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Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-term and Nursing Care

Healthcare IT Today

But these facilities are afterthoughts in our health care system, and were excluded in particular from the huge digitization of health care triggered in the United States by the 2009 HITECH act and 2010 Affordable Care Act. Learn more about PointClickCare: [link]. And for an exclusive look at our top stories , subscribe to our newsletter.

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Core Principles for Application Decommissioning and Data Archiving

Healthcare IT Today

While we’ve been writing about EMR data archiving since back in 2009 and then again in 2013 and 2014 to name a few, the topic has never been more important than it is today. With many healthcare organizations literally supporting 100s and even 1000s of health IT software, how you handle legacy systems including data […].

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Moving to eClinicalWorks’ Cloud EHR Helped Suncoast Community Health Centers Save Money and Reduce Frustration

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dorrie Paquin-Brown, Director of Special Projects at Suncoast Community Health Centers (SCHC) and Edward Martinbor, CIO at SCHC to learn more about their impetus to move to the cloud and the benefits they have realized.

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Workflow Automation To Help Deliver Services to Marginalized Populations

Healthcare IT Today

We must remember that the big push to digital records launched by the HITECH act in 2009 gave billions of dollars to clinicians but didn’t reach the social service agencies that we now depend on for social determinants of health. Thus, the agencies have been trying to evolve and adopt 21st-century tools with little support.

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Aledade Secures $260 Million Series F Financing Round to Expand and Enhance Services for its Nationwide Network of Primary Care Practices

Healthcare IT Today

Thier Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Chief Health Information and Innovation Officer at Partners Healthcare System in Boston (now Mass General Brigham). He also served as the United States National Coordinator for Health Information Technology from 2009 to 2011. Paul Hennessy is the CEO at Shutterstock.

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Healthcare Innovation Funding – Regulations and Disrupting Traditional Models

Healthcare IT Today

To get a better idea on what policies and regulations you need to be aware of and just how to get access to innovation funding, we reached out to our ever so talented Healthcare IT Today community for their insights and knowledge. Here is what they had to say. Since the U.S.

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Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

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. Be sure to check out all of Healthcare IT Today’s Value Base Care content and all of our other 2023 healthcare IT predictions.