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Dr. Olabode Agaja, a pediatric sports medicine physician at Ochsner Health in Jefferson and Destrehan, works with patients from toddlers to 25-year-olds. He says the key is getting injuries checked out so that they don't progress to require intervention rather than ignoring the pain and it escalating into something more serious.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON The Times PicayuneLetters were being mailed on Monday to about 66,000 patients in New Orleans, notifying them that the debt they collectively owe to Ochsner Health — roughly $59 million in unpaid bills for doctor visits, hospital stays, medical procedures and other services, some of it dating back years — has been erased.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON The Times PicayuneHealthcare organizations are increasingly drawn to ambient AI as a means of quietly and unobtrusively capturing the doctor-patient conversation.
Ochsner Health recently announced a partnership with Deepscribe to make its ambient clinical documentation tool available on the Epic EHR platform to clinicians in the health system’s 46 hospitals and 370 health and urgent care centers. And Kaiser Permanente has unveiled a deal with Abridge to make a similar AI tool available to clinicians in 40 hospitals and more than 600 sites across eight states and Washington DC.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON HealthLeaders MediaDespite rising pharmacy costs, Ochsner Health has grabbed a healthy return on investment after expanding its remote-patient monitoring program, according to an Aug. 12 article from the American Medical Association.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON Becker's Hospital ReviewThe remote-patient managing programs at Ochsner Health have done such an excellent job of keeping patients healthy that, for those enrolled under value-based care, risk-based contracts, the New Orleans-based, physician-led system has seen a 3-to-1 return on investment (ROI).
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON American Medical AssociationBloomberg Philanthropies announced a gift of $5 million in seed funding to support the creation of the Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine (XOCOM), a newly established medical school in New Orleans founded by Xavier University of Louisiana and Ochsner Health.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON Biz New OrleansOchsner Health proudly announces that 21 Ochsner nurses have been named to the 2024 Great 100 Nurses of Louisiana list by the Great 100 Nurses Foundation. This recognition highlights the contributions and commitment to excellence demonstrated by Ochsner’s nursing staff.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON Biz New OrleansOchsner Health is going all-in on ambient AI voice technology for its thousands of doctors and has inked an enterprise agreement to roll out DeepScribe's technology across its health system.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON Fierce HealthcareHealthcare is rapidly changing, presenting challenges to new physicians and the organizations that train them.
The rise of AI, new technologies, patient demands and increased awareness in social determinants of health and equity have pushed leaders and organizations to change how they evaluate healthcare workers' preparedness as they enter the field. In many cases — when addressing equity, for example — physicians are not always trained in how to address or screen for these issues.
These needs are fueling a push to update how medical schools train physicians for the future of healthcare. Some systems have already started making changes.
Change is coming, but here are a few more urgent needs for medical education that deserve focus, according to five leaders who connected with Becker's: