South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JUNE 10, 2019

Leveraging these returning patients along with proper case management services, a facility can track and influence patient health. It is well known that rural health facilities struggle to find an adequate number of providers, with a particular problem of recruiting and sustaining specialty care.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2020

I always like to gather insights from practicing clinical informaticists, whose job puts them at the crossroads where health IT and care delivery meet. For this reason, I was delighted to discover a recent blog entry by […]. I particularly like doing so when they find a way to share these insights in a user-friendly way.

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KevinMD

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

A few years ago, I wrote a KevinMD blog post about how cumbersome it was to complete notes in the electronic medical record (EMR). I proposed a solution in our residency clinic but encountered resistance in the adoption process that eventually led to its abandonment. For someone just trying to solve a problem, it was […].

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Digital Health

APRIL 29, 2018

That is my official blog post foreshadowing. The digital health rocket seems to have gotten supercharged lately, at least when it comes to fundraising. billion (Rock Health’s count) or $2.5 billion (Startup Health’s count) was plowed into digital health companies […]. Caveat Emptor, Caveat Venditor.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 23, 2023

Check out the full plotline here on the Medecision blog portal. I weave the pragmatic story together based on datapoints from JP Morgan’s 2023 annual healthcare meeting in San Francisco and CES 2023 held in Las Vegas the previous week.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2024

What started as a blog based largely around articles and our founder John Lynn’s experience in the healthcare IT industry, has grown into a vast array of knowledge provided by experts from across the industry and the world, as well as a few of our own experts using a variety of media to include articles, videos, and podcasts.

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KevinMD

DECEMBER 2, 2017

For a lot of older readers of this blog, who met their husband or wife the traditional way and are baffled by this whole new world (and don’t get me wrong, there were probably many ways in which those days were better!), Online dating is all the rage these days. Statistics suggest that over a third of couples now meet online.

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Xealth

MAY 1, 2023

SEATTLE—May 1, 2023— Xealth , the leader in enabling digital health at scale, announced today that it was named a 2023 Medigy HITMC Award Winner in the Blog of the Year category. The award for Blog of the Year is given to the best blog of the past year based on quality of content, frequency of updates, and overall presentation.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2022

Health citizens deserve Tom’s vision to emerge,” I wrote in a quote on the back of Tom’s new book, Hacking Health Care: How AI and the Intelligence Revolution Will Reboot an Ailing System. And remember… love is the ultimate driver of health.

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Medicine and Technology

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Sept 16-20 is National Health IT Week. You can follow updates on Twitter by using #NHITWeek This year's theme for the Blog Carnival is "the Value of Health IT." Improving patient safety, enhancing clinical outcomes, boosting cost-efficiency in health care, or expanding access to health care?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Among the top obstacles are lack of access to data-sharing systems coupled with lack of interoperability between health IT investments, preference for paper and phone, and data privacy and security concerns. The Dilemma is the risk of “too little” or “too much” health data being shared.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 30, 2015

This week’s round up includes everything from Health IT trends to the trends of Health IT purchasing. In some of our most recent blog posts we’ve touched on need-to-know telehealth terms and how to approach mobile health safety , so if you are interested take a look in our archives! via Philips.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

One of my favorite early blogging compatriots is Will Weider, CIO at PeaceHealth. While it seems like Will has largely moved his blog sharing to Twitter, he’s still one of the great healthcare CIOs to follow.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2021

We’re trying something a little different this year…a throwback to the early days of blogging. Today John Lynn and I will be posting interesting news, conversations, thoughts and insights from Day 2 here at #HIMSS21 in Las Vegas. Bookmark this article and watch for updates from me throughout the day.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 3, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Erin Wabol, Partner and CMO at Agency Ten22. The unique exhibit hall atmosphere introduced by the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) this year was met with cheers and jeers from health IT vendors and attendees alike.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Plus, Steve Posnack from ONC also published a blog article with eight regulatory reminders to help prepare people for October 6th. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2023

It seems fitting that we discuss the mecca of health it conferences, HIMSS, as the final #HITsm chat since that’s where so many of the online #HITsm conversations turned into in-person meetings, friendships, work connections, and more. Health IT professionals on Twitter were connecting, learning, and growing together.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2024

That’s TMI for me to write about in the Health Populi blog, but this story has a current-events twist: the pharmacist could not electronically link with my insurance company to transact my payment. On February 22, 2024, I went to a CVS Pharmacy-Inside-Target in my community to fill a prescription for benzonatate 200 mg capsules.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2024

