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Midland Memorial Hospital is using Oracle Health technology to boost key documentation rates, surpassing their goals in just six months. Read how this collaboration is enhancing palliative care quality in West Texas. https://lnkd.in/gGzrTA2g

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In today’s dynamic healthcare landscape, payer organizations are navigating immense pressure to balance cost, quality, and member experience. But with data scattered across silos, how do executives gain the real-time insights needed to make confident decisions? In Part 2 of our series, Kumaravel Chidamparam (Director, Healthcare & Pharma at Exafluence) dives deep into a comprehensive 67-measure KPI framework designed to bring clarity and action to payer operations. The future of healthcare leadership is data-informed. Are your dashboards built to support it? #HealthcareAnalytics #PayerStrategy #DataDrivenDecisionMaking #HealthTech #KPIs #DigitalTransformation

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- - End-to-end process visibility across EHR systems - - Root-cause insights in days, not months - - Automation triggers for delays and rework - - Improved care delivery and patient flow

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Interop hype train has arrived, choo choo. Picking up from a recent thread, a few other things I saw that are exciting: 1. athenahealth's alpha release of event driven APIs This has been a long time coming. athenahealth has always invested into APIs and their developer ecosystem more than the average EHR, but their method of letting apps know about new data was a complex polling situation where developers had to check "changed data" endpoint at five minute intervals. Highly complex, error prone and somewhat wasteful operationally athenahealth is the first major EHR to release a variant of FHIR Subscriptions, although their implementation is "largely based" on that specification. After notification, developers must query the appropriate FHIR or proprietary API for the new content. Events they support are really broad (although certainly not all data types one might want), addressing the creation and updates of: - Appointments - Claims - Encounters - Encounters - Historic medications - Historic vaccines - Imaging results - Lab results - Order - Patient - Patient case - Problem - Prescription - Provider - Referring provider The bar has been set - any guesses when other EHRs will match it? 2. athenahealth and eClinicalWorks both supporting CDS Hooks Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Hooks represent the next wave of UI-integration (vs pure data integration), allowing applications to embed themselves into the workflow in the EHR more seamlessly than a standalone application or even a SMART on FHIR launch. Epic long has been the market leader here and their support is really robust. So it's exciting to see these implementations. After certain events happen in the EHR, the CDS services receive a ping to let them run logic and assess whether the provider user should be shown a prompt, alert, or suggested action (i.e. a proposed referral order, a changed medication, a new condition). It's powerful for things like HCC coding, payer prior authorization guidelines, surfacing potential clinical trials, and much more. The most important part is how they integrate the alerts into the UI to not be disruptive. athena's screenshots show some intelligent choices to that extent. athenahealth's has: - Prefetch for Patient, diagnoses, problems, and vitals (somewhat limited, but Subscriptions makes this less important) - Trigger is just order-select for now, but that's powerful! - Suggestions of procedure or medication orders (no conditions) - Launch of a SMART app in an embedded or new tab - Feedback from the EHR to the app to understand an overridden suggestions eClinicalWorks details are lighter, but: - Some prefetch capability - Triggers for order-select and encounter-select - Some support for suggestions (example is MedicationRequest) - Some support for SMART apps (shown in example JSON as bilirubin app) - Feedback I'm expecting Oracle and MEDITECH to release some support here this year, if only to meet Da Vinci Prior Authorization needs

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Optum India is one of the largest healthcare global capability centers (GCCs) in India that drives innovation for the enterprise by integrating healthcare operations capabilities and advanced data analytics and technology solutions. In a recent interview, Harish Gudi, Senior Vice President, Technology, Optum India, shared with Gautam Srinivasan, Consulting Editor, MINT, about how India’s talented colleagues create value and deliver quality outcomes across the continuum of healthcare, using levers such as automated workflows, analytics and shift left, enabling a simpler, more accessible and affordable health system for the consumers we are privileged to serve. Watch the Story of Optum India: Understanding the Role of GCCs in Driving Innovation Across Healthcare: http://spr.ly/6043oPYHc #OptumIndia #OptumAdvocate #Globalcapabilitycentre #healthcare

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AI is so democratized now that incorporating AI into every aspect of Healthcare, be it patient care and consumer related applications or the software development lifecycle, is no longer optional but expected. What hasn't changed, though, is the fact that you still need the right intuition for the kinds of datasets you are working on so you can choose the appropriate set of AI tools to use and measure performance. That is exactly what AI Dojo aims to do at scale by upskilling and empowering the internal workforce. We have had a very successful internal launch thanks to the partnership with Fractal and Databricks. Thanks Ravi Dharnikota for the opportunity to present! Neeraj Sharma Haris Dindo, PhD Beth Erickson

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