• Montage Health Selects Xealth to Drive Digital Health Strategy

    MONTEREY, Calif., and SEATTLE – July 11, 2023 – Xealth, the leader in enabling digital health at scale, today announced that Montage Health, a nonprofit family of organizations across Monterey County, Calif., is using Xealth’s digital health platform system-wide to power its digital strategy across several clinical lines. Centralizing tools, leveraging automation, and integration into care team workflows will enable faster and easier distribution of mobile apps, patient education, and additional resources to promote greater wellbeing.

    Digital health programs, including remote patient monitoring (RPM), help fill a necessary role in extending care options for patients, and making them simple to find and bring into treatment plans is essential for success. Centralizing these resources and integrating with Montage Health’s electronic health record (EHR) system, Xealth supports care teams by automating distribution to help elevate the patient care experience. Hospitals and providers also gain insight into how each tool is performing with patients.

    “Montage Health works across our communities to keep people healthy and connected,” said Jill Reyes Tiongco, MD, FAMIA, chief medical information officer at Montage Health. “We currently have several digital programs that support our patients between visits. Xealth brings them all together across our system, increasing efficiencies by our clinical staff and enhancing the patient experience.”

    Beginning with digital health programs that support orthopedics, behavioral health, patient education and consumer wellness, Montage Health care teams will benefit from the centralized, digital approach, that will reduce the time-consuming task of finding the right information for patients at the right time and improve its ability to measure program impact.

    “Patients have been seeking more flexibility and health systems are under pressure to expand care teams without placing additional burdens on clinical staff,” said Mike McSherry, CEO and co-founder of Xealth. “Digital health offers this simplicity without requiring significant resources. Xealth helps reduce steps for the provider, freeing them to do what they do best – care for their patients. We are thrilled to work with Montage Health, making it easier to leverage digital resources, deepening the connection between patients and care teams.”

    Xealth makes it easier for medical providers to order and monitor digital health solutions by integrating custom content management systems, third-party education and digital health vendors with the customer’s EHR system and patient portal.

    About Montage Health

    Montage Health is the local, nonprofit parent company of a family of organizations dedicated to improving lives by delivering exceptional care and inspiring the pursuit of optimal health. Through its subsidiaries and its partnerships with doctors and other clinicians, healthcare and community organizations, and, most importantly community members, Montage Health is dedicated to care that is coordinated across all care settings to meet each person’s goals and needs. Montage Health companies include Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Montage Medical Group, Montage Health Foundation, Montage Wellness Center, Aspire Health, Ohana, and MoGo Urgent Care. For more information, visit www.montagehealth.org.

    About Xealth

    Xealth scales digital health programs, enabling clinicians to integrate, prescribe and monitor digital health tools for patients to drive engagement and utilization. Through the secure Xealth platform, clinicians can find and order the right digital health tools and programs for patients directly from the EHR workflow, send these digital health orders to the patient’s email or patient portal, and then monitor activity. Xealth spun out of Providence in 2017, and investors include Advocate Aurora Enterprises, Atrium Health, Cleveland Clinic, MemorialCare Innovation Fund, Cerner, McKesson Ventures, Novartis, Philips, and ResMed as well as Providence Ventures, UPMC and the Froedtert and Medical College of Wisconsin Health Network.

    For more information, visit www.xealth.com or follow us on LinkedIn or Twitter.

    Posted 10.9.2023

  • The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network Leverages Digital Health to Engage High Risk Employees in Maintaining a Healthy Weight

    Integrating the Omada Health virtual care program into the health system’s digital health platform via Xealth streamlines communications and improves engagement

    MILWAUKEE, WI and SEATTLE, WA (September 14, 2023) —Xealth, the leader in enabling digital health at scale, today announced that The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network is leveraging its digital health platform to engage select employees into the Omada Health virtual care program.

