How AI can benefit patients, providers, and organizations
These days, it seems like you can’t turn around without hearing something new about AI. This quickly evolving technology has the potential to revolutionize healthcare, but only if organizations can identify real-world ways to harness it.
Spotting medical provider burnout: A call to action
A couple of weeks ago I published a post on LinkedIn that seemed to strike a chord with my followers. It wasn’t just the topic. We all know that the healthcare industry as a whole has been struggling with the issue of clinician burnout for at least a decade. It was my 5-point list of ...
The push and the pull: An interoperability update
Anyone following the world of health information technology (HIT) over the past decade knows there’s been tremendous work behind the scenes to advance interoperability and data sharing. Our efforts are finally coming to fruition as we move beyond the era of static document sharing into a new era of ...
Driving healthcare organizations to get the most out of their EHR
When a health system decides to deploy a new EHR, most of its resources and efforts focus on the go-LIVE, and rightly so — a project of this size has to be managed effectively and within strict timelines. Healthcare systems often need to bolster their IT infrastructure to accommodate the EHR ...
How MEDITECH is driving AI innovations in health IT
When considering how AI can be used in healthcare, it’s not simply a matter of identifying processes that computers can do faster than humans. The highly specialized and specific tasks performed within the field of medicine demand a thoughtful approach. At MEDITECH, our view of AI is driven by an ...
Meeting people where they are: Opioid management in the heartland [Video]
Before I came to MEDITECH, I was a clinical pharmacist at Sauk Prairie Hospital in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin. The Badger State is incredibly tight-knit, even more so in areas like ours, with a sense of community that extends well beyond county lines. It was no different at the hospital, where I ...
Making transformative care attainable with genomic medicine and informatics [Podcast]
At the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) National Symposium in Washington D.C. last fall, I served as the moderator to a group of remarkable leaders in genomic medicine. The in-session feedback and post-conference reviews were so overwhelmingly positive that my colleagues and I ...
How EHR vendors can reduce documentation burdens on clinicians
As much as EHRs have evolved over the last few decades, providers still face the challenge of sifting through information to make the correct clinical decisions.
4 ways Berkshire Health System is optimizing Expanse Ambulatory
Two years ago, Berkshire Health Systems went LIVE with Expanse Ambulatory across our entire hospital system and all of our ambulatory practices, encompassing 42 practices with over 180 providers.
How optimizing your emergency department system improves the clinician and patient experience
An EHR that brings all patient data to the forefront improves both the patient and the provider experience. At Lawrence General, we have worked hard to optimize MEDITECH Expanse for our emergency department, empowering staff with all the information they need to provide patients with prompt and ...