Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

And in an era where over six billion people have smartphones, incorporating the tool in healthcare makes sense. The following article shows four practical use cases for QR codes within the healthcare IT landscape. Managing Medical Equipment Healthcare facilities use a diverse range of equipment to deliver effective care to patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Enhancing the patient experience with technology. by Healthcare IT News November 22, 2019. This month, our coverage will continue a special focus on the patient experience. – Susan Morse, Senior Editor, Healthcare Finance News. Epic, Cerner and others reveal just how their EHRs are interoperable.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

So what are these key skills and qualifications and how have they evolved with advancements in healthcare technology ? We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community for their thoughts and the following is what they had to say.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2024

Throughout this process, a strategy that leverages multiple security measures to protect an organization’s assets is needed to prevent system compromises, protect sensitive patient data, and keep digital hospitals in compliance with industry standards and regulations. And perhaps, we all can get better sleep.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Not surprisingly, we got a lot of good responses from the Healthcare IT Today community on this topic. CHIME 2023 Edition.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2024

It was an awful experience for me as a patient and no doubt for them to have to review 3 different sets of forms. While not every office is this disorganized, the patient experience when it comes to clipboards and patient forms has a lot to be desired at many healthcare organizations. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Much like the rest of the healthcare industry, at the start of the pandemic, the patient load was overwhelming. "Virtual care required a recast in strategy to address interoperability, patient experience, provider experience and cost," said Gerard Frunzi, director of virtual care at Centura Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

This shows that the huge surge in and mainstreaming of telehealth during the ongoing pandemic has caused the C-suite and other healthcare leaders to embrace the technology that has for so long existed on the periphery of medicine. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Enterprise Architect position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 28, 2023

Digital workflows are helping the clinic create a better patient experience, enhance workforce efficiency and increase access to care across its 46 medical specialties and four facilities. With more than 300,000 outpatient appointments per year, Clínica Alemana Osorno is one of the largest healthcare providers in southern Chile.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

To help shed a light on these topics, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to see what health IT trends they believe deserve more attention. We won’t see accelerated adoption of interoperability standards (e.g., Leaders need to move beyond offering work stress-related coping strategies. FHIR, HL7).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Yesterday, we shared a number of the insights into the health data and interoperability needs in healthcare. Today, we’re going to share insights from our expert community for some of the more classic IT infrastructure needs in healthcare. Dan Kompare, Vice President of Information Systems at Harmony Healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2024

In order to get a good range of insights and opinions on what threats and opportunities health IT leaders should be looking out for, we reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community while at ViVE 2024. Gene Scheurer, CEO at Optimum Healthcare IT I think the threats are still in the financial area.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

You might be reassured that it is safe and easy to use on the administrator end, but is it that way on the user end for the patients? For some insights on patient engagement in communication platforms we reached out to our beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community. The following is what they had to say. John Moyer, Sr.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. In the next year, we’ll see further evolution of hybridized care models where parts of virtual care are leveraged to improve access and patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The following is a guest article by Tom Romeo, General Manager of Healthcare IT at Quest Diagnostics. The best document management systems drive improvements by not only storing digital healthcare data, but by also ensuring data is easily accessible enterprise-wide. Healthcare technology continues to evolve. About Tom Romeo.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Such was the case at the first ever collaborative conference for health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, public health, and health equity. The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit, brought together HIEs, state agencies and interoperability experts nationwide. .

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Optimum Healthcare IT

MARCH 22, 2023

Initially, the project focused on the technical infrastructure and service management to identify opportunities to implement best practices while, in tandem, developing a longer-term vision and strategy to fundamentally change the supporting architecture for applications and data at Baptist Memorial Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Results from a new healthcare industry survey suggest that while payers and providers are somewhat at odds when it comes to data management, their strategies still have much in common. The survey in question was sponsored by Change Healthcare and the HealthCare Executive Group conducted by InsightDynamo.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

The following is a guest article by Mike Noshay , MSE, Founder and Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at Verinovum. Be sure to check out last year’s New Healthcare Truths of 2022 ) 1. 1 HEDIS ® is a registered trademark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. Welcome to the third installment in Healthcare IT News ' latest feature series, "Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years." " Mike Mistretta, Virginia Hospital Center.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2021

Further, the pandemic has caused a massive impact on the healthcare industry, accelerating transformations and hospital design needed to address the medical priorities of their populations and respond effectively to emergencies such as epidemics and pandemics, he added. This shift from fragility to resilience is not linear.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

How do you maintain the security and privacy of your patient’s health information as cyberattacks continue to climb? In the search for some of these answers to help ease your burden, we have reached out to our incredibly brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights on communication platforms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

Virtual care aligns with strategic imperatives to improve health outcomes, enhance patient safety, and optimize the patient experience for populations with medical complexity and high healthcare needs. As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 18, 2023

Interoperability Healthcare providers use different electronic health record systems, which may not be interoperable with the large language models used in telemedicine. This lack of interoperability could lead to communication and integration issues, potentially compromising patient care quality.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Chris Anello, Director of Digital Platforms at iTech AG The COVID-19 pandemic pushed healthcare organizations to the edge and exposed both challenges and opportunities related to public health data. For healthcare modernization initiatives to succeed, CX must remain top of mind.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Involving revenue cycle management (RCM) is necessary for any comprehensive SDoH/health equity strategy. Patient experience. SDoH Factors Impacting Patients and Revenue. Additional economic losses are a result of premature deaths. Safety of care. Readmission rate. Excess stay. Effectiveness of care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. In this context, strategies and solutions that empower all stakeholders will be paramount. Carolyn Ward, M.D.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Our highly integrated, intelligent, and interoperable solutions go beyond EHR and Practice Management to increase clinical quality and productivity, enrich the patient experience, and drive superior financial performance. We are on a quest to achieve better healthcare outcomes for all.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Partners HealthCare on Thursday announced a new five-year technology initiative designed to drive digital innovation, improve clinical care and enhance the patient experience. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. WHY IT MATTERS. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

We reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for these answers. The following is what they had to say on how to stay safe and can be used as a little check list for your healthcare cybersecurity efforts. One approach to combat ransomware is 3-2-1-1 data protection.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis has shown in no uncertain terms the value and criticality of having a digitised and connected healthcare ecosystem: one that enables easy access to near-real-data, supports the demands of virtual care, prioritises patient experience and protects patient data. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2019

Specifically, Change Healthcare has worked with experts in these emerging models to develop and equip InterQual with criteria for seven acute conditions that might be suitable for management in the home. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN. Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2023

Healthcare IT News interviewed Reimer to discuss in detail these issues and programs, and additionally get some tips from him on one of his focus areas, information security preparedness. Sanford Health is well positioned to navigate these challenges through innovative strategies. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. There are many drivers converging in healthcare that underscore the critical role patient engagement plays in determining providers’ long-term success.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care. Healthcare Workforce. Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. Healthcare Consumerism.

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