    A national epidemic, obesity is a significant factor that increases a person’s chance of developing chronic conditions, including type 2 diabetes. Reducing body mass index (BMI) by even less than three percent lowers a person’s risk of developing a chronic condition by 35 percent. To assist its employees who have one or more health factors putting them at risk for type 2 diabetes, The Froedtert & MCW health network is offering them a CDC-recognized virtual-first diabetes prevention program from Omada Health.

    “Our clinicians and staff dedicate themselves to making sure our patients have the resources they need to live their healthiest lives. It is important that, as a health system, we do the same for each member of our team,” said Bradley Crotty, MD, MPH Chief Medical Officer of Inception Health, the innovation arm of the Froedtert & MCW health network; and Associate Professor of Medicine, MCW. “Early results indicate high engagement and enhanced outcomes for people using the Omada program and adding it to our digital health platform amplifies these outcomes, improving enrollment and engagement so that our members benefit from these individualized programs.”

    By integrating the virtual care program into the clinical record, eligible patients are easily identified. Xealth facilitates communication outreach, which comes from The Froedtert & MCW health network, and offers deeper insight into program enrollment and engagement. The health network has been using the Xealth digital health platform, integrated into its EHR system, since early 2018. Omada is the 10th digital health app that the health system has added to this platform, which covers a variety of clinical areas, including mental health, maternity, diabetes and others.

    “Providing a virtual-first care environment, Omada offers a clinically-rigorous approach to weight management and diabetes prevention that supports patients in the time between doctors’ visits. The behavior change program combines relationship building, data, and technology to deliver scalable and outcomes-driven care,” said Omada Health Chief Medical Officer Carolyn Jasik, MD. “Integrating our program with the Xealth platform adds insights into enrollment and activation that, coupled with our ongoing analytics, delivers a more complete view to employers and healthcare providers to optimize program results.”

    To date, 1,200 The Froedtert & MCW health network employees have received invitations into the program, with about 25% of them joining. Collectively, they have lost about 1,300 pounds and are engaging with the program an average of 29.2 times per week.

    “Digital programs and resources are an integral part of comprehensive care, especially for addressing complex conditions,” said Mike McSherry, CEO and co-founder of Xealth. “By bringing its digital health programs, including Omada, onto Xealth’s connected platform, The Froedtert & MCW health network is extending care teams and looking out for the health of the very people dedicated to helping its patients.”

    Xealth is the driving force behind digital health programs at many of the nation’s largest health systems, bringing digital health vendors, programs, therapeutics and tools into clinical and patient workflow. When combined with the company’s custom data and analytics, health systems can track, analyze and evaluate everything through their digital health integration platform.

    About The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin
    The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network is a partnership between Froedtert Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin supporting a shared mission of patient care, innovation, medical research and education. Our health network operates eastern Wisconsin’s only academic medical center and adult Level I Trauma Center at Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee, an internationally recognized training and research center engaged in thousands of clinical trials and studies. The Froedtert & MCW health network, which includes 10 hospital locations, more than 2,100 physicians and more than 45 health centers and clinics, draws patients from throughout the Midwest and the nation. In our most recent fiscal year, outpatient visits were more than 1.7 million, inpatient admissions to our hospitals exceeded 58,000 and visits to our network physicians totaled more than 1.17 million. For more information, visit froedtert.com.​​

    About Omada Health
    Omada Health is a virtual-first healthcare provider that nurtures lifelong health, one day at a time. Our care teams implement clinically-validated behavior change protocols for individuals living with prediabetes, diabetes, hypertension, and musculoskeletal issues for consistent improvements that stack up. With more than a decade of experience and data, and 26 peer-reviewed publications that showcase our clinical and economic results, we both improve health outcomes and contain healthcare costs. Our scope exceeds 1,900 customers, including health plans, health systems, and employers ranging in size from small businesses to Fortune 500s.

    Omada is the first virtual provider to join the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Leadership Alliance, reflecting our aim to complement primary care providers for the benefit of our members, and affirming our guarantee to every partner: Omada works different.

