Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the 27th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re making predictions as to what you should expect to see in health IT in 2020. In this episode, Colin and John take a look forward and make some 2020 predictions […] Want to know what's going to happen in health IT in 2020? Ones to Watch in 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2023

AWS announced the AWS HealthScribe service for building clinical applications that use generative AI and integrating them with EHRs and other systems. Imaging EMR OmegaAI from RamSoft is hosting Mirada Medical image visualization tools on its platform. Miami-based UniVida Medical Centers transitioned to eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 31, 2020

To further support clinicians during the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended the deadline for COVID-19 related 2020 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception applications to February 1, 2021.

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eVisit

AUGUST 10, 2020

Selecting the right virtual care platform is crucial to enhancing clinical workflows, reducing technology barriers, meeting compliance requirements, and making the most of your EHR -- all to improve patient outcomes, reduce cost and boost revenue. Updated: Aug. Can intake questions be customized for each service line?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine has agreed to pay $45 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower suit alleging that the vendor engaged in varied kickback schemes as well as causing its provider customers to submit false claims. The lawsuit was filed in 2017 by law firms Phillips and Cohen LLP and Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2020

Now that I’ve shaken off the holiday malaise and gotten back to business, I’ve begun to wonder which areas of healthcare will become the new hotness for the coming year. After tossing off a short LinkedIn post on this subject, I decided to dig in further and share my conclusions with you. By the way, […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Every year we go to a lot of conferences – at least 50+. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Wheel , the health technology company powering the future of care, today announced it will acquire GoodRx Care ‘s backend virtual care technology, including its clinician-centric EMR, powerful clinical management tools, and flexible patient experience software.

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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

MAY 9, 2023

This data is then automatically entered into the patient’s electronic health record (EHR) in a structured format, which can be easily searched, analyzed, and shared among healthcare providers. AI-powered charting software uses NLP algorithms to identify and extract key data points, like medical conditions or drug dosages.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

HCA Healthcare signed a new agreement for a large-scale deployment of MEDITECH Expanse , continuing a relationship with the EHR vendor that has spanned three decades and been recognized with the 2021 CHIME Collaboration Award. News and Research.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2020

Today, CMS officially announced a delay to MIPS 2019 reporting which extends the deadline for 2019 MIPS data submission from March 31, 2020 to April 30, 2020. We previously shared that the MIPS program could be suspended or otherwise delayed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2021

After Epic’s failed return to the office situation in August 2020, I think we all realized that it was just a matter of time before Epic was going to require people be back in the office. News recently broke that Epic will be requiring their employees to return to the office starting July 19th. During […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2024

They do ask callers to distinguish between regular service and the “clinical service desk,” which mostly helps people use the EPIC EHR. UI Health switched its EHR to EPIC in 2020, planning to do intensive training for service desk workers after the switch. It can better scale up and down to handle 24/7 services.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The 2020 HIMSS Annual Conference is just under 4 weeks away. In case you don’t know about the HIMSS conference, it brings together 40,000-50,000 of the best and brightest healthcare IT professionals along with 1300+ exhibitors in one conference in Orlando, FL.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

The No Surprises Act was signed into law in 2020 and took effect last year. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates. However, EHR macros must accurately capture the patient’s condition on the day of the encounter.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2021

The move accelerates the growth of Tegria, launched by Providence in October 2020 to provide next-generation technologies and services to the healthcare sector. Tegria today announced the acquisition of Cumberland, a leading healthcare consulting and services firm for payers and providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2020

One of the interviews I was most looking forward to at the now cancelled HIMSS 2020 annual conference was with Tom Leary, VP of Government Relations at HIMSS. I’ve found that the government relations people at organizations like HIMSS are some of the most well informed people and are fonts of knowledge on what we […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Street Medicine Neighborhood Health faced a significant challenge when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020. Ebony Funches from Venice Family Clinic , Villanueva shared insights and strategies for street medicine programs. With their facilities shut down and no public transportation available, they could not see the patients they care for.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2019

Earlier this year, ONC and CMS issued new draft guidelines requiring that all insurers and providers serving the Medicare population make their data available electronically by 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2020

According to a survey conducted for Stanford’s 2020 Health Trends Report, which polled more than 700 physicians, residents and medical students, the industry is seeing the rise […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2020

The new facility is expected to open in winter 2020 and will be based in West Los Angeles. USC has announced plans to partner with AT&T to build a ‘smart’ cancer facility integrating a bunch of cutting-edge communications and data management technologies. The Lawrence J.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

They’re designed to make life easier for patients, and studies show they can even help reduce hospital visits, like in 2020 when heart failure patients using these portals saw fewer hospital readmissions. But there’s a catch. Despite their benefits, many patients aren’t using these portals.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Hard to believe that it’s almost 2020, but as we enter the new decade join us as we look back. For the 26th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, and we’re taking a look back at the last decade of Health IT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow CIOs need to look beyond just EHRs and explore standalone platforms to enhance care delivery – keeping focused on reliable patient data and streamlined clinical workflows. Remote patient monitoring uses three primary FHIR resources: Patient.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

. “The Zus partnership will drastically accelerate Elation’s ability to build out market-leading EHR solutions to support population health and value-based care initiatives,” said Kyna Fong , Co-Founder and CEO at Elation Health.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 26, 2020

Yet, somehow, in the year 2020 in the most technologically advanced nation on the globe, we, as American patients, remain unable to easily and quickly access our own health data, or to decide how it is used. Some use other EHRs. When she got to the new hospital, she brought a printout of the information from her prior hospital’s EMR.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

AutoScribe embeds deeply into the EMR workflow and operates in real-time, which means that the AI-generated notes are immediately available to review, edit, and sign off without breaking provider workflow.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This week, the relatively new HLTH conference is hosting HLTH VRTL (I guess they have something against vowels). No surprise that the HLTH conference has gone virtual like pretty much all the other health IT conferences.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2020

Given the fast moving nature of the COVID-19 and the changing virtual times, we’re going to try out some new changes here at Healthcare IT Today as well. While we’ll still continue to offer our regular articles that dive into various topics as we’ve been doing with our COVID-19 Provider Coverage, there seems to be […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Epic) to real-time patient journey optimization systems that are EMR-agnostic and fueled by far more comprehensive data than what sits in EMRs today. The interoperability community has been waiting for the updated Prior Authorization proposal after the late 2020 proposal was withdrawn due to concerns about costs and deadlines.

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Mend

DECEMBER 7, 2020

According to a September 2020 market intelligence study published by BIS Research , the global telemedicine market was estimated at $21.55 The market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 17.66% during the forecast period 2020-2030. The healthcare industry is already at the tipping point.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 4, 2018

The NHS was the frontrunner in this effort, attempting to create a national EHR system, that would enable easy and secure data exchange, which in turn would lead to better outcomes and improve the quality of patient care. In April 2005, it began deployment of EHR systems in NHS Trusts.

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