazon Echo, Frontive launches smart personal health platform to securely give patients and family caregivers highly personalized and relevant healthcare instructions.- Relieves patients and family members from time-consuming manual data entry and maintenance by automatically extracting and updating select items directly from patients' personal health records.- Pilot with Lowell General Hospital reveals positive patient and clinician experienceFrontive, a digital health company,
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DrChrono EHR Adds AI-Powered Medical Notes Integration for Medical Practices

by Jasmine Pennic 07/22/2019 Leave a Comment

DrChrono EHR Adds AI-Powered Medical Notes Integration for Medical Practices

Electronic health record (EHR) provider DrChrono has announced an integration partnership with DeepScribe to enable medical practices DrChrono EHR can use AI to automate medical notes from physician appointments and integrate it right into their Electronic Health Record (EHR).EHR Integrated SOAP Notes for Medical PracticesDeepScribe uses advanced deep learning technology to generate accurate, compliant, and secure SOAP notes right within a practice’s EHR. Practices using DeepScribe have reported
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Amazon Alexa Is Now HIPAA-Eligible, What’s Next for Healthcare?

by Nathan Treloar, President & COO at Orbita, Inc. 04/05/2019 Leave a Comment

Amazon Alexa Is Now HIPAA-Eligible. What's Next?

Big News, But Just The Beginning These days, big news stories in healthcare are just as likely to come from large technology companies as from major healthcare institutions. Case in point: In early 2018, Amazon created a huge stir in the industry early by announcing a venture with JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway that promised to go after the “hungry tapeworm” that is the cost of healthcare in the
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Libertana Home Health to Deploy Amazon Echo-based Digital Care Assistants for Patients

by Fred Pennic 08/11/2017 Leave a Comment

Orbita Unveils Amazon Echo-based Tool for Home Health Applications

Libertana Home Health, a manager of California-based health and housing waivers is teaming up with Orbita to deploy a first-of-its-kind home care solution using Amazon Alexa voice assistant technology. Libertana is using Orbita Voice, an enterprise-grade software platform for creating and maintaining conversational voice apps for Alexa, to engage individuals in managing activities of daily living and self-care, and more effectively inform home care professionals in triaging care needs and
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Orbita Unveils Amazon Echo-based Tool for Home Health Applications

by HITC Staff 12/12/2016 Leave a Comment

Orbita Unveils Amazon Echo-based Tool for Home Health Applications

Orbita, a provider of innovative software solutions for connected home healthcare has unveiled a new tool for creating and managing intelligent voice-powered home health assistants based on the Amazon Echo voice platform. Orbita’s new Voice Experience Designer showcased this week at the Connected Health Conference is a graphical tool for creating and managing voice assistants to support and enhance the care of individuals at home.Amazon Echo-based Home Health Tool OverviewWith the Amazon
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