Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

When someone wants to create a healthcare app, they often think that getting the data they need to make their app work will be easy. They assume that there must be some easy EHR API they can tap into that will provide them with the data access they need.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Datavant also announces completing its acquisition of Healthjump , the leader in health data exchange for value-based care organizations, which has built connections to more than 1,500 healthcare organizations participating in risk-bearing arrangements.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2023

However, in this case she is talking about establishing meaningful connectivity to drive individual outcomes for patients and healthcare organizations. Sometimes health IT professionals forget that the goal is not just to put data in an EHR or to provide interoperability of data between health IT software.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2023

The good news is that the opportunity to do population health is now there thanks to all of the data that’s available to a healthcare clinic in their EHR. However, it takes more than just a report to do population health effectively and to ensure their closing the gaps in care. A few years ago.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2022

Over the last several years, concern has grown among healthcare professionals over the ways patient data is being used, and just as importantly, how well patients understand what those uses are.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

For the 123rd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are discussing the recent Epic UGM and Civitas Conferences! Lastly, we wrap everything up by discussing what a health data utility (HDU) is. What’s a health data utility (HDU)? We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 15, 2023

Greenway Health continues to focus their efforts on optimizing their EHR. Healthcare IT Today recently caught up with Dr. Michael Blackman, Chief Medical Officer at Greenway Health to learn more about the company’s EHR optimization activities. EHRs are like plumbing – it just needs to work.

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Redox

MARCH 15, 2024

That said, after doing a deep research dive, I’ve come across some great content that can help move your healthcare IT (HIT) down the digital transformation path. Data’s role in healthcare’s digital transformation Healthcare Revolution: Bold Predictions for 2024. Healthcare and Life Sciences Insights.”

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2022

Recently, we shared news about the growing feature set under development as part of Google Health’s Care Studio, most recently its “Conditions” feature which summarizes patient conditions and uses NLP to link related information like labs or medications to those condition listings.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2023

Data sharing and interoperability are spreading too slowly in health care, and even if a doctor manages to get all the data, its varied formats make it hard to draw insights from. For instance, his neurology service works with 42 hospitals, each displaying data on patients in its own idiosyncratic way.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2024

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

JULY 28, 2022

Healthcare Performance Group, Inc. HPG), which has provided industry-leading consulting expertise for EHR technology since 2002, announced today that it acquired Health Data Specialists, LLC (HDS).

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

At Lifepoint Health, she was faced with many of the health IT “realities” that multiple hospitals and health systems across the nation are dealing with. The  The main issue being legacy technologies that don’t easily communicate with each other and don’t allow for easy access to clinical data.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2020

CMS has released a proposed rule that will require Medicaid managed care plans and other insurers offering products on the ACA Exchanges to support the sharing of patient data amongst themselves.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

A new health data interoperability survey by Healthcare IT Today with 82 responses suggests that when it comes to interoperability, healthcare organizations are struggling with many of the same challenges they faced five or even 10 years ago. Their objectives for doing so […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Each day in healthcare, data becomes more valuable, more useful, and more important to a healthcare organization. It’s easy to see that the future of healthcare rests on the back of data. The problem is that data in and of itself isn’t useful.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2021

The National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved, a nonprofit organization geared toward advancing health equity and economic viability, recently launched a new platform aimed at building actionable insights from social determinants of health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While it may be true that the EHR is the main tool for a clinician, the same is not true for patients. Patient data is stored in a wide variety of systems including a CRM, health system website, secure messaging systems, call center systems, survey systems, mobile apps, iPads in the doctor’s office, kiosks, and much more.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

As part of these discussions, WEF published a report on Patient-first health with generative AI with the subtitle, “reshaping the care experience.” Fourth , to mitigate against potential bias across the data and stakeholders (providers, payers, public sector/government, and pharma) making sure to include data from under-served populations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2023

The following is a guest article by Ernie Ostic , Chief Evangelist at Manta The healthcare industry creates a vast amount of data each year — roughly 30% of worldwide data — the bulk of which must conform with regulatory standards. You might go to the ER as a reaction to the onset of sudden, acute symptoms.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

For more than a decade, healthcare has struggled with sharing data. We have not achieved data interoperability despite an abundance of technology, standards, and legislation. They share their data using open standards and common platforms because they share a common goal – to make the world a better place.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2020

As health clinics, dentists, and specialists gradually reopen during what we hope is a reprieve from the first COVID-19 wave, lapses in effective data sharing come into glaring view. For instance, some friends told me that when they arrived at a clinic, the receptionist handed them paper forms and pens.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2019

A pair of senators have filed a bill which would impose new regulations on how companies manage data generated by consumer technologies such as health apps, wearables and direct-to-consumer genetic tests. The Protecting Personal Health Data Act, which was filed by Sen. Call it a HIPAA reboot for the wearables age.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2023

The organization’s 5,000+ physicians, who are treating people across the socioeconomic spectrum, believe that comprehensive health information is crucial to deliver high-quality care for their patients. A lot of work remains to make data sharing a reality. Access to discrete data is at the core of the DxF.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2024

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. Their conversation touched on Ambient Assist in the mobile EHR, making Mirth Connect GDPR compliant, and partnering with CrowdStrike on zero trust.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

When you’re in charge of someone’s well being, it is critical that all of your decisions are well thought through and based on data. AI, when applied properly, is very helpful in not only gathering data, but in sharing, analyzing, and storing it. This is where AI can be very useful to your organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2020

A new report from Stanford Medicine suggests that after years of holding it at arms’ length, physicians are becoming more comfortable with the use of patient-generated health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Most data about patients exists in EHRs or other repositories in a variety of legacy formats. Thus, SAS Health Solutions offers a common data model, ingesting data from disparate sources of FHIR data into the appropriate fields for analysis. Analytics, though, requires you to compare apples and apples.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

APRIL 30, 2019

Payers and Healthcare networks must stay ahead of trends to protect against cybersecurity threats. Click HERE for how BHM develops high level protection for your data, addresses the c-suite cyber-security concerns, and proves it with HITRUST CSF. .

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2022

One of the biggest challenges in health IT is the fact that patient data is spread across multiple systems. While we’d like to think that the EHR stores all the information about a patient, it doesn’t. There are many other systems in a healthcare organization where patient data is stored.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 18, 2022

The topic of TEFCA and QHINs has been an extremely important one in the world of healthcare IT and particularly when it comes to healthcare interoperability. In many ways, it’s setting the national infrastructure for healthcare interoperability going forward. So, we should be paying attention. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Data Scientist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Evaluate the statistical methods and procedures used to obtain data to ensure validity, applicability, efficiency, and accuracy.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The evolution of Health Information Management (HIM) professionals has been remarkable. They are no longer paper pushers (literally) and are now stewards of healthcare data. Jennifer Mueller, President of the American Health Information Management Association ( AHIMA ), sees a bright future for the HIM industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This article kicks off the Healthcare Regulatory Talk series. 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. There’s no time to waste.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 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

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

New research suggests that while consumers are continuing to expand their use of digital health technologies, they’re still careful about with whom they share their health data. The survey, which was backed by Rock Health and […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

Looking forward to this great panel: Real Talk: TEFCA, Evolution or Revolution in Health Care Interoperability? There’s no one solution that will solve the health data sharing problem. While I don’t personally see TEFCA as a blank check for healthcare interoperability, it does have the backing of government.

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