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New efforts try to balance nurse staffing ratios with access to care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

It's National Nurses Week 2024 , and it's time to celebrate the more than 5 million RNs nationwide who are so essential to care delivery. But overshadowing the celebration are many challenges impacting the nursing workforce. In 2022, one report found a staggering 90% of nurses thinking about leaving the profession.

Nursing

Nursing Healthcare IT Telehealth Leadership

Bonus Features – March 17, 2024 – 65% of nurses think AI will negatively impact healthcare, 14% of EHRs have known cybersecurity vulnerabilities, plus 24 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2024

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.

EHR

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Weekly Roundup – April 13, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2024

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. Liz Salmi and Dr. Read more… Connecting Healthcare Clouds and Simplifying Solutions in a Secure Way.

Interoperability

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Weekly Roundup – March 16, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2024

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. HIMSS 2024: Bold Statements from Hal Wolf. Read more… HIMSS 2024: A Closer Look at Sunoh’s Ambient Clinical Voice Solutions.

RCM

RCM Healthcare IT Patient Experience EHR

Lighting the Way to Efficient Patient Care – How Interoperability and Analytics Change the Nurse Call Paradigm

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2024

Of course, with this growth of technology we’ve also seen the growth of burnout and alert fatigue as devices send off warnings that aren’t useful and the volume of alerts that a nurse is getting is overwhelming. They’re right that nurse call data holds the keys to informing the clinical decision-making process.

Nursing

Nursing Interoperability Leadership EHR

Weekly Roundup – March 23, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2024

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. Read more… A Look at Interesting Innovations at HIMSS 2024. Healthcare IT Today recorded close to 90 videos in Orlando.

Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT FHIR Interoperability EHR

Weekly Roundup – February 17, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

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. Our latest topic for the Healthcare IT Today community was the topics that leaders can’t afford to ignore.

Healthcare Cybersecurity

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Bonus Features – April 14, 2024 – Less than 6 in 10 docs satisfied with electronic access to external immunization info, 68% of nurses are feeling overwhelmed, plus 38 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2024

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.

Nursing

Nursing HIPAA EHR Life Science

Bonus Features – April 7, 2024 – 86% of health systems had at least 10% of nurses quit in 2023, 25% of providers intend to deploy generative AI for patient engagement, plus 21 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 7, 2024

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.

Nursing

Nursing Psychiatry Healthcare IT Primary Care

Emerging Technologies Shaping the Health IT Landscape and How They Contribute to Improving Patient Outcomes and Healthcare Delivery

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery ?

Health IT

Health IT Nursing EHR Telehealth

A Look at the Hospital Room of the Future at Tampa General Hospital

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2024

Information is often taken directly from their EHR and displayed at the entrance to the room. No longer does a nurse have to take extra time to post a physical marker. They do display a few more facts, such as the nurse in charge of that patient. Putting too much information would mean that crucial information would be missed.

Nursing

Nursing Healthcare IT EHR Patient Experience

Bonus Features – November 26, 2023 – 85% of healthcare orgs boosting IT spending in 2024, 70% of orgs actively considering generative AI, plus 18 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 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.

eHealth

eHealth RCM EHR FHIR

Bonus Features – January 7, 2024 – New executives at CitiusTech, MultiPlan, and NextGen, plus 15 other stories

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 7, 2024

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.

RCM

RCM Healthcare IT Primary Care EHR

Bonus Features – April 28, 2024 – 22% of employers fully trust chronic condition management vendors, Common Agreement v2.0 requires support for FHIR API exchange, plus 29 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

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.

FHIR

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Bonus Features – March 24, 2024 – Data infrastructure investments have 124% ROI, 85% of healthcare workers believe AI can improve the patient experience, plus 28 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2024

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.

Patient Experience

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Bonus Features – July 30, 2023 – Amazon gets into the generative AI game, HIMSS plans to sell off the annual trade show, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 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.

Primary Care

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

To help shed a light on these topics, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to see what health IT trends they believe deserve more attention. Dr. Lawrence Werlin, Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist at HRC Fertility Fertility preservation will be one of the most significant fertility topics in 2024.

Health IT

Health IT Interoperability Mental health FHIR

Weekly Roundup – December 23, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 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. New HIPAA Security Rule – and Enforcement – Is Coming in 2024. Planning this properly requires the right technology.

HIPAA

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Concerning Health IT Trends: What Can We Do and What Happens if We Do Nothing?

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We asked our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community these questions and the following is what they had to share. If unaddressed, this could lead to significant data breaches, undermining the integrity of AI systems in healthcare, like those used in modern EHRs and medical coding. What health IT trend has you concerned?

Health IT

Health IT Primary Care Nursing Healthcare IT

Flurry of AI, Partnerships, and New Features Announced at Epic UGM

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

These announcements were rapid-fire and met with applause from the audience: Slider Dicer NLP layer to allow researchers and clinicians to query the data using natural language like they would when talking to a colleague vs specific query language, available now URL Shortning & Engagement tracking for Cheers (Epic’s CRM), powered by Hello World, (..)

Medical Billing

Medical Billing Nursing EMR EHR

Value Based Care – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Nurse compensation is needed to improve the healthcare system.

