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• Building The Case To Fund The Digital Front Door

  10/10/2019

  How successful health systems are escalating board-level awareness, engagement and action.

• Patients Are Paying The Price For Health IT's Stumbles

  5/11/2016

  While the HITECH Act of 2009 — part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) economic stimulus bill — put much-needed emphasis on healthcare, particularly the role information technology (IT) should play in it, the reality is we have been left with a promise unfulfilled. Today, doctors are less productive than they were before, and IT is the culprit. Rather than enabling a better, more streamlined workflow, IT has become a burden.

• Digital Transformation In Healthcare: Innovation Versus Regulation

  9/14/2017

  How do you innovate in an industry where heavy regulation seemingly rears its head at every corner? When you look at healthcare, one thing is clear: innovation refuses to be contained. By Mike Hughes, Principal Platform Evangelist, OutSystems

• EHR Failure: What's A Practice To Do?

  11/15/2017

  Physician dissatisfaction with EHRs has been well-documented in recent years, as has the growth of the EHR replacement market. In Kalorama Information’s report, The State of the EMR Market in 2017, the authors estimate that approximately 15 percent of physicians are seeking EHR replacement systems in order to mitigate frustrations with awkward and non-intuitive interfaces and functionality gaps.

• Solving Nurse Allocation Issues: How AI Effectively Prepares Infusion Centers

  8/20/2019

  Louis Pasteur famously said, “Chance favors the prepared mind.” In highly specialized environments such as infusion centers, which are unpredictable by nature, it often seems impossible to adequately prepare. Scheduling is highly complex, wait times are long, and nurses are usually rushed. Burnout and job dissatisfaction are systemic, and as a result, the patient care experience is suboptimal. Yet, new technologies make it possible to reduce uncertainties, adapt to change, and fuel a new level of preparedness that tips chance heavily in favor of patients and staff while enabling centers to function efficiently.

• How Did We Get Here? Hospital Analytics And The New Normal

  8/13/2020

  I have heard the word “unprecedented” so many times in 2020 that it has lost its significance; many of us have become desensitized to the extraordinary changes in the world this year. However, I am challenged to find a better word to describe the current healthcare crisis and ensuing turmoil and uncertainty about the future. As our new normal continually evolves, we have seen unprecedented changes within our healthcare environment.