    About Xealth
    Xealth scales digital health programs, enabling clinicians to integrate, prescribe and monitor digital health tools for patients to drive engagement and utilization. Through the secure Xealth platform, clinicians can find and order the right digital health tools and programs for patients directly from the EHR workflow, send these digital health orders to the patient’s email or patient portal, and then monitor activity. Xealth spun out of Providence St. Joseph Health (PSJH) in 2017, and investors include Advocate Aurora Enterprises, Atrium Health, Cleveland Clinic, MemorialCare Innovation Fund, Cerner, McKesson Ventures, Novartis, Philips, and ResMed as well as Providence Ventures, UPMC and the Froedtert and Medical College of Wisconsin Health Network.

    For more information, visit www.xealth.com or follow us on LinkedIn or Twitter.

    Posted 10.9.2023

  • Veradigm Joins FDB Vela ePrescribing Network to Offer Prescribers & Patients Greater Choice, Cost Transparency

    New chapter in pharmacy connectivity, expansion of the Veradigm Network and FDB Vela ePrescribing Network introduced

    SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA and CHICAGO, IL (October 6, 2023) — FDB (First Databank, Inc.), a major provider of drug knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise decisions, and Veradigm (NASDAQ: MDRX), a well-known and respected provider of healthcare data and technology solutions, announced today that Veradigm is the first major electronic health record (EHR) network to join the FDB Vela™ ePrescribing network. Veradigm will integrate the FDB Vela ePrescribing network into its available solutions for users and partners, including its EHRs and the Veradigm ePrescribe Enterprise solution. This collaboration will expand the Veradigm Network’s dynamic community of companies providing advanced insights, technology, and data-driven solutions.

    FDB Vela is a cloud-native ePrescribing network that enables the seamless flow of critical medication prescription information, benefits verification, and clinical decision support between prescribers, PBMs, payers, pharmacies, and other constituents. FDB Vela will offer Veradigm a technologically advanced electronic prescriber network that enables secure access to retail pharmacies, mail-order pharmacies, and specialty pharmacies for the delivery of electronic prescriptions as well as access to critical patient eligibility information at the point of care.

    “Veradigm joining the FDB Vela ePrescribing network begins a new chapter in pharmacy connectivity that helps further streamline prescribing workflows while enhancing the patient experience through medication information and greater transparency into their out-of-pocket costs,” said Veradigm President and Chief Commercial Officer Tom Langan. “Together with FDB Vela and through the Veradigm Network we can offer our prescribers the broadest choice of pharmacies and enhanced capabilities to enable even greater patient understanding, engagement, and fully informed shared decision-making.”

    By joining FDB Vela, Veradigm aims to further facilitate interoperability and reduce potential friction in the prescribing process while continuing to put providers and patients at the forefront of secure and timely medication delivery.

    While Veradigm is new to FDB Vela, the company has been a long-time user of FDB MedKnowledge®, its drug database solution.

    “As an industry pioneer and innovator, Veradigm’s participation in the FDB Vela ePrescribing network is a confirmation of the need for greater choice within the market,” said FDB President Bob Katter. “Veradigm is the first large EHR to participate in FDB Vela, joining the expanding base of pharmacies, health insurers, pharmacy benefit managers and health tech developers that continue to validate the need for our open, customer-focused network.”

    Veradigm, formerly known as Allscripts, is a healthcare technology and analytics company spanning the three pillars of healthcare – payer, provider, and biopharma. The company’s connectivity, scale and expertise provide a uniquely comprehensive scope and depth of interconnected resources, helping drive improved health outcomes for the patients they serve.

    The Veradigm ePrescribe Enterprise solution is a comprehensive, easy-to-use and affordable solution for ePrescribing used by more than 100,000 prescribers who perform millions of transactions every year. The solution is also available to health tech developers to enhance their solutions and grow their business by integrating a proven solution.

