Digital Health Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

This formulary could become accessible through a clinician's Electronic Medical Record (EMR), but not exclusively, as the German physician’s adoption to EMRs remains relatively low as of now. The spotlight is on Germany as the Digital Supply Act is adopted. On November 8, 2019, the Digital Supply Act was adopted in Germany.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Of course, that's been the case every year over the past decade since the first meaningful use checks were mailed out, kickstarting the digital healthcare age as we know it. by Healthcare IT News November 22, 2019. – Susan Morse, Senior Editor, Healthcare Finance News. Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters.

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David Chou

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

This would be a great #HIMSS19 announcement Buying another technology company, like an EMR company, is not the ideal method for a technology organization to tap into the healthcare market. Buying another healthcare technology company, like Epic Systems, will not have the same impact if the operating model and processes do not change.

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David Chou

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In recent years, the healthcare provider industry has spent the majority of its technology budget on the electronic medical records. This has led to a neglect of back-office enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, and, as a result, almost every healthcare provider organization now is evaluating a cloud ERP solution.

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HIStalk Interviews

MAY 15, 2019

Your new customer Jefferson Health said in the announcement that they want to offer “healthcare with no address.” What’s been happening in healthcare over the last 20 years is a physical re-engineering. You never know when you’ll have a moment that requires a healthcare encounter, so make it easier.

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HIStalk Interviews

APRIL 24, 2019

It is focused on solving the business workflow aspect of healthcare and creating interoperability between systems and ease of communication without the need for code. It is a truly scalable platform that provides an affordable solution to any sized healthcare organization so that they can streamline their business use case workflows.

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GlobalMed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Providers may worry about reimbursement barriers or clinically shortchanging their patients ; healthcare leaders may worry they’ll waste their investment. Essentially, good onboarding can overcome those fears and help providers, patients, and leaders move into a new comfort zone where telemedicine feels like a natural part of healthcare.

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HIStalk Weekender

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Provider management and credentialing software vendor Symplr will acquire workforce management tech company API Healthcare from Veritas Capital. Unsealed testimony reveals that a focus of the Amazon – Berkshire – JPMorgan healthcare organization will be to make health insurance and prescription drug prices easier to understand.

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care innovations

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

While I know that the healthcare industry and the Marines are on separate ends of the spectrum, the principles I’ve picked up along the way have been foundational in helping me navigate through my entire career. The same lesson applies to healthcare. I knew from that moment that I would eventually become a Marine. In the U.S.,

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HIStalk Interviews

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Nora Lissy, RN, MBA is director of healthcare for Dimensional Insight of Burlington, MA. As healthcare evolved, I evolved with it and got into analytics, understanding numbers and outcomes. Tell me about yourself and the company. I’ve been a registered nurse for over 30 years. I came on board with the company in 2013.

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KB Dental Consulting

OCTOBER 6, 2019

The great expansion of the Internet across multiple fields has led to the usage of IoT (Internet of things) security in all healthcare fields. The company claims that the global healthcare IoT market is valued at $4.8 The company claims that the global healthcare IoT market is valued at $4.8

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HIStalk Weekender

JULY 12, 2019

Twenty years from now if someone as industrious as Vince Ciotti wants to write the next history of EMR/HIS, all they will have to do is take Vince’s PowerPoints and put in the new vendor names. I hate too say it, but after 40+ years in the healthcare IT world, information technology can’t reform healthcare. Providence St.

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GlobalMed

JUNE 17, 2019

Virtual healthcare can help patients stay home while doctors can decide if they need a prescription, further diagnostic testing or ER services – which lightens demand on crowded clinics. Capacity management is a high-stakes game. Done well, it balances patient needs and provider workloads. The Insidious Risks of Poor Capacity Management.

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HIStalk Interviews

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

At that company, I saw the need to improve communications in healthcare and later started PerfectServe. As you and I have talked about in the past, the industry in which we operate is that outside the realm of the EMR, the technologies are fragmented. How is that impacting healthcare communication? K1 is a growth investor.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Consider some of the announcements that companies have made in just the past few months: In late November, Amazon Web Services announced the formation of Comprehend Medical, which uses natural language processing to mine unstructured medical text from electronic medical records (EMRs) and other patient data.1

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HIStalk Interviews

APRIL 10, 2019

I’ve been in healthcare IT for a long time. The big EMR push, Meaningful Use, and even ICD-10 took people’s attention away from the post-acute care side. We’ve been doing this for about 10 or 11 years and I’ve been there five years. I don’t think I’ll ever go back to big company.

