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As providers adopt IT solutions to streamline their documentation, they need to take accountability for shaping the underlying genAI, according to Michael Ristau, VP of global marketing and international growth at Solventum (formerly 3M Health Care).
La Monte Yarborough, HHS CISO, believes that federal agencies, health system partners and vendors should work together to share information and create a "village" that strengthens healthcare cybersecurity.
Patients who otherwise wouldn't have used the health system's physical therapy services because of geographic distance are now staying in-network. The technology also has boosted Emory's value-based care efforts.
One technology CEO discusses the importance of pre-visit preparation – how AI-enabled automation can transform the process and minimize the time physicians spend in the EHR.
Nursing and IT
That's the advice of CoxHealth Chief Nursing Information Officer Summer Blackerby, RN, who discusses the value of nursing IT experts, and highlights technologies that provide care beyond the bedside, streamline nursing workflows and more.
A 50% reduction in nurse-created discrepancies at medication cabinets and a 20% decrease in the time nurses spend dispensing meds have been two big wins. A 30% increase in storage capacity on the floors is another.
InteliChart's platform can integrate with EHRs and engage with patients via their preferred means. This allows providers to focus on clinical workflows, says Will Cantrell, the company's director of product solutions.
By integrating with practices' EHRs, the voice and generative AI tool can help reduce the need to manage drop-down menus and scrolling, reducing physicians' documentation time by up to 40%, the company says.
Mindy Bosanek, the health system's director of surgical services, and Cynthia Harms, its surgical services OR business manager, say being able to deliver a "single source of truth" has freed up a surgery schedule that was 90% blocked.
The federal agency has been receiving performance data from a cohort of funded health centers testing data exchange through standards-based APIs, according to ONC's USCDI program and the UDS Test Cooperative.
