Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
Success Stories & ROI
It's eliminated two hours of daily admin time and three hours of daily manual work, a practice manager says. Patient no-show rates are now under 4.5%. Surgical procedures are also more efficient. The clinic PM tells the whole story – and offers tips others could learn from.
Also, the Korean government has started a $16 million multimodal medical AI project with 14 public and private organisations.
One way is to co-design the system to meet their needs, says Kenneth Khong, Digital & IT head at Asia OneHealthcare, one of the region's largest private hospital chains.
The Epic-integrated tech boosted automated medication instruction mapping from 26% to 86%. Further, the clinical-grade AI's ability to understand unstructured Rx instructions eliminated manual entry in an additional 60% of cases.
The Recognized Coordinating Entity said the growing national interoperability network now represents thousands of organizations and will continue to expand over the next year.
Success Stories & ROI
Mountain View Medical Center also says its new EHR, embedded with AI, has helped with a 63% increase in collections year over year and a 45.3% increase in charges posted – along with the addition of five more providers and 20 new staff members.
More Australians have been accessing and sharing their health records, necessitating an upgrade of the system's data architecture.
CareSync Exchange, developed with Altera Digital Health, is now live at Austin Health and Eastern Health.
The Ohio health system achieved powerful results on 81 suggestions from nurses. It reduced nursing documentation time by an estimated 1,500 hours per year and reduced clicks by 2.7 million per year. Needless to say, nurses are happy.
On Sept. 2, Don Trigg will step into the top role at the healthcare data and technology company. Previously, he served as president of Cerner, where he oversaw the EHR business group, among others.