Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2021

For the 66th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about some of the recent Health IT Truths and Rumors. Private equity is getting more […] For the 66th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about some of our favorite Health IT Truths and Rumors. Private Equity is gobbling up all of healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

While at the CHIME 2019 Fall Forum conference in Phoenix, AZ, I had a great chance to sit in on one of the CIO focus groups at the event hosted by Optimum Healthcare IT. The session discussed a wide variety of topics including EHR optimization, EHR training, and other related topics. While listening to these […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. 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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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

Most Visited Healthcare IT Resource Pages. Healthcare IT and EHR Conferences and Events. Healthcare GIS. Most Visited Healthcare IT Today Articles Published in 2022. Plus, it illustrates how much the EHR still impacts so many in health IT. 4 Reasons Why 5G and Healthcare Make Sense.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 12, 2024

At the HIMSS 2024 conference, we moderated a panel hosted by Rackspace Technology and Dell Technologies with healthcare multicloud experts and former CIOs who shared the benefits and challenges of implementing and integrating multicloud solutions in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2020

As we reported previously, the HIMSS 2021 conference is officially being moved to August. It will still be held in Las Vegas at the Sands EXPO Center, but now shifted to the summer – August 9-13, 2021. In a press briefing today, Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS mentioned that they have secured additional space to […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2021

Still on my bucket list of conferences to attend is the Epic UGM (User Group Meeting) they hold every year for Epic users. I love user conferences because you hear about the true realities users face. Plus, there’s a common bond on the same application that makes finding someone who shares your challenges easy. As […].

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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. I loved that Silver showed how the patient specific information was added automatically to the form via an integration with the EHR.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

How to take a “patient-first” approach with GenAI – learning from the World Economic Forum At the annual conference of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2024, WEF heavily focused in on AI and its implications and prospects for society and many vertical markets, including health care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

A couple weeks ago, Oracle’s acquisition of Cerner closed and Oracle held an event to announce the vision for the The Future of Healthcare. Much has been written about Larry Ellison’s vision of what he called a “National EHR Database.” This new database would allow them to do this. That’s not inspiring.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I also ask Goehrs why EHR vendors and other digital health software vendors haven’t solved this problem already. This is an important question since I’m quite sure most hospitals and health systems think their EHR vendor is taking care of this. He then shares what Synapse Medicine has done to address these three challenges.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The 2023 MGMA Leaders Conference (#MGMALeaders), a gathering of healthcare professionals from medical practices, showcased new innovative approaches to addressing industry challenges. The exhibit hall at MGMA Leaders Conference felt more “full” and “energetic” this year. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 13, 2023

For the 50th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with David T. With the big spring CMA Health IT Conference coming up on May 22nd, Ford kicks the episode off with sharing what he expects the hot topics to be. Next, we take a look specifically at the healthcare scene in California.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 25, 2022

Welcome to the first edition of the 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. Is Larry Ellison’s Vision of a National EHR Database Even Possible? Read more… 5 Trends in Healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

"The pilot development process was highly collaborative among nursing and telehealth leadership and representatives from ancillary services," he continued. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. Executive sponsorship/leadership.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

At the Epic user conference, hospitals and health systems are recognized for their implementation and use of the Epic EHR system. We all know about EHR systems that have been implemented and then the organization has not continued with upgrades or continued looking at ways to use the full functionality of the system.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 19, 2023

Epic started out as a rather inert data repository, but decades of use and growth have allowed it to look beyond the EHR itself. ” Watch the video to learn more about what Epic was talking about at this year’s HIMSS conference and a look at some of the work they’re doing with technologies like generative AI.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 15, 2021

It’s been a well organized event with a number of great insights from healthcare CIOs and a number of vendor speakers including most of the top EHRs. […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

The alliance was a bold gesture made ten years ago by leading EHR vendors to demonstrate their commitment to data sharing. Plus, Wilder shares what he was hearing about the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) at the HIMSS 2023 annual conference and offers up a few takeaways. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2021

