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Leveraging EHR Audit Logs to Inform Clinician Burnout InterventionsDistilINFO Hospital IT - (Thursday February 9, 2023) - Daily Reads/ DistilINFO Hospital IT | |
 | – 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...
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Epic MyChart Patient Portal Racks up 6th Best in KLAS AwardDistilINFO Hospital IT - (Thursday February 9, 2023) - Daily Reads/ DistilINFO Hospital IT | |
 | – 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...
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Singapore General Hospital shifts to gamified VR nurse trainingHealthcare IT news - (Thursday February 9, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | 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. The module comprises a virtual patient avatar with which nurses can practice talking; a 3D-printed hand which mimics the texture of human skin; and a pressure sensor glove that gauges the pressure of cannulation. It also captures and presents data via an analytics dashboard for review. First tried out six months ago by about 120 SGH nurses,...
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How Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare Reduces Clinician Burnout, Improves Patient CareHealthTech Magazine - (Wednesday February 8, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ HealthTech Magazine | |
 | 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...
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Hands-on cardiac education pays dividends for patients and others, says AbiomedHealthcare IT news - (Wednesday February 8, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | 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 Beyond pictures, videos and surgical explanations, many cardiology intervention patients want to know more about the technology that enabled their heart recovery. That is clear from the 24 survivors that experienced planned or unplanned percutaneous coronary interventions and cardiogenic shock events and who attended the largest...
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Regenstrief Institute names new president and CEOHealthcare IT news - (Wednesday February 8, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | 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. She founded the Health Services Research Center at Emory...
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Merchandising healthcare access: adopting e-commerce techniquesHealthcare IT news - (Wednesday February 8, 2023) - AI/ Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | 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. And as workforce shortages continue and tech giants like Amazon push in, these digital consumer experiences will be critical for traditional providers like health systems to operate sustainably, scale care delivery and access, and survive in this competitive and volatile landscape, he added. We interviewed...
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Delivering connected health and careAuDigitalHealth - (Wednesday February 8, 2023) - AuDigitalHealth/ Videos | |
 | 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...
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Lessons in clinical governance for a post-pandemic world where digital health is healthAuDigitalHealth - (Wednesday February 8, 2023) - AuDigitalHealth/ Videos | |
 | Dr Louise Schaper CEO, Australasian Institute of Digital HealthIn this thought-provoking address, Dr Schaper asked the question, 'If clinical governance is so important and so aligned to the core of health and care, why...
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Setting the Scene. C3.0 Connect. Care. Confidence. A Summit on Clinical Governance in Digital HealthAuDigitalHealth - (Wednesday February 8, 2023) - AuDigitalHealth/ Videos | |
 | Amanda Cattermole PSM CEO Australian Digital Health Agency and Chris Leahy Acting CEO Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care explored the increasing focus on clinical governance for frontline organisations as they...
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