Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

This familiar scene exemplifies the unnecessary burdens traditional EHRs have placed on providers, patients, and the overall healthcare system. As a former ER physician and current digital health professional, I’ve dealt with these challenges firsthand—and see the enormous potential EHRs hold to change care experiences for the better.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 27, 2022

Yesterday we shared 6 EHR optimization tips with you. Today, we’re going to look at the ecosystem of technology that interacts with the EHR and makes the EHR experience better (or worse if done wrong).

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2024

They do ask callers to distinguish between regular service and the “clinical service desk,” which mostly helps people use the EPIC EHR. UI Health switched its EHR to EPIC in 2020, planning to do intensive training for service desk workers after the switch. It can better scale up and down to handle 24/7 services.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2022

HPG), which has provided industry-leading consulting expertise for EHR technology since 2002, announced today that it acquired Health Data Specialists, LLC (HDS). Healthcare Performance Group, Inc.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Integrating diverse systems–BD analytics, predictive tools, medical devices, patient portals, EMRs, and more–facilitates real-time information flow, for real time decision making. Data minimalism can maximize clinical results.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

EHR migrations are becoming more common as many healthcare organizations switch EHRs or choose to upgrade to a new version of their EHR. That was the situation Magnolia Regional Health Center found themselves in when they migrated to a new version of the MEDITECH EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 7, 2020

In the nearly 15 years that we’ve been writing about EHR and health IT here at Healthcare IT Today, one of the most interesting topics we cover is pharma advertising inside an EHR or other health IT software product.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 2, 2023

For the 124th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are mixing together some of the recent health IT news with previews of some upcoming conferences to make our own little health IT potpourri! The first big news item we are discussing is UPMC and Intermountain moving to Epic. Thanks so much for listening!

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

However, proper staffing for EHR, revenue cycle management (RCM), and other major health IT system transitions go far beyond IT personnel. In fact, my experience suggests that operational readiness is a key factor for EHR and RCM success. Each phase of a project, from ideation to activation, demands specific skills and insights.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2021

For the 66th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about some of the recent Health IT Truths and Rumors. The world of health IT has had a lot of news and rumors coming out lately. Investment in health IT and digital health is at an all time high. There’s more government money on the way for health IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Juan Molina, Division President at CareCloud, an operating division of MTBC. In this series, we talk with EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. This will look markedly different than the traditional patient portals and dated websites that are the hallmark of the “maximize our current investments” strategy deployed by most health systems. Personalized medicine–i.e.,

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Patches Seely, Executive Vice President of Clinical Solutions at Carenet Health Clinicians’ burnout is in both a state of prevention and cure.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2021

recently agreed to acquire EHR giant Cerner for about $28.3 As most readers know, Oracle Corp. Oracle has stated that it intends to leverage its existing tools to modernize Cerner’s systems and move them to its Gen2Cloud, a step which shouldn’t be too difficult given that Cerner already runs its key clinical system on […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcittoday on the topic “The Future of EHR“ Much of health IT has been focused on the EHR for the past decade […]. We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 12/4 at Noon ET (9 AM PT).

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2021

For the 58th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about burnout and health IT’s role in staff burnout. Plus, COVID has added another […] Many people point at health IT when it comes to the topic of burnout. The ironic part is that some point to health IT as the problem (ie.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 17, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Patric Edmondson, Chief Technology Officer and Dr. Andrew Rosenthal, Medical Director of Plastic Surgery at Modernizing Medicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 29, 2022

For the 38th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Rusty Yeager, Senior VP and CIO at Encompass Health. This time we’re taking a look into EHR strategies and their standardization on the Oracle Cerner solution. Talk about your decision to roll out a standardized EHR across your organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Skyler Wason, Director of Product Management at Allscripts, and Kate Palazzolo, Vice President of Sales at FollowMyHealth. Are they developing telehealth in […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2020

While many EHR projects were put on hold or at least slowed down during COVID-19, we’re starting to see many of these projects revving back up. Just because COVID-19 happened doesn’t mean it changed the fact that many healthcare organizations need to upgrade and switch out their EHR software or consolidate onto one EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The session discussed a wide variety of topics including EHR optimization, EHR training, and other related topics. While at the CHIME 2019 Fall Forum conference in Phoenix, AZ, I had a great chance to sit in on one of the CIO focus groups at the event hosted by Optimum Healthcare IT. While listening to these […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2020

When we first started creating our live video telehealth list, we quickly realized that every healthcare organization was going to need to know and understand how their EHR vendor was planning to approach telehealth. Were EHR vendors going to roll out their own solution? Would […].

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Given the relatively recent transition of leadership , I thought it would be a good time to check in with MEDITECH’s Executive Vice President & COO, Helen Waters. In our discussion, we cover a broad range of topics including how the leadership change has gone, the impact of COVID, and where they’re headed in the future.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

Much has been written about Larry Ellison’s vision of what he called a “National EHR Database.” To be clear, I’m not sure if this was Ellison’s goal with a “National EHR Database” or not. The second group to benefit from this National EHR Database was public health.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Andy Penn, Vice President of Virtual Health at Cerner. In this series, we talk with EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Greg Wujek, Global Health Industry Consultant at SAS Robots as providers comes of age. AI can listen to patient visits and integrate accurate notes and next steps directly into the EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Tim Costantino, VP, Head of Product at AdvancedMD. In this series, we talk with EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth. If […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

While many in the industry are ready to move past the EHR, the reality for health IT leaders is that the EHR still takes up a large portion of their mindshare and has some of the biggest impact for good or bad on an organization. Stemmler also offered her advice to other CIOs that are looking at similar solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Baha Zeidan, Co-founder and CEO of Azalea Health. In this series, we talk with EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth. If […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 26, 2021

For the 67th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about what’s Rising and Falling in Health IT. I’m not sure there’s ever been a time in health IT where more things have been happening.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Oracle Health wants to move further. In this video at the Oracle Health conference, Senior Vice President of Product Management, Suhas Uliyar describes how Oracle Health is creating tools that accompany and augment the workflow of physicians, nurses, and patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 21, 2021

Genomics is one of the most exciting parts of healthcare. It’s also one of the most complex and challenging topics out there. As genomic sequencing prices have dropped and genomic research has accelerated, I know of no area of healthcare that’s more exciting than genomics.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2023

One of the most impactful things in a clinical organization is the EHR. When you talk to staff in a medical practice, they all spend a large portion of their day inside the EHR. This makes sense because the EHR is the clinical record that drives the schedule, the care decisions, the clinical documentation, the billing, and much more.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

As you can imagine, we’ve been innundated with COVID-19 related health IT news. We’ve done our best to cover the areas we thought were most important to healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with David Cohen, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Greenway Health. In this series, we talk with EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Paul Brient, Chief Product Officer, athenahealth. In this series, we talk with an EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

At ReMedi , we frequently support health systems going through transitions at various stages of the EHR life cycle. Along the way, we almost inevitably uncover challenges surrounding the quality of the patient data transferred to the new and existing EHR. Clinicians vs. Abstractors: Who should do it?

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