Stories of Innovation

HealthSource Stream
Across the U.S., the number of requests to process clinical documentation has been increasing more than 20 percent year-over-year, placing more strain on an already stretched health data system and overwhelming many medical records departments. Rather than supply more employees to retrieve those records, Ciox has developed an innovative solution called HealthSource Stream that uses computer-assisted release (CAR) technology to improve turnaround times without sacrificing quality.
 
Revenue Cycle Edit Work Queue Optimization
Healthcare solutions company e4 has assisted eight clients with their EHR and patient accounting systems (PAS) system conversions. During the conversion and post go-live timeframe, there is inevitably a large number of “edits” that must be worked by an individual to move an encounter to the billing state of the revenue cycle process. Enter e4’s edit resolution workflow that is not only aimed at resolving the edits, but also at training and educating the client’s staff, allowing end-users to be self-proficient within 30 to 60 days from the process implementation.
 
Flywire Develops a Responsive Payment Solution
Over the past decade, American hospitals and health systems have been caught in a perfect storm of rising out of pocket costs from patients facing affordability issues. Enter solutions company Flywire, which has built its healthcare business on addressing these serious market shifts.
 
Core Clinical Transformation Work Moves Ahead at Hartford Hospital
A nursing-led clinical transformation initiative at Hartford Hospital has proven the value of applying Lean management principles and strategies to intravenous catheterization processes
 
Healthcare InfoSec Professionals Save Time and Money by Sharing Intelligence
Within H-ISAC (Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center), members join a trusted community and collaborative forum, and daily sharing of highly actionable information expands its security teams’ resources through input aggregated by thousands of global analysts. Members share threat indicators of compromise, phishing emails, incident response tactics and pragmatic advice such as how to effectively report InfoSec topics to their respective board of directors.
 
Addressing a Hospital's Staffing Challenges With Hospital IQ's Workforce Solution
Like many other hospitals, one large hospital customer of healthcare technology company Hospital IQ regularly confronted a recurring nurse staffing challenge: how to allocate the right number of nurses to the right unit to meet actual patient census demand amidst high turnover. To streamline and automate its processes and make more proactive and better-informed decisions about how to allocate nursing resources, this hospital turned to Hospital IQ’s Workforce solution.
 
The Unique Considerations for IAM in Healthcare
Tasked with managing an exploding volume of patient, provider, and employee data, hospitals and health systems are increasingly making IT security a top priority. CISOs must now secure the full enterprise—and at a time when more and more users require access to information from anywhere, not just within the four walls of the hospital.
 
Enhancing Efficiency, Accuracy, and Standardization with Identity Governance
From an identity governance perspective, the Florida-based Memorial Healthcare System manages more than 24,000 accounts. With a small access team—at one point consisting of one manager, two system admins, and four system analysts— provisioning manually was becoming infeasible, leading the health system to choose Imprivata Identity Governance.
 
DSS Juno EHRevolution
The Juno EHR solution is designed to empower clinicians to perform at their best. For healthcare organizations looking to improve clinical quality with a proven, scalable, open-technology solution, Juno EHR is developed to meet their needs today and in the future.
 
Orion Health: Forming the Foundation of KeyHIE
Since its founding in 2005, KeyHIE has sought to provide the right information at the right time to participants, and to foster a culture of information sharing to improve both patient care and provider experience. In 2015, KeyHIE partnered with Orion Health to enable the most robust HIE possible, allowing an overall participant growth of 363 percent.
 
A Brighter Future with All Covered's Interoperability and Integration Service
Most health systems do not have efficient technological capabilities in place to realize the benefits that be gained by leveraging advanced analytics. At All Covered, Konica Minolta’s IT Services Division, the Health IT Practice is spearheading the positive disruption of healthcare technologies to realize smart, intelligent healthcare powered by IoT, analytics and artificial intelligence.
 
LeanTaaS' iQueue for Operating RoomsiQueue for Operating Rooms (ORs) represents a significant opportunity to improve prime time utilization (PTU) of operating rooms, as ORs are one of the most valuable assets within a health system by virtue of their contribution to the revenue and operating margins of the entire health system. Yet, there are significant structural problems in the way that the OR block scheduled is allocated and managed.
 
Using Social Determinants of Health to Predict Readmissions
Why do readmissions continue to plague hospitals? There’s one primary reason: It’s very difficult to control patients’ behavior once they are discharged. Social determinants of health (SDOH)—the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age—influence how likely it is that a patient will follow their discharge recommendations. Unfortunately, hospitals sometimes overlook these factors because they rely entirely on clinical data that only tells part of the story.
 
Telehealth Triumph at NYU Langone Health
At the New York City system, a telehealth program has transformed urgent care for busy urban residents.
 
At OHSU, Measuring Blood Volume Quickly and Accurately
A startup launched out of Oregon Health & Science University believes its innovative technology can provide objective blood volume information to physicians in minutes—not hours
 
Penn Medicine Turns to Physician Portal to Solve Image-Sharing Challenge
Referring physicians outside the Penn Medicine system can now securely view radiology images.
 
Workit Health: Disruption From On-Demand Addiction Recovery
The behavioral health center offers telemedicine services designed to treat opioid addiction.