Dear Mr. Buffett: Healthcare Isn’t Hopeless
Truth is, there are hugely positive tailwinds at our back. But the way we’ve been thinking about the problem is holding us back from solving it. Here’s why.
Zero Trust: Mitigating Cybersecurity Risks in Digital Medical Ecosystems
To protect healthcare organizations and minimize the risk of breaches, software development companies must stay vigilant regarding the biggest vulnerability of any digital system: the users. Here are some ways to minimize irresponsible digital behavior and some tools to enhance the security of medical digital systems.
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What’s Keeping Healthcare CIOs Up at Night: How to Improve Patient Satisfaction by Handling Calls More Efficiently
Health systems have spent billions on portals while investments in modernizing the voice channel — the dominant preference of healthcare consumers — have taken a backseat.
EHRs Are Overloading Mental Health Clinicians — Can AI Save the Day?
When AI is directly integrated into the EHR it not only improves efficiency but also ensures that patient data remains secure within the same trusted system.
User Activity Monitoring: Real-Time Visibility Within the EHR to Stay Ahead of Insider Threats
It has become standard practice for healthcare organizations to focus on identifying and stopping external threats to the privacy and security of data, but one often overlooked risk may be right inside your offices — snooping employees and malicious insider threats.
Unpacking the Epic-Particle Health Dispute: When It Started, What’s Being Alleged & What It Means for the Industry
Following a months-long dispute, data platform Particle Health filed an antitrust lawsuit against Epic, alleging that the EHR giant is using its dominance in the market to prevent competition in the payer platform space. Particle believes the lawsuit is an “unprecedented challenge” to Epic’s market power, while Epic thinks the startup’s claims are “baseless.”
From Charting to Patient Intake: The 4 Biggest Opportunities for AI in Healthcare
Many are already experimenting with AI in narrow settings. But in order to expand deployment, it’s important to understand the most practical AI opportunities with the greatest ROI. Here are four high-impact opportunities that can boost staff efficiency and improve the patient experience.
The Future of Hospitals and Pharma Companies Will Depend on Strength of Healthcare Analytics Insights
PurpleLab® stands out from others in this sector by providing its data analytics services to several different groups of users across healthcare and pharma companies.
The Human Touch: Why Human Transcriptionists Still Outperform AI in Healthcare
While AI continues to advance, the healthcare industry requires a level of accuracy, understanding, and confidentiality that only well-trained human transcriptionists can consistently provide.
Elation Health Launches Its Own Clinical Documentation Tool
Primary care EHR company Elation Health recently launched an AI-powered ambient note generation tool called Note Assist. The tool is now competing with those made by Microsoft, Abridge, DeepScribe and Suki.
Avoiding Surprises – Five Key Questions to Ask When Evaluating an EHR Vendor
With so much to consider, avoiding hidden and often astronomical costs is a top priority for healthcare leaders. Understanding the totality of an EHR vendor’s offering is crucial, especially since vendors do not cover all the costs of their solutions similarly.
Research Shows Generative AI In The EHR Can Work Well, But Only With Human Oversight
Mass General Brigham researchers conducted a study to learn more about the efficacy of large language models when used to draft responses to patient messages in the EHR. The results showed that these AI tools can do a good job at reducing physicians’ workloads and improving patient education — but also that these tools have limitations that require human oversight.
The Funding Model for Cancer Innovation is Broken — We Can Fix It
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
Navigating Healthcare’s New Era of Algorithmic Transparency
What EHR/EMR vendors need to know to comply with ONC’s HTI-1 final rule
Protecting Health Data Without Harming Patients: Overcoming the Barriers That Limit Our Access to Our Personal Health Information
The availability of innovative technologies affords us the opportunity to chart a more patient-centric, efficient, and secure path to managing and leveraging PHI.
What Do We Do with All of This Data?
Today, clinicians have to spend an inordinate and impractical amount of time combing through the EHR just to find the information they need to provide that level of care. All of that back-end administrative work should be the function of technology.
PointClickCare Acquires CPSI’s Post-Acute EHR Subsidiary
CPSI sold American HealthTech — its subsidiary that provides an EHR platform for the post-acute care market — to post-acute health IT vendor PointClickCare. American HealthTech's customers have already begun transitioning to PointClickCare's platform.
The AI Tool that Matters Most for Clinical Care Isn’t ChatGPT
Right-now value could come from extractive AI, a tool that gives organizations the power to put even handwritten text sent via images or PDF by digital fax into a structured data play.