What You Should Know:
- South Carolina’s largest health system, Prisma Health selects the Innovaccer Health Cloud to be its primary value-based care platform for analytics, workflow, and Snowflake data platform management.
- With the Innovaccer Health Cloud’s data and analytics platform, Prisma Health can integrate disparate EHRs and other healthcare systems to create a unified patient record.
Primsa Health Background
Prisma Health provides healthcare services to nearly
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Healthcare AI Transformation: 9 Executive Predictions to Watch in 2023
Piotr Orzechowski, Co-Founder and CEO of Infermedica
Innovation areas to watch: One of the exciting areas of applied machine learning recently is so-called Generative Tech. Some say it’s the biggest change to the Internet since crypto was invented. Generative Tech is developing at an unprecedented pace and many of us already had a chance to enjoy images created by OpenAI’s DALLE-E or content generated by GPT-3 language model. However real-world applications of generative tech in health are
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Top 10 Health Technology Hazards in 2023 to Watch
What You Should Know:
- ECRI, the nation's largest non-profit patient safety organization, names communications gaps with recalls of home-use medical devices as the nation’s most pressing health technology safety issue for 2023.
- ECRI’s Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2023 list identifies the potential sources of danger that will warrant the greatest attention for the coming year and offers practical recommendations for reducing
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17 Executive Hospital/Health System Predictions to Watch in 2023
Vijay Kedar, Co-Founder and CEO at Tomorrow Health
Health systems will realize their challenges are not transitory but systemic: This year saw health systems facing a myriad of compounding threats – from historic inflation exacerbating their cost structures, front-line clinician burnout driving widespread labor shortages, and increased capacity issues that left patients in hospital facilities one full day longer than in the prior year. As the financial markets turned south, many institutions
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6 Executive Health Data Predictions to Watch in 2023
Kevin Agatstein, CEO at Kaid Health
In 2023 I predict that unstructured medical data, which makes up the majority of a patient’s chart, will become too valuable to ignore by both providers and payers. Driven in part by the growth of Medicare Advantage and oncology, both of which require the data within medical notes rather than just claims and labs data, organizations will start to use their unstructured EMR data in entirely new ways.
Rob Cohen, CEO at Bamboo Health
In today’s
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KLAS: Clinical Decision Support Point-of-Care Reference 2022
What You Should Know:
- CDS reference tools enable clinical users to follow standard treatment recommendations and more quickly and confidently make clinical decisions. However, tools that lack strong content, searchability, and EMR integration are not efficient for point-of-care workflows and can frustrate users, especially those already experiencing burnout.
- To understand the customer experience and how each solution is being adopted, a new report by KLAS draws on feedback from a
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WebMD Strikes Deal with Patient Communications Platform Artera
What You Should Know:
- Today, WebMD and patient communications platform provider Artera (formerly WELL Health) announced data integration that will enable providers (health systems and hospitals) to digitally communicate and engage patients on important education and information about medication affordability programs.
- The collaboration reduces the cost of care while also improving patient adherence to prescriptions -- which is a key challenge for providers -- by connecting with
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Vital Launches Lab Results Tool to Help with Cures Act Compliance
What You Should Know:
Today, Vital, the leading AI-driven digital health company, launches Lab Results tool to help health systems comply with the 21st Century Cures Act, educate patients and expedite the sharing of results at the point of care.
- Vital’s new tool helps health systems not only comply with the new mandate but also present results in a timely, consumer-friendly way. Critical or sensitive results are flagged as such and shared personally by the appropriate
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How to Empower Patients With Price Transparency
The evolution of e-commerce – led by Amazon – has created an intensely savvy consumer population. Amazon’s platform allows users to easily compare products from different vendors to get the best price. People travel to retail stores to try on clothes and shoes, only to purchase them online for less. Even the longest running game show in television history awards points for knowing how much consumer products cost.
Healthcare, on the other hand, does not engender the same kind of
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3 Seismic Shifts Transforming Women’s Health – FemTech
My company recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, which prompted me to reflect on the progress of the women’s health sector over the last decade. There has been so much change, so many technological innovations and clinical breakthroughs. And yet, two things haven’t changed all that much. Our outcomes in the U.S. have not improved; in fact they are in decline. This is true whether you are measuring maternal mortality, health equity, or complication rates. And as an industry, we’ve yet to
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