KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Of course, EMR has brought tremendous advantages to the medical profession, and we are all […]. I have written, or more accurately ranted, about electronic medical records (EMR) systems throughout this blog. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.

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KevinMD

MARCH 8, 2023

“That’s the nurse’s job, of course.” ” Cecilia gave … Read Read more… The algorithm’s dilemma: Navigating ethics in health care originally appeared in KevinMD.com. ” “We don’t.” ” Hope paused.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2021

In the three months prior to the pandemic, 2806 people registered for a This Way UP course and 1907 people registered for a Just a Thought course. During the first three months of the pandemic, 21,872 and 5442 registered for a This Way UP and Just a Thought course, respectively. Course registrations increased from 1907 to 5442.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2022

The following is a guest article by Richard Barretto, Chief Information Security Officer Progress. Files and Documents are a cybercriminal gold mine. Healthcare companies have a lot on their IT plate, but often neglect their most vital assets: files, documents, and records.

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

During one long ago very hot Washington, DC summer, at the suggestion of my parents, I enrolled in a typing course that was given at our elementary school. This was the summer between sixth and seventh grades, and there were lots of things I would've preferred to have been doing, but my dad, who started […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 10, 2022

It’s a massive undertaking to write a health IT book. Of course, leave it to Prashant Natarajan, VP of Strategy and Products at H2O.ai, to author not just one, but two very popular healthcare big data, machine learning, and AI book.

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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

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

JANUARY 3, 2023

“ As we say good bye to 2022 in our rear view mirror, this chat will take a quick look back at what happened and then start to look forward to what we can expect from healthcare and health IT in 2023. Plus, a lot of companies have done some really exciting things with health IT. How can the #HITsm community support you?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

We’ve been attending a whole lot of virtual Health IT conferences lately. Of course, you may only have time to attend part. We always attended a lot of conferences, but it’s pretty unique to have virtual conferences because you can theoretically attend all of them.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2024

Of course, these are higher risk use cases and more challenging to implement from a technical and organizational perspective, so I think we'll continue to see slower progress on this front. What should C-suite executives and other health IT leaders at provider organizations be keeping their eyes on in the year ahead?

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 2022

There’s a lot of truth to this graphic in technology and more specifically in health IT. Of course, it does beg the question of what are some of the small projects that are still holding up the health IT world. In the comments of Miri’s tweet someone suggested the project holding health IT up is MUMPS.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2022

At Healthcare IT Today, we’re extremely grateful for all our readers, listeners, subscribers, followers, and of course our sponsors. We are blessed with the greatest health IT community in the world and hopefully you get a ton of value from being part of the community.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2022

Of course, like all great ideas, reality hit me in the face when I realized that even as my healthcare organization went electronic, we still had a ton of paper […]. Do you remember when you first heard the idea of a paperless office? I do and as a techguy I was enthralled by the idea.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2022

The concept has always been a best-practice ideal, of course. The following is a guest article by Patrick Hunt, MD, is a practicing emergency physician and the Chief Medical Officer at QGenda. Workforce optimization has suddenly become an everyday necessity in healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Healthcare IT News sat down with him to talk about the state of mental health today and the roles that different technologies can play to make sure everyone can access mental healthcare when they need it. What's in store for behavioral health in 2022? What role does behavioral health IT have to support value-based care?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2024

Of course, this doesn’t even highlight the impact to a healthcare organization’s reputation and the downtime this can cause as well. And then of course, we all know how a high level executive’s experience can drive many initiatives at a hospital or health system. Plus, healthcare has up to $1.5

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2020

Of course, the global pandemic, but even in the midst of COVID-19, IT leaders are evaluating the impacts of new virtual technology on day-to-day operations, evaluating the […]. The following is a guest article by Dr. Bob Monteverdi – Global Healthcare Solutions Leader, Lenovo.

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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. Of course, there are plenty of skeptics that say that the technology won’t get there or will be too expensive.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 26, 2022

It’s impossible to put a value on the trust your patients place in your organization to protect and safely store the data created in the course of caring for the community. Hospitals and health systems have more to lose than organizations in other sectors when it comes to the impact of hacking activities and patient […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Of course, implementing those programs and changing people’s behaviors is easier said than done. We all know that diabetes is one of the biggest problems in healthcare. We also know that many people can improve their situation with diabetes through programs that address things like diet and weight loss.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2023

It seems fitting that we discuss the mecca of health it conferences, HIMSS, as the final #HITsm chat since that’s where so many of the online #HITsm conversations turned into in-person meetings, friendships, work connections, and more. Given the lower number of participants, the #HITsm chat has run its course.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 5, 2022

As we continue to improve the consumer experience with a wide variety of digital health platforms, it seems like every health IT solution out there needs to think about how they’re approaching payment collection to create a seamless experience for the patient.

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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

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. It’s no wonder why many in healthcare are skeptical of health IT’s ability to alleviate the burnout they’re feeling.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

Each product includes a 12-week course of therapy, in which patients are incentivized to complete lessons, adhere to treatment, and abstain from drug use. With this financing, we are charting a course to clinical and commercial scale.”

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Of course, we couldn’t pass up the chance to hear Bari’s thoughts on Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) and QHINs, the importance of both state and national efforts to improve interoperability, and how health data utilities (HDUs) are expanding and drawing in both public and private organizations.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This includes, of course, VCs focused on health technology investments. Health IT leaders are sometimes dazzled by vendors claiming that they can provide market-shifting disruptive technology, but in my experience, this rarely pans out as promised.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 11, 2022

Plus, this applies to healthcare organization M&A and also health IT company M&A. Beyond these large organization acquisitions, we’re going to see plenty of health systems continue to buy up practices, surgery centers, etc. On the health IT company side of things, we’re seeing some very different dynamics at play.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 17, 2020

Health care certainly falls into that category, teeming as it is with systems to deal with scheduling, resource allocation, billing, security, and–of course–patient information. Certain environments are especially burdened with complex, diverse systems; the military comes to mind.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

When #HITsm first began , the initial conversations were rooted in a mission to invite health IT professionals to the larger industry conversation. T3: Does interoperability influence or impact initiatives in health equity, digital literacy, or social determinants of health (SDoH)? Why or why not? #HITsm. 10/7 – TBD.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2024

Read more… Health IT Leadership’s Role in Patient Data Security and Privacy. Read more… How Qualifications for a Successful Career in Health IT Have Evolved. As technology advances, success in health IT takes on a new meaning. Read more… Health Care AI – and Regulation – Are Advancing Rapidly.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As background, it’s worth stating that the insurance industry has settled on a ten-session course of therapy for most conditions (which of course was seen as ridiculously inadequate by the classical Freudian psychoanalytic movement, who could treat patients for years at a time).

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2021

Even before COVID-19, mental health was a really important topic. Due to a wide variety of reasons including prominent stigmas around mental health, many of the mental health issues weren’t being addressed as they should. Of course, the […].

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

mHealth companies should improve security controls for the most personal health information. Some of the key recommendations of these findings are that: Overall, basic cybersecurity hygiene, including avoiding hard coding usernames and passwords in source code, is an endemic problem.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Of course, the model can also complain if the image is too blurry to analyze. Damage or poor quality can also be identified by running the image of each component through the AI-generated model. Cybord dashboard.

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