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How AI command centers are helping hospitals harness analytics to manage operations

Tampa General's new partnership with GE Healthcare is the most recent example of Artificial Intelligence-driven care coordination centers that harmonize patient safety and quality improvement initiatives.

By Mike Miliard | May 30, 2018

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Patient experience, clinical excellence top drivers of hospital tech investments in next 12 months

Healthcare organizations are also planning to ramp up customer relationship tools as they continue on the path to self-disruption, according to new research from Ernst & Young.

By Jeff Lagasse | June 20, 2018

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How Mercy Hospital Network saved $4.3 million with nursing analytics dashboard

Staff created the dashboard for tracking multiple performance metrics, including leakage.

By Bill Siwicki | March 26, 2018

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Carroll Hospital lifts patient satisfaction scores by integrating nurse rounding tools into EHR

The system boosted its overall rating by more than 15 points in just one quarter.

By Bill Siwicki | November 14, 2017

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Want to save hundreds of lives and millions of dollars? Integrate clinical pathway tools with your EHR

Penn Medicine and Cancer Centers of America are deploying clinical pathways technologies and Mercy already saved 480 lives and $27 million by connecting them with its Epic electronic health record.

By Bill Siwicki | November 29, 2017

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How Mercy is using NLP with its Epic EHR to improve analytics for cardiac care

Natural language processing technology is helping the health system unlock information from the notes that it previously hadn't been able to use.

By Mike Miliard | June 8, 2018

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Mass General, Brigham and Women's to apply deep learning to medical records and images

Hospitals say the AI method is in use today automating things humans do well but don't have the time for – and there's much more to come.

By Bill Siwicki | June 4, 2018

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Here's what it takes to make IoT data ready for AI and machine learning

Hospitals should begin with appropriate infrastructure and that includes robust connectivity, storage and security. Here’s a look at how to get started.

By Bill Siwicki | November 20, 2017

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Building value-based framework for EHR interoperability depends on provider ease-of-use

ATM's interoperable functionality has been a benchmark for EHRs and now, they're making progress toward a similar interoperability says Cedars-Sinai chief clinical transformation officer Scott Weingarten.

By Jeff Lagasse | January 29, 2018

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Radiology practices using AI and NLP to boost MIPS payments

RadNet and vRad have deployed natural language processing tools to help them tackle over-utilization and help perform tasks that are challenging for humans.

By Bill Siwicki | February 16, 2018

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Rush University Medical Center reaps higher CMS star ratings, cost savings by building its own predictive analytics framework

The hospital was able to better grasp what it was already doing well, and what it was not, in terms of clinical documentation thanks to homegrown software.

By Jeff Lagasse | March 23, 2018

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An inside look: NewYork-Presbyterian's AI command center

Nurses in a faraway control room monitor patients with AI tools and free on-premise clinicians to spend more time with patients.

By Bill Siwicki | November 27, 2017

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Putting predictive analytics and medical device data to work reducing a common physician alert by 99%

Virtua Memorial Hospital and vendor Bernoulli worked together to nearly eliminate respiratory depression alerts, enhance care and lower costs.

By Bill Siwicki | April 25, 2018

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Hospital leans on machine learning to reduce sepsis-related mortality rate

Cabell Huntington Hospital also diminished the average sepsis-related hospital length of stay with machine learning-generated clinician alerts.

By Bill Siwicki | March 16, 2018

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EHRs can improve patient safety - if they're optimized well

To achieve gains in quality, hospitals need to strategically pace the rollout of new features and functionality.

By Beth Jones Sanborn | July 19, 2018

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ACO wrangles data from 45 different EHRs for real-time analytics

The CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization says its population health platform has helped manage disparate data, but he still wishes vendors and payers would help manage the burden of value-based care.

By Mike Miliard | November 29, 2017

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EHRs in the cloud: Why smaller healthcare providers are making the leap

Providers say flexible platforms help them to prepare for population health management and value-based care.

By Bill Siwicki | November 28, 2017

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UNC Health uses Epic to pull in other EHR data to create better comprehensive patient view

Using the company's "Happy Together" tool, UNC was able to document 12 percent of A1c test completions and 8.1 percent of flu shot completions from external data sources.

