Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2022

Read more… Featured Health IT Job : Clinical Business Analyst – Lab with remote an onsite work for Ontario-based TransForm Shared Service Organization, posted on Healthcare IT Central. Funding and M&A Activity: Health information network Availity will acquire clinical data quality and interoperability company Diameter Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2022

Epic has plans to join TEFCA as an inaugural Qualified Health Information Network. Read more… Featured Health IT Job: Hospital Network & Systems Engineer at Natividad Medical Center, located just east of California’s Monterey Bay, posted on Healthcare IT Central. Epic’s Take on TEFCA and Interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2022

Read more… Featured Health IT Job: Health Information Technology Advisor based in Guatemala for Peace Corps Response, posted on Healthcare IT Central.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

In the latest CIO Podcast, John connected with Henry Vynalek at the Ohio Health Information Partnership. They discussed why HIEs have unique IT infrastructure needs , along with the potential of HIEs to address interoperability challenges and improve health inequity at the same time.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

Surescripts is Actually an Interoperability Company According to Surescript’s 2022 National Progress Report , 1.23 Exchanging health information is everything we do.” Confirmation of Vaccination The pandemic accelerated the use of Surescripts’ platform as an information exchange. “We billion e-prescriptions.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Here’s the 8 reminders: Reminder #1 – The information blocking definition’s limitation on the scope of electronic health information (EHI) is lifted as of October 6, 2022. Reminder #4 – Not all health information that’s electronic is EHI under the regulatory definition.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

A survey of Surescripts users found an 8% increase in the use of electronic prescriptions for specialty medications in the first five months of 2022 compared to 2021. Surescripts also reported a 24% increase in the number of prescribers enrolled in May 2022 compared to May 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Such was the case at the first ever collaborative conference for health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, public health, and health equity. The four-day summit focused on the evolving role of HIE, new interoperability successes and the valuable implications of harnessing data to advance health equity.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 26, 2022

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has some money for you. The latest Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health IT funding opportunity will award grants to applicants working in two areas. The first is addressing health equity and SDOH using a combination of open-source technology and EHR systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2024

I talked recenly with Brent Francom, senior product manager at Smarty , about efforts to get the health care field to adopt the standard and tools for making it work smoothly. The Project USA standard was finalized in January 2022, and during the past year Smarty has been marketing its API-based service to health care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

In an era where the HHS itself notes a 93% increase in large healthcare data breaches from 2018 to 2022, as well as a 278% increase in those that involve ransomware, suggesting “voluntary cybersecurity goals” is akin to applying a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

DirectTrust is a non-profit healthcare industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of protected health information. DirectTrust and EHNAC will hold a Public Information Session about the merger on Friday, December 9, 2022, at 12:00pm EST. This session is open to all interested parties.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 2, 2022

Attend in-person or virtually -- the afternoon of July 13, 2022. “ The Platform Revolution Comes to Healthcare: A Deep Dive at the 2022 MIT Platform Strategy Summit ”. Micky Tripathi, National Coordinator for Health IT, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

If you’re familiar with the 21st Century Cures Act, then you know that October 6th is a major deadline that requires healthcare providers, health IT developers, HIEs, HINs, and others to share all ePHI (electronic protected health information) in the DRS (Designated Record Set). And the next chapter begins!

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Surescripts , the nation’s leading health information network, acquired ActiveRADAR , a clinical intelligence company that identifies therapeutic alternatives for prescriptions. “We In 2022, Surescripts processed 2.34

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 17, 2022

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

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

. “Successfully raising $30 million in such a challenging capital markets environment is a testament to the strength and desirability of Smile’s technological offering and the broad appeal of the vision of its founders,” commented Smile Digital Health Chairman, George Rizk.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 14, 2022

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. News and Studies.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In 2022, as cyberattacks globally rose by 38% year-on-year, healthcare became the third-most-attacked industry (behind government and education), recording an increase of 74% and reporting up to 1,463 incidents per week. The following is a guest article by Sam Manjarres, Sr.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2024

