PSQH: The Podcast Episode 72 – Improving Clinical Documentation with NLP
On episode 72 of PSQH: The Podcast, Dr. Tim O’Connell, CEO of emtelligent, talks about how natural language processing (NLP) is improving clinical documentation.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 71 – Using Technology to Prevent Patient Falls
On episode 71 of PSQH: The Podcast, Rosemary Kennedy, Chief Health Informatics Officer, Connect America, talks about how technology can help prevent patient falls.
2023 and Beyond: Where Technology in Healthcare Is Headed
The digital transformation in healthcare is happening now. As we enter 2023, the question inevitably comes up: What’s next? Healthcare organizations have already had a plethora of new options and technologies arise from the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically regarding safety and telehealth. How will these continue to evolve during the upcoming year?
Three Ways to Ensure Healthcare Technology Design Focuses on the End User
Today’s technology solutions can help stem the tide of burnout—but to do so, their design must incorporate direct input from the end user. With informatics solutions that span care settings and are easy to use, clinicians and nurses can spend more time on patient care rather than grappling with disparate technologies that don’t fit into their workflows.
Concierge Medicine Takes a New Approach to Precision Healthcare
Concierge medicine encompasses a variety of terms, like boutique medicine, retainer-based medicine, platinum practice, and direct primary care. Generally, the organization contracts with a consumer or group, such as a company or health plan, for a fee to provide healthcare services.
Use Quick Wins to Speed Your Healthcare Digital Transformation
This “digital transformation” has the potential to improve an organization’s efficiency, performance, and care quality. Fulfilling that potential, however, is challenging for several reasons, such as misaligned digital strategies, security and privacy issues, embedded legacy systems, existing processes impacting agility, implementation delays, and lack of internal collaboration.
Patient Safety Predictions for 2023
PSQH reached out to professionals throughout healthcare to get their predictions for what will happen in patient safety and healthcare quality in 2023. Here’s what they had to say.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 69 – Lessons Learned From Infectious Disease Outbreaks
On episode 69 of PSQH: The Podcast, Dr. Art Papier, CEO of VisualDx, talks about lessons learned for dealing with infectious disease outbreaks.
Most Telehealth Visits Do Not Require In-Person Follow-Up Visits Within 90 Days
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, telehealth visits have increased dramatically. The millions of telehealth visits that have been conducted since the beginning of the pandemic are an opportunity for researchers to assess the utilization of telemedicine.
Survey: Health Systems See Technology as a Key to Improving Patient Access
The Top of Mind for Top Health Systems 2023 report, released this week by CCM, the innovation arm of UPMC, and KLAS Research, represents the thoughts of 61 leaders from 59 healthcare organizations, and marks the second year in a row that patient access is at the top of the to-do list. Some 28% of those surveyed for this year’s report rated it as the problem that has the greatest potential to be improved via digital health–and one that has been greatly impacted by the pandemic.