As we head into the HIMSS21 Annual Conference next week, the news is already starting to come out. Healthcare IT News shared that Epic would be rolling out a new site EpicShare at HIMSS21. Well, the EpicShare site is now live and available for people to peruse. EpicShare is being billed as “a place for […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As we continue our ongoing coverage of Fall Health IT conferences , I’m happy this week to finally being able to attend the PointClickCare Summit. As has been the theme at other user conferences we’ve attended this year, the keynote was packed. Needless to say, user conferences are still doing well and valued by attendees.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2024

It’s no secret that ambient clinical voice is one of our favorite topics here at Healthcare IT Today. We clearly believe that it’s going to be one of the most impactful technologies to be implemented in healthcare. The free demo is great because no credit card or salesperson is needed to get access to it.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2023

We’ve only seen a few times where something has dramatically changed the EHR product roadmap. The first time this happened was when the HITECH act and associated $36 billion of stimulus money was included to stimulate adoption of EHR software. In order to get access to that stimulus money, you had to use a certified EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2020

Coming into the year, one of the most exciting technologies I saw coming down the pipe was ambient clinical voice technologies and EHR AI Assistants. I thought this would be a major theme at the HIMSS20 Annual conference. Then, everything blew up included HIMSS20 being cancelled.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2024

Hal Wolf, CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), made several bold statements at HIMSS24 about international growth, courting people in CIO-adjacent roles, and learning from other industries. Wolf referenced healthcare’s need for scalable solutions several times.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

So at the recent CHIME 2023 Conference, we thought we’d commiserate a little bit on some of the challenges CIOs are facing and see if we could maybe find some solutions along the way! From my leadership, I always make the people the center of my strategy. Number two I think that is the people. Number three is the technical debt.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2024

By leveraging enhanced EHR integration, virtual care integration, and reducing alarm fatigue, you can reduce the administrative burden and burnout for nurses. The slide below illustrates the full platform that’s needed to make this a reality for a hospital.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

As we reach kind of the midpoint of the HIMSS 2023 annual conference, a few themes have really come into shape. The two biggest themes at HIMSS are the two topics that are top of mind at most healthcare organizations: workforce and revenue. Unfortunately, this is a reasonable feeling for clinicians and other healthcare workers.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It was a pleasant surprise to see Direct Primary Care (DPC) well represented at the recent #HLTH2022 conference. Holdsworth spoke to Healthcare IT Today about the company’s growth. They also acquired a DPC EHR aimed at the solo practitioner market. There is real momentum building for this alternate form of care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Lastly, most healthcare IT expenditure over the last ten years has been focused on digitizing patient records, and investment in cybersecurity capability has lagged other industries. Threat actors know healthcare is a prime target for extortion and target them accordingly.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

Needless to say, every healthcare organization should be taking the time to understand what’s happening with TEFCA and QHINs. At the recent HIMSS 2023 conference, a panel of QHINs shared their perspectives on what’s happening in a session called “Real Talk: TEFCA, Evolution or Revolution in Health Care Interoperability?

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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? Width: Understand the healthcare IT landscape and its many stakeholders.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

If you want more details on TEFCA and QHINs, check out this two-pager and we’ll be working on talking with some of the official QHINs and those that are still working on it at the ONC conference. We’ll see how effective it is at solving the healthcare interoperability problem.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

No doubt these are topics that we’ll be discussing at the MRO booth (#213) at the upcoming HFMA conference. Requests are then electronically communicated directly to the provider organization’s EHRs and other systems. Automated chart retrieval is performed at scale, leveraging modern HL7 FHIR APIs.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The 2020 HIMSS Annual Conference is just under 4 weeks away. In case you don’t know about the HIMSS conference, it brings together 40,000-50,000 of the best and brightest healthcare IT professionals along with 1300+ exhibitors in one conference in Orlando, FL.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While it may be true that the EHR is the main tool for a clinician, the same is not true for patients. Plus, patients are engaging with the healthcare system on social media, on ratings and review websites, through ads, and other third party websites. Yes, and the EHR has patient data too.

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