KevinMD

AUGUST 4, 2021

Is your health care organization reeling from a bad EHR implementation? There have been rumblings from hospital leadership and congressional committees about the Veterans Administration (VA) Hospitals’ implementation of the Cerner Corporation electronic health record (EHR) replacing the VistA EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 13, 2024

We haven’t seen this much universal interest in a health IT product since the government offered $36 billion in stimulus money for EHR software. Plus, we dive into the important topic of EHR integration. Singh also shares some more details on how deeply they are integrating with EHR vendors.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Mr. Petrov’s new leadership will be advancing Healee’s mission for addressing the complex patient access needs of high-performing medical organizations. About Healee Healee helps healthcare organizations efficiently manage complex provider schedules with a robust patient access solution that integrates with their EHR.

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Optimum Healthcare IT

OCTOBER 14, 2022

How do the worlds of IT and healthcare converge and how much does clinical experience matter in healthcare IT leadership? Continue reading Why Does Clinical Experience Matter in Healthcare IT Leadership? Meet Brenda Ashley. at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exec Summary: The intersection of large language models (LLMs), electronic health records (EHRs), and social determinants of health (SDoH) holds immense potential for revolutionising healthcare delivery and improving population health outcomes. Robust data governance and anonymisation techniques are essential.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2022

One thing I’ve learned in 16 years writing about health IT and particularly focused on EMR (now EHR if you prefer), is that the EHR still impacts so many things in the life of a clinician. Yes, hospitals and health systems have 1000s of health IT solutions that they have to manage, upgrade, secure, etc. […].

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 12, 2019

The Department of Veterans Affairs is moving forward with a $16 billion EHR project slated to go live at pilot sites in 10 months without key governance leadership in place.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Key lawmakers are fed up with what they see as poor VA leadership over the roll-out of a Cerner EHR system and vowed to take tighter control of the project. Here's when the VA says it expects the go-live date for its first site will be.

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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

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

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Before I dive into the specifics of these new requirements from CMS, let’s consider what this means for EHR vendors: more work and increased investment on top of what’s waiting when the next regulatory shoe drops. Both will require EHRs to redevelop different aspects of their roadmap simultaneously. And then what?

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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

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

MAY 16, 2022

For the 88th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about EHR Optimization. Many people are tired of hearing about EMR and EHR. While I can understand this feeling, the reality is […] For the 88th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about EHR Optimization.

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Optimum Healthcare IT

OCTOBER 14, 2022

How do the worlds of IT and healthcare converge and how much does clinical experience matter in healthcare IT leadership? Continue reading Why Does Clinical Experience Matter in Healthcare IT Leadership? Meet Brenda Ashley. at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2021

This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcitoday on the topic “EHR Wish List.” ” While the EHR market is quite mature and we don’t see new EHR implementations happening a lot, […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2023

For Suncoast Community Health Centers, moving to a cloud-based EHR was a no-brainer. With careful planning, cross-department collaboration, and help from their EHR partner, eClinicalWorks, the migration to the cloud was seamless. Our servers couldn’t keep up, especially because we were not just running the eClinicalWorks EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2020

For the 47th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about the various phases of EHR (or EMR if you prefer). As we look at the current EMR and EHR market, we see healthcare organizations across nearly all 4 phases. However, […] In this episode, we discuss 4 EHR/EMR phases: * EMR Adoption. *

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Most of the measured contributors to burnout have become less prevalent than they were at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new Provider Burnout and the EHR Experience report from the KLAS Arch Collaborative. "Providers also were less likely to report feeling burned out," the KLAS researchers found.

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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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Xealth

APRIL 13, 2023

Migrating EHRs? Love it or hate it, at the center of it all is your health system’s electronic health record (EHR). In theory, most health system leaders understand that the provider experience needs to be at the center of any EHR migration project. But in practice, it’s a different story.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Aligning new technology and features with the Epic EHR has created more effective telehealth care pathways, Frunzi explained. Applying for FCC funds and executing on the vendor selection process was work done by Frunzi's four-person team, clinical leadership, IT, and vendors for build and configuration, and legal and regulatory staff.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 29, 2022

This time we’re taking a look into EHR strategies and their standardization on the Oracle Cerner solution. Yeager shares details on the rollout of the EHR and the value of having a standard EHR across the enterprise. Talk about your decision to roll out a standardized EHR across your organization.

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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 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 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

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 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

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. It’s a topic that will likely never disappear since Pharma has a lot of money to […].

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 26, 2018

Members of the House Veterans Affairs Committee worried that unfilled leadership positions and concerns about the VA's acting CIO would derail the Cerner implementation. Agency officials said they have identified three sites in Washington where the Cerner system will be live by March 2020.

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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

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

OCTOBER 5, 2020

More specifically, we’re talking about EHR vendors entrance into telehealth and third party telehealth vendors. In this episode we dive into the telehealth battle between EHR vendors and 3rd party telehealth vendors. For the 46th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about the battle for telehealth.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2023

Finally, HIPAA requires ‘ Audit Controls’ , meaning all access to electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) must be tracked in log files, with logs of all applicable systems (EHR, e-mail, network and cloud servers, Azure, AWS, Google Drive, etc.) retained for 6 years.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

EHR Development Standards: New teeth, bigger bite After years of dashed hopes that EHR workflows will achieve true interoperability and allow patients to easily access and share their healthcare data, many are looking at the ONC’s final standards with a skeptical eye and cautious optimism. There’s no time to waste.

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