KLAS etech Insight Blogs
KLAS etech Insight Blogs
  • eTech Insight – Digital Health for Equitable Health Alliance Launched
    The Problem: Making Healthcare Access and Delivery Available to All Healthcare availability, access, and delivery have been compromised for low-inc...
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  • eTech Insight—Alexa Together Continues to Advance Home Care Functionality
    Keeping Family Members in the Loop of Elderly Care The boomer generation will test the capacity and flexibility of the existing US healthcare syste...
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  • eTech Insight – Universal Language Translators Will Improve Healthcare Services
    The Problem: Significant Patient Populations Don’t Speak English as a First Language The US has a very diverse population of peoples from around th...
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  • eTech Insight – Universal Language Translators Will Improve Healthcare Services
    The Problem: Significant Patient Populations Don’t Speak English as a First Language The US has a very diverse population of peoples from around th...
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  • eTech Insight – Improving AI Success with Accelerators and Incubators
    The Problem: Identifying and Supporting AI Projects with High Potential Value: The healthcare industry has launched hundreds of AI solutions that w...
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  • eTech Insight—Will Synthetic Data Revolutionize Data Sharing and AI?
    The Problem: Balancing Patient Data Privacy Regulations and Needed Data Analytics The US established patient privacy rules for healthcare data with...
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  • eTech Insight – Advocacy Group for Hospital at Home Emerges
    The Problem: The Pandemic Highlighted the Limited Resource Issue for Providers The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the US healthcare system’s ability to ...
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  • eTech Insight – Frictionless Shopping Alternatives Will Improve Healthcare Services
    Consumers Expect Healthcare Services to Mimic Retail Capabilities Healthcare organizations have digital service offerings that mimic what consumers...
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  • eTech Insight – Resolving Quality Data Acquisition Issues for Analytics/AI
    Challenges for Creating Accurate AI Algorithms across Healthcare Data Sets AI has passed from the “peak of inflated expectations” and now resides i...
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  • eTech Insight – Robots Assisting Nurses Will Become a Requirement for Providers
    The Problem: The Pandemic Drives Nursing Shortages and Adds to Burnout The nursing shortage was enhanced by the pandemic catalyst. In New York City...
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  • eTech Insight – EHR Integration Will Determine Telehealth Winners for Providers
    The Problem: A Multitude of Telehealth Vendors Drives Market Confusion Approximately 260 telehealth companies exist at this time driven by irration...
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  • eTech Insight – Alexa Supports Virtual Senior Living and Family Collaborative Healthcare
    The Problem: Elder Care is Becoming a Healthcare Focus for Boomer Populations The Boomer generation continues to age (e.g., born 1946 – 1964), and ...
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  • eTech Insight–Build-A-Bear EHRs?
    COTS EHRs are Expensive and Workflow Confining The market noise around EHR cost as well as their rigidity in workflow capabilities that drive physi...
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  • eTech Insight – EmsanaRx to Challenge Powerful PBMs
    Pharmacy Benefit Management Companies Deliver Questionable Value Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) companies participate in the drug distribution chan...
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  • eTech Insight - Advances in Voice Services Will Apply to Healthcare
    Consumers Expect Healthcare Services to Mimic Retail Capabilities Healthcare has trailed digital service offerings that mimic what consumers experi...
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  • eTech Insight – Augmented Intelligence = AI for Healthcare
    AI Must Supplement and Not Drive Patient Care Decisions At the recently concluded 2021 KLAS Digital Health Investment Symposium, Dr. Robert Bart, M...
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  • eTech Insight - Kill the Password
    Security Environments Using Passwords Are Obsolete All provider organizations face password-management problems as no providers have a single vendo...
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  • eTech Insight - Voice and AI Advances Improve Elder Care
    Resources to Monitor the Elderly are Expensive and Serial If you have an elderly relative or friend, you are likely concerned about how well their ...
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  • eTech Insight – Is the EHR Dead?
    Poor EHR Implementations Drive Provider Frustrations  A recent article in Forbes suggests the EHR is dead. At this time, approximately 90% of hospi...
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  • eTech Insight - MIT Digital Transformation Insights
    The Problem: Digital Transformation Adoption May Create Provider Disruption Challenges COVID-19 drove provider organizations to adopt new care deli...
