St. Joseph’s Health Enhances Provider Communications with careMESH’s Healthcare Directory and User-Friendly Messaging Services New Jersey-based St. Joseph’s Health partners with careMESH to significantly expand the health system’s clinical communications reach to all community physicians, including digital access to electronic medical records. Using careMESH, St. Joseph’s will focus on several key areas, including: Streamlining external communications with community physiciansReducing
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Electronic Medical Records
KLAS: Global (Non-US) EMR Benefits 2023
What You Should Know: As electronic medical record (EMR) adoption grows worldwide, healthcare organizations considering this digital transformation all have the same question: what benefits can we really expect to receive from implementing an EMR?KLAS interviewed leaders at 36 non-US healthcare organizations—12 of which are HIMSS Level 6 or 7—to learn about their journey to realizing benefits from an EMR implementation. Their latest report summarizes their insights, including what
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Duped by Data? Here’s Why EMRs Are Antiquated & Outdated in Today’s Hospital
Electronic medical records (EMRs) - software systems where physicians, nurses, and other healthcare workers store, retrieve, and act on clinical data - are fundamentally broken. This sentiment is so widely shared among healthcare workers that it has become almost trite to point it out. Patients feel it too - we’ve lost count of the number of times we’ve heard “isn’t it in my chart?” when we ask a question during a clinical visit. Unfortunately, the vast majority of EMRs do not facilitate
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Patientory Launches Blockchain App Enabling Patients to Earn Money for Their Health Data
What You Should Know: Patientory Inc., the creator of a blockchain-based, HIPAA-compliant, private medical data ecosystem, announced today that it has launched two solutions–Patientory Consumer Decentralized Application-designed to help patients more efficiently and securely store and earn money from their medical data and Neith Enterprise Dashboard in partnership with Prosper Healthtech, a community-backed organization committed to equity in Birmingham offering a supportive network of
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Can Technology Live Up to Its Promise for Clinical Trials?
By creating efficiencies with technology, CROs have an opportunity to build clinical trials of the future. For many years, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) had a reputation in the biopharmaceutical industry as flashy buzzwords, with little concrete evidence to back up their promise. Over time, this lack of understanding has created drawn-out anticipation, leaving many skeptical about the true value of these tools. As the
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How Search Makes Clinical Natural Language Processing Useful in the Real World
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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Q/A: Dr. Masturzo Talks Addressing Food Insecurity with Patients
Today, food insecurity affects more than 41 million Americans and is prevalent among children and the elderly population. Food insecurity is defined as the limited availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food or the inability to acquire these foods in socially acceptable ways. As a result, food insecurity can exacerbate medical conditions driving up hospital/health systems patient care costs. To learn more about how healthcare providers can address food insecurity, we sat down with Dr.
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The New “Front Door” to Healthcare Can Only Open Fully with True Interoperability
Some people think of retail pharmacists as standing behind the counter bottling pills, answering insurance questions, or discussing side effects with a customer. But the COVID pandemic fundamentally changed the role of the neighborhood pharmacist, from primarily dispensing medication to increasingly being the source of urgent and primary care for patients. With the successful administration of more than 300 million COVID vaccinations, an ongoing doctor shortage, and
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20 Executives Share Health IT Predictions to Watch in 2023
We asked several healthcare executives to share their health IT predictions and trends for 2023. Nate Maslak, the co-founder/CEO of Ribbon Health Data Personalization: 38% of consumers want more personalized and inclusive healthcare options. In 2023, we’ll see a greater shift towards healthcare enterprises prioritizing this personalization, by innovating their current data infrastructure to show a range of information that lets a patient make an educated care decision based on what
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Modernizing Data Access: 3 Tips for Securing Patient Data in the Cloud
There is a tremendous amount of data within the healthcare and life sciences industries. According to RBC Capital Markets, the healthcare sector accounts for 30% of the world’s data and is forecasted to grow by a compound annual growth rate of 36% in the next two and half years. The benefit is that healthcare professionals, organizations, and analysts can use this data to improve the quality, quantity, and accessibility of healthcare. But it also carries great risk. More organizations
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