Like many hospitals and health systems, Northwell Health – New York’s largest health system and private employer – was challenged by ongoing staff shortages, high labor costs and reliance on contract agency labor across its 22 hospitals. To help tackle these issues, Northwell Health successfully implemented an internal resource pool called FlexStaff to fill temporary … Read more
Patient safety challenges are exacerbated by healthcare workforce challenges. However, a workplace culture focused on measuring what goes wrong and making changes to address root causes – powered by reporting and analytics technology and encouraged by the example set by top leadership – can address these significant forces impacting care delivery. As healthcare workers signaled … Read more
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange this past week offered its comments today in response to the publication of a proposed rule from the Department of Homeland Security regarding cybersecurity reporting requirements. WHY IT MATTERSThe recent notice of proposed rulemaking from DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act … Read more
There has been a lot of discussion around the ways in which artificial intelligence can be used in telehealth, balancing the need for efficiency with patient security and privacy. Howard Wu, CEO of Whereby, vendor of a videoconferencing API for telehealth platforms, knows quite a bit about this niche. His company is implementing AI to … Read more
Micky Tripathi, U.S. National Coordinator for Health IT, and Troy Tazbaz, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s digital health director, stepped down from the Coalition for Health AI last week. While the announcement followed concerns raised by Republican lawmakers – by letter last month to FDA and directly with its Center for Devices and Radiological … Read more
Medical documentation by practicing physicians has been a challenge since the creation of the medical chart. During his years of practice, Dr. Will Carracino, chief medical information officer at Florida-based not-for-profit health system Lee Health, recalls struggling to keep up with documentation from the first day he became a physician. THE PROBLEM “It is challenging … Read more
Like many in the U.S., Ohioans are experiencing a historic shortage of behavioral healthcare resources. But population health management tools from Alera Health will help the Ohio Behavioral Health Providers Network better integrate mental healthcare. Meanwhile, the state’s Miami University has awarded $1 million in funding to the Ohio Alliance for Population Health for the … Read more
Revenue cycle management is a great place for operational improvement technologies. These technologies can leverage process and task mining to give leaders a bird’s-eye view of their teams’ workflows. But according to 20-year healthcare veteran Todd Doze, CEO of Janus Health, a revenue cycle management technology company, there are three common myths associated with operational … Read more
Touted as the product of 10 years of work, the most recent proposed rule issued July 10 by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will usher in an age of automation for healthcare interoperability through application programming interface-based exchange capabilities, officials said on Wednesday. The second version of ONC’s Health Data, Technology, … Read more
Amid a national reckoning with racism spurred by the COVID-19 death rate among Black Americans, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s standards for pulse oximeters – those all-too-common devices that use light to measure oxygen saturation in the blood – “essentially ignored how skin tone can affect a pulse ox reading,” according to the Johns … Read more