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  • eTech Insight – Smartphones and AI Transforming Dermatology
    The Problem: People Postpone Getting Suspicious Skin Lesions Examined Skin cancer is a serious disease, especially for those of us who live in high...
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  • eTech Insight - Big Technology Vendors Create New Healthcare Data Solutions
    The Problem: Efficiently Capturing Healthcare Data from Disparate Sources US healthcare has been plagued by the inability to efficiently capture da...
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  • eTech Insight - How AI and Robot Caregivers May Change Homecare
    The Problem: Homecare Requires “At-The-Elbow” Healthcare Support COVID-19 brought both new capabilities and new challenges for delivering healthcar...
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  • eTech Insight – Portable Smart Speaker Advances Oncology
    The Problem: Easily Accessing Useful Oncology Treatment Information Oncology treatment information may reside in many disparate cancer registries. ...
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  • eTech Insight – Solutions for Data Cleaning
    The Problem: Bad Data Equals Garbage In and Poor Analytics Results According to surveys conducted by Anaconda and Figure Eight, data scientists spe...
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  • eTech Insight - Transformer Neural Networks for Advancing NLP
    The Problem: Current Neural Network Models are Confining and Expensive What is a neural network or deep learning? Simply put, these are networks th...
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  • eTech Insight – Advantages of Smartphones and Multimodal RPM Devices
    The Problem: Remote Patient Monitoring Needs Fewer Devices to Improve Care COVID-19 exposed the need to provide a new level of remote patient monit...
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  • eTech Insight - Will Social Audio Drive Better Patient Interactions Than Chatbots?
    The Problem: Improving AI Chatbot Interactions AI chatbots can be helpful or discouraging to patients. Some people are used to chatbot interactions...
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  • eTech Insight–Smart Speakers Becoming Healthcare Monitors
    The Problem: A Multitude of Remote Patient Monitoring Devices May Impact Compliance Remote patient monitoring (RPM) may require patients to acquire...
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  • eTech Insight – Synthetic Data Advances Clinical Research
    Personal Health Information Regulations Can Slow Clinical Research The U.S. government enacted the Privacy Rule* to protect individually identifiab...
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  • eTech Insight – Healthcare Chatbots Will Enable Better Care
    Healthcare Resources Are Being Strained to Support Care Delivery COVID-19 exacerbated the impact that the lack of healthcare resources has on provi...
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  • eTech Insight – The Potential of Kubernetes in Healthcare Services
    Big Data Environments Using Hadoop Have Peaked Apache Hadoop is an open-source software framework for storing data and running applications on clus...
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  • eTech Insight – Using Video-Based Vital Signs Monitoring in RPM
    Remote Patient Monitoring Solutions Can Be Costly, Confusing, and Data-Quality Challenged Several challenges exist for broader, fuller use of remot...
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  • eTech Insight – Connected Home Over IP May Drive Improved Home Health Care
    Emerging Digital Appliances Often Lack Standards for Interoperability Many emerging technology environments end up with disjointed capabilities for...
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  • eTech Insight – Real-Time Pharmacy Benefits Solutions Improve Patient Care
    Pharmacy Prescriptions Influenced by Drug Company Payments to Physicians Medication prices for consumers continue to increase with little justifica...
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  • eTech Insight – AI Predicting Health Outcomes May Lower Costs
    Timely Identification of High-Risk Patients to Minimize Healthcare Costs As the healthcare reimbursement model moves to value-based reimbursement, ...
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  • eTech Insight – Will Skin-Printable Monitors Become the Next Health Monitoring Devices?
    Ensuring Patient Satisfaction and Compliance with Virtual Care and Telemedicine Before the COVID-19 crisis, consumers wearing digital monitors such...
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  • eTech Insight – Voice Biomarkers Become a Key Disease Detection Solution
    Inexpensive, Readily Available Biomarkers for Disease Identification COVID-19 became a catalyst for providing virtual healthcare delivery services....
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  • eTech Insight – Patient Care Decision Support
    Clinician Burden and Alert Fatigue Minimize Usefulness of CDS Clinical decision support (CDS) systems have been around for decades as a component o...