    The new capabilities offered by FDB Vela are aligned with and support the numerous other tools available to Veradigm customers, such as electronically automating prior authorization requests, accessing patient financial assistance information, and reviewing out-of-pocket spending information through Veradigm RxTruePrice™.

    “Combined, Veradigm and FDB Vela offer synergistic solutions that deliver information on care options, pharmacy choice and cost transparency that enable providers and patients to have important care conversations without distractions,” said FDB Vela General Manager Lathe Bigler. “By enabling this patient-focused workflow, we can promote greater medication adherence, patient engagement and optimal outcomes.”

    About FDB
    FDB (First Databank) creates and delivers the world’s most powerful drug knowledge that ignites, inspires, and illuminates critical medication decisions. We collaborate with our partners to help improve patient safety, operational efficiency, and health outcomes. Our drug databases drive healthcare information systems that serve the majority of hospitals, physician practices, pharmacies, payers, and all other areas of healthcare and are used by millions of clinicians, business associates, and patients every day. Please visit us at https://www.fdbhealth.com/, or follow us on X, LinkedIn and YouTube.

    About Hearst Health
    The mission of Hearst Health is to help guide the most important care moments by delivering vital information into the hands of everyone who touches a person’s health journey. Care guidance from Hearst Health reaches the majority of people in the U.S. The Hearst Health network includes FDB (First Databank), Zynx Health, MCG, Homecare Homebase and MHK. Hearst also holds a minority interest in the precision medicine and oncology analytics company M2Gen. Follow Hearst Health on Twitter @HearstHealth or LinkedIn @Hearst-Health.

    About Veradigm®
    Veradigm is a healthcare technology company that drives value through its unique combination of platforms, data, expertise, connectivity, and scale. The Veradigm Network features a dynamic community of solutions and partners providing advanced insights, technology, and data-driven solutions, all working together to Transform Health, Insightfully. For more information on Veradigm, visit www.veradigm.com, or find Veradigm on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

    Media Contact for FDB
    Tara Stultz
    Amendola Communications for FDB
    M: 440-225-9595
    [email protected]

    Veradigm Contacts
    Investors:
    Jenny Gelinas
    312-506-1237
    [email protected]

    Media:
    Concetta Rasiarmos
    312-447-2466
    [email protected]

    Posted 10.9.2023

  • Fuzion by DrFirst Brings Radical Efficiency to Clinical Workflows and Safeguards Patients from Preventable Errors

    Powered by Clinical-Grade AI, Health Tech Platform Offers Flexible Options and Insights to Increase Utilization and Value

    ROCKVILLE, MD (October 5, 2023) — As hospitals and health systems face increasingly intense financial and staffing challenges, health tech pioneer DrFirst announced an enterprise-wide software platform that uses clinical-grade AI to streamline clinical workflows such as medication reconciliation and other elements of medication management.

    Fuzion by DrFirst brings together a broad set of capabilities that transforms medication-related processes, relieving staff burden and boosting patient safety and outcomes. With the flexibility to use all or parts of the platform within native Epic electronic health record (EHR) workflows, the clinical-grade AI acts as a co-pilot, working in collaboration with staff to improve the quality of clinical data and deliver game-changing efficiency to overworked clinicians.

    Fuzion by DrFirst radically improves efficiency in three unique ways:

    • Eliminating the need for manual data entry and its drag on staff productivity and quality of care by optimizing inbound clinical data at the point of care
    • Igniting adherence by delivering prescription price transparency, providing medication fill data for high-risk populations, and sending patients automated prescription reminders with educational and financial resources
    • Supercharging value with continuous analytics on medication history workflows and highlighting areas for improvement

    Eliminating Data Gaps and Manual Entry
    Clinical-grade AI fills data gaps, giving clinicians easy access to accurate and complete patient information and reducing the risk of adverse drug events and readmissions.

