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

MARCH 2, 2023

HITsm T2: How do you envision ChatGPT and similar applications impacting thought leadership among healthcare professionals? Disclaimer: ChatGPT was not used in the making of this blog post.* If so, what was one thing that struck you about it? If not, is there a reason you haven’t played with it yet?

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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

MARCH 21, 2023

Rebecca Woods, Founder of Bluebird Leaders, wrote this practical blog post with suggestions on how to be a great leader that supports women in healthcare IT that may be a great preface for some of the discussions that will happen at the event. Plus, I saw they have BLK @ ViVE and Latino @ ViVE events as well.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 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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Optimum Healthcare IT

MARCH 29, 2023

Preparing for transformation requires clarity in two areas: a strategy that outlines the scope, depth, and size of the change needed to realize your goals, and an assessment of what is required in terms of culture, capacity, leadership, models, and tools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Under her leadership, Hims & Hers was able to stand up multiple services during the pandemic, as well. Healthcare IT News sat down with Baird to discuss the company's unique brand of telehealth and how she and her team have developed the technology for a winning endeavor. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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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

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

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 17, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Jim Tate, Founder of EMR Advocate & MIPS Consulting. Just as the Meaningful Use (MU) EHR Incentive program brought potential audits to providers, so it will be with the MIPS program. Both programs were enacted by Federal legislation, and while there are differences, they are also similarities.

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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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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. Many of the largest healthcare organizations have implemented Epic and they remain a strong contender for new implementations […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 8, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by David Fetterolf, President of Stratus Video. The need for language services in healthcare is widespread. Each day, providers are encountering a larger number of patients with limited English proficiency (LEP). The Agency for […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2019

This week’s chat will be hosted by Chuck Webster (@wareFLO) on the topic “Social Virtual Reality: Health, Healthcare, and Health IT!” ” 10 years ago I wrote a blog post (#HIMSS10 Best Ever: Due in Large […].

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Digital Health Today

OCTOBER 19, 2020

To begin mitigating issues like staff burnout, PTSD, and depression, hospitals and healthcare systems need to build cultures of empathy and trust, where staff members know they can share concerns that will be heard and addressed by leadership. Leadership that’s viewed as supportive and approachable. Higher staff retention.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2020

You can find the blog post announcing the final rule here and the Cures Act final rule landing page here. As expected, HHS together with CMS and ONC have released the 21st Century Cures Act Final rule that most people have been calling the Information Blocking rule and/or the Interoperability Final rule. You can download […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Readers of this blog know well that hospitals’ cybersecurity measures aren’t exactly impenetrable, as hack after hack attests. This isn’t just a concern for health system execs, though.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 29, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Yaroslav Kuflinski. As AI, or artificial intelligence, gets more traction across the healthcare realm, it practically becomes the center of innovation in the industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If you’ve been following this space at all, most of these names won’t come as a surprise.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Spencer Kubo, Chief Medical Officer at CareCognitics. The concept of the annual wellness visit is the classic “no-brainer” – one of the rare instances in which a concept is favorably received by all parties without any negative consequences.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Kerry Harbeck, Director of Learning Innovation, and Andrea Kamper is the Innovations Operations Manager for Breakaway Adoption Solutions at Atos. Electronic health records have evolved.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. When decommissioning healthcare systems to archive legacy data, there are often significant tradeoffs.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. According to an investigation by ProPublica and German radio and TV network Bayerischer Rundfunk, medical data of more than 5MM U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 5, 2021

For the 10th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we’re sitting down with Will Weider, CIO at PeaceHealth. This podcast was one of the first I recorded back when we started the podcast in March 2021, but by my own error in planning it got pushed later in the schedule. The […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. Healthcare organizations considering a purge of their archived data soon realize that errors […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Mary Hatcher, Vice President of Product Development at PerfectServe. When multiple specialists and post-acute providers are serving the same patient, getting the right information to the right person in a timely manner becomes more challenging. Dozens of nurses and therapists. Several doctors.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2023

To learn more about these standards, check out my blog on the initial e-prescribing updates announced by CMS in December 2022. The proposed deadline for adopting the new CMS SCRIPT standards is January 1, 2027. That will come sooner than you may think, given the work it will take to be ready.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Shlomo Matityaho, CEO of LogiTag Systems.

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American Well

DECEMBER 19, 2016

This year marks the eighth year that Gartner has come out with its ranking of supply chain leaders in healthcare. Its “Top 25 list” recognizes companies that have demonstrated leadership in developing and leveraging supply chain capabilities.

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American Well

DECEMBER 19, 2016

This year marks the eighth year that Gartner has come out with its ranking of supply chain leaders in healthcare. Its “Top 25 list” recognizes companies that have demonstrated leadership in developing and leveraging supply chain capabilities.

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American Well

DECEMBER 19, 2016

This year marks the eighth year that Gartner has come out with its ranking of supply chain leaders in healthcare. Its “Top 25 list” recognizes companies that have demonstrated leadership in developing and leveraging supply chain capabilities.

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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

With 2019 now upon us, please join us in taking a look back at the most momentous remote care stories from 2018, as reported here at the Care Innovations blog. The attribute that makes them successful is one of the same attributes that make any program successful — strong leadership.”. That courage is not just being bold.

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Clear Arch Health

MAY 18, 2023

This Clear Arch Health podcast episode features American Telemedicine Association (ATA) leadership (Ann Mond Johnson, CEO and Kyle Zebley, Sr. Introduction: Welcome to Transforming Healthcare with Clear Arch Health , an ongoing conversation about developments shaping digital healthcare. But telehealth is healthcare.

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Clear Arch Health

MAY 18, 2023

This Clear Arch Health podcast episode features American Telemedicine Association (ATA) leadership (Ann Mond Johnson, CEO and Kyle Zebley, Sr. Introduction: Welcome to Transforming Healthcare with Clear Arch Health, an ongoing conversation about developments shaping digital healthcare. But telehealth is healthcare.

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