4 Strategies Providers Are Using to Strengthen the Healthcare Workforce
During Reuters’ Total Health conference in Chicago, four healthcare leaders shared the strategies they believe will help fortify the workforce for the future.
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires, Exits and Layoffs
September has seen a wide range of executive hires, exits, promotions and layoffs across the healthcare industry. For example, Medtronic, Amgen and Kaiser Permanente welcomed new executives. There were also layoffs at organizations including Novo Nordisk and Seattle Children’s.
The Mechanics of a More Connected Healthcare Ecosystem [Video]
Arbiter’s Anjali Jameson on hospital and payer alignment.
Ochsner Health Scales AI Tool After Its Cuts Prior Authorization Time to Just 4-5 Minutes
Ochsner Health is expanding its use of Latent Health’s AI platform after its reduced medication prior authorization times to just 4-5 minutes. The technology is designed to both streamline pharmacists’ workflows as well as improve patients’ access to medications.
Why AI Governance Is the Number 1 Issue on This Health System Exec’s Mind
Jason Hill, Ochsner Health’s innovation officer, said he goes to sleep most nights and wakes up most morning worried about one thing: the state of generative AI governance in healthcare. To him, providers and other healthcare organizations are in dire need of frameworks to ensure their AI tools are safe and perform well over time.
Which Clinical Documentation AI Tools Are Health Systems Using?
Health systems across the country are launching enterprise-wide deployments of AI-powered clinical documentation tools. Hospital leaders agree that this technology reduces physician burnout, as well as allows physicians to have more meaningful and productive interactions with patients.
How Can Health Systems Cut Through the AI Noise? 3 Leaders Answer
During a webinar, three health system leaders discussed strategies they use to ensure successful AI deployment. They agreed that one of the best ways health systems can prime themselves for fruitful AI deployments is beginning with a specific problem to solve — as opposed to having AI startups tell them which problems need to be addressed.
How Artera is Using Agentic AI to Humanize Patient Care
Artera President Tom McIntyre talks about the practical application of AI in healthcare.
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, exits, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
How Ochsner Health’s RPM pilot improved outcomes for patients with diabetes, hypertension
Ochsner Health recently released the results of its digital health pilot program for Medicaid patients with hypertension and type 2 diabetes. The program, which combines remote patient monitoring with personalized care teams, did an efficient job at bringing down patients’ blood pressure and hemoglobin A1c levels.
Epic introduces genomic test ordering tool within EHR with Ochsner as first user
Ochsner Health added a tool to its Epic EHR that allows physicians to seamlessly order genomics tests and view results within the EHR. The integration will allow physicians to provide more personalized and effective care now that they can have a single view of their patients’ genomic and clinical data in one place. The news comes two months after MU Health Care added a similar tool into its Oracle Cerner EHR.
Balancing the Role of Physicians and AI [Video]
At the ViVE conference in LA, Smarter Technologies Chief Medical Officer Ruben Amarasingham MD talked with Katie Adams about the company's larger goals for AI: to improve the accuracy of data and make healthcare less burdensome for physicians and clinicians.
Ochsner Health, Bold partner to reduce falls among seniors
Through the partnership, Ochsner Health's Medicare Advantage patients will gain access to Bold's platform, which assesses current fitness levels to create a personalized exercise program for users.
Provider interest in consolidation continues with two new merger announcements
Though there has been a slew of failed merger plans in recent months, providers' interest in consolidation has not ebbed. Midwest-based Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health announced they are exploring a merger, as did Rush Health Systems and Ochsner Health, which are located in the South.
How providers are tackling a crisis within a crisis — the opioid epidemic
As the pandemic rages on, the other major public health crisis in recent history has not ebbed. The opioid epidemic is worsening, but providers have kept their eye on the ball and are continuing their efforts to treat opioid use disorder and curb unnecessary prescriptions. Here is a snapshot of those efforts.
Epic-Humana partnership enters new phase focused on prior authorizations
The partnership between the insurer and EHR giant — announced a year and a half ago — will now focus on streamlining prior authorizations and offering providers enhanced insights about their patients. Ochsner Health will be among the first to implement the new capabilities offered by the companies.
The provider’s IT playbook for efficient, equitable Covid-19 vaccine administration
The vaccine distribution process has begun and providers are figuring out how to make sure the doses are administered quickly, equitably and in a coordinated manner. Here is a snapshot of the IT strategies that providers are employing to achieve their vaccine administration goals.