    “We were driven to partner with DrFirst because of their ability to optimize our clinical data and streamline time-consuming healthcare workflows,” said Stacey Johnston, MD, MHA, CHCIO, VP, Chief Application Officer & Epic Program Executive of Baptist Health. “As part of our migration from legacy EHRs to Epic, DrFirst solutions converted more than 9 million sigs [medication instructions] without clinician intervention. A subset of these conversions had no sig provided in third-party data, and the sig was inferred by the AI technology. By avoiding manual conversion of this data, we saved critical time (estimated at more than 19,000 hours) for our clinicians and reduced the likelihood of transcription errors.”

    Baptist Health also integrated other elements of Fuzion that drive medication adherence, including real-time benefit check and patient engagement tools. “We can now provide clinically appropriate and affordable medication options before the patient leaves the exam room and deliver automated messages that offer relevant educational information with financial savings, plus reminders to pick up their prescriptions,” said Dr. Johnston.

    Igniting Population Health Initiatives
    Population health initiatives are crucial for health systems, and Fuzion by DrFirst delivers clinically relevant information that makes it easy for healthcare providers to identify patients who may need help to stay on track with their medication therapy. Early intervention with these patients dramatically reduces overall use of healthcare resources and prevents the negative outcomes and costly penalties associated with hospital readmissions. One academic medical center used the population health management capability within the platform to identify and counsel populations of patients who weren’t filling their prescriptions for congestive heart failure, resulting in a 20% improvement in prescription first-fill rates.

    “Major advances like this are key to value-based care initiatives—and impossible without optimized clinical data and the workflows to make that information readily accessible,” said G. Cameron Deemer, CEO of DrFirst. “Many health systems are grappling with rising costs, staffing shortages and burnout, and sicker patients. Accurate and timely patient data is crucial to managing care for high-risk patients so they have better health outcomes and stay out of the hospital.”

    Supercharging Value with Continuous Insights
    A dashboard provides continuous insights that include a Value Realization Score, based on utilization that reflects keystrokes saved, fewer calls to primary care providers and local pharmacies to confirm medication history, and opportunities to reduce adverse drug events that contribute to readmissions. Health systems are using the dashboard to monitor and continually improve medication reconciliation workflows, including for high-risk patients and those admitted via the Emergency Department.

    One Northern California academic medical center increased by 42% the number of times staff used the automated feature to import medication history rather than entering the information manually. The same health system saw a 6% increase in staff consulting medication history for high-risk inpatients.

    In April 2023, the clinical-grade AI that powers Fuzion by DrFirst won Gold in the “Efficiency Through AI” category of the prestigious Edison Awards.

    About DrFirst
    Fuzion by DrFirst is trademark of DrFirst.com, Inc., all rights reserved. Since 2000, healthcare IT pioneer DrFirst has empowered providers and patients to achieve better health through intelligent medication management. We improve healthcare efficiency and effectiveness by enhancing e-prescribing workflows, improving medication history, optimizing clinical data usability, and helping patients start and stay on therapy. In the last few years, DrFirst has won over 25 awards for excellence and innovation, recognizing our game-changing use of clinical-grade AI to streamline time-consuming healthcare workflows and prevent medication errors. Our solutions are used by more than 350,000 prescribers, 71,000 pharmacies, 300 EHRs and health information systems, and 2,000 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada. To learn more, visit DrFirst.com and follow @DrFirst.

