Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Authorizations are a uniquely different healthcare transaction but one of the best opportunities for AI.

An expert in natural language processing discusses the need for generative AI systems that can understand an entire chart or EHR system – and describes how clinical LLMs can improve patient outcomes and prevent clinician burnout.

Local health officials have pointed out the poor health IT infrastructure that hinders the broad uptake of EMR.

What’s needed during big EHR and other system changes to protect cash flow, improve data integrity, and drive better system adoption and satisfaction? Rich Amelio, VP of healthcare IT operations and consulting at consulting firm e4health, has answers.

In a 10-year contract worth as much as $2.5 billion, Indian Health Service will replace its VistA-based patient management system with Oracle technology, to be implemented and maintained by General Dynamics IT.

The practice's optimal start rate – when a patient begins dialysis at home, receives a preemptive transplant or begins in-center hemodialysis – had been 40%. With the new electronic health record, it's now 90%.

Informatics researchers from UCSF found that, both during and outside of scheduled hours, an uptick in telehealth use required ambulatory physicians to spend more time working in the electronic health record.

It is the first Taiwanese hospital to be validated for both Stage 7 INFRAM and Stage 6 AMAM.

A broad RTLS deployment, new augmented intelligence systems and 75-inch footwall monitors to enhance patient experience are just some of the innovations the New Jersey hospital hopes will satisfy patients, providers and staff.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is calling on healthcare innovation teams to create artificial intelligence-enabled tools that elevate the agency's healthcare data management and clinical practice.