Clunky appointment scheduling and frustrating call center experiences can drive patients to seek care elsewhere. When patients face long wait times, confusing automated systems or unhelpful staff, their frustration can lead them to switch…
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Dr. Steve Miff, President and CEO of Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI) Artificial intelligence (AI) is making a tangible difference in healthcare today. It’s not about science fiction or flashy gimmicks. It’s not…
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Many people watch the stock market on a fairly regular basis, but sometimes it takes a pro to make sense of what can be a very murky or volatile landscape. Fortunately, there are pros…
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I’m catching up on a lot of healthcare IT news after coming out of a whirlwind of travel. I’m just reading the HHS press releases about the changes at ONC. I always struggle with…
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Once somebody has monopoly power, the incentive is to keep the monopoly power and the way you do it is to either prevent innovation from coming or if you see some innovation coming and…
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Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has become the first organisation in the UK to deploy Altera Digital Health’s patient flow solution.
The system went live at the Royal Albert Edward…
A lot of CEOs just basically yes men or yes women, turned out to be, and they're going with this idea that “hey, you know if Amazon can do it or if Walmart can…
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England-based period and fertility app vendor Flo Health raises a $200 million investment from General Atlantic that values the company at $1 billion.
HIStalk Announcements and Requests
Yes, I monitor odd things. Epic has…
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Background: It is not known whether an intervention made mandatory as a physical education (PE) class assignment and aimed at promoting physical activity (PA) in adolescents can create a healthy walking habit, which would…
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HealthEquity, a provider of health savings accounts, announced the personal and health information of 4.3 million individuals was compromised in a data breach involving an unnamed third-party vendor.WHY IT MATTERSThe breach apparently occurred in…
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