Nashville-based Ardent Health includes 30 hospitals and more than 280 sites of care in six states, including Idaho, Kansas, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. It’s a large organization, so when it was looking for its first digital chief, it knew it needed a pro who could keep a lot of plates spinning at … Read more
By maintaining strict cybersecurity standards – implementing best practices, staying up to date on software vulnerability patches and backing up systems – healthcare organizations can protect against system disruptions and data breaches, according to Errol Weiss, the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center’s chief security officer. For rural systems hard pressed to stay on top … Read more
Samsung Medical Center in South Korea has been automating various processes to improve the patient experience. Tasks such as appointment management and insurance claims processing have been automated mainly through its in-house hospital information system, DARWIN. Several digital solutions have also been developed, including patient platforms for appointment setting, hospital admission, medical treatment, nursing, hospital … Read more
Samsung Medical Center in South Korea has been automating various processes to improve patient experience. Tasks such as appointment management and insurance claims processing have been automated mainly through its in-house hospital information system, DARWIN. Several digital solutions have also been developed, including patient platforms for appointment setting, hospital admission, medical treatment, nursing, hospital administration, … Read more
Despite widespread adoption of electronic health records at hospitals and (to a lesser extent) post-acute care facilities, care coordination and outcomes monitoring among both types of providers are still often a big challenge. For example, patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities and other PAC sites experience a 22.8% readmission rate nationwide, compared with 13.9% for … Read more
Dr. Chris Mosunic, chief clinical officer at Calm, has a lot to say about the state of mental health and the abilities of healthcare technology – especially with the mental health crisis in the United States. There is an engagement and discovery problem in healthcare and employee benefits, he said. Digital care must play a … Read more
Before the pandemic, the prominent Chicago-based health system Rush recognized that its physicians and advanced practice providers were burdened with tedious administrative tasks and understood it was time to provide its team with technology that would enable them to get back to what matters most: valuable, undistracted time with patients. THE CHALLENGE With less time … Read more
Editor’s Note: This is the sixth in our series on Chief AI Officers in Healthcare. Other recent CAIO profiles include Dennis Chornenky at UC Davis Health, Dr. Karandeep Singh at UC San Diego Health, Alda Mizaku at Children’s National Hospital, Dr. Zafar Chaudry at Seattle Children’s and Mouneer Odeh at Cedars-Sinai. Sameer Sethi, senior vice … Read more
For Medicare, telemedicine reimbursement and regulation has been about kicking the can down the road – more temporary extensions of COVID-era flexibilities. The current ones run out on September 30. It’s April 2025 and healthcare still waits for a permanent solution from the government for telemedicine and Medicare – which tends to drive what Medicaid … Read more
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in our series on Chief AI Officers in Healthcare. Other recent CAIO profiles include Dennis Chornenky at UC Davis Health, Dr. Karandeep Singh at UC San Diego Health, Alda Mizaku at Children’s National Hospital and Dr. Zafar Chaudry at Seattle Children’s. Mouneer Odeh is only three months into his job as chief … Read more