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Christus Health provides medical staff new communication tool during pandemic"Numerous hospitals...have implemented a new Twitter-like messaging tool with the EMR that’s dramatically driven open and engagement rates," - Jessica Garcia, Christus Health System

Transformation in TrialsG.T. LaBorde: Arming clinicians with therapeutic options at the point of care

IlumiCare Integrates with Epic EMR to Improve Clinical Decision Making"IllumiCare worked with Epic’s App Orchard team and used existing integration protocols to allow the IllumiCare Smart Ribbon to run seamlessly alongside the EMR."

Majority Of Texas Hospitals Find Software Tool ‘Helpful, Very Efficient’ "It's like a Google Toolbar, providing an efficient shortcut to the information needed in real-time...Instead of looking all over for this information, it synchronizes it in one easy place," - S. Nicholas Desai, MD, CMO, Houston Methodist

How Health IT Can Support ACO Healthcare Quality Improvement“It's gotten great feedback and we’re very excited. It is so easy to use, which is fantastic. The easier it is to use the more clinicians are going to be willing to use it.” - Rhonda Hamilton, COO of Silver State ACO

2022

2022

Clinical Trial Technology: New Kids on the Block are Changing Industry Dynamic“There’s this idea that doctors are afraid of losing patients to clinical trials, and that’s why they don’t refer them, but that’s not true. The main reason physicians don’t tell patients about trials is because it takes extra time,” - Mukul Mehra

The Missing Link in Clinical Trial RecruitmentMore than 90% of patients believe it's important for their doctor to be aware of local clinical studies,1 as reported in the most recent CISCRP Perceptions & Insight Study.

How Technology Can Help Ease the Burden on PhysiciansPodcast with Mukul Mehra, MD

Study Finds Physicians Are More Cost-Conscious When They Know About Real-Time Alternatives"It's amazing that when you sort of activate clinicians to become stewards, what happens is that that ethos begins to blend over to other decisions that they make, which is a beautiful thing." G.T. LaBorde, CEO

IllumiCare Welcomes Ralph Keiser to Leadership Team as Chief Strategy Officer"As a veteran in the HIT industry, I am looking forward to joining a company that values the innovation that is happening within this sector. IllumiCare is rapidly expanding its footprint in the industry, and I am excited to be a part of its growth and strategy development moving forward," said Keiser.

IllumiCare consultation app takes hassle out of connecting patients to trials“The Trials App presents patient-specific clinical trials for consideration within the clinician’s workflow, streamlining the process from awareness to enrolment for providers, study coordinators and patients,”-Mukul Mehra

IllumiCare automates patient linking to clinical trials using app“In addition, this approach allows coordinators to completely track the journey of the patients within the recruitment process, permitting them to personalise communication and boost participation.”

2022

2022

Clinical Trial Technology: New Kids on the Block are Changing Industry Dynamic“There’s this idea that doctors are afraid of losing patients to clinical trials, and that’s why they don’t refer them, but that’s not true. The main reason physicians don’t tell patients about trials is because it takes extra time,” - Mukul Mehra

The Missing Link in Clinical Trial RecruitmentMore than 90% of patients believe it's important for their doctor to be aware of local clinical studies,1 as reported in the most recent CISCRP Perceptions & Insight Study.

How Technology Can Help Ease the Burden on PhysiciansPodcast with Mukul Mehra, MD

Study Finds Physicians Are More Cost-Conscious When They Know About Real-Time Alternatives"It's amazing that when you sort of activate clinicians to become stewards, what happens is that that ethos begins to blend over to other decisions that they make, which is a beautiful thing." G.T. LaBorde, CEO

IllumiCare Welcomes Ralph Keiser to Leadership Team as Chief Strategy Officer"As a veteran in the HIT industry, I am looking forward to joining a company that values the innovation that is happening within this sector. IllumiCare is rapidly expanding its footprint in the industry, and I am excited to be a part of its growth and strategy development moving forward," said Keiser.

IllumiCare consultation app takes hassle out of connecting patients to trials“The Trials App presents patient-specific clinical trials for consideration within the clinician’s workflow, streamlining the process from awareness to enrolment for providers, study coordinators and patients,”-Mukul Mehra

IllumiCare automates patient linking to clinical trials using app“In addition, this approach allows coordinators to completely track the journey of the patients within the recruitment process, permitting them to personalise communication and boost participation.”