ONC released its Draft 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan and is accepting public comments on the document until May 28. Additionally, 56% said no payers have provided them with financial assistance, and 55% expect an adverse impact on patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This week I read an essay by Health Futures President Jeff Goldsmith which made a case for moving beyond a much-beloved way of thinking about innovation and growth. Health IT leaders are sometimes dazzled by vendors claiming that they can provide market-shifting disruptive technology, but in my experience, this rarely pans out as promised.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Reps Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (MATCH IT) Act of 2024 , which would standardize the way demographic information is entered into certified health IT products and ensure more precise patient matches.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

On The Health Care Blog , my colleague Deven McGraw and I are hosting a new ongoing series to explore the Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma. The post New Series on THCB — The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Privacy? appeared first on e-CareManagement blog. The Goldilocks Dilemma has U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 6, 2021

For the 21st episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Dirk Stanley, MD, CMIO at UConn Health. Dirk Stanley is a long time friend of Healthcare IT Today from our times on social media (You can find Dirk @DirkStanley) and he has an outstanding CMIO blog where he […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2020

It’s hard to believe a blog I started […]. This year we’re approaching the 15th anniversary of Healthcare IT Today (we’re going to need a big party to celebrate this in December) where we’ve already published ~14,000 articles.

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CiscoHealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

As part of our National Health IT Week blog series, we are going to take a look at the social determinants of health. This means the conditions under which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, to improve our overall health ecosystem and support healthy communities. Modernize public health infrastructure.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 2, 2022

Micky Tripathi, National Coordinator for Health IT, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). The post Inaugural MIT Conference: The Platform Revolution Comes to Healthcare appeared first on The Healthcare Platform Blog. Roy Schoenberg MD MPH, President & Co-CEO, Amwell.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

To achieve true integrated care and parity between behavioral and physical health, it is essential for providers to leverage technology enabling seamless exchange and integration of healthcare information, ultimately with the goal to deliver better outcomes for individuals with a substance use disorder.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Our partnership exemplifies a true commitment to advancing medicine, increasing accessibility, and enhancing community health. Based on the outcomes defined in the research endeavors, the organizations anticipate the upcoming launch of OutCare, Powered by Parker Health. It marks a pivotal milestone in our mission.”

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Redox

JULY 31, 2023

Get the details Health plan costs expected to increase by 7% PwC researchers predict 2024 health plan costs will climb higher than in the previous two years. Read more Information blockers face stiff penalties Certified health IT developers, HIEs, and HINs are subject to violation penalties starting on September 1, 2023.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

One of the SMA objectives is to consider the Conference in advance and offer thoughts about what we’ll expect, which I did here in the HIMSS blog space. I anticipated we’d see a lot of tools and techs to support patients seeking support for accessing and paying for more affordable care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2020

The following is a guest blog post by Scott Ruthe, Chief Information Security Officer and Rick Fitzgerald, Chief Digital Officer at Ciox.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Heather Haugen & Mia Erickson from Atos Epic continues to gain market share across the healthcare landscape. In 2019, they represent about 33% of the EHR inpatient hospital market share.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JULY 30, 2020

This session will explore industry implications of direct-to-consumer health IT products, privacy and security policies and considerations for the future. This session will explore industry implications of direct-to-consumer health IT products, privacy and security policies and considerations for the future.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by The Fax Guys. Confidentiality Is A Cornerstone of the Healthcare Industry. Inspired by ethical tradition, HIPAA guidelines mandate that patient information be stored and communicated securely. That critical requirement has far-reaching technology implications.

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eVisit

JANUARY 12, 2021

Top 5 2020 Blog Posts. Top eVisit stories at our Virtual Care Blog from 2020 — as rated by the eVisit team — are still a must-read in 2021. As a mission-critical partner to the largest health systems and hospitals in the U.S., Check out this quick-read blog post here. They include the following: #1 Gartner Guide!

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Chris Logan, Director, Healthcare Industry Strategy at VMware. In the last decade, technology has significantly helped the healthcare industry make strides to improve care in rural settings. But many providers in rural areas still face major obstacles.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 15, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Dan Kazzaz, CEO, Secure Exchange Solutions. Healthcare is being consumed by runaway cost increases due to (the predicted) shifts in demographics and new treatment options.

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