What You Should Know: Strategies employed by payers, provider-sponsored health plans, and provider organizations are starting to become more proactive, and the need for solutions with prospective, predictive capabilities is rising. Additionally, amid rising healthcare costs and economic uncertainty, organizations are looking for solutions that deliver more for less.A new KLAS report examines risk adjustment vendors’ abilities to drive outcomes and value, their prospective capabilities,
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A New Way of Thinking About Interoperability in 2023
Interoperability in the U.S. healthcare system has been an ongoing challenge. While there are several industry initiatives that are going to advance the industry and make incremental progress toward interoperability, there remain several gaps that are unaddressed. Interoperability is a much broader concept that encompasses more than protocols, APIs, and limited networks. It’s about more than exchanging data through one-to-one connections between a provider, payer, or vendor. True
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Epic, Impact Advisors, Nordic, Chartis Named 2023 Overall Best in KLAS® Awards
What You Should Know: Epic, Nordic, Impact Advisors and The Chartis Group won the 2023 Overall Best in KLAS® awards. Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the thirteenth straight year in 2023 Best in KLAS – Software & Services report, released, which reports on the top vendors for 2022. Epic was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor. Epic won thirteen other Best in KLAS awards in various market segments. - Impact Advisors tied with Nordic to be a
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Exec Hires: ModMed Appoints Jody Beaverson as Chief People Officer
What You Should Know: - Practice-technology leader ModMed appointed Jody Beaverson as its Chief People Officer and will further commit the company to its people as it grows in the healthcare specialty-specific software space. - As ModMed’s chief people officer, Ms. Beaverson will be a central member of the executive leadership team and she will have responsibility for all aspects of the working experience of ModMed’s employees, including using her strategic leadership skills to champion
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KLAS Enterprise Imaging 2022: Which Vendors Are Delivering?
What You Should Know: - Many healthcare organizations are working to expand and mature their enterprise imaging (EI) strategies to bring together more facilities and service lines. At the same time, both vendors and healthcare organizations are experiencing staffing and budget constraints, leading to a host of financial and operational difficulties. In this environment, some vendors are surmounting challenges and providing the partnership and innovation customers need, while others are
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Telehealth: Addressing The Mental Health Crisis in Kids
Children in America were increasingly struggling with mental health before COVID-19, but the pandemic compounded an already growing crisis. Today in the U.S., nearly one in five children experience a mental health disorder. What’s just as alarming is that for every five children with a mental health disorder, only one will receive treatment. In October 2021, leading pediatric healthcare associations declared a national emergency in child and adolescent mental health. This declaration was a
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Quality vs. Quantity: The Case for Clinician-Centric Technology
Care providers continue to face mounting pressures – from increasing staffing shortages to balancing patient needs across in-person and virtual settings and managing pent-up patient demand. Rather than navigating through fragmented digital solutions that feed care providers disparate data, more and more clinicians now rely on connected technology to access the care context, i.e. the right patient data translated into reliable actionable insights at the right point in their workflow. To truly
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Google Cloud Launches AI-Powered Medical Imaging Suite
What You Should Know: - Google Cloud launches Medical Imaging Suite that addresses common pain points organizations face in developing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models. - Google Cloud enables the development of AI for imaging to support faster, more accurate diagnosis of images, increased productivity for healthcare workers, and improved care access and outcomes for patients. Google Cloud's Medical Imaging Suite Key Features Key features of the Medical
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Cardiology: Have We Reached A Tipping Point in Structured Reporting Adoption?
What You Should Know: - A new report from KLAS provides not only a much-needed update on the breadth of structured reporting adoption but also a first look at the depth of adoption since actual physician use is the only way to drive outcomes. - While the market hasn’t reached the structured reporting tipping point yet, physician adoption is driving progress and generating value. This study also shares details on the hemodynamics experience (both overall satisfaction and important
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Why There’s Renewed Interest In The Cloud for Healthcare
From the development of the EMR to the growth of telehealth, the digital environment for healthcare has evolved tremendously over the last few years. So, it’s no surprise that IT spending is set to increase by 12.3% for cloud computing, 9.7%, for digital transformation, and 9.7% for security software this year. Though healthcare organizations have historically been slower to adopt cloud, we’re now seeing renewed interest. Has the pandemic caused a reaction among IT leaders to
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