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Consumers Must Be The Focus Of Providers' Value-Based Technology For Managing Risk

Providers negotiating risk-based health plan contracts or considering Medicare Value-Based payment options have to decide how they are going to avoid devastating financial losses. As capitation re-emerges as a dominant payment type, providers are using various technologies to supplement their current EHRs and financial systems. Their priorities are on spotting patients and providers who may generate "excessive" costs compared to targets and improve performance.

• Top Payer Priorities For 2020: Optimizing Operating Costs And Boosting Network Efficiency
• Surfing The 2020 Healthcare Disruption Wave

• 4 Indicators Of Hospital Inefficiencies Derived From Your IT Service Desk Analytics Metrics

  The seventh annual health IT outlook survey found 48 percent of participants felt unprepared to manage and execute effective IT operations within their healthcare facility based on their current training. Yet, the core reason for an IT service desk’s existence in a hospital is to quickly and accurately resolve issues reported by end users, ranging from physicians to front-end administrative staff. Health systems can leverage their initial user issue data for proactive mitigation as well as a way to stay competitive amidst continuous marketplace consolidation.

• Patient Communications: Remembering The Past While Looking To The Future

  Can you remember where you were on December 31, 1999? Most likely, you were gathered with friends or family, ready to celebrate the dawn of the year 2000. It was an exciting time—and doesn’t really feel like it was too long ago. And yet, in terms of technology and communication, it really was a different lifetime.

• Healthcare On Cloud Nine: Top 8 Benefits Of Healthcare-Cloud Merger

  Rising healthcare promises have been tied to cloud technology in the most recent tech-talks of the town. While the majority of care providers are not holding their breath due to previous disappointments, we wanted to translate the often-vague statements made into discrete simplified processes for healthcare.

• Why Medical Dictation Is Still Better Than Voice Recognition ... For Now

  While health professionals increasingly use voice recognition and artificial intelligence-backed software programs for clinical documentation, they yield errors in seven percent of dictated words. While this number may seem like a small margin of error, it still leaves room for compromises in healthcare quality and patient safety.

• 2020 Trends, Predictions, And Promising Applications For Technology And Healthcare

  We see the most promising applications in healthcare when real time decision making using simple data sets can relieve the burden on the caregiver and drive better outcomes for patients. For example, alarm fatigue in hospitals - both clinically and operationally - is a cause of lost productivity and decreased patient safety. AI technology can be applied to a smart pump to only sound an alarm when there is a critical need for intervention and to initiate an escalation process if there is no response.

• 6 Challenges Tech Has Brought To Healthcare (And How To Avoid Them)

  Technology has changed the way industry professionals approach the idea of healthcare. While many of these innovations are positive — facilitating patient care and ensuring traditional treatments are more effective — they also present some unique challenges. Why? Because this technology is something the industry has never seen before.

• Evolving The EHR: What Apple’s App Store Can Teach Us
• Top Digital Health Trends For 2020
• Making Medical Workers Mobile (And The Patients It Serves)
• 6 Telemedicine Predictions For 2020
• 4 Things Providers Should Look For In EHR-Integrated Patient Engagement Software
• Closing 3 Common Gaps in the Patient Experience
• 5 Ways To Reduce No-Shows
• Leading The Healthcare Workforce With Data Science
• Technology Holds The Answers For Solving Social Determinants
• What We Can Expect From HIT In 2020