By Bill Siwicki | April 27, 2018

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How NYU Langone tweaked its Epic EHR for value-based care, saving millions

The New York City-based health system tailored its care pathways to fix inefficiencies and gained back big ROI from the hard work it did with staff workflows and process improvements.

By Mike Miliard | April 16, 2018

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Tech vendors tackle credentialing, hiring and scheduling with predictive analytics and automation

Two categories of companies are working to enable hospitals to digitize time-consuming manual processes to save time and money.

By Jeff Lagasse | December 6, 2017

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A look inside the patient safety work Phoenix Children's is doing with Allscripts

Phoenix Children’s CIO David Higginson and Allscripts CEO Paul Black discuss why patient safety innovation demands attention to human factors.

By Mike Miliard | March 27, 2018

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Patient safety check-up: Promise, progress and a need for vigilance

Healthcare leaders Robert Wachter, David Bates, Leah Binder and Tejal Gandhi take the pulse of how far patient safety has come in recent decades – and point toward the work that lies ahead.

By Bernie Monegain | April 6, 2018

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Columbia Medical Associates saves $6.5 million in total cost of care by tackling ED visits

The multi-specialty group practice undertook a large project to use analytics and reduce emergency room utilization – and it worked.

By Bill Siwicki | May 14, 2018

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AI for cybersecurity? What hospitals should understand before investing

Artificial intelligence-powered threat detection and response can be very valuable – as long as it's researched and deployed with care and planning.

By Mike Miliard | April 24, 2018

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Blockchain beyond EHRs: Transforming value-based payment, precision medicine, patient-centric care

While EHRs and data security get all the attention, there are more immediate opportunities for the digital ledger technology.

By Bill Siwicki | November 15, 2017

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The future of personalized health is scientific wellness

A new quantitative era is emerging for digital health, AI, social networks, analytics and precision medicine that will eclipse the disease industry that exists today.

By Tom Sullivan | June 4, 2018

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The state of precision medicine: Star Wars tech on a Flintstones chassis

The ability to sequence the human genome to predict chronic diseases is the Star Wars part but the infrastructure to support personalized care is still in the Flintstones age.

By Susan Morse | November 16, 2017

The next-generation of healthcare tech

How AI command centers are helping hospitals harness analytics to manage operations

Patient experience, clinical excellence top drivers of hospital tech investments in next 12 months

How Mercy Hospital Network saved $4.3 million with nursing analytics dashboard

Carroll Hospital lifts patient satisfaction scores by integrating nurse rounding tools into EHR

Want to save hundreds of lives and millions of dollars? Integrate clinical pathway tools with your EHR

How Mercy is using NLP with its Epic EHR to improve analytics for cardiac care

Mass General, Brigham and Women's to apply deep learning to medical records and images

Here's what it takes to make IoT data ready for AI and machine learning

Building value-based framework for EHR interoperability depends on provider ease-of-use

Radiology practices using AI and NLP to boost MIPS payments

Rush University Medical Center reaps higher CMS star ratings, cost savings by building its own predictive analytics framework

An inside look: NewYork-Presbyterian's AI command center

Putting predictive analytics and medical device data to work reducing a common physician alert by 99%

Hospital leans on machine learning to reduce sepsis-related mortality rate

EHRs can improve patient safety - if they're optimized well

ACO wrangles data from 45 different EHRs for real-time analytics

EHRs in the cloud: Why smaller healthcare providers are making the leap

UNC Health uses Epic to pull in other EHR data to create better comprehensive patient view

How NYU Langone tweaked its Epic EHR for value-based care, saving millions

Tech vendors tackle credentialing, hiring and scheduling with predictive analytics and automation

A look inside the patient safety work Phoenix Children's is doing with Allscripts

Patient safety check-up: Promise, progress and a need for vigilance

Columbia Medical Associates saves $6.5 million in total cost of care by tackling ED visits

AI for cybersecurity? What hospitals should understand before investing

Blockchain beyond EHRs: Transforming value-based payment, precision medicine, patient-centric care

The future of personalized health is scientific wellness

The state of precision medicine: Star Wars tech on a Flintstones chassis

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