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. The following is a guest article by Nick Barger, PharmD, Vice President, Product at DrFirst.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2023

“We needed to bring in external lab data from the many health information exchanges in New York state to augment our charts. Our clinicians needed that information so it was our job to get it to them.” When the work was done, the lab data seamlessly appeared within Epic.

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 24, 2024

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

patients’ electronic health records lack the level of interoperability that the COVID-19 pandemic could have better leveraged. Mark McClellan, former FDA Commissioner, and colleagues at Duke’s Margolis Center for Health Policy, on how the U.S. That’s a big if: in the U.S., This process can.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2024

No doubt, HIEs have become critical and provide an important service to their communities that improves healthcare quality by enabling providers, public health, research and other stakeholders with better access to patient information.

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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

JUNE 2, 2023

Bill Charnetski, EVP, Health System Solutions & Government Affairs at PointClickCare Traditionally, long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) facilities have not benefited from the same health IT investments or funding as other care sectors. Since the U.S. Since the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Ever since data went online, health care organizations and others have been struggling to provide useful data for advanced analytics while guarding Protected Health Information (PHI). Of course, synthetic can’t map real data perfectly while still being private. Subsalt contracts with deidentification experts (i.e.,

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Of course, the proof is really in the pudding. QHINs now have that government and regulatory backing which makes a big difference. Plus, credit to Micky Tripathi and ONC for doing the hard work of bringing the CDC, FDA, CMS, and other government healthcare organizations on board with QHINs as well.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This can include training sessions, webinars, online courses by developers, or cybersecurity experts. Specifically for Ukrainian healthcare institutions, the Ministry of Health, together with the USAID project “Support for Health Reform,” has developed guidelines on how to maintain data confidentiality.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2023

Thier Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Chief Health Information and Innovation Officer at Partners Healthcare System in Boston (now Mass General Brigham). He also served as the United States National Coordinator for Health Information Technology from 2009 to 2011. Previously, he was the Samuel O.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

Of course, the big question is, what is the public benefit? We look forward to true interoperability and computable health information and hope that TEFCA will become one of those building blocks rather than serve as a detour in our search for true interoperability.

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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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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2018

That’s why 73% of health executives told Accenture they plan to develop internal ethical standards related to the use of AI to bolster responsible use of patients’ personal health information. Together, these three concepts blur lines across physical and simulated, immersive worlds.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2023

Organizations have embraced the cloud thanks to its improved security, the push for interoperability, the growing number of cloud-ready applications, and of course the shift to remote work. John spoke to Natalie Pageler, MD, at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health about the unique data privacy challenges that children’s hospitals face.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 2, 2024

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

But of course, patients continue to have healthcare needs that do require doctor visits. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. The issue is mainly HIPAA compliance, but patients can have access to their health information via an embedded app if they wish,” Shemesh explained.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

We interviewed Bronwyn Spira, CEO and cofounder of Force Therapeutics, to dig into RTM and the CPT codes to help healthcare-provider organization CIOs and other health IT leaders understand this new way of getting reimbursed for care. Health information can't be generic, out-of-the-box or outsourced to a call center.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

"Once again, this served as a pilot opportunity to then showcase that digital health can provide meaningful interactions and deliver high-quality outcomes without the need to be face-to-face," he said. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Mobile Health Matters

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Part of the thrill of working in health IT comes from bringing something more than just a cool widget to market. And, as part of the development process, we seek to partner with health systems to address their specific challenges. After all, many health IT solutions have a standardized framework, and customization is limited.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

As thousands of people look up health information online, this search can point to unverified results and thus lead to dire health consequences in case users proceed with self-diagnosing and self-medicating. Of course, it doesn’t mean doctors should invest many hours in advertising this engagement tool.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 16, 2023

The following is a guest article by Deven McGraw , Co-Founder of Ciitizen® and Lead for Data Stewardship and Data Sharing at Invitae Corporation HIEs and HINs Should take Key Actions Now to Prepare for the Enforcement of the Information Blocking Rules On Sept. Of course, there are also financial concerns to consider, too.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 27, 2020

I talked on occasion with my counterparts at other health IT companies and they told the same stories: tempting dollars, questionable ethics. Fast forward a few years and I was at ONC, writing the text of what would become the 2014 Edition of the Certification Criteria for health Information Technology. Could they resist?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2023

Back when sensitive patient information was stored in physical files, healthcare organizations only had to worry about the (rare) physical break-in. Today––when third-party vendors store or manage infinite reams of Protected Health Information (PHI) and other sensitive data––the range of potential threats has increased exponentially.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This week, public health truths have collided with social media, the infodemic, and health citizenship. First, I read in Becker’s Health IT on February 16 that the peer-reviewed policy journal Health Affairs was prevented by a social media outlet from promoting its February 2022 issue themed “Racism and Health.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

ChatGPT is a hot topic at many health conferences this season. Many health IT professionals no longer ask, “What is ChatGPT?” In the best circumstances, it can provide instant information and support to patients in professionally-managed systems. What is ChatGPT in Healthcare? Workforce Impact.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Embedded in Apple’s Health app, the new feature will bring together medical data from participating hospitals and clinics, as well as from the iPhone itself, giving millions of Americans direct digital control of their own health information for the first time. Verily Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences, was founded in 2015.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 10, 2023

ChatGPT is a hot topic at many health conferences this season. Many health IT professionals no longer ask, “What is ChatGPT?” In the best circumstances, it can provide instant information and support to patients in professionally-managed systems. What is ChatGPT in Healthcare? Workforce Impact.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 10, 2023

ChatGPT is a hot topic at many health conferences this season. Many health IT professionals no longer ask, “What is ChatGPT?” In the best circumstances, it can provide instant information and support to patients in professionally-managed systems. What is ChatGPT in Healthcare? Workforce Impact.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s always been pretty obvious that factors such as wealth, race, education, and the quality of food and water have enormous impacts on health. Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH).

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