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CareFirst BCBS, Aledade Partner to Support Primary Care Physicians

MedCity News

In addition, they’ll have access to Aledade’s population health management platform, which is integrated with more than 100 electronic health records. This includes on-site coaching and regulatory and policy expertise.

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How IT Became So Integral in Healthcare in So Little Time

MedCity News

Looking back 20 years, when fewer than 18% of physician practices used electronic health records, few experts would have anticipated how information technology has changed healthcare. Thanks to IT, the volume and types of data generated and the speed at which they can be analyzed are vastly different than decades ago.

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Ambience Healthcare Aims To Reduce Clinician Burnout With New AI Medical Scribe

MedCity News

Ambience Healthcare’s new product, AutoScribe, embeds into the electronic medical record and works in real-time. Immediately after the visit, the physician gets a draft of the medical notes from the meeting, and then they can edit the notes if needed.

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Payers Can Reform Prior Authorization to Make it Faster, Smoother But Will It Satisfy the AMA?

MedCity News

In a recent interview, Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, the president-elect at the American Medical Association, outlined how the major pain point of physicians has gone from the EHR to prior authorizations requests. But none of the individual efforts that payers are making is enough.

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The future of healthcare?

World of DTC Marketing

In addition to immediate access to a physician, they offer on-site labs to analyze blood, MRI and CAT scan machines, pharmacies, and a full range of OTC products. It’s frustrating to wait for an MRI and wait again for another appointment with a physician to go over the results. Patients have wanted this for a long time.

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Implementation of electronic health records will improve the quality of care

Pharmaceutical Technology

With more healthcare facilities transitioning from paper charts to electronic records and electronic health records (EHRs) becoming more integrated and technologically advanced, EHRs are expected to drive big changes in the provision of healthcare and clinical research delivery.

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Everything You Need to Know About Prior Authorizations in Healthcare

Referral MD

While a physician may determine a treatment plan, they must get the insurers green light to ensure coverage. Although insurance companies oversee the process, medical professionals such as physicians, pharmacists, or nurses employed by the insurers review the requests. Level 3: External review by an impartial physician.