    Media Contact
    Katlyn Nesvold
    Amendola Communications for DrFirst
    715-559-0046
    [email protected]

    Posted 10.9.2023

  • care.ai Builds Advanced Solutions for Nurses with Google Cloud’s Generative AI and Data Analytics on Its Smart Care Facility Platform

    Platform will ease administrative burdens and improve healthcare facility management and patient care

    LAS VEGAS, NV (October 9, 2023) — care.ai today announced it is building Google Cloud’s generative AI and data analytics tools into its Smart Care Facility Platform to improve healthcare facility management and patient care, and move toward its vision for predictive, smart care facilities.

    care.ai’s platform will help solve an acute and growing problem: there aren’t enough clinicians to deliver healthcare, and yet the amount of paperwork is growing. Administrative costs in 2022 alone increased by $18 billion, a 30% increase in just one year, to reach $60 billion annually (CAQH). Additionally, within the next five years, the U.S. faces a projected shortage of more than 3.2 million front-line healthcare workers such as medical assistants, home health aides, and nursing assistants, according to a Mercer report.

    care.ai platform will ease administrative burdens and improve patient care with Google Cloud’s generative AI.

    By leveraging Google Cloud’s gen AI tools, including Vertex AI, and analytics and business intelligence products BigQuery and Looker, care.ai’s Smart Care Facility Platform aims to help reduce administrative burdens, mitigate staffing shortages, and free up clinicians to spend more time with patients in 1,500 acute and post-acute facilities where care.ai’s platform is already deployed.

    As the technology is further deployed and integrated, acute and post-acute facilities will become continuously learning environments that leverage care.ai’s always-aware Ambient Intelligent Sensors to seamlessly provide clinical and operational teams with real-time ambient data, such as patient condition, room status, protocol and process adherence that keeps care teams better informed and empowered to meet patient needs. The Smart Care Facility Platform will also assist in creating discharge summaries, call summaries, recommend templates, and other content for nurses, admissions, and discharge staff. care.ai’s goal is to preemptively identify potential issues, enable real-time awareness, and improve predictive process adherence and resource allocation for more timely responses. This will enhance patient safety and experiences while autonomously optimizing workflows and processes.

    “This collaboration brings us closer to our vision of predictive smart care facilities, as opposed to the current reactive care model, which relies on latent, manual, sometimes inaccurate data entry,” said Chakri Toleti, CEO of care.ai. “Our vision is to enable the era of the smart hospital by making gen AI and ambient intelligence powerful assistive technologies, empowering clinicians, making healthcare safer, smarter, and more efficient.”

    “We’re living in an era of profound change in health care,” said Roberta Schwartz, Ph.D., chief innovation officer, Houston Methodist. “Ambient intelligent virtual nursing has empowered us to reduce the administrative burden on our nursing staff, and increase their capacity to provide high-quality, personalized care to our patients. The intuitive nature of these solutions also ensures seamless integration into our health care operations, revolutionizing how we provide care, enhancing the safety and overall patient experience across our health system.”

    “Through real-time awareness of the care environment and virtualizing workflows, the virtual care platform reduces the workload on bed-side nurses,” said Dr. Neal Patel, chief informatics officer, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “This allows nurses to dedicate more time and focus on complex patient care. We’re also benefiting from 24/7 monitoring capabilities that can enhance patient safety and a more personalized, patient-centric service. This is truly the future of healthcare.”

    care.ai is also leveraging Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Search, which combines information retrieval, state-of-the-art natural language processing, and the latest in large language processing to understand user intent and return the most relevant results for Smart Care Teams.

    “care.ai is working to help its customers deliver a more intuitive, efficient, and human care environment,” said Aashima Gupta, global director of Healthcare Strategy and Solutions for Google Cloud. “By assisting nurses with relevant information, they are not just improving patient care; they are helping reimagine what’s possible in a world with limited healthcare resources. This is such a meaningful change.”

    care.ai and Google Cloud are showcasing the Smart Care Facility Platform and Always Aware Ambient Sensors with Google Cloud’s gen AI tools at HLTH23. Visit care.ai at Booth 2435 and Google Cloud at Booth 5626.

    About Google Cloud
    Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

    About care.ai
    care.ai is the artificial intelligence company redefining how care is delivered with its Smart Care Facility Platform and Always-aware Ambient Intelligent Sensors. care.ai’s solutions transform physical spaces into self-aware smart care environments to autonomously enhance and optimize clinical and operational workflows, delivering a transformative approach to virtual care models, including Virtual Nursing.

