Progress toward a value-based care reimbursement system is slow, with clinicians hampered by a lack of information technology that could help them, according to a new survey of healthcare executives.
HIT execs at Faith Regional Health Services and other similar facilities manage broad responsibilities but have limited resources in advance of major reimbursement changes.
Rising waiting room times are discouraging patients from keeping appointments, but analytics can help practices understand bottlenecks and reverse the trend.
The design, development and implementation of electronic health records must be improved to ensure the usability of EHRs for clinicians and safety for patients.
Seeking to improve patient safety in hospitals, Health Catalyst has released a module that uses predictive and text analytics to monitor and predict potential threats to patients, says Stanley Pestotnik.
Accurate patient matching is becoming 10 times more challenging and 10 times more critical for healthcare organizations across the country. Luckily, technology is starting to keep up with the demands, and you can instantly and dramatically improve your EHR’s or EMPI’s patient matching without disrupting any of its core functionality. By injecting the power of Referential Matching, you will get the full value from your EHR or EMPI investment and increase patient satisfaction and safety.
