Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Fourteen professional healthcare, life science, and consumer organizations formed the Digital Health Collaborative to advance evidence and value in digital health technology. A survey published in JAMIA found 73% of digital health vendors are using standards-based FHIR APIs when integrating with EHR systems.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MAY 13, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare technology, the integration of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) data into Electronic Health Records (EHRs) stands as a pivotal advancement poised to revolutionize patient care delivery. Backbone of EHR systems: EHR Software facilitates electronic data capture, storage, and retrieval.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 14, 2023

The underlying theme of AHIMA’s annual conference was that health information management professionals are both encouraged and frustrated at the state of the industry , Colin Hung reported from Baltimore. Read more… To Drive Value, EHRs Need to Be Usable, Not Just Useful.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But when dealing with all of the many things that providers do and the highly important health information about patients, something as simple as selecting a communication platform becomes a very tricky situation. How do you maintain the security and privacy of your patient’s health information as cyberattacks continue to climb?

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Lloyd Price

JULY 10, 2023

In addition to these benefits, open source software is also becoming increasingly interoperable. Here are some examples of open source software that are being used in healthcare today: EHRs: There are a number of open source EHRs available, such as OpenMRS, OpenEHR, and Elyra. FHIR: An open standard for exchanging health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Rahul Sharma, CEO of HSBlox , points out that doctors haven’t been trained to use the Z codes, but that training will improve. The modern health information API, FHIR, includes the Gender Harmony taxonomy developed by HL7.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2022

Epic’s Take on TEFCA and Interoperability. Epic has plans to join TEFCA as an inaugural Qualified Health Information Network. Read more… Virtual Reality as a Tool in Medical Training. Practice makes perfect, and VR training allows surgeons to get far more repetitions that they would in the lab.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2023

The group also launched a health equity survey , with the results to be announced at ViVE in Nashville in March. ONC’s latest data brief indicated that, as of the end of 2021, more than 60% of hospitals are actively engaged in sharing health information.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

The field encompasses a wide range of technologies, such as electronic health records (EHRs) , clinical decision support systems (CDSS), telemedicine, and health data analytics. Additionally, healthcare professionals need to be trained in the use of informatics tools and technologies to maximize their benefits.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2023

News In a Microsoft press release announcing the availability of GPT-4 in Azure OpenAI Service, Epic’s Seth Hain, Senior Vice President of Research and Development, said the EHR vendor sees “tremendous potential” for the latest version of the multimodal large language model.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Prolog from Dr. Sands: I trained in clinical informatics because of my belief that we needed to better empower healthcare professionals with information technology so they could take better care of patients, and spent many years creating and implementing these tools. Health Informatics (HI) is a relatively new, interdisciplinary field.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 13, 2024

The latest advancements in digital health technologies This could include discussions on artificial intelligence, machine learning, telehealth, and other emerging technologies. For: Clinicians and leaders who want to get the latest on the impacts of digital health in Europe. For: Innovators who want to improve outcomes with data.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Storage of Information in Various Systems While serving diverse medical institution needs, Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) parallel existence complicates information access and exchange between doctors, patients, and different medical centers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2023

We received recommendations to address health inequity by improving medication management, prior authorization, clinical trials, remote monitoring, patient education, and behavioral health , among other things. Read more… Exploring Augmented and Virtual Reality Apps for Training.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

for the thirteenth consecutive year and was also the top EHR in Canada and Europe. Meanwhile, KLAS noted that digital pathology, interoperability, and recovering from the pandemic have been driving health systems’ technology investment strategies. Epic won top honors in the U.S.

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

We heard from the Mace family, a couple who experienced first hand the difficulties with health data exchange after Tristan (26 yo M) had to undergo an emergency heart transplant after experiencing a catastrophic cardiac event.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Many hospitals, health systems, and health plans still don’t have employees trained and don’t have the proper policies, procedures, and tech tools in place to be compliant, even with the two years of runway that was provided by legislators. The No Surprises Act was signed into law in 2020 and took effect last year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2019

There is also a big push for increasing a patient’s autonomy around their personal health information and the access they have to it, especially via personal devices which are likely to be used in the future to communicate directly with providers, if they aren’t already. FHIR and APIs.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 10, 2024

Regulatory and Ethical Considerations Compliance with HIPAA regulations DrKumo RPM complies with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations regarding the security and privacy of patient health information.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 25, 2024

Ethical Considerations and Patient Privacy Ensuring data confidentiality and consent Maintaining patient privacy and obtaining informed consent are essential ethical considerations in the implementation of DrKumo’s system, ensuring that patient data is protected and used responsibly.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

my alma mater) and colleagues track the growth of consumer-facing digital health tools and initiatives leading to consumers’ engagement with websites and apps. agency responsible for monitoring claims and the use of personal data out-of-health-context.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 7, 2020

It can also fit into any point on the care spectrum – with workflows designed to support specialties like stroke, dermatology, behavioral health, cardiology, pediatrics, dentistry, audiology and other disciplines. We want EHR interoperability. Can telemedicine integrate with my EHR? Is there a long learning curve?

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 26, 2018

Medical Records on iPhone - Apple already allows iPhone users to store health information gathered by the Apple Watch and other connected devices in its Health app, but this is the first time a system for retrieving records from a variety of medical providers has been launched on a smartphone.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 10, 2018

The developed markets are now moving to a new digital health model with increasing adoption of cloud and mobile- based technology in the healthcare system. But integration and interoperability challenges of existing traditional models will make this progress slower. Singapore is now transitioning to a new digital health model.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 5, 2024

Real-time access to health data: Remote monitoring allows patients to access their health data in real-time, promoting transparency and encouraging active involvement in their care. Healthcare providers should empower patients with the knowledge and skills needed to actively participate in RPM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

With some 95 percent of healthcare providers having deployed EHRs, the healthcare system is officially digital. Interoperability: Health IT's hardest problem is (finally) at an inflection point. EHR training is biggest predictor of user satisfaction, experts say. by May 10, 2019. The system is digitized.

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

ECG, blood pressure, glucose monitoring) digitally stored and/or transmitted by the patient and/or caregiver to the physician or other qualified health care professional, qualified by education, training, licensure/regulation (when applicable) requiring a minimum of 30 minutes of time, each 30 days. Optional EHR integration.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Had PPS been required to have broader governance – including community-based organizations, health plans, faith-based organizations, Health Information Exchanges, and other nonprofits, we would have had more balanced governance decision-making that would have supported the policy goals of the program more consistently statewide.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 26, 2020

We are writing you today to ask that you hear our point of view as decisions are made on the Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator Proposed Rule to Improve the Interoperability of Health Information. . Some use other EHRs. Some are informal “curbside” consults. No I don’t!”

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