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  • eTech Insight – Evaluating the Risks of Emerging Technology in Healthcare
    Balancing Emerging Technology Solution Innovations Against Risk CIOs and CMIOs are bombarded daily with emails and texts from emerging technology v...
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  • eTech Insight – Wearable Technology is Emerging as a Key RPM Strategy
    Improving Healthcare Quality for Episodes of Virtual Care As healthcare reimbursement moves toward a higher adoption of value-based care (VBC), the...
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  • eTech Insight – March of the Killer Robots: The Good Kind
    Reliable and Safe Robotic Disinfection Processes for Healthcare Facilities Hospital-acquired infections and patients with highly infectious disease...
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  • Potential in Patient Engagement
    We all know that with the move to value-based care (VBC), patient engagement is a hot topic, and patient engagement platforms are getting a lot of lov...
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  • eTech Insight – Telehealth Continues to Advance in High-Risk Market
    Telehealth Version 1.0–Lots of Players, Little Differentiation COVID-19 has forever changed primary healthcare delivery. To survive financially, ph...
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  • Navigating the Telehealth Frontier
    Back in January, when most of the world was still traveling regularly, we were privileged to attend a telehealth conference in Dubai. The conference w...
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  • Pandemic Performance Part I – Vendors Stepping Up
    Now more than ever, the partnerships between healthcare providers and vendors are crucial to the success of the industry and patient well-being. No...
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  • eTech First Look: Uber Health
    When we think about what is broken in the healthcare industry, it doesn’t take long to realize that the healthcare experience for patients is often su...
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  • SDOH Framework 2020
    As healthcare providers, the social determinants of health (SDOH) can feel unwieldy and frustrating. How can you make sure your patient has a friend, ...
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  • eTech Insight – The Transformation of Primary Care and the Digital Technology Catalyst
    COVID-19 Exposes Gaps in Primary Care Systems The US healthcare system is one of the highest-cost environments in the world. But the high cost does...
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  • Building Up Steam: Colburn Hill Group eTech Spotlight
    Robotic process automation (RPA) has been around for quite a while, but now, amidst growing economic pressures, its adoption in healthcare is starting...
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  • No-code Mobile App Builders: Better, Cheaper, Faster?
    Commercial vs. Self-Developed Considerations for Mobile Apps Mobile applications are the foundation of digital solutions. As the healthcare industr...
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  • How Doctors Are Helping the Poor and Saving Money
    Let’s say that you are experiencing heartburn. You go to the doctor, who prescribes medication and a healthy diet. The problem is that the co-pay for ...
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  • eTech Insight – In-Home Care - Complementing Remote Patient Monitoring
    Supporting the Last Mile of Patient Focused Care Some chronically ill patients may not have the ability or resources to trek to an urgent care cent...
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  • eTech Insight – Data Aggregation Solutions Drive Big Data Accessibility
    Creating a Big Data Environment for Improved Analytics and AI Healthcare providers are keenly aware of the need to allow their data to be used by c...
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  • eTech Insight – IoT Gateways Can Improve Telehealth Services
    The Problem: Teleheath Visits without Supporting Patient Vital Signs I’ve conducted two telehealth visits with my care providers over the last mont...
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  • eTech Insights – Adaptive eLearning to Support Telehealth Services
    The Problem: Managing a Learning and Training Environment for Fast Paced Telehealth Provider organizations have been using eLearning environments f...
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  • eTech Insights – Smart Home Assistant Products Emerge as Consumer Healthcare Managers
    The Problem: Looking for Healthcare Support in Many Places Consumers looking for healthcare information and guidance generally have to access sever...
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  • eTech Insights – Digital Application Collaboration Drives Plug and Play
    The Problem: Legacy Architectures and Proprietary Data Sets Can Impede Innovation Those of us who have been in the healthcare IT business for sever...
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  • eTech Insights – The Digital IT Impact for Virtual Healthcare Delivery Post-COVID-19
    The Problem: COVID-19 Demonstrates Care Delivery Gaps in Current Model COVID-19 as a threat to the US population has demonstrated clear weaknesses ...
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  • eTech Insights – Democratization of Software Programming: Moving in the Right Direction
    The Problem: Software Programming is Expensive and Slow to Deliver Needed Solutions Just 2% of the worldwide population knows how to code, and the ...
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