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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Meanwhile, early this year, IMC went live with its unified electronic medical record (EMR) by InterSystems. Riyadh Saeed Muawad, Senior VP of Enterprise Business at STC, said at the time. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 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

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Equipped with NextGen Healthcare ’s mobile application and other tech, Neighborhood Health , an FQHC in Nashville TN, is bringing care to the streets of the city – literally. Healthcare IT Today caught up with Anthony Villanueva, the CIO of Neighborhood Health after he presented at the NextGen User conference.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2021

The findings are based on a survey conducted from October to December 2020 from 17 countries. The report includes insights from five healthcare technology experts on common upcoming priorities in digital health, as well as some of the recommended approaches to the adoption of technology.

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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

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

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 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

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

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

MAY 3, 2022

The program was kicked off in 2020, by the Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Clinical Informatics Center in collaboration with VUMC’s health IT department. A hospital program aimed at reducing EHR alert fatigue by cutting down the number of “interruptive” alerts has made a meaningful impact on the number of alerts clinicians received.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 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. (The

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2021

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

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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

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 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

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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EMR EHR Healthcare IT Leadership 55

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

About Ram Krishnan Ram joined Valant in 2020 as an experienced technology executive to lead the organization through its next stage of growth.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In early 2020, Practice Fusion agreed to pay $145 million to settle allegations that it paid out kickbacks to increase opioid prescriptions and had issues with its meaningful use EHR certification. The settlement is just one of several vendors settling with the DOJ over kickback or false claims allegations.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2023

Returning to Profitability Post-Pandemic The healthcare industry took a hard hit during the pandemic—the American Hospital Association estimates a $200 billion loss nationwide from March through June 2020.

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Mobile Health Matters

APRIL 26, 2018

The importance of collaboration cannot be overstated, and the numbers prove it: projections show that the population covered by accountable care organizations (ACOs) will reach 105 million by 2020. The Aftermath of the EMR Gold Rush. The Aftermath of the EMR Gold Rush. Scott received his B.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2024

UI Health switched its EHR to EPIC in 2020, planning to do intensive training for service desk workers after the switch. Learn more about University of Illinois Health: [link] Learn more about HCTEC: [link] Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

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. Healthcare Workforce. Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. Healthcare Consumerism. John and Colin’s 2023 Healthcare IT Predictions.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Leading health systems and provider organizations across North America partner with Ambience Healthcare to reduce clinician burnout, improve system efficiency, and enable high-quality care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

” Healthcare data today remains highly fragmented, with providers frequently spending more time gathering patient data and entering it into their EMR than with their patients delivering care.

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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. COVID-19 has provided an impetus to the remote patient monitoring market.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 4, 2018

In 2002, the National Health Service began one of the largest and most ambitious healthcare IT projects of the time, with the help of four companies, including US based company Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). However, it’s wise to first have a look at past attempts and identify the hurdles faced and what led to failure.

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