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

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 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

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

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

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

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 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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