FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Massachusetts healthcare organizations announced this week that every hospital, health system and local health plan in the state is removing “stigmatizing or invasive” mental health questions from | In a nationwide first, every hospital, health system and local health plan in the state has signed on to removing sensitive mental health questions from (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

Hospital patients with conditions like pneumonia, dehydration and heart failure have been shown to experience shorter recovery times with fewer complications when they receive more cost-effective healthcare at home – and many health systems have been preparing for this future.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 23, 2024

Yonsei University Health System (YUHS) is taking a groundbreaking step in expanding access to medical care by incorporating digital therapeutic devices (DTx) into patients’ daily lives. Developers of these devices can seamlessly connect with medical organizations on the platform.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

This post follows up Part 1 of a two-part series I’ve prepared in advance of the AHIP 2024 conference where I’ll be brainstorming these scenarios with a panel of folks who know their stuff in technology, health care and hospital systems, retail health, and pharmacy, among other key issues.

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Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With recently proposed disincentives for hospitals and health systems, organizations are under pressure to invest in the right data infrastructure strategy MCCLEAN, Va.–(BUSINESS Recently, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2024

Suki announced Tuesday that it has partnered with Amwell to integrate its Suki Assistant artificial intelligence into Amwell's Converge hybrid care delivery platform used by providers at more than 2,000 hospitals and health systems, including Cleveland Clinic, Northwell Health and Intermountain Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Medical coding is one of the most time-consuming, understaffed, and inherently error-prone parts of the health system revenue cycle. The platform is uniquely designed with a comprehensive patient-centric longitudinal view of records.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

"Geisinger will be able to accelerate our vision and continue to invest in new and existing capabilities and facilities, while charting a path for the future of American health care, through Risant Health," said Dr. Jaewon Ryu , president and CEO of Geisinger Health, said in Wednesday's announcement.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Additionally, the organization will implement Altera’s Ventus Contract Management, Ventus Compliance Advisor and Ventus Intelligent Coding solutions to optimize revenue and reduce compliance risk. Weiss Memorial Hospital, a 236-bed safety-net facility located in the North Side of Chicago, and a satellite location in River Forest.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

The following is a guest article by Dr. Guillermo Diaz, Chief Medical Information Officer at Los Angeles Department of Health Services – Ambulatory Care Network , and Ali Modaressi, CEO at Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services (LANES) When Alex was brought into L.A.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Do you have an open health IT position that you are looking to fill?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 15, 2021

Teladoc Health and Microsoft announced this week that they are teaming up to offer virtual care integration for health systems and hospitals. The collaboration is aimed at streamlining telehealth technology and administrative processes, say the organizations. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

Telemedicine in these areas provides chronic patients, for example, with access to medical specialists without traveling an extended distance, and can allow providers to identify particular social determinants of health such as lack of access to food. What is the state of remote patient monitoring in rural settings?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2024

Rural and community hospitals face the same challenges as larger health systems. Altera Digital Health (Altera) is leveraging the cloud to help this important customer segment. Outsized Impact Right from the start of the interview it was clear that Dr. Pratt is deeply passionate about rural and community hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere. With the right tools, extending care outside the hospital is not only feasible, but in many cases preferred.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2024

The attack kept Change Healthcare’s systems down for three weeks, even prompting the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to deploy accelerated payments and loan programs for healthcare organizations affected by the attack, akin to the support deployed during the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 31, 2023

The two organizations are hoping to close their cross-market deal by the end of the year, potentially creating a new 28-hospital, integrated, academic health system. BJC HealthCare of St. |

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Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 7, 2023

.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Fraser Health Authority (Surrey, B.C.), a large regional health authority, will be one of the first health systems globally to deploy generative AI to assist with clinical documentation in MEDITECH’s Expanse EHR, using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI and large language models (LLMs).

