Chaitali Avadhani

Chaitali has a master’s degree in journalism and currently writes about technology in healthcare for Arkenea. Expressing her thoughts and perspective through writing is one of her biggest asset so far. She defines herself as a curious person, as she is constantly looking for opportunities to upgrade herself professionally and personally. Outside the office she is actively engaged in fitness activities such as running, cycling, martial arts and trekking.

Electronic Medical Records (EMR): Capabilities and Features

By / EHR Software

Around 88.2 percent of office-based physicians are using EMR/EHR systems. A wide range of EMR capabilities is driving the extensive use of Electronic Medical Records software. This software not only offers ample space to store patient data but also helps physicians and patients manage their medical billing processes. EMR is capable of e-prescribing, appointment reminders, …

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Critical Role of EHR in Improving Patient Safety

By / EHR Software

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have revolutionized healthcare by digitizing patient information, but their impact extends beyond mere convenience. EHRs play a pivotal role in enhancing patient safety. These digital systems enable healthcare providers to access accurate and up-to-date patient data instantly, reducing the likelihood of medical errors, ensuring the right treatment, and minimizing adverse events. …

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HIPAA Compliant Video Conferencing 101: All You Need To Know

By / Healthcare App Development, Healthcare Compliance

With the rise in data breaches and cyber attacks, the enforcement of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant software in the healthcare industry has augmented. As per a report, the number of breaches in the healthcare industry has doubled since the year 2014 and more than 29 million healthcare records were attacked in 2020. …

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9 Top-Notch Android Framework for Mobile App Development in 2023

By / Healthcare App Development, Healthcare Technology

It is no secret that Android smartphone/development platforms have been gaining popularity in the market since its release by Google in 2008. As per data released by Statista, in 2021, Android held 70 percent of the smartphone operating market, and in 2022, it has around 50 percent share of the tablet market. Android phones are …

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14 Crucial Principles for Developing a User-Friendly EHR Interface

By / EHR Software

Key Takeaways Simple EHR/EMR design helps patients and physicians to navigate through the system seamlessly, they’re alerted in case of errors in prescriptions or documentation. A user-friendly EMR/EHR interface requires standards and conventions that are understood by everyone. For example, consistent display of line spacing, font, standard formats, relevant information, page lengths, letter spacing, etc. …

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How to Improve EHR: 3 Dynamic Strategies

By / EHR Software

EHR (Electronic Health Records) plays a pivotal role in administering quality care and documenting patient medical data. From offering services like appointment booking to e-prescriptions, EHRs have come a long way. They’re quite useful in providing secured payment gateways, managing medication, and enhancing patient safety. It is due to these reasons alone, that the EHR …

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Holistic Approaches to Tackling EHR Usability Challenges

By / EHR Software

Key Takeaways The SUS (System Usability Scale) tool is used to measure EHR usability. This tool consists of 10 questions with five response options for respondents, ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree. Current EHRs create tension between structured and unstructured data that physicians believe degrades the quality of clinical care narrative. So, to enhance …

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3 Crucial Benefits and Challenges of Cloud-Based EHRs

By / EHR Software

Key Takeaways Cloud-based EHR can be updated quickly and reduces disaster recovery expenses by eliminating the need for maintaining and building secondary data centers. Cloud-based EHR systems require less in-house IT staff to manage and maintain infrastructure. This can lead to substantial savings in terms of salaries, benefits, and training expenses for IT personnel. One …

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Beyond Appointments: Exploring the Many Strategies of Patient Portal Engagement

By / Custom Healthcare Software Development, Healthcare Technology

Key Takeaways Healthcare providers can use patient portals such as appointment bookings, reminders, and intake forms to promote patient engagement before clinic visits. Shared decision-making promotes patient engagement as physicians involve patients and they both work together to make decisions about tests, care plans, and treatments. Providers can use patient portal features like chats, video …

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5 Crucial Patient Portal Examples that You Must Know

By / Custom Healthcare Software Development, Healthcare Technology

Key Takeaways Care visit scheduler is one of the prominent patient portal examples as it allows patients to select appointments as per their routine, reduces wait time, improves accessibility, and is user-friendly. Bill payment and finances feature is integrated within the patient portal to not only eliminate duplicate entries and clogged workflows but also to …

