What You Should Know:
- Given the severity of labor shortages and staffing constraints facing health systems nationwide, C-suite executives are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to fill gaps and improve productivity, according to a recent survey conducted by The Health Management Academy (The Academy) with support from Outbound AI.
- Almost half of executives (47.5%) report their health system is currently using AI solutions for the workforce, while all others
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Northwell to Deploy Epic Enterprise EHR Platform Across System
What You Should Know:
- Northwell Health today announced an agreement with Epic to implement the health system’s next-generation EHR as part of its ongoing digital transformation to ensure a more seamless patient experience and team member experience.
- The announcement marks the replacement of Allscripts and will result in one patient record across every Northwell venue of care and drive enhanced care coordination across 21 hospitals and about 900 outpatient facilities.
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KLAS: State of Small-Hospital Patient Accounting 2023
What You Should Know:
- Small hospitals are changing their EMRs and patient accounting systems at a greater rate than that of their large-hospital counterparts. Most market selection energy is going to Oracle Health (Cerner), MEDITECH, and Epic; small hospitals also use other vendors like athenahealth, CPSI, and MEDHOST.
- While many vendors offer viable clinical systems, there are significant differences across the customer experience with patient accounting that should not be overlooked
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Zus Health Raises $40M, Partners with Primary Care EHR Elation
What You Should Know:
- Zus Health, (pronounced "Zoose"), a next-generation shared health data platform bringing distributed patient data directly to the point of care, announced today that the company has closed a $40 million financing from JAZZ Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital, Maverick Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
- Zus is the only shared health data platform designed to accelerate healthcare data interoperability by providing easy-to-use patient data at the
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PointClickCare Acquires Value-Based Care EHR Patient Pattern
What You Should Know:
- PointClickCare Technologies, a healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful collaboration and access to real‐time insights at every stage of the patient healthcare journey, today announced the acquisition of Patient Pattern. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
- The combination of PointClickCare and Patient Pattern will further the companies’ shared vision of enabling better care and outcomes for high-needs populations and provide
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Children’s Wisconsin Using Xealth to Digitally Engage Patients and Families
What You Should Know:
- Xealth announced that Children’s Wisconsin, Wisconsin’s only independent healthcare system dedicated solely to the health and well-being of children, is using Xealth’s digital health platform system-wide to integrate patient education and custom content into care team workflows.
- The integration enables the faster and easier distribution of consistent communications across locations, providing patients and their families with timely access to reliable
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Implicity Launches SMART on FHIR App to Optimize Interoperability & Workflow Efficiencies
What You Should Know:
- Implicity, a leader in remote patient monitoring (RPM) and cardiac data management solutions, released a new SMART on FHIR application to improve interoperability and workflow efficiencies for providers.
- The new app improves cardiac remote monitoring workflows by providing clinicians access to Implicity alerts and reports directly within Epic's EHR system.
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Implicity's cloud-based platform allows cardiac teams to streamline workflows by
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Major Health Partners Reduces Home Medication Reconciliation Time by 30%
What You Should Know:
Major Health Partners (Shelbyville, IN) announced that technicians saved on average three minutes of time per patient and realized a 30% improvement in the average time for overall home medication verification leveraging MEDITECH’s Expanse Patient Care solution.
The solution was rolled out facility-wide, including in the ED, where medication reconciliation technicians saw immediate results. MHP has been able to build on this success by adopting the Expanse Patient
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CARE4 Project Delivers Single Patient Portal with MEDITECH Expanse
What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH today announced the CARE4 project has delivered a single patient portal across acute and ambulatory settings with MEDITECH Expanse.- Since becoming the first Canadian MEDITECH customers to go LIVE with Expanse Ambulatory, the partnership’s goal has been to ensure that all patients associated with their facilities can easily see and manage their health information from a single place. And six months after implementing the portal, partner hospitals –
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Unlocking Patient Medical Records Through Digital Retrieval of Clinical Data
Thousands of times a day, at health systems throughout the US, workers manually search for patient medical charts, print them out on paper, or save them to a file—and then fax, mail, or email them to a payer or third party who has requested it. The productivity for this often manual approach is about five charts an hour per worker, and the average cost to retrieve a medical record varies by state, health system, and the number of pages. The cost per medical record ranges from about $25 to
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