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Doing away with traditional manual coding has enabled Mount Alvernia Hospital's IT team to focus more on innovation rather than "reinventing the wheel," shares technology director Bruce Leong.

Also: Availity clarifies reports that it has cut ties with the clearinghouse and says it "fully expects" to reconnect to Change Healthcare.

The Indian Health Service is installing its own EHR that is expected to connect tribal communities across 37 states.

At HIMSS24, Dr. Denise Hines and Shirelle King of Georgia Health Information Network discuss social integration to foster trust in underserved communities.  

Robert Slepin, a longtime IT exec at provider organizations who's now a top consultant at Epic, discusses his role, and how it helps the company prioritize problem solving in electronic health record deployments.

The security breach has been a major disruption and opened an opportunity for scammers, Minnesota AG warns.

Building on the ongoing collaboration with Nuance, providers can use DAX Copilot conversational, ambient and generative artificial intelligence to draft clinical notes during in-person and telehealth visits.

Its national research institute has built a chatbot based on Meta's LLM which can answer doctors' questions with up to 95% accuracy.

The anchor exhibitor featured performance improvements, pre-built clinical quality analytics and more to help increase reimbursement and enhance care. Oracle Health EVP Seema Verma shared insights on AI's potential, interoperability under TEFCA and more.

The provider saw a 22% decrease in one type of denial and an 18% decrease in another. Those improvements have resulted in more than 30 hours per week in eliminated work for follow-up staff.