Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Regular readers know that I think ambient clinical voice is one of the most exciting things to happen in health IT since the $36 billion in EHR stimulus money. The promise of automatic note generation is so beautiful and would solve so many of the pains associated with EHR software and more generally clinical documentation.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Of course, there are also downsides to conferences being in Las Vegas where family considerations pull me away from the event. At Healthcare IT Today we’ve often talked about the international opportunity that’s available to EHR vendors and that Oracle will bring a lot of resources internationally.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Storage of Information in Various Systems While serving diverse medical institution needs, Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) parallel existence complicates information access and exchange between doctors, patients, and different medical centers.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 8, 2023

In the beginning, of course, both parties will be skeptical. The translation of that scribing directly into the EMR can do the same – this will also reduce provider burnout related to EMR fatigue. In addition to that, the administrative layer of healthcare is contributing to burnout.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 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. Healthcare data centers have come a long way in the last five years , VMware’s Michael Robinson told John Lynn.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The doctor, of course, has to edit the note for accuracy. ” The EHR also provided useful statistics, because the organization could track how much time doctors logged into it. Analysis showed that physicians who used the AI note generator spent less time in the EHR, especially between 7:00 PM and 7:00 AM.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The list of medication challenges in healthcare is long. However, this one about cumbersome EHR really stood out to me. Reminds me of the EHR user conference recently where they said that simplicity is safety in healthcare. Of course, solving medication challenges isn’t easy. SynapseMed. This is true.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

You can imagine the EHR Product Manager that had the great idea to alert physicians to a drug to drug interaction or an allergy issue. Of course, if you’re a doctor with a 2 month waiting list, it’s easy to ignore these alerts. This sounds great until you get into the nitty gritty details.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

In search of an answer to this question, we reached out to our insightful Healthcare IT Today Community and this is what they had to share with us. Of course, it is fully the patient’s decision whether to employ this technology. Most patients are quite accepting once they experience the benefits.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2022

One important factor that is key to the growth and success of VBP – and making the transition to it smoother – is to expand the use of electronic health records (EHR). EHR systems are common in Europe, and many European countries have made significant strides in adopting some aspects of VBP for drugs and treatments.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 29, 2023

Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down with Chris Sullens, Chief Executive Officer and Nissa Van Etten, Director of Assessment & Clinical Training at CentralReach to find out more about their solution and about the current state of autism services in the US. “I Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2020

Anyone reading Healthcare IT Today is probably aware that during the first six months of the year, we saw a telemedicine boom unlike any before. The post Case Study: One Medical Practice’s Experience Transitioning to Telemedicine first appeared on Healthcare IT Today.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2022

They usually include big announcements on stage from the company and you get to spend time with the real boots on the ground of healthcare IT. This makes me feel old, but pretty amazing that they’ve been doing a cloud approach to EHR for 23 years. John Lynn (@techguy) October 7, 2022. Next up was Prisma and search insights.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

The Sequoia Project, a spinoff of a prior EHR network, was chosen as the governing body for TEFCA. Today TEFCA only supports document exchange and frankly largely within legacy EHR vendors who have familiarity with the IHE protocols. Of course, the big question is, what is the public benefit?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Of course, this is the initial list of QHINs. Most EHR vendors I’ve talked to have planned to be part of the network through someone like CommonWell (see MEDITECH’s QHIN and TEFCA approach here ), but I’ll be watching to see if that changes as QHINs develop.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Despite operating in Canada’s capitated healthcare system where investment in innovation is challenging, the leadership team at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Holland Bloorview) in Toronto, Ontario has found a way to make it part of their DNA. We look at the whole child,” explained Hanigsberg. “Of Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement Telehealth With its three-pillar approach to modernization, the U.S. Modernization is a "learning journey" that requires review and course corrections along the way.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Although, I’m really just a fan of relieving the documentation burden that the healthcare industrial complex has placed on doctors. Of course, with ambient […]. That’s the real problem and ambient clinical voice is aiming to improve that situation.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2020

Research collected over the course of last year suggests that hospitals plan to implement robotic process automation and AI technologies over the next few years. The study, which was compiled by HIT vendor Olive, includes data collected by Sage Growth Partners at the 2019 HLTH and Becker’s Revenue Cycle conferences.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

Sharing of Data in a Patient Portal Most patients are familiar with HIPAA and of course, expect data to be kept securely in accordance with HIPAA requirements. All clinicians should be equally concerned with patient portal usability as well as the usability of the charting system when choosing an EHR system.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2023

and Chief Medical Officer at CPSI New collaboration between mobile app developer, EHR vendor and health systems decreases clinician stress The perennial challenge of clinical burnout has reached an inflection point. The following is a guest article by William J. Hayes, M.D.,

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 22, 2020

Providers, of course, are far more focused on the contents of medical records, which offer a […]. Historically, health insurers have relied on one form of patient data, while providers operated in a different world.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2019

Of course, this is an issue worth discussing at any point, but especially noteworthy given that new regulations from CMS and ONC are soon to take effect. A new survey suggests that despite spending countless dollars and people-hours on the problem, hospitals and health systems are still struggling with data sharing.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 26, 2022

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dan Czech, Senior Insights Director for Patient Engagement at KLAS Research to talk about these new categories, the reasoning behind the separation, and the findings in their new report: “ Patient Communications Landscape for 2022 ”. And for an exclusive look at our top stories, subscribe to our newsletter.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

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. But what most healthcare professionals don’t realize is that AI can do so much more than respond to patient messages.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 8, 2019

Though it apparently never came close to delivering what it promised, Theranos managed to raise more than $700 million in investments over the course of […].

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Of course, healthcare execs are aware of how this looks to the public, and are taking steps to keep members of the public from getting too concerned. As we all know, massive data breaches have become far too common in recent times. According to a study published early this year, one way hospitals are fending […].

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

” Of course, our reimbursement system doesn’t allow time for such conversations. Ortiz talks about connecting patient needs with assistance from family, friends, a nursing agency, or other help. Dr. Peak similarly said, “Help people take ownership of their own care.”

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 1, 2023

There is no guarantee that ChatGPT’s answers will not be too generic and leave behind relevant information that might be key to the patient and their diagnosis or critical to their course of care. Equally dangerous in a healthcare context, ChatGPT and related AI systems are known to “hallucinate” false statements.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In reality, of course, most practices have a mix of financial classes: Medicare, commercial, casualty, Workers’ Compensation, and possibly other unique local payer contracts. Let’s take an eight-hour day as a physical therapist as an example. If you saw 100% Medicare patients, you could bill 32 units (480/15).

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HIStalk Interviews

JUNE 6, 2018

If you are an IT pro — and those are our customers — and you’re having problems with end user experience issues, especially as it relates to clinical and business applications in a healthcare setting, we may have software that can help stop the bleeding. It’s even more so the case in healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2022

The healthcare staffing crisis is also putting severe margin pressure on organizations. Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT. Inovalon is a proud sponsor of Healthcare Scene. Learn more about Inovalon: [link]. Transcript. [00:00:09]

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