Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2024

A year ago, eClinicalWorks made a big investment in AI, adding it to dozens of modules in their cloud EHR. At both Summits, the company announced bold plans to add Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities to numerous areas of their cloud EHR. That investment is paying off.

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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 News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

News Interoperability: Where it's headed, and where IT leaders will be investing Five CIOs, a COO and a CMIO chart a course for the complex demands of data exchange, and discuss. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) By Bill Siwicki | November 01, 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

I have also seen HIPAA training courses that don’t educate staff that HIPAA lives on and protects health information for 50 years after a patient dies. While there is no mention of criminal charges in the DCH Health Systems notice, this incident might be being investigated for criminal intent. retained for 6 years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

LAS VEGAS – At HIMSS21 earlier this month, Dr. Robert Bart, who has served as the chief medical information officer at Pittsburgh-based UPMC since 2017 , spoke with Healthcare IT News about his to-do list during this busy past year and a half, and what he's eyeing in terms of clinical priorities as he looks toward the next year and beyond.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2024

Over the course of the pandemic, demand for behavioral health services increased dramatically in the communities served by Geisinger, the Danville, Pennsylvania-based health system. This was largely because telemedicine visits were not embedded in the patient portal, MyChart from Geisinger's EHR vendor Epic , said Benjamin C.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

EHR Development Standards: New teeth, bigger bite After years of dashed hopes that EHR workflows will achieve true interoperability and allow patients to easily access and share their healthcare data, many are looking at the ONC’s final standards with a skeptical eye and cautious optimism. There’s no time to waste.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 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. Considerations for Migrating Existing Healthcare Systems and Applications to the Cloud. They also discussed the all-important topic of EHR integration.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

Healthcare organizations are "greatly interested" in innovations that can modernize nursing and solve the challenge, according to Tom Leary, senior vice president and head of government relations at HIMSS, the parent company of Healthcare IT News. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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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

JUNE 14, 2023

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. HIMSS23 #HITsm #healthit @CommonWell pic.twitter.com/yLIq8NBs9m — Healthcare IT Today (@hcittoday) April 18, 2023 FHIR APIs are wonderful, but they’re not sufficient on their own.

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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

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

AUGUST 13, 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

MAY 8, 2024

Of course, with this growth of technology we’ve also seen the growth of burnout and alert fatigue as devices send off warnings that aren’t useful and the volume of alerts that a nurse is getting is overwhelming. Of course, what does the ideal nurse call system look like?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

In a discussion with Healthcare IT News , Fobare spells out the role telemedicine has grown to play during the pandemic, where healthcare goes with telehealth, how change may affect physicians and what virtual care might look like 10 years from now. What role has telemedicine grown to play during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery ? This is just the beginning.

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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

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

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

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

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 News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Led by researchers from the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the study found that 2,656 unique providers conducted 144,940 video visits with 115,789 unique patients over the course of six weeks. Testa said EHR vendor Epic was instrumental in fully integrating telehealth tools into NYU Langone's existing workflows.

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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

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 Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In a recent interview with Healthcare IT Today , Aidan Lee, Director of the Certification Program at OntarioMD , and Matt LaDuke, Director of Products, Integrations, and Service Management, shed light on the evolving landscape of electronic medical records (EMRs) and the state of interoperability in the healthcare sector.

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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

NextGen Healthcare isn't the only major health IT player to opt for new leadership in recent months, of course. Cerner announced in May that it would part ways with CEO Brent Shafer three years after he'd succeeded the EHR giant's late founder, Neal Patterson, and launch a search for a new chief executive.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2020

"We don't store patient data," Welch explained to Healthcare IT News. Of course, phishing is still a major cause of security breaches, with bad actors using social engineering and deceptive messaging to lure users into sharing passwords or personal information. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2020

Much of that will go toward the VA's massive and ongoing EHR modernization , of course, but it will also help fund its broad expansion of telehealth services. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. billion VA budget for IT for next year – 12% more than in 2020. ON THE RECORD. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

Unfortunately, this is a reasonable feeling for clinicians and other healthcare workers. Clinicians views are skewed because of how EHR software has impacted them and their work lives. Not to mention the shift to more patient pay which is more challenging than payers in a variety of ways.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

The following is a guest article by Liza Dzhezhora, Healthcare IT Analyst at Itransition. healthcare providers’ initiative or, should we say, their need to comply with Meaningful Use. This federal regulatory document called for sharing EHR data with. In fact, it was. Stage 2 requirements. Patient portals. Onboarding ideas.

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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. AWS solutions require software compatible with HIPAA standards.

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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 News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. 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

OCTOBER 12, 2023

mRNA vaccines, ambient voice scribes, and of course AI. With the widespread adoption of EHRs, the need for armies of people to handle paper dwindled and HIM professionals evolved to focus more on their information stewardship duties rather than on physically storing and retrieving medical files.

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