Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2024

The government and many healthcare leaders are pushing for more interoperability and data sharing in healthcare. Finally, Rogow highlighted a great quote that says “The best technologies are the ones that you stop noticing. This slide illustrates details of how that matures over time.

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Redox

APRIL 28, 2023

Last week was the biggest event/spectacle in health IT, the “World’s Fair of Healthcare”, also known as HIMSS. I am a HIMSS newbie, so the size and scope seemed huge, even overwhelming at times, but veterans noted a noticeable temperance to this year’s event. Sessions like “ Interoperability. What’s Taking So Long?”

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Sharing information across platforms has become so ubiquitous that many of us hardly notice it happening—interconnected technologies touch almost every area of our lives. The following is a guest article by Mike Simmons, CEO and Founder at andros.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 1, 2022

Much like I saw with interoperability , we’ve made great progress, but there’s so much left to be done. This was highlighted clearly to me when I talked with Susan Solinsky, Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer at Ellipsis Health. With all of this said, we’re still in the early days of this movement.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

This final rule does not apply to healthcare providers but instead is directed at health information networks and health information exchanges, as well as developers of certified health IT. There will be a separate notice of proposed rulemaking directed at healthcare providers that should be coming out in the near future.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2020

OCR (Office for Civil Rights) inside of HHS which is in charge of HIPAA enforcement has issued another notice of enforcement discretion. Roger Severino, OCR Director, announced that OCR will exercise it’s enforcement discretion and not impose penalties for violations of certain HIPAA provisions.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Alas, as much as we pull our hair apart dealing with challenges around data and analytics and interoperability – the reality is that what we really need to strive for is behavior change. He seems to be everywhere: here he is speaking at the HIMSS conference this past March in Las Vegas. Twitter @RasuShrestha.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2022

Dr. Katharine Smart, President of the Canadian Medical Association believes interoperability is key to reducing physician burnout. Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Smart at a recent conference in Toronto to discuss the healthcare workforce crisis and how Health IT can help. Worrying Trend. It’s really worrisome.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Access to Images Improves Population Health Langan provided key insight into the impact that access to images can have on population health. She how at her facility, staff saw a noticeable uptick in patient engagement when patients had ready and easy access to their images and other medical data. “It

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

#AHIMA23 #HITsm pic.twitter.com/qPq0ZfD4Qc — Colin Hung (@Colin_Hung) October 10, 2023 Additional Benefits of ROI Automation After Banner Health implemented their new ROI process, they noticed an additional benefit almost right away.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Healthtech providers can adopt HL7 (Health Level Seven) or FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). Artificial intelligence algorithms noticeably simplify data management. To seamlessly obtain information from various systems, healthcare data exchange standards are essential.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

For HHM Health , an FQHC serving the Dallas area, interoperability and access to medical records is vital for establishing trust with their patients and saving lives. It brings together medical records from both Carequality and CommonWell Health Alliance networks as well as from a number of insurance payers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2023

Now imagine your users discover these data issues before your internal team notices — or mitigates them. This lack of visibility diminishes patient trust and hampers business outcomes. Automated data lineage enables healthcare staff to quickly identify and correct errors, reducing the time spent manually tracing and correcting mistakes.

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Docnotes

MAY 31, 2017

Before Health IT Certification. Before there was certification, Health IT development companies (some people call them “vendors”) created software and sold the software with claims of improved provider productivity, improved public health, and (yup) improved billing (among other impressive capabilities ).

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Chilmark Research

JANUARY 17, 2014

For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and interoperability. The final rule is expected to drop sometime in Q1-Q2 of 2015 – just one year away.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

The world of health IT is ever-changing. With this constant motion of change, it’s important that we take the time to stop and get our bearings, that we take notice of what we’re focusing on and what we’re ignoring. One moment a problem is unsolvable, the next a new technology has been created and solves the problem.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s always been pretty obvious that factors such as wealth, race, education, and the quality of food and water have enormous impacts on health. Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH).

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Redox

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The reasoning goes like this: get individual teams at a company to use the product and eventually central IT will take notice and sign an enterprise deal. The US government wants a future that resembles shadow IT for patients, but it’s unclear if it will trickle into the rest of the health IT enterprise space.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Digital health advocates also expressed mixed feelings, with the American Telemedicine Association representatives saying the organization appreciated some of the provisions in the bill while noting other ways in which it fell short.

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HIStalk Weekender

MARCH 8, 2019

Carestream Health sells its health IT business to Philips. FDA Commissioner and digital health advocate Scott Gottlieb, MD resigns. FDA Commissioner and digital health advocate Scott Gottlieb, MD resigns. Newly formed Beth Israel Lahey Health says it will eventually consolidate its multiple EHRs into a single product.

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