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Physician at computer
By Andrea Fox 10:58 am July 14, 2023
Health Care Service Corporation is using augmented intelligence to accelerate prior authorization – up to 1,400 times faster – and an AI tool that references historical authorizations and claims to authorize treatment "within seconds," the company says.
Mount Sinai in New York City
By Bill Siwicki 10:04 am July 14, 2023
The New York hospital's vice chairman of urology and robotics operations explains how a new surgical intelligence platform digs into surgery video to help understand outcomes and improve care.
A doctor checking a patient's record on a digital tablet
By Adam Ang 11:51 pm July 13, 2023
Also, SA Health is launching an e-Referrals system based on Salesforce and Mulesoft.
A doctor and patient look at patient records on a tablet.
By Andrea Fox 10:51 am July 12, 2023
Eleven healthcare organizations have also joined the Data Usability Taking Root project, which is designed to improve the quality and actionability of health information received by end users within their workflows.
Clinician copies and pastes notes in an electronic health record
By Andrea Fox 02:20 pm July 07, 2023
The study of 1.7 billion clinical notes over a three-year period found an increase in the use of digital tools and copy/paste functionality correlated with longer notes and a decrease in the average time spent writing notes.
Dr. R. Dirk Stanley of UConn Health
By Bill Siwicki 11:31 am June 30, 2023
Inefficient EHR workflows drive clinicians crazy. Dr. R. Dirk Stanley explains how to do it right.
A clinician using a digital tablet and desktop computer
By Adam Ang 02:58 am June 30, 2023
Both states are using HealthLink forms to facilitate e-referral delivery.
A physician dictates a clinical note using ambient voice technology
By Mike Miliard 11:17 am June 27, 2023
By expanding DAX Express, hosted in Microsoft's Azure OpenAI, into EHR workflows, the goal is to reduce "what used to be hours of time for clinical documentation to mere seconds," says one CIO.
Nurse at computer
By Mike Miliard 10:40 am June 22, 2023
The newest batch of health systems to receive funding to examine their clinicians' patterns of electronic health record use include Brigham and Women’s, MedStar, UCSF and Yale School of Medicine.
Baptist Medical Center complex
By Bill Siwicki 10:13 am June 16, 2023
The Florida health system has converted more than 7.3 million medication instructions without clinician intervention. The prescribing technology was able to infer missing instructions for subsets and identify high-risk medications, improving patient safety.