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

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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Digital Leaders HealthTech

JANUARY 28, 2020

The best health tech powering our healthcare systems: 2010-2020. Whilst the earliest electronic medical records (EMRs) were created over 40 years ago, we’ve only seen the mass shift in health information go from analogue to digital in the past 10 years. The best health tech that will power our healthcare systems: 2020-2030.

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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

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 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

AUGUST 28, 2023

The No Surprises Act was signed into law in 2020 and took effect last year. Preparation ahead of the mandatory deadline is crucial for success and ACOs with multiple EMRs will face unique challenges. This includes finding solutions for data aggregation, updating documentation and workflows, and ensuring consistent data collection.

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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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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

MARCH 29, 2024

UI Health switched its EHR to EPIC in 2020, planning to do intensive training for service desk workers after the switch. A vendor dedicated to service desks, such as HCTec, can handle logistics such as scheduling and training the service desk staff. It can better scale up and down to handle 24/7 services.

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