Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2023

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. Previously, he was the Samuel O.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 27, 2015

There is much talk on the blogs about the USA government trepidation around Health Information Exchange interoperability. We will keep you up to date with WISHIN activities, news on health information exchange (HIE) and new product developments. per patient per year.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 31, 2018

The government needs to step up and require more rigorous EHR testing, Michael Hodgkins, chief medical information officer at the AMA, told Bloomberg Law. Critical Concerns The report pinpoints several critical EHR concerns facing health-care providers, Robert Tennant, director of health information technology policy at the Englewood, Colo.-based

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 14, 2022

Addiction and mental health provider Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation chose the Xealth digital therapeutics platform and integrated it with its Oracle Cerner EHR, which has been in place since 2015.

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Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 30, 2017

After years of doing this blog in fits and starts — particularly the two-year gap while I was essentially prohibited by a full-time employer from writing about health IT here or anywhere else but that company’s site — I have decided to refocus on healthcare consumers rather than industry insiders. Attention, kind readers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 1, 2023

million patient records, the highest number on record outside the anomalous 2015, when just two breaches comprised more than 90 million records. Any positive feelings must be tempered by the fact that breach numbers increased 250% over the past decade. Last year, 699 breaches affected 51.4 What Should Be Included in a SOC?

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Their approach is focused on hardware - using its popular iPhone and Apple Watch to turn its devices into trusted, secure channels through which medical data can flow, to help consumers better track and manage their health. Clinical Trials In 2015, Apple introduced new software, called Apple ResearchKit, for health researchers.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 27, 2020

I talked on occasion with my counterparts at other health IT companies and they told the same stories: tempting dollars, questionable ethics. Fast forward a few years and I was at ONC, writing the text of what would become the 2014 Edition of the Certification Criteria for health Information Technology. Could they resist?

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2015

If you read our blog post 5 Top Telemeds Trend of 2015 , you know that telehealth is slowly revolutionizing the healthcare world for the better. And often considered an important part of health IT initiatives and clinical care services. Interoperability is NOT the same thing as health information exchange.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Patient portals and personal health records (PHRs) have both received considerable praise for their role in increasing patient engagement. However, distinguishing between the two forms of health IT tools can often be difficult, due to nebulous definitions and overlapping features.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Had PPS been required to have broader governance – including community-based organizations, health plans, faith-based organizations, Health Information Exchanges, and other nonprofits, we would have had more balanced governance decision-making that would have supported the policy goals of the program more consistently statewide.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

agency responsible for monitoring claims and the use of personal data out-of-health-context. Article #3 in my deep dive here extends the second analysis into digital health information, next focusing on Americans’ use of quality information on doctors.

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