Excessive clinical documentation is a widespread problem that is causing clinician burnout and even having an impact on patient care – as an American Medical Informatics Association survey recently showed. It revealed the frustration of physicians and nurses about the burden of electronic health record charting and the time and effort needed to complete necessary

Amrita Hospital introduces robotic gait trainer for rehab Amrita Hospital in Kerala’s Kochi city has started adopting a robotic gait trainer system to assist in the rehabilitation of brain and spinal injury survivors.  The G-Gaiter, developed by local startup Gen Robotics, provides an immersive rehabilitation experience through virtual reality. It also trains patients to walk longer

DirectTrust and the Digital Therapeutics Alliance announced this week that they’ll work together on an accreditation program designed to test the efficacy and security of digital-therapeutic apps and platforms. WHY IT MATTERS Together, two groups will partner up to establish an assessment regimen that will build on existing DirectTrust programs that provide independent assessment of

U.S. consumers remain optimistic about the potential of generative artificial intelligence to address healthcare access and affordability challenges, the new 2024 Deloitte Center for Health Solutions consumer survey shows. But they still have some misgivings about AI tools. WHY IT MATTERS Despite a general sense of optimism, the public’s use of genAI tools for health-related

A new healthcare IT-focused thriller, written by a longtime health system leader, involves a hack into a national electronic health record system. The novel, Coded to Kill (Post Hill Press), is focused around two themes that can sometimes be at odds: maintaining patient privacy while driving toward nationwide interoperability.  The characters at the fictional company developing the

In August 2023, Healthcare IT News sat down with John P. Donohue, vice president of IS entity services at Penn Medicine Information Services, to discuss what an entity information officer is and why healthcare provider organizations might need a few. Penn Medicine is ahead of the game with entity services, and Donohue offered a deep

Healthcare companies and providers can now store HIPAA-protected data in the HubSpot customer relationship management platform to automate workflows, connect teams with closed-loop reporting and create campaigns with personalized information, the company said Tuesday. WHY IT MATTERS Support for storing sensitive data in HubSpot is now available globally with HIPAA-compliant tools available in public beta.

Rural and community hospitals serve almost 15% of the U.S. population, but only 10% of physicians practice in rural America, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Despite their rural setting, these healthcare organizations face the same staffing, security and budgetary challenges as their urban counterparts. Similarly, rural and community

As a starting point to address the high level of cybersecurity crime against the healthcare sector, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies offered strong recommendations for the executive branch, Congress and the healthcare ecosystem. Though the new report stressed increasing third-party managed IT services – even part-time by underresourced provider organizations – and increasing employee cyber

EmpowerMe, a healthcare provider services organization to more than 1,000 senior living communities across 38 states, regularly receives denials from its insurance company on procedures or treatments they should cover. That means staff members have to go through the lengthy process of appealing these denials in order to get money the healthcare organization should be