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 Epic remains Best in KLAS for overall software suite for 13th year
Healthcare IT news - (Thursday February 9, 2023) In addition to winning overall, Epic was named top Overall Physician Practice Vendor based on provider feedback in this year’s Best in KLAS awards. The health IT giant also earned plaudits in 13 other categories, the research firm announced Wednesday.Of note, Impact Advisors and Nordic are tied as co-winners of the Overall IT Services category.  Florida ACO achieves value-based care goals with real-time patient data platform
Healthcare IT news - (Thursday February 9, 2023) Achieving value-based care goals remains a difficult challenge for many providers who also are trying hard to provide equitable care. Pathways Health Partners, an accountable care organization that works with more than 280 providers across multiple clinical specialties, works with organizations to address these issues.THE PROBLEM |
 Leveraging EHR Audit Logs to Inform Clinician Burnout Interventions
DistilINFO Hospital IT - (Thursday February 9, 2023) – Healthcare organizations are continually looking for ways to tackle increasing clinician burnout with documentation burden at the forefront of their concerns. To better understand clinician workflow challenges, practices can leverage EHR audit logs to capture documentation behaviors and inform clinician burnout interventions, according to an ONC HealthITBuzz blog post. EHR audit logs are automated tracking features that monitor clinician activity within the EHR. Specifically, the automated tool can track the time clinicians spend documenting and carrying out certain tasks, such as chart reviews and messaging. Continuous monitoring of the EHR burden is needed to address any upcoming burnout challenges and…  Epic MyChart Patient Portal Racks up 6th Best in KLAS Award
DistilINFO Hospital IT - (Thursday February 9, 2023) – KLAS Research has once again named the Epic MyChart patient portal Best in KLAS, but the rest of the annual report highlights the numerous software solutions in the patient engagement technology market. While other healthcare market segments have dominant vendors—Epic Systems within the EHR space, for example—no single vendor came out on top across the numerous areas of patient engagement. Once again, the health IT vendor giant has come in as the top-rated patient portal solution, getting a score of 88.7 out of 100. Epic was followed by athenahealth, Greenway Health, Veradigm, Oracle Health (Cerner), and NextGen Healthcare. The annual… |
 Singapore General Hospital shifts to gamified VR nurse training
Healthcare IT news - (Thursday February 9, 2023) The Singapore General Hospital has started training its nurses in IV cannulation using VR technology.A team of SGH nurses, together with Serious Games Asia and sensor solutions developer Microtube Technologies, developed an immersive gamified training module called IV NIMBLE (Nursing Innovation in Mobility-based Learning) to enhance nurses’ training.  How Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare Reduces Clinician Burnout, Improves Patient Care
HealthTech Magazine - (Wednesday February 8, 2023) Burnout is taking its toll on healthcare. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy notes that half of healthcare workers report symptoms of burnout that range from insomnia to anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. A Bain survey found that 25 percent of clinicians are considering switching careers, with burnout the No. 1 factor in those feelings. One strategy for combatting burnout is wider adoption of technology, particularly for automating routine and time-consuming tasks such as documentation. Bringing automation to clinicians isn’t without challenges, however. It takes time to identify the right solutions, implement… |
 Hands-on cardiac education pays dividends for patients and others, says Abiomed
Healthcare IT news - (Wednesday February 8, 2023) At a Heart Recovery Advocate Day held on February 3 at Abiomed’s Danvers, Massachusetts, headquarters, patients shared their stories of heart recovery, toured the facility, participated in lab demonstrations and had the opportunity to meet the operators who made their left ventricular assist devices, right ventricular assist devices and lung-assist devices.Connecting patients with each other, and with technologists  Regenstrief Institute names new president and CEO
Healthcare IT news - (Wednesday February 8, 2023) Indiana University School of Medicine this week announced that Rachel E. Patzer, an expert in epidemiology and health services research, has been appointed to be president and chief executive officer of the school-affiliated Regenstrief Institute.WHY IT MATTERSPatzer, who holds degrees including a masters in public health and a doctorate in epidemiology, will begin the new role on May 1. She currently works at Emory University School of Medicine, where she serves as the founding director of its Health Services Research Center and is a tenured professor there in the school’s department of surgery. |
 Merchandising healthcare access: adopting e-commerce techniques
Healthcare IT news - (Wednesday February 8, 2023) As the consumerization of healthcare continues to take shape, the next frontier of healthcare access may well be merchandising healthcare inventory, contended Derek Streat, cofounder and CEO of DexCare, a digital transformation platform vendor.By combining healthcare and e-commerce technologies and strategies, healthcare provider organizations can dramatically improve the digital discovery of care and access to it for patients, he said.  Delivering connected health and care
AuDigitalHealth - (Wednesday February 8, 2023) FacilitatorDr Robert Herkes MBBS FRACP FCICM, Chief Medical Officer, Ramsay Health Care AustraliaSpeakersDr Nathan Pinskier, Former Melbourne General Practitioner and Board Member Peninsula Health Brigadier Isaac Seidl, Director-General Operational Health, Department of DefenceDr Helen… |