    Media Contacts
    Google Cloud contact: [email protected]
    care.ai contact: [email protected]

    Posted 10.9.2023

  • 2023 symplr Compass Survey of Health Systems Highlights Urgent Need to Align CIO & Clinician Priorities to Improve Healthcare Operations & Reduce Burnout

    Survey reveals potential for better patient care and significant time savings for clinicians with streamlined enterprise software

    HOUSTON, Oct. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ —  symplr®, a leader in enterprise healthcare operations software, has announced the findings of its second annual symplr Compass Survey. The research captured sentiments from CIOs/IT leaders, all members of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), and clinicians at top U.S. health systems assessing decision-maker’s views of the impact of technology on clinicians and patient care. The results are published in the 2023 symplr Compass Report, “From Imminent to Urgent: Aligning Clinicians & IT is Critical to Streamlining Healthcare Operations.”

    The data reveals critical challenges and opportunities facing leaders at top healthcare organizations. The top challenge reported is working with disparate IT systems, which 80% of respondents say complicates their job, while 84% agree that clinicians could redirect substantial time back to patient care by bringing together healthcare operations software on a single platform.

    Other key survey findings include:

    • Clinician burnout/workforce challenges (41%) overtook financial pressures (39%) as the top threat organizations face in 2024
    • 55% of organizations rely on 50+ point solutions to run healthcare operations
    • Clinicians perceive challenges such as nurse retention, ensuring the physical/emotional well-being of nurses, optimizing technology efficiency, and streamlining workflows as more pressing concerns when compared to their counterparts in CIO/IT
    • Clinicians (67%) were more likely than IT/CIOs (48%) to agree that their organization has a difficult user experience for individuals working across healthcare operations software. This is defined as the administrative, non-clinical tasks that help run a hospital/health system.

    “The 2023 symplr Compass Survey data indicates a huge opportunity to consolidate healthcare operations solutions and give clinicians time back for patient care, which could greatly reduce burnout and make technology easier to manage,” said BJ Schaknowski, Chief Executive Officer at symplr. ”To do so, health systems must align the right stakeholders and partners to remove barriers between IT and clinicians to stop attrition of healthcare talent.”

    The 210 total survey respondents were comprised of members of CHIME, the professional organization dedicated to serving CIOs, CMIOs, CNIOs, chief digital officers, and other senior healthcare IT leaders.

    symplr’s Compass Survey findings align with data from industry experts. McKinsey & Company identified a potential 10-20% time savings for nurses through digital automation addressing workforce gaps. The 2023 KLAS Healthcare Operations Report revealed over 90% of healthcare workers prioritize technology consolidation for operational efficiency. And Bain & Company’s 2023 Healthcare Provider IT Report highlighted sustained HIT spending and 75% respondents anticipate increased software and technology investments in the coming year.

    To access the full survey findings, download the 2023 symplr Compass Report.

    About symplr    
    symplr is a leader in enterprise healthcare operations software and services. For more than 30 years and with deployments in 9 of 10 U.S. hospitals, symplr has been committed to improving healthcare operations through its cloud-based solutions, driving better operations for better outcomes.

    Our provider data management; workforce management; compliance, quality, and safety; and contract, supplier, and spend management solutions improve the efficiency and efficacy of healthcare operations, enabling caregivers to quickly handle administrative tasks so they have more time to do what they do best: provide high-quality patient care.

    Learn how at symplr.

    Media Contact

    Madeleine Smith, symplr, 978-518-4528, symplr@matternow.com

    SOURCE symplr

    Posted 10.5.2023

  • Artisight Powers Care Transformation at WellSpan Health with AI-Driven Smart Hospital Platform

    The virtual nursing and remote patient monitoring pilot program will allow the Pennsylvania health system to improve outcomes and reduce clinician burden

    CHICAGO, IL (October 4, 2023) — Artisight, Inc., a smart hospital platform powered by industry-defining artificial intelligence to provide virtual care, quality improvement, and care coordination solutions, today announced its collaboration with WellSpan Health, a health system focused on value-based care, on a pilot patient monitoring and virtual nursing program. The platform is currently being utilized at WellSpan Surgery and Rehabilitation Hospital in York, Pa.