The Cost of a Cybersecurity Breach Cybersecurity at its core is a way to protect valuable data and personal identifiable information (PII), such as credit card information, social security numbers, tax records, and more. A large-scale cyberattack, like the Change Healthcare attack, could cost an organization 10 times more than average.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

The Sequoia Project released several resources to help organizations comply with the information blocking requirements of the 21st Century CURES Act. PointClickCare is partnering with the Michigan Health Information Network to help post-acute providers and case managers exchange data with MiHIN.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Flash back to my article for the Society for Participatory Medicine last year: Let’s Save the Date and Make Patient Engagement Official in 2022. Stacy Hurt, MHA, MBA works as a Patient Engagement Consultant to represent the consumer perspective in clinical decision making, health IT user experience, and pharma/biotech drug development.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For the health IT community, 2022 has been a big year. . In January, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) became a reality, and in October applications opened for organizations seeking designation as Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs). The Case for Federal Agencies.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2023

.” In a press briefing, the HIMSS CEO said attendance for this year’s event is 35,000 – less than 2019 but a significant increase from 2021 and 2022. Wolf also briefly discussed how HIMSS would continue to invest in emerging markets and build its ongoing relationship with the World Health Organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, from 2019 to 2022, healthcare only saw a 25% uptick in its cloud services in use compared to the 50% increase seen across other sectors including financial services, retail, manufacturing, IT, and more. So what’s causing this hesitancy?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

In October, Froedtert Health president and CEO Cathy Jacobson told the Milwaukee Business Journal the health system had adequate reserves to pay cash for its $55 million-plus share of new facilities, and had no plans to merge with its joint venture partner ThedaCare. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

The following is a guest article by Oakkar Oakkar, Co-Founder and CEO at Keona Health Imagine a tool that puts your health information right at your fingertips. In 2022, a study highlighted a stark difference: only 60% of Black and 57% of Hispanic patients used these portals, compared to 70% of white patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

the workgroup will explore consumers’ barriers to accessing, using, and sharing their health information. Products DirectTrust saw 72 million transactions per month in 2022 and surpassed 3.7 Users of value-based kidney care platform Strive Health can reduce the total cost of care up to 20% , the company announced.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2023

Aledade now serves more than one million patients under the Medicare Shared Savings Program and nearly 250,000 patients under Medicare Advantage contracts with national and regional health plan partners. Aledade generated revenue of more than $475 million for 2022, representing more than 50 percent growth compared with revenue in 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2022

Availity , one of the nation’s largest real-time health information networks, announced a definitive agreement to acquire Diameter Health , a national leader in clinical data quality and interoperability. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed during the third quarter of 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The company was listed as a Rising Star by Featuredcustomers in its Fall 2022 Hospital Communications Software Customer Success Report. DrFirst solutions are used by nearly 325,000 healthcare professionals, including more than 220,000 prescribers, 70,000 pharmacies, 300 EHRs and health information systems, and 1,500 hospitals in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2024

These formats include Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), used for the electronic exchange of clinical health information, and Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC), which provides a common language for laboratory tests and clinical measures. in 2022 to 10.5%

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 25, 2023

The report also details critical information on how to successfully leverage HIN data when building digital healthcare tools and operating healthcare organizations or digital platforms. We’re about to enter a game-changing era in healthcare as Health Information Network access expands.” The paper, 2023: State of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The latest policy update from The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) adds key provisions to the December 2022 proposed rule requiring adoption of a new NCPDP SCRIPT standard version. To learn more about these standards, check out my blog on the initial e-prescribing updates announced by CMS in December 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2023

The group also launched a health equity survey , with the results to be announced at ViVE in Nashville in March. ONC’s latest data brief indicated that, as of the end of 2021, more than 60% of hospitals are actively engaged in sharing health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 31, 2023

The following is a guest article by Michael Blum, MD, Cardiologist, Co-founder and CEO at BeeKeeperAI and Former Chief Medical Information Officer at UCSF Medical Center The advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT3 (GPT3) Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot sparked an unprecedented societal appreciation for the power of AI.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

Despite a slower-than-expected global economy, 2022 continues to be a year of important milestones for Paubox. Safeguarding patients’ protected health information shouldn’t be a complicated process full of risk and doubt.

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