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Electronic Health Records (EHR): How to Achieve Healthcare Data Accuracy with Artificial Intelligence

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Ann Krutsko, Healthcare IT Researcher at ScienceSoft In healthcare, working with inaccurate patient data is a dangerous game. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were designed to streamline operations and improve coordination across healthcare systems.

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How Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients

Healthcare IT Today

As part of their intake process, the team checked Alex’s (a pseudonym) medical history through the hospital’s health information organization and discovered the patient had recently undergone a cardiac surgery at a different hospital; their post-surgical issues had merely mimicked a neurological challenge.

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From Paper to Pixels: The Future is Bright for Health Information Management

Healthcare IT Today

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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QHINs, Health Data Exchange, FHIR, AI and More with CommonWell Health Alliance

Healthcare IT Today

This included an update on CommonWell’s new technical service provider, ELLKAY and their recent designation by the federal government as a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN). CommonWell has been working with some of these clients to look at innovative data workflows. and their journey to TEFCA.

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Impetus and Edict: What the Latest CMS Data Standards Mean for EHRs – Regulatory Talk Series

Healthcare IT Today

More regulatory churn is coming to shake up e-prescribing, this time with new data standards to step up clinical decision support at the point of care. The Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) final HTI-1 rule will bring major compliance hoops for EHR developers to jump through as they carry the next stage of interoperability forward.

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To Drive Value, EHRs Need to Actually be Usable

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, Founder and CEO of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS) EHRs are ubiquitous because they’re useful – but how useful are they really, and to whom? The truth is that an EHR by definition serves multiple masters, satisfying some more than others. The upshot?

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. As with other aspects of U.S.