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25 INNOVATION 6 health tech trends impacting medical practices By Naomi Diaz P atient-centric payment capabilities was identified as the healthcare trend that will have the biggest impact on physicians and medical offices in 2023, according to a Feb. 6 report from cloud healthcare soware company AdvancedMD. AdvancedMD aggregated user data from more than 40,000 practitioners spanning across 13,000 medical practices that subscribe to AdvancedMD practice management, EHR and patient engagement solutions and identified six health tech trends that will have the biggest impact on physicians and medical offices in 2023. Here are the trends: 1. Patient-centric payment capabilities: In 2023, healthcare providers will seek out more patient-centric payment models that make it easier to distribute billing information and receive electronic payments from patients. 2. Mental healthcare: Healthcare providers will look into more integrative practices that include behavioral and mental health offerings. 3. Independent practice surge: ere will be an increase in independent private practices due to the advancements in the health tech space that allow streamline workflows, efficient billing, patient engagement and EHR processes. 4. Workflow automation: Medical practice owners will increase their investment in workflow automation improvements. 5. Remote monitoring: Remote patient monitoring will become "ubiquitous across the healthcare landscape," as providers look to improve outcomes for patients suffering from chronic illnesses. 6. Self-service applications: To improve patient engagement, healthcare providers will implement more self-service patient tools, as well as increase their digital offerings for patients. n US physicians are experiencing a data overload By Naomi Diaz More than 7 in 10 physicians said they are suffering from a data overload, Politico reported Feb. 8. The news outlet cited a poll from consulting firm ZS that said physicians have more data than they can handle. In the poll, physicians said that they don't know what to do with all the facts, figures and data coming from various outlets such as health trackers, provider networks and EHR systems. "There are things coming from so many directions," Bill Coyle, report author and global biopharma head at ZS, told Politico. "That's where that overload or overwhelming feeling is coming from." The authors also attributed the data overload to the lack of standards and protocols surrounding healthcare data, stating that this makes it even harder for physicians to make sense of all the data they are receiving. In addition, the poll found that U.S. providers are also finding it more difficult to get paid for the time they are spending on synthesizing patient data, compared to other primary care providers in the U.K., Germany, Sweden, China and Japan. n 'Mmm hmm.' 'Uh-uh': Study says Google, Amazon medical transcription services miss nuances By Naomi Diaz "M mm hmm." "Uh-uh." When your physician answers your questions with those phrases, you understand. But the artificial intelligence listening to your conversation might not. at's according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. e researchers analyzed 36 primary care encounters that used Google Speech-to-Text Clinical Conversation and Amazon Transcribe Medical. Nonlexical conversational sounds were recognized only 40.8 percent of the time by the Google soware and 57.2 percent by the Amazon program, the Jan. 23 study found. While nonlexical conversational sounds only accounted for 2.4 percent of the total words used, "incorrect recognition of them could result in inaccuracies in clinical documentation and introduce new patient safety risks," the authors wrote. e researchers are affiliated with UC Irvine (Calif.), California University of Science and Medicine in Colton, University of Maryland in Baltimore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and UC San Diego in La Jolla, Calif. n