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Many healthcare organizations have embraced Hospital 4.0 – a new era of smart, connected services integrating artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT). However, some organizations are still relying on legacy systems and analog documentation for scheduling appointments, keeping records and...
The volume of data and its pace of accumulation are steadily increasing. Healthcare organizations that can harness this data and use it to generate analytical and predictive insights will be able to significantly differentiate themselves and future-proof their business advantage. However, many organizations are limited in their ability to use this...
Healthcare providers are increasingly looking to tap into their data assets to improve patient outcomes, act on innovation opportunities and drive intelligent decision-making across the organization. Unfortunately, most organizations simply don’t have the right infrastructure to ensure better discovery, trust and protection of their data...
Effective data management requires not just a sound data strategy, but also data governance and cleansing for improved data quality. Looking to the future, providers are beginning to harness innovations in analytics, automation and machine learning to make data-driven improvements in patient retention, care coordination, risk management,...
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Data is your organization’s most strategic asset, and it can be leveraged to drive innovation and modernization. However, governance across a complex data estate can pose a challenge, especially when data is unstructured and in multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.
Provider burnout has become a $4.6 billion a year problem, resulting in patient and provider churn and a growing physician shortage due to those leaving the profession. Reducing the time that physicians spend documenting patient visits can help decrease fatigue and burnout, as well as allow physicians more time to spend with patients.
Today’s physicians face some unique challenges. Patients are increasingly seeing reduced engagement from physicians who are often rushed and distracted during visits because of the documentation burden, leading to 71% of surveyed patients feeling “frustrated” with their healthcare experience. And with the added frustrations of...
Using their mobile device, physicians unobtrusively record their visits, streaming their speech to the Nuance AI platform, where it gets translated into a clinical node and goes through a quality review process to ensure accuracy before being entered into the EHR. The physician then simply has to review and sign off on the notes, saving time and...
Scribe programs started with the idea of reducing the data-entry burden on physicians, but high turnover and lack of industry standards and certification for scribes can lead to inconsistent documentation quality and an additional training burden on the physician.
With pandemic-related stress exacerbated by ever-increasing administrative workloads, physician burnout is at an all-time high. How can healthcare organizations help reduce providers’ feelings of burnout and improve the patient experience?