HIT Best Practices Series

The next-generation of healthcare tech

From artificial intelligence, analytics and cloud services to EHRs, revenue cycle and telemedicine tools, health technologies are changing. Fast. Our next-gen series dives into the front-runners, startups and stalwarts to share insights about what’s coming on the near horizon from the very experts shaping the future of healthcare.

What's next?

cloud computing in healthcare
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Don’t leave it up to tech vendors to drive the next phase of integrated data that gets...
By Bill Siwicki |
next-gen precision medicine will focus on consumerism, EHR integration
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Experts say emerging tools could become as important to precision medicine as HTML is to the web.
By Bill Siwicki |
Doctors compare notes on EHR to make clinical decisions with EHR and analytics
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CDS vendors are working to incorporate AI and machine learning into their products to boost...
By Bill Siwicki |
AI and blockchain will help hospitals adapt to value-based care
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Healthcare executives need to track these three key technology advancements to keep pace with...
By Bill Siwicki |
healthcare IT infrastructure network
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APIs, automation, blockchain along with mobile and medical devices will enable a new era of...
By Bill Siwicki |
Next-gen enterprise imaging
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Experts in the imaging space predict more data, augmented intelligence and other cutting-edge...
By Bill Siwicki |
John Hopkins telemedicine program advances population health
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Telemedicine platforms and tools will transform virtual care by incorporating emerging technologies...
By Bill Siwicki |
next-gen health IT consulting to focus on data science
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Consultants weigh in on what hospitals should expect from them as healthcare moves beyond...
By Bill Siwicki |
next-gen interoperability
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Healthcare has struggled with data sharing for a long time but, even still, experts said the future...
By Bill Siwicki |
next generation of clinical communication is real-time location and mobile
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Here are the features and functionality clinical communication tool vendors think will emerge next.
By Bill Siwicki |
next-generation population health tools like health mobile apps
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Experts share insights about where pop health technology and tools are headed in the immediate...
By Bill Siwicki |
Next-gen medical devices
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Experts discuss where medical devices are headed as the internet of things continues to expand.
By Bill Siwicki |
next-gen data management in healthcare
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Hospitals should also expect Blockchain, patient experience and new iteration of vendor neutral...
By Bill Siwicki |
female patient paying bill next-gen revenue cycle
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Future tech will facilitate a patient's understanding of insurance coverage and out-of-pocket...
By Bill Siwicki |
Next gen quality and safety for healthcare
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In the future, patients will have more access to their own data and more communication channels...
By Bill Siwicki |
Next-gen patient engagement
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Hospitals are shaping always-on consumer experiences with cutting-edge digital health tools to...
By Bill Siwicki |
next generation EHRs on mobile
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EHRs will feature automation analytics, telemedicine, genomics and more in the not-too-distant...
By Bill Siwicki |
next generation analytics reviewed by doctor on EHR
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Hospitals should expect orders of magnitude more data, with emerging tools, to put information to...
By Bill Siwicki |

How tech is working today

AI command center helps hospital use analytics to manage operations
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Tampa General's new partnership with GE Healthcare is the most recent example of Artificial...
By Mike Miliard |
hospital tech investments this year
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Healthcare organizations are also planning to ramp up customer relationship tools as they continue...
By Jeff Lagasse |
Mercy Hospital Network cut nursing leakage by $4.3 million
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Staff created the dashboard for tracking multiple performance metrics, including leakage.
By Bill Siwicki |
Carroll Hospital lifts patient satisfaction scores
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The system boosted its overall rating by more than 15 points in just one quarter.
By Bill Siwicki |
clinical tools for EHRs
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Penn Medicine and Cancer Centers of America are deploying clinical pathways technologies and Mercy...
By Bill Siwicki |
natural language processing technology in EHRs
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Natural language processing technology is helping the health system unlock information from the...
By Mike Miliard |
AI and deep learning with GPU chips help doctors review medical records and images
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Hospitals say the AI method is in use today automating things humans do well but don't have the...
By Bill Siwicki |
IoT data ready for AI
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Hospitals should begin with appropriate infrastructure and that includes robust connectivity,...
By Bill Siwicki |
EHRs and interoperability
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ATM's interoperable functionality has been a benchmark for EHRs and now, they're making...
By Jeff Lagasse |
AI radiology
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RadNet and vRad have deployed natural language processing tools to help them tackle over-...
By Bill Siwicki |
predictive analytics
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The hospital was able to better grasp what it was already doing well, and what it was not, in terms...
By Jeff Lagasse |
NewYork-Presbyterian's AI command center
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Nurses in a faraway control room monitor patients with AI tools and free on-premise clinicians to...
By Bill Siwicki |
predictive analytics medical devices physician alerts
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Virtua Memorial Hospital and vendor Bernoulli worked together to nearly eliminate respiratory...
By Bill Siwicki |
machine learning reduces sepsis mortality rate
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Cabell Huntington Hospital also diminished the average sepsis-related hospital length of stay with...
By Bill Siwicki |
EHRs improve patient safety
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To achieve gains in quality, hospitals need to strategically pace the rollout of new features and...
By Beth Jones Sanborn |
EHR real-time analytics
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The CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization says its population health platform has helped...
By Mike Miliard |
EHRs in the cloud
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Providers say flexible platforms help them to prepare for population health management and value-...
By Bill Siwicki |
Epic EHR UNC Health
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Using the company's "Happy Together" tool, UNC was able to document 12 percent of A1c...
By Bill Siwicki |
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The New York City-based health system tailored its care pathways to fix inefficiencies and gained...
By Mike Miliard |
workflow predictive analytics
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Two categories of companies are working to enable hospitals to digitize time-consuming manual...
By Jeff Lagasse |
Phoenix Children's Hospital patient safety Allscripts
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Phoenix Children’s CIO David Higginson and Allscripts CEO Paul Black discuss why patient...
By Mike Miliard |
patient safety
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Healthcare leaders Robert Wachter, David Bates, Leah Binder and Tejal Gandhi take the pulse of how...
By Bernie Monegain |
hospital nurse on phone with patient
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The multi-specialty group practice undertook a large project to use analytics and reduce emergency...
By Bill Siwicki |
cybersecurity healthcare
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Artificial intelligence-powered threat detection and response can be very valuable – as long...
By Mike Miliard |
Blockchain in healthcare
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While EHRs and data security get all the attention, there are more immediate opportunities for the...
By Bill Siwicki |
precision medicine dna genetics testing future of digital health
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A new quantitative era is emerging for digital health, AI, social networks, analytics and precision...
By Tom Sullivan |
state of precision medicine
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The ability to sequence the human genome to predict chronic diseases is the Star Wars part but the...
By Susan Morse |