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The system provides the data insights that enable the organization to close underutilized clinics and redirect patients to others nearby. Additionally, the finance teams have whittled down rent reporting from two months to a week.

RPM tools and other user-friendly tech are enabling a paradigm shift in care delivery, says Dr. Maulik Majmudar, CMO at Biofourmis, who says it's also important to be educated on the pain points associated of home care.

To gain insights into population health risks from aggregated data across multiple systems, the Electronic Health Record Association asks CMS to ensure risk standards are well defined under IPPS before expanding domain capture requirements.

The IT developer says its latest update gives specialty providers, including women's health practices and urgent care centers, the ability to configure electronic health records to their specific needs, reducing administrative burdens.

Start addressing the distrust communities of color have for the healthcare system by creating a pipeline of clinicians from those communities, advises Christopher Kunney, advocacy chair for HIMSS Georgia chapter and 2024 HIMSS Changemaker award recipient.

MITConn Consulting's principal health IT strategist, Dr. Reza Ryan Sadeghian, discusses the GPT apps his team created to help medical students access references and virtual tutoring and to streamline clinical documentation.

Also: CommonSpirit reports increased earnings in the year after a major ransomware disruption and widespread data breach.

As cyberattacks increase in scope and intensity, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange is asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies to do more to help health systems maintain operational continuity.

By 2030, there is projected to be a shortage of 120,000 cardiologists in the U.S. Combined with the decline in hospital beds and rising cost of heart failure, healthcare organizations need to find a way to detect heart failure earlier and at lower cost.

It will support major reforms in the sector, particularly the introduction of a new consolidated law.