2023, EHR, Interoperability and Public Health

The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2023

In 2014, ECRI pivoted the title of this annual report to “patient safety concerns,” a nuance away from health technology. Fast forward to 2023 and ECRI’s latest take on the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2023. Fast forward to 2023 and ECRI’s latest take on the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2023.

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On March 10, 2023, Representatives Miller-Meeks, Craig, and Murphy introduced legislation requiring the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a study and issue recommendations on improving medical device data interoperability.

Connected Health Initiative

MARCH 10, 2023

Brian Scarpelli, executive director of the Connected Health Initiative (CHI), expressed CHI’s support for the bill: “Interoperability is critical to realize the promise of digital health and enable better, more cost-effective, patient-centered care. first appeared on Connected Health Initiative.

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Weekly Roundup – August 5, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 5, 2023

Read more… Environmental Health Surveillance Enhances Public Health. Read more… 3 Things That Can Bring EHRs to the Next Level. It’s no secret that traditional EHRs are burdensome to clinicians and patients alike. Read more… Why Are So Many Healthcare Companies Still Being Breached ?

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Weekly Roundup – May 20, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2023

Health Gorilla and LexisNexis Risk Solutions are working to make SDoH data actionable , John found out in an interview with Avery Haller (Health Gorilla) and Diana Zuskov (LexisNexis). Read more… Hearing From Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill. Read more… How Were the Spring Health IT Conferences ?

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Just Get Connected Already

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

clinicians, as estimated by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance. The alliance was a bold gesture made ten years ago by leading EHR vendors to demonstrate their commitment to data sharing. Many other health IT firms have joined CommonWell since then.

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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

While the health care industry in general commands a somewhat higher level of trust among Americans than some other sectors do, there is variation in trust-equity across various segments of the U.S. health care ecosystem. The 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer gauged U.S. The 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer gauged U.S.

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Memorial Healthcare finds success with switch to Epic-based telehealth vendor

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

billion in annual operating revenue, Memorial Healthcare System is one of the largest public health systems in the U.S. " PROPOSAL In January 2023, Memorial began working with KeyCare, an Epic-based virtual care company (Memorial uses Epic for its EHR). With 15,000 team members, 3,000 providers and $3.1

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Weekly Roundup – May 27, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 27, 2023

At the recent eClinicalWorks Enterprise Summit, CEO Girish Kumar Navani spent an hour on demos of AI across the eCW EHR, from search to summaries to robotic process automation. Read more… Looking at Fax As An On-Ramp for Interoperability. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.

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What priorities in healthcare in 2023 and what is the tech that is addressing these areas?

Healthcare Innovation Consortium

JANUARY 24, 2023

What are priorities in healthcare in 2023 and what is the tech that is addressing these areas? With 2023 already upon us, it is clear that the NHS can not continue with its current standards of functioning. If this transition is undertaken successfully, the future outcomes for our healthcare in 2023 will show a lot of promise.

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Bonus Features – May 7, 2023 – Less than 1% of all medical claims include an ICD-10 Z code, 78% of consumers say virtual health is important when considering health plans, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2023

News CMS has opened the Hardship Exception application period for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) that participated in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program in 2022. Global venture capital funding was just $21 billion in April 2023 , a 56% drop from April 2022, according to Crunchbase.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Their home is the site for most of their health care, with sensors in the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and in the car all informing Quincy’s digital phenotype that further populates data into their EHR which they control and audit. Only the best-resourced hospitals are able to access innovations.

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Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2023

News and Studies Amid the push for interoperability, data gaps persist, according to the inaugural State of Interoperability report from Health Gorilla , a health information network. Products AVIA launched AVIA Marketplace , a platform connecting hospitals and health systems to curated digital health tools.

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Bonus Features – July 23, 2023 – Number of people impacted by data breaches up 56% compared to last year, CMS keeps temporary telehealth expansion in 2024 Medicare fee schedule, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

News and Studies The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule from CMS would continue many of the public health emergency telehealth flexibilities, such as an expanded definition of telehealth practitioners, continued payments to rural health centers and FQHCs, and the expansion of originating sites.

