interoperability

• 30 July, 2024
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eCW Poll Identifies Key Challenges and Solutions Whatever their specialty, however large their practice, and regardless of how diverse their patient populations may be, America's healthcare professionals share a common challenge — administrative tasks. Year after year, case studies, surveys, polls, and anecdotal evidence agree that grappling with office administration — everything from check-in and insurance authorizes to care documentation, fax boxes, and gathering patient records — is among the biggest challenges in healthcare. All that administrative work generates an ever-growing flood of data. And while much of it is essential to providing prompt, quality care to patients, it is also very easy to lose one's way amid such work. That can leave doctors and staff feeling disconnected — both from the patients they care for and from their own families and personal lives — as their administrative work consumes their evenings, cutting into the "pajama time" we all need to rest, relax, and recharge. Our May 2024 poll of more than 120 healthcare professionals confirms these findings. Indeed, 41 percent of respondents told us they are spending four or more hours every day on documentation alone. That's like spending half your workday simply recording what you did during the other half. But remember that, in medicine, there are few timeouts. Patients keep coming, data keeps flowing in, and the time for completing documentation and other administrative work often extends beyond the hour when the office closes — and can run well into the evening.

• 18 April, 2024
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AI medical scribes are becoming important for providers looking to deliver better, cost-effective care. Clinical documentation is the foundation of better healthcare delivery. It ensures continuity and quality of care, allowing healthcare professionals to track a patient’s health journey. Simplifying the documentation process allows doctors to spend less time on manual, repetitive tasks and more time with patients. Value-Based Care Providers understand that each person is unique. Value-based care focuses on the patient experience, quality of care, provider performance, and controlling costs. This is where AI-powered ambient listening technology – like Sunoh.ai – comes in. It is a key component of patient-centric care, helping to facilitate a personalized experience that promotes improved health outcomes for each patient. Sunoh.ai takes care of the clinical documentation, freeing providers to spend more face-to-face time with their patients. According to an article in NEJM Catalyst, physicians and hospitals can level up their coordination through shared data, ensuring that everyone involved in a patient's care has access to the same information. This reduces the duplication of tests and ensures that the treatment plan is appropriate and effective. Sunoh.ai is EHR-agnostic; it integrates with any EHR – including yours. This enhances interoperability, ensures smoother data transitions, and provides more efficient, effective, personalized care, all essential to value-based care.

• 1 March, 2024
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Advanced interoperability eliminates data barriers, facilitating seamless communication. For years, healthcare providers have struggled to access patients past medical records. Patients receive care from multiple healthcare facilities. Access to patients’ full medical history is imperative for effective routine or emergency care. They may be required at a patient's usual point of care or a visit to a new location. Ideally, patients can recall their full medical history. However, providers should have access to patient information at the point of care.

• 20 September, 2022
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Many private practices and physician-owned organizations affiliated with hospitals are told they must use a hospital Electronic Health Record (EHR). That is simply not the case.

• 27 July, 2022
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From Tiffin to Coldwater, from Pauling to Upper Sandusky, orthopedic patients in Northwest Ohio are never far from one of the offices of the Orthopaedic Institute of Ohio (OIO). But the more important point is this: No matter which office provides care, the distance between the patient and that patient’s records is essentially zero.

• 15 February, 2022
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Every driver has had that experience of going to make a lane change only to realize that there is a vehicle in their blind spot, forcing them to make an abrupt course correction. Something like that also happens in healthcare.

• 30 November, 2021
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Since ancient times, humans have used silos for the storage of crops. Efficient and sometimes elegant, such silos have helped sustain and advance human civilization. In the last century or so, however, humans have begun putting data into silos, with decidedly mixed results.

• 11 November, 2021
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During this year’s virtual eClinicalWorks® and healow® National Conference, CEO Girish Navani cited technology pioneer John Gage’s phrase, “The network is the computer.”

• 21 September, 2021
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You need only a few minutes to read this blog, but there are even faster ways to transform your front office. We’d love for you to keep reading, but you could just give us a call right now.

• 9 September, 2021
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In 1969, microbiologist René Dubos won the Pulitzer Prize for “So Human an Animal,” an eloquent exploration of how technology must respect the uniqueness and value of human lives.

• 26 August, 2021
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Without effective interoperability, practices can be stuck in the past. Today, health information needs to move quickly among physicians' offices and hospitals. The goal of interoperability is to allow this health information to flow securely among practices and facilities nationwide.

• 13 July, 2021
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In less than a generation, there has been a dramatic transformation in interoperability, the sharing of clinical patient data among providers and facilities. For many years, the standard for interoperability could best be described as “Try to remember.” Physicians relied upon in-house records, questionnaires, and information gathered during patient visits.