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Mining EHR data to understand documentation burnout

February 13, 2023March 16, 2023Healthcare IT news

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information found that hospitals’ access and analysis of documentation data in electronic health records has increased over the past five years, but gaps in access and use remain for some hospitals.WHY IT MATTERSData from EHRs can track the time clinicians spend documenting and carrying out certain tasks. To measure physician burden on a national scale, ONC analyzed four waves of a nationally representative survey of U.S. non-federal acute care hospitals.
Published in January, in the special health IT issue of the American Journal of Managed Care, Trends in Electronic Health Record Capabilities for Tracking…

How Technology Integration Supports Precision Medicine

February 11, 2023March 16, 2023HealthTech Magazine

Precision Health Can Be Applied to All DisciplinesThe University of California, Irvine, has integrated its technology to create targeted health and wellness strategies for patients. In February 2022, the university launched the Institute for Precision Health, an interdisciplinary campuswide initiative to develop solutions in precision medicine. A future brick-and-mortar home for IPH will let data scientists collaborate with clinicians to develop analytics tools.
“Precision health is truly an amalgamation of multiple critical pillars. Understanding the multidisciplinary nature of this work is really how IPH came about,” says Dr. Peter Chang, assistant professor in residence at UCI’s Department of Radiological Sciences. He formed…

Why NLP can only succeed in healthcare if it caters to caregivers

February 10, 2023March 16, 2023Healthcare IT news

Natural language processing, or NLP, is a branch of artificial intelligence that enables machine understanding of human language. In recent years, NLP has become part of consumer products and performs with a sometimes surprising degree of accuracy.Virtual assistants use NLP to understand spoken questions like, “What’s the weather like today?” They can contextualize the meaning of the question, and then use data from online sources to reply with a meaningful response.
Medical NLP has long been a topic of research and development, since it contains significant potential for uncovering meaningful insights from unstructured medical text. This presents huge opportunities for healthcare providers, clinical…

Florida ACO achieves value-based care goals with real-time patient data platform

February 9, 2023March 16, 2023Healthcare IT news

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
“Ensuring access to patient records in real time, regardless of where patient care is delivered, was an ongoing hurdle for our organization,” said Ricardo Matos, CIO at Pathways. “It was a significant limitation with regard to our providers making timely, informed care decisions.
“And we knew from our experience working with partners over the years that trying…

How Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare Reduces Clinician Burnout, Improves Patient Care

February 8, 2023March 16, 2023HealthTech 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…

6 Essential Security Controls for Managing East-West Network Traffic

February 7, 2023March 16, 2023HealthTech Magazine

Control 1: Gain Visibility with a Flow Traffic AnalyzerA flow traffic analyzer is a visibility tool capable of reporting normal network traffic flow data for all peripheral devices, along with anomaly detection against known good baselines. Not only do flows provide a convenient unit for traffic measurement, most popular security information and event management solutions accept flows to augment detection capabilities. Capturing contextual data, such as traffic volume, port origination and destination, network path and quality of service — along with who generated what data and when — provides useful information for effective treatment of traffic through policy.
Consequently, an effective access…

New York approves AI-driven breast cancer diagnostic

February 7, 2023March 16, 2023Healthcare IT news

With Clinical Laboratory Evaluation Program assay validation, the company’s Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments-certified lab can begin testing patient samples.WHY IT MATTERS
Along with New York State Department of Health clinical and analytical validation of this use of array morphology, the results of the PDxBr test were reproducible.
“Consistent with our mission of improving healthcare, PDxBr has shown to be an effective prognostic tool to further improve risk stratification over current histopathology methods,” said Wayne Brinster, CEO of PreciseDx, in an announcement.
The company says the AI technology has now proven its ability to enhance invasive breast cancer pathology interpretation with objective, quantifiable and accurate…

Virtual care system designed for COVID-19 grows into a multiuse digital health tool

February 6, 2023March 16, 2023Healthcare IT news

In 2019, Cleveland-based University Hospitals saw an opportunity to use automation and digital care technologies to improve patient engagement, clinical care and outcomes.THE PROBLEM
Ultimately, the health system was looking for ways to improve patient engagement first and foremost and then wanted to see how it could use automated tools to improve outcomes.
It also recognized the foundational changes occurring in the health system – especially when it came to consumer behavior and increased competition from nontraditional healthcare disruptors. The organization wanted to offer its patients tools and options that support their personal healthcare journeys in these ways.
PROPOSAL
“We implemented Amwell Automated Care Programs…

Cosmos, Epic’s massive EHR analytics platform, helps reduce new mother readmissions

January 31, 2023March 16, 2023Healthcare IT news

Nearly 20% of postpartum patients in America develop high blood pressure; Epic Research just found in a new study that postpartum hypertension nearly triples the chances of rehospitalization.After looking at more than 1.2 million birth encounters and then grouping and comparing the highest blood pressure readings taken in the 24 hours after discharge, the study found:

Patients with blood pressure levels at or above 160/110 shortly before discharge are nearly three times more likely to be readmitted than patients with normal blood pressure readings.

More than 5% of postpartum patients with the highest blood pressure readings, equal to or greater than 160/110 mmHg,…

Australian Health Dep’t failed to manage risks in expanding telehealth: state auditor

January 31, 2023March 16, 2023Healthcare IT news

The Australian National Audit Office has conducted a review of the expansion of telehealth services across the country by the Department of Health and Aged Care in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.FINDINGS
Based on the state audit, the department fell short in governance, risk management, and evaluation of the telehealth expansion.
While it made “significant” changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS), the expanded telehealth services were “only partly supported by sound implementation arrangements.”
The audit found that it did not require key implementation decisions and plans to be documented.
It was also noted that the department did not manage implementation risks associated with temporary…

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Mining EHR data to understand documentation burnout

Why NLP can only succeed in healthcare if it caters to caregivers

Florida ACO achieves value-based care goals with real-time patient data platform

New York approves AI-driven breast cancer diagnostic

Virtual care system designed for COVID-19 grows into a multiuse digital health tool

Cosmos, Epic’s massive EHR analytics platform, helps reduce new mother readmissions

Australian Health Dep’t failed to manage risks in expanding telehealth: state auditor

Diverging trajectories of trust in healthcare and on-line information seeking: what’s next with LLMs

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Weekly Roundup – January 31, 2026

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