Staff at Arkansas’ Harmony Park Family Medicine have been excited about streamlining the prior authorization process with the goal of improving patient access to high-quality care. THE PROBLEM Prior authorization approval and management historically has been a burdensome process in the industry and can cause unnecessary delays in patient care, in large part due to … Read more
Hypertension, the most prevalent risk factor for cardiovascular disease, affects 1.39 billion adults worldwide and has a 46% uncontrolled rate. That poses a substantial burden for hospitals and health systems – and necessitates a paradigm shift in management strategies, clinicians say. THE PROBLEM Uncontrolled hypertension can lead to recurrent heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, chronic … Read more
Humberto Farias has been watching the explosion of generative AI very closely. Farias is cofounder and chairman of Concepta Technologies, a technology company specializing in software development and programming in the areas of mobile, web, digital transformation and artificial intelligence. For example, he noticed that Apple is putting generative AI at the very center of … Read more
Carle Health, an eight-hospital health system based in Illinois, is dedicated to giving patients the care they need at every point in their healthcare journey. Through collaboration and engagement, the health system aims to ensure the highest level of care by applying accurate data and innovative, evidence-based best practices. THE PROBLEM Medication reconciliation is a … Read more
This week, artificial intelligence applications continue to be involved in healthcare, with new use cases and deployments of all shapes and sizes. AI is streamlining documentation at Federally Qualified Health Centers, helping expand access to effective mental health services and assuring secure-by-design digital transformation, to name just three. FHQCs, CHCs using voice AI The Utah … Read more
As new cyberattack techniques emerge and evolve, so too must the strategies for protecting artificial intelligence systems in the healthcare setting. And AI-enabled cybersecurity efforts at hospitals and health systems need to keep pace. CIOs, CISOs, and other IT and security leaders must learn to bridge the gap between AI security and cyber defense, which … Read more
In a time of inflation, talent shortages, supply chain challenges and shrinking capital, healthcare decision-makers must be more adept than ever at stretching dollars. And those headwinds are spurring some health system leaders to blaze new trails with emergency medical service providers in the world of artificial intelligence. “AI and predictive modeling are driving everything … Read more
Many affected health systems say they’re back up and running, days after a global IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update that took millions of Microsoft systems offline on July 19. The outage affected industries around the world – not least healthcare, where it caused some providers to revert to pen and paper after … Read more
Not too long ago, AdventHealth had a high demand in its Central and East Florida divisions for advanced MRI services. The health system’s centralized MRI services at its Orlando campus, though effective, presented areas where AdventHealth could deliver a more consumer-centric experience. THE PROBLEM Expanding advanced MRI services to the community hospitals presented its own … Read more
Healthcare leaders have begun to digest the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s recently proposed HTI-2 interoperability rule, and many have offered their reaction to its various components. While most see the proposed rule as a conduit for improving health information exchange between providers, public health agencies and payers through standards-based APIs, others … Read more