According to a new Black Book survey, some of the top challenges healthcare leaders are facing today include electronic health records (EHRs) with poor usability, limited interoperability, and poor integration with tools like clinical decision support (CDS).

Amid these issues, Altera Digital Health leaders and subject matter experts have been making the rounds in healthcare publications, sharing ways organizations can navigate these hurdles and get greater value out of their health IT systems. Here’s a snapshot of recent media activity featuring the Altera team:

Healthcare IT News conducted a Q&A with Altera President Marcus Perez covering a variety of industry trends, from provider burnout to market consolidation. Throughout the interview, Marcus discusses ways organizations can leverage health IT to strengthen their financial performance, reduce administrative burdens for providers, and improve patient outcomes and experiences. For example, he explains how investments in the cloud and cybersecurity can help organizations maintain autonomy without sacrificing innovation.

Healthcare IT Today published a byline by TouchWorks® EHR Executive Vice President Ben Scharfe on ambient listening technology, an exciting development in healthcare enabled by artificial intelligence (AI). In the article, Ben explains how this technology transcribes patient-provider interactions, reducing documentation burdens for providers and bringing focus back to patient care. He also discusses what healthcare organizations leveraging ambient listening technology can do to ensure unstructured or semi-structured data is effectively integrated into existing EHR systems.

ViVE’s InteropNow! Podcast released an episode with Client Development Executive Corrine Micklos on as a guest to talk all things interoperability. The discussion covers how data sharing has progressed over the last decade or so and where we’re at with interoperability today as an industry. Corrine underscores how the routing of data is primarily document-based, which means providers must look for certain documents within their systems and then sift through these documents to find data that might be relevant. She also shares client success stories, such as how The dbMotion™ Solution is integrating and harmonizing data from more than 500 sites of care in Manitoba, Canada, to bring meaningful data to points of care across the province.

Becker’s Hospital Review published an article by Joe Boyce, Vice President of Altera Managed Services, discussing the impact of a recurring issue for healthcare organizations: downtime. Whether planned or caused by an unexpected outage or breach, health IT downtime can affect medication administration, transfers of care and necessary communications. Joe highlights business continuity solutions as a viable lifeline organizations can leverage to retain access to patient data and minimize the harm and inconveniences downtime causes.

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