    WellSpan sought a solution to improve patient safety and reimagine ways to address nurse burnout by utilizing artificial intelligence to monitor patients at high risk for falls in its rehabilitation inpatient hospital. The pilot also includes a virtual nursing model, utilizing in-room audio and video connections. Virtual staff located within a control room at the facility can interact with patients and request assistance from on-site clinicians when needed. The platform ensures the patient is always being monitored while allowing clinicians to focus on direct patient care, alleviating staffing challenges WellSpan, as all health systems around the country, continues to experience.

    Artisight’s Smart Hospital Platform encompasses AI-driven sensors, computer vision, voice recognition, vital sign monitoring, indoor positioning capabilities, and actionable analytics reports. The platform’s deep learning and open integration standards streamline safe patient care and reduce clinician burden. The electronic health record and hardware-agnostic platform seamlessly integrates into existing technology, ensuring cohesion for hospitals and health systems. The ability to scale the solution across WellSpan’s eight hospitals in South Central Pennsylvania was also an important factor when it came to partnering with the system.

    “Artisight is driving transformation by harnessing artificial intelligence that drives efficiency across the full spectrum of hospital operations,” said Stephanie Lahr, MD, CHCIO, President of Artisight, Inc. “Our proprietary algorithms are constantly learning and adapting with a 99% accuracy rate. The Smart Hospital Platform delivers what hospitals and health systems need – reduced provider burden, increased patient and nurse satisfaction, and improved financial results.”

    “At WellSpan, the safety and well-being of our patients is top priority, and we are committed to finding a better way to serve them, our team members and our communities,” said Kasey Paulus, Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive at WellSpan Health. “The Artisight platform allows us to utilize innovative technology to support nurses and improve patient safety as part of our workforce transformation strategy.”

    “While many AI solutions solve a single problem well, we are discovering that the Artisight platform may be able to solve many problems for us. We’re exploring those possibilities with Artisight as we imagine what’s next with this platform,” added Dr. R. Hal Baker, Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Information Officer at WellSpan Health.

    Upon successful completion of the pilot, WellSpan has plans to expand the program to other hospitals throughout its system.

    Artisight will be attending the HLTH conference in Las Vegas Oct. 8-11. Please visit booth 2646 to learn about how the AI-driven Smart Hospital Platform is transforming healthcare for hospitals and health systems. For additional information, visit artisight.com.

    About Artisight
    Artisight redefines the possibilities of healthcare through its Smart Hospital Platform and solutions for virtual care, quality improvement, and care coordination. Anchored in deep clinical knowledge and industry-defining artificial intelligence, Artisight’s state-of-the-art computer vision and robust multi-sensor network adapts in real-time to specific environments and workflows, unlocking previously inaccessible data and ensuring seamless integration into your healthcare ecosystem.

    About WellSpan Health
    WellSpan Health’s vision is to reimagine healthcare through the delivery of comprehensive, equitable health and wellness solutions throughout our continuum of care. As an integrated delivery system focused on leading in value-based care, we encompass more than 2,000 employed providers, 220 locations, eight award-winning hospitals, home care and a behavioral health organization serving South Central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland. With a team 20,000 strong, WellSpan experts provide a range of services, from wellness and employer services solutions to advanced care for complex medical and behavioral conditions. Our clinically integrated network of 2,600 aligned physicians and advanced practice providers is dedicated to providing the highest quality and safety, inspiring our patients and communities to be their healthiest.

    Media Contact:
    Kim Mohr
    AmendolaCommunications for Artisight
    [email protected]

    Posted 10.4.2023
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