Clinical
Success Stories & ROI
For seven years, the cardiac surgical team has leveraged computational fluid dynamics software to provide consistent preoperative planning for pediatric congenital heart disease patients and improve outcomes. Sharing workflows is reaching more patients.
Twenty-eight hours a week is a lot to spend on administrative tasks. And it takes away from time with patients, notes Google Cloud's healthcare vertical lead Aashima Gupta.
A health IT CEO offers his view of the next year in healthcare and technology, pointing to AI's true transformative power operating quietly in the background and mounting pressure for providers to reassess their digital investments.
Nursing and IT
Because we're still in the early days of artificial intelligence transforming the patient care environment, it's imperative to watch its impacts closely, says Oriana Beaudet, VP of nursing innovation at the American Nurses Association.
Will Cantrell, director of product solutions at InteliChart, suggests these processes are in need of modernization, and explains how integrating communication platforms with EHR systems can enhance workflow and reduce compliance risks.
It will feature a 24/7 command centre, integrating the ICUs of small and medium hospitals.
Interoperability capabilities are available, but ushering patient data exchange and speeding up time to care are matters of provider change management and embracing digital transformation, says Dan Torrens, CEO of eHealth Technologies.
Vijayashree Natarajan, SVP and head of technology at Omega Healthcare, predicts these three areas of health IT will be key next year – and explains why.
Physicians said in this year's Doximity survey that telemedicine tools have helped them improve disease management and patient access. They also said adherence to treatment plans, patient outcomes and productivity are up.
Rami Karjian, head of LeanTaaS' operating rooms business, says that surgical and IV backlogs have affected 85% of all healthcare providers and have had a huge impact on patients, hospital finances and staff resilience.