Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Erik Jacob, Director of Interoperability at Rochester Regional Health (RRH) and Charlie Harp, CEO at Clinical Architecture to discuss how a practical, measured approach to interoperability is preferable to a tsunami of data. Starting with labs made sense,” shared Jacob. Tell us what you think.

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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. We look at the whole child,” explained Hanigsberg. “Of

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 4, 2022

Before the pandemic, many private practice physicians faced significant pressure to merge or consolidate with large health systems for survival. Many stayed the course and […]. He uses the all-in-one cloud suite from AdvancedMD.

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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

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. It’s true that there is a shocking disconnect between the two.

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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 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

JULY 20, 2020

A former health system leader has laid out an interesting argument for refocusing EHRs on supporting care plans rather than simply documenting what care has been provided. In this […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The doctor, of course, has to edit the note for accuracy. It’s an application of modern generative AI techniques to relieve doctors of a major administrative burden and demand on their time. The software records what the doctor and patient say, then uses generative AI to produce a note in the proper format.

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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 Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Of course, this is the initial list of QHINs. I’m sure that was part of the discussion when they became the coordinating entity. It will also be interesting to see the dynamics between commercial vendors and non-profits. It’s reasonable to expect that there will be more QHINs in the future.

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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. 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. Next up was Prisma and search insights.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Of course, solving medication challenges isn’t easy. One of the challenges with drug data is cumbersome EHR…not going to explain that since you all know. SynapseMed. This is true. Lots of other challenges like lack of interoperability too. John Lynn (@techguy) November 15, 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

” Of course, our reimbursement system doesn’t allow time for such conversations. Each year, the best Medicare Advantage health plans (as defined by their Star Ratings) can gain a portion of the $50 billion in available revenues. Dr. Peak similarly said, “Help people take ownership of their own care.”

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Of course, if you’re a doctor with a 2 month waiting list, it’s easy to ignore these alerts. I guess there’s some benefit to have that information the next time that patient comes for a visit. There’s also an opportunity to drive more patient visits so the PCP can follow up on what was done in the hospital or ED.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

Of course, the big question is, what is the public benefit? Trying to load atomic data on a verbose API standard strips out much of the speed of use and programming ease so the failure to figure out a way to do this so far is not surprising.

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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

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

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. Now, there is a trend toward an expectation that patients are able to either download or share their data on demand.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2023

One of these innovative techniques was recently introduced by Dr. Izzy Justice , Chief Neuroscientist at Neuro580 , a neuroscience-based program that teaches individuals to neuro-hack their brains throughout the course of each day to boost their brain functionality.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 1, 2024

UPDATE: Obviously this is an April Fool’s Day joke based on the number of health IT companies who tell me that they can’t get any media coverage but if Judy Faulkner from Epic sneezes, all the health IT media cover it (Shoutout to all the healthcare communication pros out there). They’re not wrong.

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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. The days of “googling for doctors” are dwindling. ChatGPTtool recently passed the U.S.

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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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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

JUNE 23, 2022

The second group to benefit from this National EHR Database was public health. Ellison highlighted how public health didn’t have a way to look across the health of a population. Of course, he highlighted the privacy area here by saying that the data would be anonymized.

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HIStalk Interviews

JUNE 6, 2018

Way back then, 25 years ago, health IT was an afterthought. Now I’m back talking to health systems and the IT departments about the impact on patient care from an IT perspective. It’s interesting how things have come full circle and healthcare has changed so much. It’s even more so the case in healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. 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.

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