2021

2021

Optimizing Physician Workflow to Minimize Burnout"The unfortunate reality is that physicians are forced to work around how an EMR is built rather than the EMR being built around a physician’s natural thought and treatment processes." -Mukul Mehra, MD

How Health IT Can Support ACO Healthcare Quality Improvement“It's gotten great feedback and we’re very excited. It is so easy to use, which is fantastic. The easier it is to use the more clinicians are going to be willing to use it.” - Rhonda Hamilton, COO of Silver State ACO

Wake Forest Baptist Health taps digital app to support physician rounding

COVID-19’s Impact on Healthcare CostsPodcast - G.T. LaBorde, CEO, IllumiCare

IllumiCare launches Spotlight App to reduce provider costs and improving hospital operations"The Spotlight app has been an enormously useful tool to help us track provider spending down to a micro level and make adjustments where necessary."- Bonny Chen, MD, Chief Health Officer, AMITA Health

EHR Integration Boosts Clinical Decision Support, Eases Clinician Burden"More than 90 percent of the information I need every morning...is pulled together and formatted in a way that's really meaningful in a few clicks,” - Ajay Dharod, MD, Wake Forest Baptist Health

Hospitalist Group Works to Improve Physician Efficiency, Quality Metrics"it's really important for us to be good stewards. Having the ability to have….cost transparency." - Ajay Dharod, MD, Wake Forest Baptist Health

Chicago-Area Health System Puts Spotlight on Identifying and Managing High CostsSpotlight lets hospital managers and leaders identify which providers are best at conserving resources and which providers are not as cost-conscious.

Preventing Opioid Overprescribing During the COVID-19 Pandemic“Clinicians can appreciate that any patient could be really struggling with mental health issues during this horrible crisis,” - G.T. LaBorde, CEO, IllumiCare

TeamHealth Hospitalist Services – Study Participants of IllumiCare’s Smart Ribbon PlatformPodcast - Dr. Uppal

2020

2020

Study: More Docs Involved in Patient Care Means Longer Hospital Stays“Once the patient’s stay passes three providers involved and three days in the hospital, each additional provider adds 0.58 days to the length of stay,”

Texas Hospital Association creates 'Smart Ribbon' to help doctors better understand cost of ordering tests"The benefit of an integrated delivery system with our EHR has allowed us to reduce unnecessary testing and care, which ultimately benefits the patients and lowers healthcare costs overall." - Stephen Sibbitt, MD, CMO, Scott & White Medical Center

Do More Providers Increase the Length of Hospital Inpatient Stays?Podcast with G.T. LaBorde, CEO, IllumiCare

Increased hospital stay with each additional provider seenPodcast with G.T. LaBorde, CEO, IllumiCare

Christus Health provides medical staff new communication tool during pandemic"Numerous hospitals...have implemented a new Twitter-like messaging tool with the EMR that’s dramatically driven open and engagement rates," - Jessica Garcia, Christus Health System

Drug Costs for COVID-19 Patients Plunge at U.S. Hospitals, but May Rise"Many of the medications being used on COVID-19 patients are not "budget busters" and drug shortages have often been a bigger problem than cost." - Michael Ganio, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

Extracting valuable data from the EMRPodcast with G.T. LaBorde, CEO, IllumiCare

Changing costs of treating COVID patients for hospitalsPodcast with G.T. LaBorde, CEO, IllumiCare

2019

2019

Birmingham Health Data Company Named in CNBC Upstart 100“We empower physicians to take better care of patients .If you make it easy to do the right thing, you get more of the right thing.” - G.T. LaBorde, CEO, IllumiCare

Which Physician Specialties Have The Most Inpatient Cost Variation?"IllumiCare’s cost variation research report found thousands of dollars in disparities among providers of the same specialties taking care of the same type of patients."

