Expert Group Meeting attendees focused on
improving the patient experience, reducing costs, and boosting
clinician happiness with AI, automation, and other advanced
technologies.
VERONA,
Wis., May 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- More
than 9,000 experts from leading healthcare and medical research
organizations attended Epic's Expert Group Meetings (XGM)
April 29-May 9. XGM is one of the
world's largest health IT events, offering focus groups and
presentations spanning the healthcare continuum including primary
care, specialties, research, analytics, revenue cycle, and
population health.
"XGM is special. It's one of the biggest events of the year for
healthcare experts who take the latest advancements like generative
AI, cut through the hype, and figure out how to use them to improve
healthcare for patients and clinicians," said CT Lin, Chief Medical
Information Officer at UCHealth (Colorado). "We work side by side with one
another and with Epic to take on the biggest challenges and
opportunities facing our industry."
Healthcare organizations are under tremendous pressure to do
more with less. Visit volumes are increasing, it's difficult to
hire and retain clinicians, and reimbursements have not kept pace
with the cost to deliver care. At XGM, the Epic community works
together to apply technology to solve these and other problems—and
ultimately, to advance medicine.
Peer-to-peer presentations offer real-world results from how
organizations have used Epic to improve the lives of their patients
and staff. Attendees leave with concrete plans to begin achieving
similar benefits quickly.
Here are just a few examples from nearly 900 XGM
presentations:
- Returning to the joy of medicine with more dialogue and less
documentation. Emory Healthcare noted that they use ambient AI
to enable physicians to see more clinic patients, experience a
better sense of wellbeing, and spend less time drafting clinical
notes. After a patient's verbal consent, ambient AI captures the
dialogue between patient and physician, eases the cognitive load
associated with tracking patient conditions, gives time back to
doctors to better listen to their patients in clinic, and minimizes
administrative burden.
- Reduce denials with better provider-payer
information-sharing. When they replaced phones and fax machines
with real-time access to information from patients' electronic
charts, Wellstar Health System saw a 71% decrease in medical
necessity denials due to lack of information. This translates to
$1.5 million in revenue, a better
working experience for nurses, and a smoother care experience for
patients.
- Virtual visits save time, are convenient for patients, and
reduce carbon footprint. Henry Ford Health saved over 126,000
miles of patient travel—and 4,000 hours of travel time—with a
virtual visit program for behavioral health integration.
- Reduced antibiotic infections means healthier patients and
reduced cost. With risk scoring mechanisms and protocols,
Sentara Healthcare saw a 45% decrease in antibiotic-resistant
infections (MRSA) for hospital patients. This is projected to
deliver $2 million in associated
costs avoided.
XGM is held every spring at Epic's Intergalactic Headquarters in
Verona, Wisconsin. It is a special
event Epic holds with the goal of bringing providers, technology
experts, and other industry leaders together to improve healthcare
worldwide.
Epic is a global healthcare software company that helps people
get well, helps people stay well, and helps future generations be
healthier. Founded in a basement in 1979 with three half-time
employees, Epic is now the leading EHR software developer in
the United States. Epic supports
healthcare organizations in 16 countries, with more than 2,700
hospitals using Epic and over 190 million patients using Epic's
MyChart patient portal to manage their care online.
For more information contact: Coral Graszer; coral@epic.com. Visit
www.epic.com/about.
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