Health IT

Health IT Nursing Primary Care Medicare

Weekly Roundup – May 11, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2024

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. Healthcare IT Today asked 16 experts at ViVE 2024 this question. Healthcare IT Today asked 16 experts at ViVE 2024 this question.

RCM

RCM Nursing Interoperability Medical Billing

Syllable Corporation Announces Purchase of Actium Health

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

By using HIPAA-compliant AI and natural language processing (NLP) to understand patient needs, Syllable’s Patient Assistant integrates with a health system’s EHR and automates more than 70% of hospital calls, ensures 35%+ more callers reach their destination, and frees up staff to handle 30% more new appointment calls.

HC

HC Patient Experience EMR HIPAA

Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.

Health IT

Health IT Primary Care Digital Health Mental health

Bonus Features – September 17, 2023 – 20% of healthcare marketers worried about job security amid AI adoption, 53% of executives using AI to address drug diversion “very confident” in their efforts, and more

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 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.

Nursing

Nursing EHR Healthcare IT Primary Care

Bonus Features – December 10, 2023 – 84% of physicians still use manual processes to manage care transitions, 70% of executives prefer managed services for RCM, plus 26 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 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.

RCM

RCM EHR HIE Healthcare IT

Weekly Roundup – November 18, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 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. At HLTH, Healthcare IT Today also asked members of our community what has made for the most effectives use cases of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT EHR Interoperability FHIR

Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 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.

Telehealth

Telehealth Primary Care Healthcare IT Leadership

Will CMS' Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program become permanent?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 28, 2023

Even with the public health emergency declared over, a federal budget agreement signed into law in late 2022 extended waivers through the end of 2024. Lastly, integrating new initiatives, data or insights into technology workflows such as the EHR is a historical barrier that has reached the breaking point. Enterprise Taxonomy:

EHR

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Uses of AI in Healthcare – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. 2024 will likely see continued hype regarding A.I.

Health IT

Health IT Mental health Interoperability Patient Experience

Staying Informed About Regulatory Changes, Industry Standards, and Technological Advancements to make Informed Decisions

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This leaves us with the big question: in an ever-evolving healthcare landscape, how do Health IT leaders stay informed about regulatory changes , industry standards , and technological advancements to make informed decisions and guide their teams effectively? Wes Wright, Chief Healthcare Officer at Ordr Treat your vendors like partners.

Health IT

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Connected Health Pulse

New efforts try to balance nurse staffing ratios with access to care

Bonus Features – March 17, 2024 – 65% of nurses think AI will negatively impact healthcare, 14% of EHRs have known cybersecurity vulnerabilities, plus 24 more stories

Trending Sources

Weekly Roundup – April 13, 2024

Weekly Roundup – March 16, 2024

Lighting the Way to Efficient Patient Care – How Interoperability and Analytics Change the Nurse Call Paradigm

Weekly Roundup – March 23, 2024

Weekly Roundup – February 17, 2024

Bonus Features – April 14, 2024 – Less than 6 in 10 docs satisfied with electronic access to external immunization info, 68% of nurses are feeling overwhelmed, plus 38 more stories

Bonus Features – April 7, 2024 – 86% of health systems had at least 10% of nurses quit in 2023, 25% of providers intend to deploy generative AI for patient engagement, plus 21 more stories

Emerging Technologies Shaping the Health IT Landscape and How They Contribute to Improving Patient Outcomes and Healthcare Delivery

A Look at the Hospital Room of the Future at Tampa General Hospital

Bonus Features – November 26, 2023 – 85% of healthcare orgs boosting IT spending in 2024, 70% of orgs actively considering generative AI, plus 18 more stories

Bonus Features – January 7, 2024 – New executives at CitiusTech, MultiPlan, and NextGen, plus 15 other stories

Bonus Features – April 28, 2024 – 22% of employers fully trust chronic condition management vendors, Common Agreement v2.0 requires support for FHIR API exchange, plus 29 more stories

Bonus Features – March 24, 2024 – Data infrastructure investments have 124% ROI, 85% of healthcare workers believe AI can improve the patient experience, plus 28 more stories

Bonus Features – July 30, 2023 – Amazon gets into the generative AI game, HIMSS plans to sell off the annual trade show, and more

Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Weekly Roundup – December 23, 2023

Concerning Health IT Trends: What Can We Do and What Happens if We Do Nothing?

Flurry of AI, Partnerships, and New Features Announced at Epic UGM

Value Based Care – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Weekly Roundup – May 11, 2024

Syllable Corporation Announces Purchase of Actium Health

Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Bonus Features – September 17, 2023 – 20% of healthcare marketers worried about job security amid AI adoption, 53% of executives using AI to address drug diversion “very confident” in their efforts, and more

Bonus Features – December 10, 2023 – 84% of physicians still use manual processes to manage care transitions, 70% of executives prefer managed services for RCM, plus 26 more stories

Weekly Roundup – November 18, 2023

Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Will CMS' Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program become permanent?

Uses of AI in Healthcare – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Staying Informed About Regulatory Changes, Industry Standards, and Technological Advancements to make Informed Decisions

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