Explainable AI can improve hospice care, reduce costs
Hospice is a compassionate approach focusing on quality of life for terminally ill patients and their caregivers, with approximately 1.55 million Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in hospice care for at least one day during 2018 – 17% more than in 2014. However, at least 14% of Medicare… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
Geospatial analysis is helping improve community health outcomes
One of the tenets of UVA Health’s mission is community and health equity. The health and well-being of people in its community, especially those who are challenged by social determinants of health, can be improved through community-based care. With that in mind, UVA Health and its partners have… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
The Great Resignation and what it means for healthcare data analytics
Hospitals and health systems have gotten better at using analytics to fine-tune their clinical, financial and operational improvement strategies. But it’s time to revisit and prioritize data that gives the most bang for the buck, said Matt Grahl, a senior advisor at Impact Advisors, a healthcare… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
Oracle debuts tool to help healthcare organizations manage supplier relationships
Photo: Thomas Barwick/Getty Images To help healthcare organizations address the challenges of managing supplier relationships – which encompass group purchasing organizations, managed care organizations and others – Oracle has debuted Supplier Rebate Management, a new solution within Oracle… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
Data-driven population health insights | Healthcare IT News
Gaps in patient care contribute to declining health for preventable conditions and cost health systems millions of precious healthcare dollars. Furthermore, COVID-19-induced delays to standard preventive care and routine screenings have exacerbated gaps in patient care. Now, as organizations… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
Labcorp teams up with Ascension to expand services in several states
Labcorp announced this week that it had partnered with Ascension to manage the health system’s hospital-based laboratories in 10 states. It will also purchase some assets of Ascension’s outreach lab business. Through the partnership, Ascension’s clinicians and patients will have access to… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
Almoosa Specialist Hospital achieves EMRAM Stage 7
Almoosa Specialist Hospital in Saudia Arabia has been validated at the highest level of the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Records Adoption Model (EMRAM). The 440-bed private hospital in in Al Mubarraz was awarded Stage 7 of the eight-stage model EMRAM model, which scores hospitals from 0-7… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
Successfully operationalizing population health | Healthcare IT News
Population health has been a healthcare industry buzzword for over ten years now and organizations have sought to try to transform their structure and organization to achieve the promise of population health. While some have been successful, others have not. Jonas Varnum, Vice President of… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
Mayo Clinic chooses Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite for its business processes
Photo: Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images Mayo Clinic has selected Oracle’s Fusion Cloud Application Suite to meet its 2030 goal for quality care and the treatment of complex diseases. Patients come to the Mayo Clinic for answers and treatments they can’t get anywhere else, CFO Dennis Dahlen said by… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More
HIE-trained AI models can forecast individual COVID-19 hospitalization
A new study from researchers at the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University found that machine learning models trained using statewide health information exchange data can predict a patient’s likelihood of being hospitalized with COVID-19. The paper, published in the Journal of Medical… Source: Healthcareitnews.com and Read More