Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Tom Liddell, CEO at Harmony Healthcare IT A successful career in health IT leadership requires a unique blend of technical expertise, regulatory knowledge, and strong communication skills. A solid foundation in data infrastructure, security, and privacy protocols is crucial for anyone in 2024 looking to succeed in the healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 16, 2024

Frazier is joined in the transaction by NEA, 22C Capital, and RevSpring’s senior leadership team. The partnership with Frazier will leverage Frazier’s investment, experience, and deep industry expertise to accelerate the Company’s success as a leading solution provider in the communication and payments industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2024

By focusing on quality of care, rather than patient volume, Marathon Health providers remain engaged with their patients, keeping them active, healthy, and out of the emergency room. Originally announced February 8th, 2024 This commitment ensures Marathon leads with expertise and compassion in healthcare.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While the digital health stakeholder community is convening this week at VIVE in Los Angeles to share innovations in health tech, NABIP has assembled health insurance leaders in Washington, DC, for the 2024 Capital Conference to focus on major health reform issues that are top-of-mind for health care payors — which in today’s U.S.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 9, 2024

We extend our sincere congratulations to the Woebot Health team for taking home our Mental Health Innovation Award in 2024.” Woebot Health is addressing this challenge head on, standing as a mental health ally that is engaging people in their breakthrough mental health solutions at scale. For more information, visit woebothealth.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2024

While not every office is this disorganized, the patient experience when it comes to clipboards and patient forms has a lot to be desired at many healthcare organizations. The most frustrating part of the experience for me was that I knew there was a better way.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2023

integrated delivery networks (IDNs), recognized for leadership in developing innovative delivery models and a commitment to technology. Acclara delivers cost-effective, innovative solutions to help healthcare providers across the United States improve the patient experience, minimize administrative burdens, and maintain regulatory compliance.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Integrating RTLS visibility with patient workflow software allows automated text updates for patient-approved contacts, enhancing trust, clarity, and safety. RTLS can also enable proactive patient communication, sharing updates, wait times, and navigation instructions, guiding our approach for 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Florian Otto, CEO and Co-founder at Cedar Healthcare Affordability: Healthcare affordability will always be a problem, and it remains to be seen if 2024 will be better or worse than 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

However, if a healthcare organization doesn’t combine data across these systems, they can’t achieve the optimal patient experience that’s needed to create a welcoming digital front door.

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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.

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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. Some federal and state legislators are seeking to mandate patient-caregiver ratios to help improve care and reduce nurse burnout. Chief among them: critical staffing challenges.

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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. Now more than ever before, patients are interested in being active participants in their care, selecting the right health partner, and connecting with their providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Dr. Lawrence Werlin, Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist at HRC Fertility Fertility preservation will be one of the most significant fertility topics in 2024. Left behind are staffing shortages and workload problems that drive up billions in costs and degrade the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. 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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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. In the next year, we’ll see further evolution of hybridized care models where parts of virtual care are leveraged to improve access and patient experience. Stephanie Lahr, President at Artisight, Inc.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Adoption of Patient Self-Scheduling Will Double Patient self-scheduling solutions topped the list of most “in-demand” technologies – expected to grow from 34% adoption to 75% by the end of 2024. This is one of the solutions that encapsulates why we called the report ‘The Tipping Point’,” stated Bengtson. “It

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2024

In order to get a good range of insights and opinions on what threats and opportunities health IT leaders should be looking out for, we reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community while at ViVE 2024. The following video is a compilation of their answers!

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

Director at NTT DATA On February 8, 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1) Final Rule in the Federal Register, which took effect on March 11, 2024. The following is a guest article by Nitin Kunte, Sr.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2024

Anyone who has been on a hospital ward, whether as clinician, patient, or visitor, has noticed the continual din of beeps and chirps—it can drive you crazy.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Grace Cordovano, PhD, Founder of Enlightening Results , co-Founder of Unblock Health , and a devoted patient advocate, says that administrative burdens and failures at data sharing affect more than clinicians and administrators: These glitches in the healthcare systems also contribute to burn-out among patients and their families.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

It’s not enough to show a correlation, but to demonstrate that the clinical intervention was responsible for the improved patient outcome. Patients as well as clinicians demand explainability (also known as transparency and accountability).

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2024

For the 72nd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Donald McGruder, Chief Information and Revenue Integrity Officer at South Shore Hospital. We kick off this episode by discussing how South Shore Hospital is positioning itself in the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

New patient experience expectations, coupled with a looming labor shortage in radiology, is forcing new (and in many cases, overdue) innovation in imaging diagnostics. This would be especially true for Baby Boomers who are becoming a greater percentage of the patient population.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. In 2024, we need to see more investment and accountability in the use and application of data to truly serve the most vulnerable. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The inaugural HLTH Europe will take place June 18-20, 2024 in Amsterdam. PEP Health showed that patient experience scores are on the rise for hospitals in Texas , with Stars Ratings steadily increasing since 2019. We wanted to try and cover as many announcements for the Healthcare IT Today community as we could.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 16, 2024

He points out that communications have lagged behind everything else in medicine, and are holding back progress in patient care and the physician experience. For Rishi Sarna, MD, Chief Clinical Officer at Backline , communication is central.

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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. 2024 will likely see continued hype regarding A.I. With the clinician shortage expected to continue – and possibly even worsen – in 2024, automation is key from the start of the clinician’s staffing journey (i.e.

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