Nuance Healthcare unveiled a new AI-powered virtual assistant solution aimed at optimizing the experience healthcare providers have with their EHRs and allowing physicians to spend more time focusing on the patient. This latest offering from Nuance builds upon their award winning platform – which 500,000 clinicians use to communicate more than 300 million patient stories a year – delivering a seamless transition of conversational dialogues to actionable information for doctors. Additionally,
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Accenture: 5 Trends That Will Reshape The Healthcare Experience in 3 to 5 Years
Leading healthcare organizations must embrace advances in artificial intelligence (AI), digital ecosystems and other technologies to empower consumer experiences and scale health expertise to meet changing demand, according to a new report by Accenture.The Accenture Digital Health Technology Vision 2017 report reveals that digital breakthroughs are enabling healthcare enterprises to improve labor productivity, clinical outcomes and human experiences. This new era of healthcare innovation allows
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University of Miami Health System Taps Kyruus to Deploy Patient-Provider Matching Across Network
Kyruus, a provider search and scheduling solution, announced that the University of Miami Health System (“UHealth”) has selected its ProviderMatch for Access Centers, ProviderMatch for Consumers and KyruusOne to enhance patient experience across multiple points of access.The leading academic medical center serving southern Florida will leverage the technology to help patients easily find the right providers based on their clinical needs and logistical preferences regardless of how patient’s are
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Tactio Health app Integrates With Qardio’s Smart Health Monitoring Products to Transform the Patient Journey
Tactio Health Group, a provider helping innovative healthcare organizations make the patient experience connected has signed an integration partnership with Qardio, a provider of smart health monitoring products. Starting today, QardioArm, a FDA approved smart blood pressure monitor and QardioBase, a connected scale and body analyzer will be integrated onto Tactio Health Group’s mobile health tracking solutions, making our products available for its users and its healthcare partners around the
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Remote Physical Therapy Solutions – Mobility is Essential for Delivering Value
Editor's Note: Robert Haywood is the Senior Marketing Manager at Breg, a provider of premium, high-value sports medicine products and business solutions that advance orthopedic patient care.Game console therapy solutions were originally designed for use in skilled nursing and facility settings. Recently, their use has expanded to include pre-and post-operative therapy at home. Game console therapy involves performing exercises in front of a TV using an Xbox® or camera enabled laptop/tablet
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Is Journey Mapping the Future of Transforming the Patient Experience?
Editor's Note: Victor Morrison is Next IT Healthcare’s Chief Strategy Officer. He has over 22 years of pharmacy expertise. You can follow him on Twitter @VictorOMorrison At this year’s Next Edge Health Experience Summit, Riley Conrath and Shane McAllister of EffectiveUI gave a great talk titled “Designing for the Emotion of Healthcare.” EffectiveUI has written at length about journey mapping and persona development for healthcare clients, but it was particularly striking to hear their talk
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What Clinical Nurse Leaders Do
In the health care community, much lip service has been paid to growing and attracting clinical leaders. After all, hospitals and other facilities with recognized clinical leaders seem to function better and provide better medical care than those that lack such high-powered medical professionals. Yet, a problem has arisen: Who are clinical leaders, and what do they do?A handful of peer-reviewed articles have argued that any professional within the medical field has the potential to claim
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Inspira Health Network Launches Virtual Care Platform for Southern NJ
Inspira Health Network, one of southern New Jersey’s leading healthcare providers offering primary, acute and advanced care services is launching its own virtual care platform, Inspira eCare. The platform virtually connects patients with Inspira clinicians making it convenient and cost-effective for patients to receive care for common health conditions.Powered by virtual care company Zipnosis, Inspira eCare's virtual care platform allows patients to use their smartphones, tablets or computers to
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Increasing Patient Face Time by Decreasing Physician Screen Time
Editor's Note: Dr. Reid Conant is a chief medical information officer for Nuance’s Healthcare division. Dr. Conant has provided medical direction and leadership to his hospital through the deployment and optimization of CPOE and physician documentation solutions. Prior to Nuance, Dr. Conant served as the president and founder of Conant and Associates, Inc. which was acquired by Nuance in 2014. If someone asked you why you went into the field of medicine, what would you say? Some physicians may
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How Virtual Reality Can Improve Patient Experience in Healthcare
Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by Samsung. The global market for Virtual Reality (VR) in healthcare is projected to reach $3.8 billion by 2020 driven by technology advancements in healthcare IT, which would undoubtedly expand its use into more diverse applications and medical disciplines while also increasing the demand for rehabilitation and simulation VR-training in hospitals and clinics. VR technology continues to gain ground and visibility as a potential diagnostic tool in the form
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