When MedAllies was founded in 2001, the healthcare landscape looked vastly different from what it does today. Long before the HITECH Act spurred the widespread digitization of medical records, the company set out with…
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Ben Beadle-Ryby, Senior Vice President and Co-founder at AKASA, says that a typical patient record contains 50,000 words spread across 59 clinical documents. Trying to code a single patient's conditions is comparable to reading…
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One of the biggest challenges that healthcare faces with heart failure patients is the high number of hospital readmissions that occur. These readmissions are expensive to healthcare organizations, a bad experience for patients, and…
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InterSystems, a major data management and healthcare information systems vendor over many decades, has joined the AI rush and is working on a step-by-step approach to making data more useful to healthcare systems through…
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It’s easy to say that security is critical to healthcare operations, since breaches can force hospitals and clinics to cancel patient visits, damage their reputation, and even lead to fines. But how do security…
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Just as Internet providers and transportation companies often struggle with the "last mile" of reaching the customer at the end of the chain, hospitals are too often blind to what's happening in the patient's…
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Hospitals and clinics in some areas see enormous numbers of people who don't speak the local language well. While human interpreters have been common in exam rooms during patient care, it turns out that…
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Rackspace is one of the world's most prominent hosting services, going back long before the term "cloud" was applied to these offerings. In our recent interview, Vice President of Healthcare Tim Lankes says that…
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Shawn Fichter, CEO and Head of Product at Legacy Data Access, believes that archived clinical, financial, and operational data represents an untapped resource for health systems. However, access to legacy data must be done…
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Many companies promoting AI-driven medical scribe products boast that the physician doesn't have to change their behavior in order to use the product. In contrast, Skriber trains the physician how to use it well,…
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