Evolving The EHR: What Apple's App Store Can Teach Us"Each clinician needs a user interface designed for their specific needs and workflows. It’s clear that healthcare IT needs to evolve, and quickly." - G.T. LaBorde, CEO, IllumiCare

Queen's launches new internal app to better access Electronic Medical Records"We are excited to find an EHR-agnostic platform that embeds HHIE into the clinical workflow and reduces the number of required clicks to access our community health record," - Francis Chan, CEO of HHIE

Rethinking the cost of care: Nurse practitioners as stewards of clinical and patient resources"The growth and expanded capabilities of the specialty give nurse practitioners a powerful voice in setting standards for clinical stewardship." - Mukul Mehra, MD, CMO, IllumiCare

Meet Dr. Mukul Mehra, a physician entrepreneur working to make EHRs user-friendly"Physicians are the building blocks of value-based care, yet the cumulative human and financial costs of their decisions are mostly hidden from them." - Mukul Mehra, MD

Majority Of Texas Hospitals Find Software Tool ‘Helpful, Very Efficient’ "It's like a Google Toolbar, providing an efficient shortcut to the information needed in real-time...Instead of looking all over for this information, it synchronizes it in one easy place," - S. Nicholas Desai, MD, CMO, Houston Methodist

Doctors Tell Us Why Electronic Health Records Are Causing Burnout“The transaction database has de-humanized medicine and led to physician burnout as screen spaces supercede visual cues, documentation burdens create anxiety, and the element of touch is outweighed by hands on the keyboard." - Mukul Mehra, MD, CMO, IllumiCare

For value-based care, a Texas health system puts cost and risk data at the point of care"Since the pilot, Houston Methodist Sugar Land has reported approximately $717,000 in attributable cost savings with an average incremental cost reduction of $105 per admission."

Hawaii Health Information Exchange First to Integrate with IllumiCare’s Smart Ribbon®“This new app amplifies the ability of the health information exchange to aid in clinical coordination by bringing the patient data easily to the forefront during decision making,” - G.T. LaBorde, CEO, IllumiCare

2018

2018

Giving GA Hospitals Healthcare Cost Data to Lowering Spending“Any time we can provide something that can help hospitals operate more efficiently, take better care of the patient, and have higher patient satisfaction is a homerun for us.” - Bill Wylie, SVP, George Hospital Health Services

Q&A: Technology improves patient medical records"The number of alerts constantly interrupting workflow, though intended to be helpful, are on the rise as technologists abuse the ability to fit more onto the screen." - G.T. LaBorde, CEO, IllumiCare

Creating Transparency in Healthcare - PodcastPodcast with G.T. LaBorde, CEO, IllumiCare

Delivering Cost and Risk Data at the Point of CarePodcast with G.T. LaBorde, CEO, IllumiCare

How Technology Is Helping To Improve Doctor-Patient Communication (Q&A)"Think of going to a restaurant on a budget, but the menu has no prices. That’s what it is like for doctors right now." - Mukul Mehra, MD, CMO, IllumiCare

Improving Collaboration and Technology for Radiation Dose Management"Physicians would be more thoughtful about their imaging decisions if they were more aware of the potential human consequences of their decisions." - Mukul Mehra, MD, CMO, IllumiCare

Optimizing Physician Workflow to Minimize Burnout"Physicians now feel like data entry specialists, constantly filling in boxes, checking boxes and stopping best practice alerts." - Mukul Mehra, MD, CMO, IllumiCare

Why Opioid Addiction Will Persist Until Physicians Have A Panoramic View Of Opioid Exposure"As physicians, we must be more proactive in managing addiction where it typically begins—the inpatient setting." - Mukul Mehra, MD, CMO, IllumiCare

HIT's Role In Improving Opioid Tracking In The Hospital"Fifty-one percent of non-surgical patients, and most surgical patients, receive opioid medications while admitted to a hospital." - Mukul Mehra, MD, CMO, IllumiCare

IllumiCare Launches App to Solve Blindspot Within EHR for Opioid Prescribing“Our work with Illumicare is influenced by our perspective on the entire hospital landscape to affect how information can be used to help improve outcomes." - Ted Shaw, THA president/ CEO

IlumiCare Integrates with Epic EMR to Improve Clinical Decision Making"IllumiCare worked with Epic’s App Orchard team and used existing integration protocols to allow the IllumiCare Smart Ribbon to run seamlessly alongside the EMR."

If a tool offers cost data on tests, will doctors pay attention?"When physicians had the facts [regarding treatment costs], a large, academic hospital in Texas saved $430,444 in 71 days."

Empowering Physicians to Become Stewards"Physicians are largely unaware of the costs of their care. One study found that physicians estimated the costs of prescription drugs correctly less than half of the time." - Stephen Sibbitt, MD, CMO, Baylor Scott & White

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