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HIStalk Interviews

MARCH 13, 2019

Mike Mardini is founder and CEO of National Decision Support Company of Madison, WI, which is part of Change Healthcare. I’m a healthcare IT veteran. We were acquired by Change Healthcare about a year ago. Tell me about yourself and the company. How will the acquisition change your business? It happened the right way.

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New Age Healthcare

MARCH 22, 2019

I ndia’s Healthcare system is fragmented, the country is too diverse and large for a single unified system. Each state has its own healthcare Public Health programs, schemes. Interestingly, digital technology is proving to be a binding force between the three important stakeholders of healthcare namely, payer, provider and people.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In November 2018, Mary Ang and her team won $45,000 in the Department of Health & Human Service’s Easy EHR Issue Reporting Challenge. Then she disappeared…until last week. Almost exactly a year after her Challenge win, Ang debuted a refined, production-ready version of her prize-winning application at the 2019 IHI Forum.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

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. The session discussed a wide variety of topics including EHR optimization, EHR training, and other related topics. While listening to these […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

It’s a sentiment I’ve heard over and over from people who think that Google or Apple could enter healthcare and finally make the software a joy. That’s quite an ambitious question.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

New research has found that healthcare organizations around the world have big plans for digital transformation but often stumble when it comes to implementing this process.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Today, most health IT leaders seem sold on the potential healthcare AI deployment can offer, as its benefits are becoming clearer every day. It’s becoming almost a no-brainer to believe that AI can do great things for the practice of predictive analytics, for example.

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care innovations

JANUARY 9, 2019

With its power to curb healthcare expenses by streamlining delivery and cutting down on wasteful spending , virtual care is increasingly seen as not just a smart addition to the suite of services offered by America’s healthcare providers, but a necessary one, as well. If your system is lagging behind, it's crucial to forge ahead.”.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Heather Haugen & Mia Erickson from Atos Epic continues to gain market share across the healthcare landscape. Many of the largest healthcare organizations have implemented Epic and they remain a strong contender for new implementations […].

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Interoperability-as-a-service provider, Redox, recently announced a new partnership with First Databank (FDB) to improve patient education, compliance and clinical workflow.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 14, 2019

Healthcare is seductive all around the world because in the developed world, and many non-developed countries, it is the major spend of government, and a spend growing at astronomical rates with the introduction of digital technology. But there may be one hiding in plain sight.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 17, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Jim Tate, Founder of EMR Advocate & MIPS Consulting. Just as the Meaningful Use (MU) EHR Incentive program brought potential audits to providers, so it will be with the MIPS program. Both programs were enacted by Federal legislation, and while there are differences, they are also similarities.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 11, 2019

As part of its “Patients over Paperwork” effort, CMS recently issued a Request for Information seeking new ideas on reducing levels of administrative burden. The initiative seems to be making a serious impact.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The use of computer-assistant coding has been percolating along for a while now but hasn’t taken over the healthcare industry. However, it could find a much more extensive place in the industry in coming years as AI becomes more widely accepted within healthcare organizations, a new survey suggests.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

A lot of discussion about healthcare AI is vague and visionary in nature. Most of us know that these technologies have a very promising future, but until recently it hasn’t been clear just when practical applications will emerge. That could be changing, though.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2019

The use of telehealth services climbed dramatically over the four years between 2014 and 2018, according to new research based on healthcare claims data. To get a look at telehealth’s impact on healthcare overall, FAIR Health analyzed more than 29 billion healthcare claim records.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2019

After many years as a black sheep of the healthcare family, the wearable is coming into its own. This has been signaled in no uncertain terms by Google, a kingmaker if there ever was one, which recently acquired wearables giant Fitbit for $2.1 As influential and cash-rich as Google is, though, I don’t think even […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2019

It seems like an eternity that we’ve been writing about government regulations like Meaningful Use, HITECH, MIPS, MACRA, and a bunch of other abbreviations that many would like to forget, but can’t because they’re still a part of many organizations’ daily lives.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2019

As healthcare organizations select an EHR, they contemplate the best vendor, the breadth of functionality, integration across other applications, initial investment and maintenance costs, resources required to support the systems, and many […]. What factors predict physician satisfaction with clinical systems?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Over the past several years we began to notice that many health IT conferences were focused on breakthrough and disruptive innovations that may help healthcare organizations a decade from now. We saw a real need for healthcare organizations to discover practical innovations that can […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The following is a guest article by Charlie Hutchinson, CFO at InSync Healthcare Solutions. The growth in substance use disorders [SUD] across all demographics and income brackets has impacted the role of primary-care providers [PCPs].

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