Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. 5 Lessons from the Conifer Health Solutions Data Breach. Thanks for reading and be sure to check out our latest Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundups.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. The Role of Joy in the Lives of Healthcare Workers. Far too many healthcare professionals no longer experience the joy of practicing medicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. In the latest CIO Podcast, John connected with Henry Vynalek at the Ohio Health Information Partnership. CIO Insights from CHIME’s Fall Forum.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

Vaccination status, demographic information and notes are increasingly shared. Surescripts is Actually an Interoperability Company According to Surescript’s 2022 National Progress Report , 1.23 Exchanging health information is everything we do.” Why would they do this? million prescribers used their platform to fill 2.34

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

"We are returning towards pre-COVID-19 financials, and the organizations struggling before the pandemic are in the same predicament now," Chou wrote for Healthcare IT News in February. The following month, the Journal reported that Froedtert Health posted a loss of $43.5 Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 26, 2022

Welcome to the inaugural 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

APRIL 22, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. 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

JULY 17, 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.

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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

AUGUST 14, 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. News and Studies.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 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.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 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

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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Collaboration in healthcare delivers remarkable outcomes. Such was the case at the first ever collaborative conference for health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, public health, and health equity. Embrace an Equity-First Mindset.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

DirectTrust and the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) today announced an agreement to merge EHNAC with and into DirectTrust, effective January 4, 2023. DirectTrust is a non-profit healthcare industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of protected health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 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

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

MAY 16, 2024

Healthcare firms have long been targets for cyber criminals. They handle data like protected health information (PHI), intellectual property (IP), clinical trial data and payment card data, giving attackers many options to cash in, and healthcare is a critical infrastructure industry that can be hardest hit by ransomware attacks.

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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 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

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Product Marketing Manager, Identity Security at WatchGuard The healthcare industry is increasingly in the crosshairs of cybercriminals. Ensure PHI Compliance with VPN Tunnels The HIPAA Privacy Rule has strong requirements around Protected Health Information (PHI). The following is a guest article by Sam Manjarres, Sr.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

More data means more information that must be shared by healthcare providers when an ROI request is made. In the fall of 2022, new federal rules around information blocking took effect. This is not entirely surprising when you consider that an average hospital produced 50 petabytes of data per year in 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 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

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 18, 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

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Recent research from Skyhigh Security confirms that the healthcare industry is picking up its pace of cloud adoption, but that it remains slower to embrace the cloud than other industries. So what’s causing this hesitancy?

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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

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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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

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

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The app increases clinicians’ productivity and the quality of patient care by allowing healthcare providers to communicate with colleagues in their system and affiliates in other systems. The company was listed as a Rising Star by Featuredcustomers in its Fall 2022 Hospital Communications Software Customer Success Report.

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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

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

JANUARY 23, 2023

Many facets of healthcare remained in a state of flux at the close of 2022, as care practices that started during the pandemic found their way into the mainstream, and enthusiasm for new data sources and interoperability outpaced the realities of implementation. Be sure to check out last year’s New Healthcare Truths of 2022 ) 1.

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