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 5, 2023

–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Altera Digital Health , a global health IT leader, and Harris Affinity (Affinity), a leading provider of financial decision support tools, today announced their new reseller agreement. hospitals ended 2022 with negative margins as expenses rose at a higher rate than revenues. Roughly half of U.S.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 19, 2023

The platform matches digital health solution vendors with the right health system buyers, ensuring vendors can reach the right customers and that health systems are able to identify and select the best solutions for their digital transformation journeys.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

billion in annual operating revenue, Memorial Healthcare System is one of the largest public health systems in the U.S. "Additionally, an in-basket message can be sent to the primary care provider, or any Epic pool designated by the health system," he continued.

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 21, 2023

UPMC has signed a non-binding letter of intent to affiliate Washington Health System, a two-hospital nonprofit community health system based in Pennsylvania, according to a release shared Tuesday.<

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health and Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Presbyterian Healthcare Services are no longer working toward a merger, the systems announced Wednesday. | The cross-market deal would have yielded a 48-hospital nonprofit with more than 4 million patients.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 30, 2024

The statewide nonprofit health information organization will send and receive Admit, Discharge, and Transfer (ADT) notifications at no cost for most CalHHS Data Exchange Framework (DxF) participants through new exchange EMERYVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 16, 2024

BEN’s goal is to create rich and engaging customer experiences and empower organizations with new tools that can accelerate business productivity and efficiency with our AI technology. In 2020, OSF OnCall was established, a digital health operating unit, including a hospital-at-home. More at osfhealthcare.org/.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2024

Healthwise’s Current Operating Assets will become part of WebMD Ignite, Creating an Industry-Leading Healthcare Growth and Engagement Platform Serving 650+ Healthcare Organizations WebMD Health Corp. , hospital patients, as well as for the membership of most major payor organizations. and 85% of the top 20 payers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Instead of thinking of patients as "discharged" once they leave the hospital, which implies care is finished, many healthcare professionals believe it's time to treat home as a fundamental care setting that needs to be well integrated into the care continuum. What are the challenges for effective hospital-at-home coordination?

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 13, 2023

A rural Illinois hospital closure slated for the end of the week has been attributed in part to a multiweek ransomware incident the organization suffered in early 2021, marking what experts say is | St.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

For example, in the healthcare industry, we have to abide by HIPAA — a law that helps protect the privacy and security of people’s health information. We can’t serve our patients if we don’t ensure that protected health information (PHI) is kept private.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 13, 2022

Marshfield Clinic Health System is partnering with DispatchHealth to bring its rural patients in-home medical care. Marshfield serves a population in Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula with more than 60 Marshfield Clinic locations and 11 hospitals. It is a win for our organization and for those we serve."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2024

In October, CISA issued a warning that CVE-2023-44487 affecting HTTP/2 – a DDoS exploit also known as Rapid Reset – could compromise critical infrastructure while the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center alerted its members about the potential for that LOTL threat. ON THE RECORD "The U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 24, 2024

Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Do you have an open health IT position that you are looking to fill?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 27, 2024

While we happily helped many health IT professionals find jobs and healthcare organizations fill their health IT positions, our focus has definitely moved from growing the job board to the content, podcasts, and videos we have been doing on Healthcare IT Today. That doesn’t require a health IT specific job board.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2022

United Health Services Hospitals is a health system serving South Central New York and based in Vestal, New York. Britton, system program manager, UHS virtual healthcare and digital transformation. Britton, United Health Services Hospitals. " Dr. John Giannone, United Health Services Hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

The key to faster response times is an effective clinical communication system. For all these reasons — the impact on patient care, care collaboration and clinician experience — effective clinical communication is key to the success of healthcare organizations (HCOs). Do not use the EHR for clinical communication.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 9, 2024

" NHS England's plan for Tech in 2024-2025 is centred around 5 key themes: Primary Care and GP's Virtual Wards Federated Data Platform Mental Health Digital Maturity Primary Care and GP's GPs are getting help to improve how patients access their services through "Modern General Practice Access."

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