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Navigating the IoT Software Development Process: A Beginner’s Guide

By / Custom Healthcare Software Development

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of devices that exchange data with cloud and other IoT devices. IoT devices are embedded with software, sensors, and other form of technologies for seamless data exchange over the Internet. The Internet of Things helps people to live and work smartly, for instance, users can use IoT-powered …

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Data Mining in Healthcare: Techniques, Process, and Benefits

By / Healthcare Technology

Data mining involves collecting, sorting, searching, and analyzing raw data to extract useful information. The data mining process identifies patterns, trends, and relationships between data. In healthcare, data mining is used for fraud detection, clinical decision-making, treatment, diagnosis, and more. Healthcare data mining includes techniques such as clustering, classification, or regression analysis, and these techniques …

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A Guide to Develop HIPAA Compliant Healthcare API

By / Healthcare Software Integration

Key Takeaways Healthcare developers must follow the three key HIPAA rules during API development: HIPAA security rule, privacy rule, and the breach notification rule. HL7 FHIR is a data exchange standard for APIs and it makes use of technologies such as XML, JSON, and RESTful APIs for smooth data exchange. Pay close attention to the …

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How to Add AI to Your Existing Healthcare Software?

By / Healthcare Technology

There are two ways in which AI in healthcare can be used: by developing AI-powered healthcare software from scratch or by adding AI to the existing healthcare software. The former takes significant time and money, so the latter is a preferred option for emerging health tech companies and practitioners who use healthcare software.  Adding AI …

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How to Leverage EHR Data Analytics for Accurate Clinical Decision-Making?

By / EHR Software

In the healthcare industry, every decision can impact a patient’s life. To ensure correct clinical decisions, healthcare providers rely on ePHI (Protected Health Information) or healthcare data that encompasses patients’ medical history, medications, surgeries, allergies, lab results, etc. Healthcare data is analyzed using tools and techniques such as artificial intelligence to extract vital information that …

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A Beginner’s Guide to Text Analytics for Health

By / Healthcare Technology

Key Takeaways Named entity recognition (NER), a text analytics technique, harnesses natural language processing methods to extract information from text. It categorizes useful information and identifies nouns in a text. Text classification is a popular text analytics technique that assigns categories to a text. It is used to structure, organize, and categorize any text: medical …

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5 State-of-the-Art Emerging Technologies in Healthcare

By / Healthcare Technology

Key Takeaways Generative AI is one of the emerging technologies in healthcare that can be used for medical imaging, clinical documentation, medical diagnosis, symptom checks, clinical decision-making, and much more. ChatGPT and Bard are well-known generative AI products. VR and AR, another key technology create a fictional world that can be used by surgeons to …

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7 Crucial Benefits of Chatbots in Healthcare

By / Healthcare Technology

Key Takeaways Chatbots in healthcare are designed to be available 24/7, answer medical queries on any device, and offer mental support. They can respond within seconds and save the questions for physicians to review when they’re online. Medical chatbots are capable of automating a myriad of tasks, which eliminates manual work, thereby reducing costs. Technology …

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Transforming Healthcare: Potential of Chatbot for Medical Diagnosis

By / Healthcare Technology

Key Takeaways Symptom checker feature embedded in chatbots looks promising for medical diagnosis because they triage patients. It lets a patient know when to visit the emergency room or when a patient needs urgent care. Automated appointment bookings via chatbots lessen the administrative burden on the non-medical staff, thereby allowing them to focus on other …

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How AI in Medical Documentation Helps to Reduce Physician Burnout

By / Healthcare Technology

Key Takeaways Generative AI is a useful tool for medical documentation and can reduce admin work for healthcare providers. It is trained to summarize patient information in less time, thus decreasing clinician burnout. NLP is used in medical documentation to convert unstructured data into a structured format for easy access. This technology has certain benefits …

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AI in Medical Imaging Software: Key Features and Benefits

By / Healthcare Technology

Key Takeaways With artificial intelligence imaging, the issue of image retake can be eliminated as AI helps to boost the quality of images. AI also enhances low-quality scans by decreasing artifacts and noise. AI algorithm can be trained to spot abnormalities in medical imaging. According to a study, an AI model was developed to differentiate …

