The world of healthcare is not one to shy away from adopting new technologies. As digital transformation continues to permeate all sectors of the economy, the healthcare industry is poised to benefit significantly from advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Among these advancements, the emergence of GPT-3 for clinical documentation and an increasingly strong […]
Epic Test Automation THE NEED With a full-time team of 10 quality assurance staff members responsible for all manual testing, Novant Health was looking for a better way to test its Epic system and existing infrastructure. Because the team was not certified or trained in Epic, they relied on Epic application teams to write […]
Health systems handle enormous amounts of data daily; by one estimate, about 30 percent of the world's data volume comes from the healthcare industry, and that's expected to grow over the next few years. The future of healthcare will require better access to data than it has needed in the past. Data-driven insights and action are […]
Adopting new technologies for the best future in patient care Healthcare has lagged behind in adopting new technologies due in part to a lack of buy-in from staff, resistance to adopting anything new, and associated high costs and budgetary constraints. That all changed when healthcare faced a global health crisis. The rapid adoption of tools […]
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Healthcare providers and patients are often in the dark regarding the cost of prescription drugs. That’s more than a simple inconvenience—it also affects whether patients adhere to their treatment plans when they discover that prescribed medications are too costly. Many physicians choose an appropriate medication during an office or telehealth visit, hit the send button, […]
Healthcare leaders don’t often talk about interoperability's dirty secret: Despite decades of digitization and standards, we still have a problem with dirty data. That means a great deal of digital information still gets touched by human hands before it can be consumed by hospital or pharmacy systems. This is more than an inconvenience, Manually entering information […]
In a time of EHRs, e-prescribing, and cloud-based storage, patient medication history is not always available in clinical workflows. Fractured data from multiple sources, inconsistent terminology between systems, and time-consuming manual entries hinder medication reconciliation. Providers are frustrated, patients are at risk of preventable adverse drug events (ADEs), and hospitals are responsible for readmissions. Problems […]
Imagine you’re hungry and craving pizza. You go to your favorite Italian restaurant, but instead of serving you a hot, delicious slice, they give you the crust, the cheese, and the sauce separately, so you have to manually assemble the ingredients yourself. That’s how it feels to physicians when patient medication history arrives in the […]
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