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Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Health Equity and SDoH. Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. Healthcare AI. Healthcare Workforce.

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Taking Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) From Data to Analysis and Action

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

between 2023 to 2030 and is expected to reach over $43 million by 2030 from more than $8 million in 2022. Diana holds a Master’s in Public Health in Health Behavior from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BA in Psychology and Public Health from Boston University.

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So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. Requests are then electronically communicated directly to the provider organization’s EHRs and other systems. Therein lies the rub.

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Healthcare Interoperability, Data, and Cloud – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC).

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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Bonus Features – May 14, 2023 – Only 16% of organizations are using data to define clinical best practices, 84% of orgs hit with ransomware attacks lose revenue, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2023

News In a temporary rule, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) extended telemedicine flexibilities for prescribing controlled medications for six months following the end of the public health emergency, through November 11.

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Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances Set to Take Off

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

History of EPCS Kyle Zebley, head of public policy American Telemedicine Association (ATA) , says that Congress called on the DEA to implement a policy for a special controlled substance registration process in 2008. The DEA has allowed EPCS during a telehelath visit since the beginning of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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A Digital Health Checkup for the US – #1 in AI, Meh in Interoperability – An OECD Update

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

While health care has been slower than other industries to leverage digital transformation, COVID-19 accelerated change — revealing some key barriers blocking the potential for more fulsome transformation, the OECD explains in its latest version of Health At A Glance for 2023 with a detailed chapter on “digital health at a glance.”

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Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Interoperability and artificial intelligence will play a large role in the innovation of healthcare technology in 2024 and will be necessary to control the rising needs in healthcare data management and analytics. Ankit Gupta, Founder and CEO at Bicycle Health The opioid epidemic is the most acute and urgent public health crisis in America.

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Cybersecurity: Hoping for the Best, but Preparing for the Worst

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Kynan Carver, DoD Cybersecurity Lead at Maximus By implementing a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) for cybersecurity, health agencies and organizations can effectively increase patient confidence in exchanging medical information. The traditional password and username approach is no longer enough to properly protect such valuable information.

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Uses of AI in Healthcare – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

Expansion of the use of robots in telemedicine and remote patient monitoring will enable health care providers to reach patients in underserved areas. We expect a majority of health systems will be engaged with AI (NLP, Gen AI) use in clinical documentation and conversational AI either in pilot or some level of scale form.

Health IT

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Connected Health Pulse

The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

On March 10, 2023, Representatives Miller-Meeks, Craig, and Murphy introduced legislation requiring the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a study and issue recommendations on improving medical device data interoperability.

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Weekly Roundup – August 5, 2023

Weekly Roundup – May 20, 2023

Just Get Connected Already

AI: Patients Included

Memorial Healthcare finds success with switch to Epic-based telehealth vendor

Weekly Roundup – May 27, 2023

What priorities in healthcare in 2023 and what is the tech that is addressing these areas?

Bonus Features – May 7, 2023 – Less than 1% of all medical claims include an ICD-10 Z code, 78% of consumers say virtual health is important when considering health plans, and more

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes, and more

Bonus Features – July 23, 2023 – Number of people impacted by data breaches up 56% compared to last year, CMS keeps temporary telehealth expansion in 2024 Medicare fee schedule, and more

Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Taking Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) From Data to Analysis and Action

So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare Interoperability, Data, and Cloud – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Bonus Features – May 14, 2023 – Only 16% of organizations are using data to define clinical best practices, 84% of orgs hit with ransomware attacks lose revenue, and more

Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances Set to Take Off

A Digital Health Checkup for the US – #1 in AI, Meh in Interoperability – An OECD Update

Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Cybersecurity: Hoping for the Best, but Preparing for the Worst

Uses of AI in Healthcare – 2024 Health IT Predictions

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