Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While we are still in this mindset, let’s talk about how we can also improve as health IT leaders. So to become a better leader in health IT, we need to figure out what skills and best practices we must do and find out if these skills for health IT leadership is different than other healthcare sectors.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

About NYeC New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State. This position reports to the Chief Information Officer.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 3, 2022

And for 70% of teens, their first source of health information is the web. The following article includes contributions by Geri Lynn Baumblatt & Teresa Wagner. Most kids grow up online. It’s easier to use their phone, and they may not feel comfortable asking parents or teachers. Sometimes they do a search to find out […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

ECRI's Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety is working with the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association chart some of the common challenges involved in integrating behavioral health systems with primary care EHRs. Optimize clinical documentation for behavioral health and primary care integration.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

As part of their intake process, the team checked Alex’s (a pseudonym) medical history through the hospital’s health information organization and discovered the patient had recently undergone a cardiac surgery at a different hospital; their post-surgical issues had merely mimicked a neurological challenge.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 1, 2023

Leveraging our AI-enabled platform with NLP and MDPortals’ sophisticated interoperability allows us to deliver providers a pre-encounter clinical summary of patients within their EHR workflow at the point of care,” said Jay Ackerman, CEO and President at Reveleer.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Joel Morse, CEO & Co-Founder at Curavit Clinical Research 1) Digital Therapeutic (DTx) companies will continue to pivot away from prescription models.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. For example, HHS is proposing to update the HIPAA Security Rule in 2024 to strengthen requirements for HIPAA regulated entities to safeguard electronic health information from cybersecurity threats.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

Healthcare access from home or healthcare access for the clinic is just as important as educational access, echoed Leary. Also on its policy agenda for the year ahead: advocating for data standardization, offering input for interoperability rulemaking and engaging with agencies and states to increase telehealth access.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Here's what execs from some leading health IT vendors think about the most pressing challenges – and big opportunities – of the year ahead. Health systems will need to "pre-select and process data in a manner that meshes with its intended purpose and the underlying requirements for data privacy, when and where applicable."

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

Paulo Pinho, MD, Chief Medical and Strategy Officer at Discern Health , highlighted to us that analytics have to be explainable to be trusted. It’s not enough to show a correlation, but to demonstrate that the clinical intervention was responsible for the improved patient outcome. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

So while there are a lot of benefits to come from ambient clinical voice technology , we have to be sure that we are prepared for the challenges. So what are the risks and concerns of ambient clinical voice technology and how could they be holding people back from adopting it?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Accelerated innovation is affecting health care in several ways. Watch this short video demo for more details about how Xealth connects hospitals and health systems to patients at home. Furthermore, a wealth of home-based solutions are being offered by a range of IT companies. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2019

We'll share insights about everything from AI and cloud computing to telemedicine and population health. From front line care delivery, including triage, clinical decision support and patient experience to back-office operations, such as billing and revenue cycle, algorithms and emerging technologies are already proving their value.

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KevinMD

MARCH 3, 2019

Since the passing of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, it has been said that health tech would dramatically revolutionize health care and the patient experience.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer. Here’s what I wrote. Why is this so important?

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Many of the medical records for Angela’s children (she has two adopted children) have been destroyed by both hospitals and clinics. Due to a lack of and incorrect personal health information, Grace was being treated for conditions she did not have. As a result, she does not have a family medical history for them. says Angela.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It’s not a huge surprise that the week of the ONC Meeting, they would make a number of big announcements for those of us in health IT. I expect we’ll see many more health IT companies become QHINs. The first was the announcement of the first official QHINs as part of TEFCA and the 2nd announcement was the final HTI-1 rule.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

From integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into healthcare and health data platforms to establishing robust data standards that reach beyond clinical settings to managing patient consent and increased patient access, it is fair to say that health data exchange and data management have many important intricacies worthy of careful attention.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

There’s a collective holding of breath right now in health IT as the ONC appears likely to issue its final HTI-1 rule with new data standards for the next stage of healthcare interoperability soon. The following is a guest article by Nick Barger, PharmD, Vice President, Product at DrFirst.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. It is likely that behind growing health data hacks is the marginally greater financial incentive to mine it compared with other consumer data.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Erik Jacob, Director of Interoperability at Rochester Regional Health (RRH) and Charlie Harp, CEO at Clinical Architecture to discuss how a practical, measured approach to interoperability is preferable to a tsunami of data. Our clinicians needed that information so it was our job to get it to them.”

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2024

The system records the conversation between clinician and patient, and then automatically produces a clinical note. It produces the clinical note in near real-time, so the clinician can review it and make any necessary edits at the time of the encounter. AI can then translate the clinical concepts into standard formats.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. As with other aspects of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

Vaccination status, demographic information and notes are increasingly shared. That same report also showed the company delivered: 55 billion medication histories 25 billion clinical documents …via its platform. “We Exchanging health information is everything we do.” Why would they do this? With more than 21.7

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2023

There has been a lot of activity and news coverage of Qualified Health Information Networks, or QHINs, recently. Healthcare IT Today had the chance to ask Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture , for his perspective via email. Once TEFCA and the QHINs reach critical mass, we will be a much more connected health system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The legislation, which is supported by several industry representatives including athenahealth, Epic, IBM and Teladoc Health, would establish a commission tasked with providing recommendations to Congress about updates to health information privacy laws. WHY IT MATTERS. "HIPAA must be updated for the modern day.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 31, 2023

The following is a guest article by Michael Blum, MD, Cardiologist, Co-founder and CEO at BeeKeeperAI and Former Chief Medical Information Officer at UCSF Medical Center The advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT3 (GPT3) Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot sparked an unprecedented societal appreciation for the power of AI.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2021

Health plan management company Anthem has struck a deal with Epic rolling out data sharing technology to health systems and providers who use the EHR vendor’s technology. Under the terms of the deal, participating providers will have access to Epic’s Payer Platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2022

Availity , one of the nation’s largest real-time health information networks, announced a definitive agreement to acquire Diameter Health , a national leader in clinical data quality and interoperability. Harnessing the power of clinical data is a critical opportunity for Availity.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2024

But each system also has its own fields for storing address information, and communication among them is complicated. I talked recenly with Brent Francom, senior product manager at Smarty , about efforts to get the health care field to adopt the standard and tools for making it work smoothly.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 6, 2023

The Acquisition of Melax Tech will Expand IMO’s Suite of Products to Improve Patient Care, Clinical Workflows, and Healthcare Data Quality Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO), a leading provider of clinical terminology management and data quality solutions for healthcare, announced today that it has acquired Melax Technologies, Inc.

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