Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 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

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, Founder and CEO of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS) EHRs are ubiquitous because they’re useful – but how useful are they really, and to whom? The truth is that an EHR by definition serves multiple masters, satisfying some more than others. It still holds true.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Bill Young, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at SYSTRAN Keeping patient data confidential and secure remains a major healthcare challenge today, more than 25 years after the introduction of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act or HIPAA.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

Its leaders found that the tracking technology used to mine user data had disclosed information to third parties and subcontractors. Cerebral’s investigation concluded that the data might be considered protected health information and that it had failed to make sure that these third parties met HIPAA requirements for protecting PHI.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

30% of the world’s data volume is being generated by the healthcare industry. This is not entirely surprising when you consider that an average hospital produced 50 petabytes of data per year in 2019. More data means more information that must be shared by healthcare providers when an ROI request is made. More Requests.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Recent research from Skyhigh Security confirms that the healthcare industry is picking up its pace of cloud adoption, but that it remains slower to embrace the cloud than other industries. The healthcare sector is also up against workforce shortages across the board, exacerbated by the burnout, stress, and high demands of the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

One source of this data can be obtained from a national health information exchange, for example. Alajme – who is Director of the Digital Health Department at MoHAP – explained to Arabian Business late last year how the UAE was successful in collating healthcare data across the country.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

"It's the overnight success story that was 30 years in the making," said Atrium Health Chief Strategy Officer Dr. Rasu Shrestha. In June, Healthcare IT News and the other HIMSS Media brands, Healthcare Finance and MobiHealthNews, launched a new series of editorial webinars at the HIMSS Learning Center.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

Telemedicine services will be offered by the initial 32 hospitals as soon as by the fourth quarter of 2019. Another key lesson for a successful switch to VBHC is to engage partners from across the whole health system. v) Health 2.0. The last lesson is to take a problem-driven approach. ii) Patient experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

We'll also look at how those healthcare workforces are changing – and how they ought to be changing – in the face of automation, value-based reimbursement, telemedicine, consumerism and other emerging trends and new technologies. Digital transformation: Healthcare making progress but much work remains. by May 10, 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2019

In September, we'll talk to the technologists and hospitals leaders about their top priorities, how they foster the development of innovative projects, apps and devices, as well as advice for overcoming the hardest challenges – all while preparing strategies to keep pace in the fast-changing world of health information and technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

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 News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

It was an early adopter of electronic health records and sponsored one of New York State's first health information exchanges. In 2018, Maimonides' leadership established digital health as a strategic priority for the medical center. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2022

"The solutions will include smart dashboards with decision support to the care providers, and provide alerts on anomalous health indicators," said Alan Goh, assistant chief executive for platform services at the Integrated Health Information Systems. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Healthdirect Australia , a national public health information service in the country, recently announced that it will be working with home-grown telehealth startup Coviu, to power its government-funded healthdirect Video Call service. In April 2019, Swinburne started working with Coviu for telehealth education.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The Rural Health Information Hub breaks down various definitions of frontier designations, but a common one is six or fewer people per square mile. All but one of One Health's clinic locations serve communities that meet the frontier definition. " Sarah Compton, One Health. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

phone call, 3M Health Information Systems (HIS) immediately made a team of engineers available to us. Other healthcare facilities around the country that were targeted by the same group weren’t as fortunate in their partnerships. Following a 3 a.m. In 2020, the number of complaints rose to 791,790 and cost $4.1 billion.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 18, 2023

In this article, we will explore the significance of NCQA accreditation, the benefits of consulting services, and how NCQA accreditation consulting unlocks excellence in healthcare organizations. Understanding the Significance of NCQA Accreditation NCQA accreditation is widely recognized as a symbol of quality in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

The following is a guest article by Liza Dzhezhora, Healthcare IT Analyst at Itransition. As thousands of people look up health information online, this search can point to unverified results and thus lead to dire health consequences in case users proceed with self-diagnosing and self-medicating. It’s patient education.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2020

With limited knowledge and information about COVID-19, the initial challenges in handling the rising number of COVID-19 include: Clinical practice guidelines that were changing frequently. Shortage of and rising prices of PPEs. Facility safety and management – separating COVID-19 patients and non COVID-19 patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 9, 2022

The healthcare industry is no different as the AI systems used are often built using biased data that is not representative of the patient population at large, which results in biased outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2019

There is also a big push for increasing a patient’s autonomy around their personal health information and the access they have to it, especially via personal devices which are likely to be used in the future to communicate directly with providers, if they aren’t already. FHIR and APIs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Thanks to the rapid development and push for digital tools and apps to track vaccination status, reactions to the vaccine and future dose reminders, and COVID-19 test results, health care consumers are growing increasingly aware of what it means to have access to their health information.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Blog Login Sign Up 9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry Enzyme Health Team March 27, 2019 In an industry that can feel isolating, it’s important to keep connected. Wherever healthcare meets technology, you’re likely to find the stories covered on mobiHealth News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Certainly, few could have guessed, as we rang out 2019, just what 2020 would have in store for the U.S. healthcare system. "It's no secret that many providers and payers relied heavily on the use of fax machines and printed documentation," said Paul Joiner, chief operating officer of health information network Availity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

In this seventh installment in Healthcare IT News ' feature series, Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era, four top IT executives from provider organizations nationwide share what they've learned during the past year and discuss how they're applying these lessons to improve their organizations.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 21, 2019

You may have seen in the news last week Amazon and the NHS have partnered to improve access to health information through Alexa, Amazon's voice assitant. From reactive to proactive How might using voice assistants access to health information actually shape healthcare systems.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 11, 2023

“Virtual care has a significant role to play in the future sustainability of healthcare systems around the world,” observes Kate Kelly, Managing Director UK & Ireland, Inizio Engage, a global strategic, commercial and creative engagement agency specialising in healthcare. “It

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

" New Zealand-based Orion Health, which also offers a clinical and medication management portal and health intelligence on its unified health information exchange platform, leverages existing technology, like electronic health records, and integrates with patient portals and other systems.

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

GlobalMed recently headed to the annual pilgrimage for healthcare IT innovators: the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Orlando, Florida. HIMSS19: Virtual Care Simplified was first posted on February 23, 2019 at 10:45 pm.

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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

With 2019 now upon us, please join us in taking a look back at the most momentous remote care stories from 2018, as reported here at the Care Innovations blog. September: 2019 CMS Fee Schedule Could Expand RPM Reimbursement. Impressive as it was in 2018, this trend of groundbreaking remote care stories is sure to continue into 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2023

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. Read more… Unpacking Use Cases for VR in Healthcare. Read more… Transforming Pharmacies into Health Clinics.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dave Cassel, Chief Customer Officer at Health Gorilla and Former Executive Director of Carequality Talking about privacy and security in health information exchange is tricky. Health IT Security reported just last month that the number of health records exposed rose from 21.1

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

The key to unlocking the data is interoperability across the entire health ecosystem. Microsoft took a step to address health data interoperability with Azure API for FHIR in 2019. The company's next evolution of that journey is Azure Health Data Services. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2022

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. “It

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 19, 2023

In 2019, one study found that a widely used algorithm was underrepresenting the illness burden of black patients compared to white patients, meaning that Black individuals had to be much sicker to get a recommendation for the same level of care as their white counterparts.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) defines SDoH in five categories : social context (a very broad category that includes, for instance discrimination and neighborhood safety), economic context, education, physical infrastructure, and healthcare context (such as access).

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