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Guide To Choosing A Telemedicine Business Model For Your Healthcare Business

By / Telemedicine App Development

Key Takeaways One of the telemedicine business models is B2B2C, where vendors contact employers and payers directly, then market their telemedicine product to the payer’s consumer market. Platform business model works best for those organizations whose aim is not to sell a product, but rather to partner with a service provider who facilitates interactions on …

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Exploring the Potential of E-Prescribing Software Development for Healthcare Organizations

By / Custom Healthcare Software Development

Key Takeaways The e-prescribing market is estimated to reach $4,152.7 million by 2026, surging at a CAGR of 21.4 percent during the 2019 to 2026 timeframe. E-prescribing software ensures fewer medication errors, improved patient safety, and a lesser risk of misplaced prescriptions. E-prescribing software can play a vital role in reducing adverse drug impact. It …

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Unlocking Insights to a Seamless Healthcare Data Migration

By / Healthcare Technology

Key Takeaways One of the reasons for healthcare data migration is to increase storage capacity. With the rise in healthcare data every day, a better, larger, and more robust storage space is needed. Planning of healthcare data migration revolves around what type of data needs to be migrated and in which format, along with storage …

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HIPAA Security Risk Assessment Tool (SRA) Guide for 2023

By / Healthcare Compliance

Key Takeaways The HIPAA Security Risk Assessment Tool is built by the HHS OCR and the ONC to guide the Business Associates and the Covered Entities in conducting a proper risk assessment. The 3.3 version of the HIPAA Security Risk Assessment Tool encompasses the SRA Tool Excel Workbook which includes conditional formulas and formatting to …

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Guide to Conduct a Successful HIPAA Risk Assessment

By / Healthcare Compliance

Key Takeaways The objective of the HIPAA security risk assessment is to assure the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of ePHI that is created, maintained, received, and transmitted by the CE and BA. CE and BA are required to appoint a Privacy Officer for the HIPAA privacy risk assessment, who identifies the organization’s workflow and understands …

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4 Ways Clinical Decision Support System for Nurses Is Transforming Care

By / Custom Healthcare Software Development

Key Takeaways Nurses can leverage clinical decision support systems to monitor patients who are recovering from surgery and to observe if there’s any reaction to a medication. Nurses also receive alerts if a patient is at high risk for hospital readmission due to clinical or non-clinical aspects. Clinical decision support systems stores all data in …

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5 Must-Know Benefits of Healthcare Workflow Automation

By / Custom Healthcare Software Development, Healthcare Technology

Key Takeaways Administrative errors are caused due to mismanaged health data. Manual data entry gives rise to administrative errors in hospitals and clinics. Healthcare workflow automation helps to minimize these errors. Primary care providers need an average of 26.7 hours to carry out administrative work and offer patient care simultaneously. Such a situation leaves zero …

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Ultimate Guide to Patient Portal Development

By / Custom Healthcare Software Development

Key Takeaways Patient portal development ensures epidemiologic safety, and patient care, and reduces human errors. It also streamlines workflow and makes healthcare accessible for patients. To make the most out of the patient portal, consider integrating systems such as EHR, glucose monitors, telehealth apps, fitness trackers, and more. EHR integration prioritizes the interoperability of third-party applications over …

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Chronic Disease Management Software: Benefits, Features, Cost

By / Custom Healthcare Software Development

Key Takeaways Chronic disease management software is equipped with effective communication features such as HIPAA-compliant video conferencing, messaging, and calls. Patients and healthcare providers can easily connect remotely. Chronic disease management software includes a remote monitoring option that allows healthcare providers and patients to monitor health conditions without routine trips to the clinic. Incorporation of …

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5 Pivotal HIPAA Risk Assessment Requirements that You Should Know

By / Healthcare Compliance

Key Takeaways The first HIPAA risk assessment requirement is mentioned in the Security Rule: 45 CFR 164.308. This rule requires CE and BA to conduct an ‘accurate assessment of the potential vulnerabilities and risks to the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of PHI.’ The second HIPAA risk assessment requirement is mentioned in the Breach Notification Rule …

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