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Physician/Patient Interaction Timeline

  • Introduction of Electronic Health Records (EHRs)(ONCHIT)

    Introduction of Electronic Health Records (EHRs)(ONCHIT)

    Challenges: data interoperability, adoption hurdles for small practices
    Solution: Better data access for doctors and patients.
    Healthcare providers' data storage and retrieval improved.
    Care teams can share data more easily.
    Impact on 4Ps: Improved healthcare data management enhances patient accessibility, efficiency in physician documentation, public health outcomes, and availability for insurance claims and reimbursement.
  • HITECH Act

    HITECH Act

    The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act promotes the adoption and meaningful use of EHRs and HIT.
    Challenges: Workflow Disruption, Interoperability Issues
    Solutions: Training and support have reduced workflow disruptions, Health Information Exchanges (HIEs)
    Impact on 4Ps: The system improved patient access to health records but raised data privacy concerns. Physicians improved decision support, but workflow disruptions occurred. Payers received accurate claims.
  • Initial intro of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in EHRs

    Initial intro of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in EHRs

    Challenge: Privacy Concerns, Ensuring Data Quality
    Solutions: NLP improves physician documentation and data extraction. Enhanced EHRs capture more nuanced patient information. Facilitates structured data entry.
    Effects of 4Ps: EHRs that are powered by NLP make it easier to capture patient information, document care by doctors, analyze public health data, and process claims for payers. This makes it easier to process claims and analyze data.
  • ICD 10 Coding

    ICD 10 Coding

    ICD-10 codes provide a common language for healthcare professionals, enabling accurate diagnosis and billing and supporting healthcare data analysis and research.
    Challenges: Complexity, Documentation Burden
    Solutions: Extensive training programs; Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI)
    Impact on 4Ps: ICD-10 improved healthcare data accuracy, benefiting patients, physicians, payers, and public health research, despite privacy concerns and a learning curve.
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

    Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

    The healthcare artificial intelligence market is expected to grow at a 40% CAGR between 2017 and 2024, encompassing medical imaging, diagnostics, personal AI assistants, drug discovery, and genomics.
    Challenges: Integration, Bias, and Resistance
    Solutions: Continuously monitor and provide provider training.
    Impact on 4Ps: AI enhances patient care, improves physicians' decision-making, optimizes claim processing, reduces costs, and improves healthcare quality.
  • HL7 - FHIR

    HL7 - FHIR

    HL7 launched the FHIR accelerator program to aid communities in creating and adopting FHIR implementation guides, offering team collaboration infrastructure tools and support services.
    Challenges: Adoption barriers, Data Privacy
    Solutions: Education on how to use with HIPPA
    Impact on 4Ps: FHIR accelerators improve patient care, physician access, claims processing, and public health by enhancing data exchange, reducing administrative burdens, and promoting accurate health data sharing.
  • Chatbots and Virtual Health Assistants

    Chatbots and Virtual Health Assistants

    Challenges: Ethical concerns and misinformation, Data security and patient privacy
    Solutions: Chatbots provide immediate health information.
    Streamline administrative tasks for physicians. Offer patient education and engagement.
    Impact on 4Ps: The system enhances patient access to health information, streamlines administrative tasks, provides patient education, improves population access, and enhances claims processing and customer support.
  • Advanced Virtual Reality Telehealth and AI-Driven Decision Support

    Advanced Virtual Reality Telehealth and AI-Driven Decision Support

    Challenges: ensuring health equity and access; regulatory adjustments for AI and VR
    Solutions: Enhanced telehealth experience with VR; AI-driven decision support for complex cases; improved access to cutting-edge healthcare technology
    Effects on the 4Ps: The technology gives patients a better telehealth experience with VR, helps doctors make decisions about difficult cases using AI, gives them access to cutting-edge healthcare technology, and gives them more data for pricing and risk assessment.