Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

To address this problem, the health center started using telehealth. Over the course of a weekend, staff created a workflow through HIPAA-compliant Zoom so that providers could carry out appointments via videoconferencing. " Ann Tucker, Portland Community Health Center. MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here.

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Health Intersections

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The subject of EHR safety is back in the news – probably driven by the AMIA meeting last week: “I remember internal conversations where we talked about ‘What is the equivalent of a plane crash that is going to get the attention of people?’” Of course, there are are real errors in the large systems – there always is.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

There’s a collective holding of breath right now in health IT as the ONC appears likely to issue its final HTI-1 rule with new data standards for the next stage of healthcare interoperability soon. With compliance the immediate concern for many EHR vendors, when and where is the industry prepared to lead? There’s no time to waste.

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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

One of the nice things about living in Las Vegas is that almost all the health IT conferences come to Las Vegas. However, now that Oracle bought Cerner , the Oracle Health conference is now co-located with Oracle World and is being held in Las Vegas. The US EHR market is quite saturated, but the same isn’t true internationally.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year. The EHR Hits Its Stride. The Mental Health Shadow of COVID-19. Data makes health care smarter in 2021, especially for chronic conditions. Those themes are, The Year of the Pharmacist.

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Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2023

In 2014, ECRI pivoted the title of this annual report to “patient safety concerns,” a nuance away from health technology. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Each year, ECRI informs us on their view of the Top 10 patient safety challenges.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

I guess the one bright spot in all of this is that many of the health IT solutions that are being shared at HIMSS are things that can help with some of this burnout. Clinicians views are skewed because of how EHR software has impacted them and their work lives. Plus, it seems like this problem is likely going to get worse.

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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

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. One of the challenges with drug data is cumbersome EHR…not going to explain that since you all know. The list of medication challenges in healthcare is long.

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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

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 News - Telehealth

JUNE 23, 2021

The board of directors of NextGen Healthcare has created new executive leadership and board oversight committees as the ambulatory health IT developer starts looking for a new CEO. NextGen Healthcare isn't the only major health IT player to opt for new leadership in recent months, of course. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

As someone who has covered the health IT industry for 17 years, I’m always fascinated when I see something really grab the attention of the health IT community. If #TEFCA is going to invite people in and achieve critical mass, of course we are going to do it.” – Matthew Doyle, Epic on why they decided to join TEFCA.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2022

If you’ve followed our coverage of health IT conferences for any amount of time, you know that we love to attend user conferences. 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. eCW was particularly proud of their cloud origins.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2023

They also discussed the all-important topic of EHR integration. Read more… Addressing the Social Determinants of Mental Health. There are many ties between mental health and SDoH such as food insecurity, unemployment, and access to transportation. Read more… Going Beyond Visit Summaries Using AI in the EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. Of course, that's been the case every year over the past decade since the first meaningful use checks were mailed out, kickstarting the digital healthcare age as we know it. Health IT implementation best practices. Collection. by September 30, 2019.

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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 12, 2022

While many of us know ELLKAY from their work in EHR conversion, it’s really amazing how much ELLKAY has done when it comes to healthcare interoperability and also making that interoperability data useful. Of course not. I was recently meeting with Gurpreet (GP) Singh from Ellkay when I was in his area.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

Etienne Boshoff, Managing Director at EHR Enhancify As Ambient Clinical Voice Technology becomes increasingly prevalent in healthcare settings, there are several critical considerations to be made for privacy and secure handling of patient data. Of course, it is fully the patient’s decision whether to employ this technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2021

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

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

This federal regulatory document called for sharing EHR data with. patients to improve their engagement and independent health management. Of course, it doesn’t mean doctors should invest many hours in advertising this engagement tool. In fact, it was. Stage 2 requirements. Patient portals. Onboarding ideas.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

" MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Gastroenterology Associates of New Jersey also sees patients with considerable anxiety associated with their GI conditions – which of course makes symptoms worse. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It’s not uncommon for vendors to have access to sensitive patient data, such as electronic health records (EHRs) and patient communications. Identify various scenarios and plan your course of action accordingly. This is a HIPAA requirement for business associates. Plan your communication strategy.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

Health Gorilla’s platform has integrated four clinically validated SDoH scores from LexisNexis Risk Solutions into its national Health Interoperability Platform, putting SDoH data in context with comprehensive clinical information retrieved from hospitals, electronic health records (EHRs), and labs across the country.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

ModMed , which develops a wide range of EHR, record-keeping, analytics, workflow and other software for 11 medical specialties, takes a unique—one might say “unconventional”—approach to ensuring that its developers understand their fields: The company employs doctors and trains them to program. .”

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Of course, with every new technology comes abuse of that technology. But first, let’s quickly differentiate personally identifiable information (PII) from personal health information (PHI) for the sake of clarity later on. Technology is growing faster than we can catch up, and we are giving away our personal information too soon.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to speak with Julia Hanigsberg, President and CEO of Hollard Bloorview (winner of the 2022 Medigy HITMC Award for Health IT Trailblazer of the Year) to find out more about their approach to innovation. Innovation at HBRKH. Holland Bloorview is Canada’s largest children’s rehabilitation hospital.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

It's been a relentless 16 months, and healthcare CIOs and other health IT leaders can no doubt use a breather. During the course of the past year-plus, these executives have learned many lessons spurred by the manic pacing of the pandemic. " Matthew Russo, Helio Health. "Skip" Rollins, Freeman Health System.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

Of course, it seems crazy that the health IT incentives and Meaningful Use didn’t mandate interoperability; and the last few years of health IT development might have gone differently if interoperability were required before the 21st Century Cures Act mandated it and made data blocking illegal, but we are now looking forward, not backward.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 25, 2020

While she clearly believes in the potential of digital health technologies, (as does her boss, CEO Tim Cook), she’s also a health professional in her own right, and understands how important it is that patients and healthcare providers be sceptical as big tech attempts to get into the market.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 2, 2024

Email , lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk , HealthTech M&A Newsletter from Nelson Advisors - HealthTech, Health IT, Digital Health Insights and Analysis. Key Figures: Emil Kraepelin: Pioneered classification of mental illness based on symptoms and course.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 1, 2024

Some wondered if this may be the start of Epic slipping from it’s place on top of the EHR world. Here are 2 that I loved: They also had another that said that “ABC Chooses Epic as the Official EHR of Grey’s Anatomy.” Here are a few other April Fool’s Day jokes that I saw in health IT starting with DrFirst.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 22, 2020

Historically, health insurers have relied on one form of patient data, while providers operated in a different world. Because it lines up with how they do business, health insurance companies have focused on analyzing patient care using claims data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2020

A recent IDC Health Insights presentation focused on health IT industry trends during and after the COVID-19 era. It examined some of tools and strategies that stand to gain ground in the months ahead as health systems build on lessons learned during the coronavirus crisis.

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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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