Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2019

While we’ve been writing about EMR data archiving since back in 2009 and then again in 2013 and 2014 to name a few, the topic has never been more important than it is today. With many healthcare organizations literally supporting 100s and even 1000s of health IT software, how you handle legacy systems including data […].

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2024

In addition, ACOs and other value-based programs have to share data to get financial benefit. ” Watch the video for more on the potential for achieving ROI through digital sharing of health data. Husainy says the regulations put “new teeth” into requirements for interoperability.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In this episode we’re discussing Dr. Goldman’s work in Social Determinants of Health (SDoH). First we dive into what she’s done to integrate SDoH data into the EMR and how she’s kept people from over looking it. Jennifer Goldman, DO, Chief of Primary Care at Memorial Healthcare System.

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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 Today

APRIL 17, 2020

As you can imagine, we’ve been innundated with COVID-19 related health IT news. We’ve done our best to cover the areas we thought were most important to healthcare organizations.

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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

JULY 29, 2023

How the IoMT Helps Data Reach Its Full Potential. We asked members of the Healthcare IT Community to share their thoughts on the growing role of the Internet of Medical Things in managing healthcare data. Read more… Data Lineage Tools Help Unpack Complex Data Dependencies. million in seed funding.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2023

(CloudMD) , an innovative health services company transforming the delivery of care, today announced that it has closed the sale of its U.S.-based based Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Practice Management (PM), and Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) assets for approximately US$6.3

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

One Healthcare Solution’s premier software and expertise in EMR integration will allow us to support practice owners and physicians more than ever before,” said Emmet Seibels, President of Verustat. As a result, the company has one of the highest compliance rates among its patient populations in the RPM industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Navigating the complexities of medical data, regulations, and patient care can place demands on generative AI technologies that can’t be fulfilled. But there is a way to take full advantage of the power of GenAI — with industry-specific LLMs that are securely supplied with proprietary data.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2020

Little did we know on March 10th when we filmed this great discussion about healthy data in healthcare hosted by Intersystems what we were in store for with COVID-19. Although, as COVID-19 has progressed we’ve learned even more how important healthy, quality, trusted data is to healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2020

Whenever you change EHR software, one of the biggest pieces of the project is to figure out how to handle the data that resides in the system (or more often systems) that you’re replacing. Needless to say, there’s a lot that goes into this part of the project. In fact, it really is almost a […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Unsurprisingly, a recent Gartner Peer Insights survey – Cybersecurity in the Healthcare Industry – also showed that nearly half of participating healthcare organizations have experienced a data breach in the past two years. Patients need the peace of mind that their health and their data are both safe.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It’s not a huge surprise that the week of the ONC Meeting, they would make a number of big announcements for those of us in health IT. I expect we’ll see many more health IT companies become QHINs. This is a big step forward for QHINs who can now start sharing health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2022

I remember my first EMR implementation about 16 years ago and we put up this same sign (although, it was Medicat instead of Epic for the EMR). To be fair, I can’t read this article since it’s behind a subscriber wall, but I consider this announcement another data point in Amazon’s ongoing move into healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2023

From consumer wearables and smart home devices to point-of-care testing and other technologies used within hospitals and physician practices – these have traditionally existed in silos, capturing and transmitting data with minimal collaboration between providers, specialties, or organizations. However, it is usually piecemealed.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

For the 26th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, and we’re taking a look back at the last decade of Health IT. Another decade is almost in the books and so we take a look […] We're coming to the end of a decade and a lot has happened with Health IT. Data Blocking & Interoperability. Cloud Acceptance.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC).

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 21, 2021

Electronic Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are exploding globally and in the U.S., The following is a guest article by Todd Broadhurst, Solutions Director, Tamr. with 92% of the U.S. population now served by them. Private companies, states, and even large counties and cities are scrambling to launch their own HIEs. HIEs […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2020

For most clients migrating to MEDITECH Expanse, one of the most challenging decisions to make is how much data needs to make the transition. Clinicians will certainly want all legacy data to be converted, but this approach is often […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As we continue our ongoing coverage of Fall Health IT conferences , I’m happy this week to finally being able to attend the PointClickCare Summit. While there was a lot of gratitude for being back together, it was also great to see the transition of leadership that happened on stage. The shift to sharing data was clear on stage.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2024

I’ve always said that some of the most interesting things in health IT are when someone brings together the right mix of technology, partners, and users to do something that they couldn’t possibly do alone. I sometimes refer to this as health IT needing to put together the right packaging. The same is true in health IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

Smartphones, tablets, two-in-one notebooks, and other connected devices and sensors are now commonplace inside and outside hospitals and clinics, greatly expanding the potential for data-driven solutions that can improve patient care. How can we ensure patients’ privacy with all the devices and sensors transmitting data?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

The optometrist printed his report that I would bring to my next PCP exam, because otherwise my optometrist had no reliable way to transfer the data. clinicians, as estimated by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance. Many other health IT firms have joined CommonWell since then.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

Putting Patient Data in Context While it’s great to see more practices adopt RPM, I always like to look at the bigger picture of why CMS introduced reimbursement for RPM in the first place: It is a more proactive approach to care delivery that facilitates better patient outcomes. And, by 2025, more than 70 million U.S. patients – 26.2%

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

That was the situation Magnolia Regional Health Center found themselves in when they migrated to a new version of the MEDITECH EHR. EHR migrations are becoming more common as many healthcare organizations switch EHRs or choose to upgrade to a new version of their EHR. When you face an EHR migration, one of the most […].

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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

MARCH 5, 2024

In a fast-paced exchanged with John Lynn of Healthcare IT Today, Rucker covers regulations and evolving data exchange standards that foster interoperability and data analytics. Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth , shows us in this video how current regulations and FHIR standards will actually make that happen.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Tom Herzog, chief operating officer of Netsmart , says that “digitization has always been about entering data into the system” and that users are asking, “What does the system do for me?” ” It’s time to “aggregate” that data and get a million “second opinions.”

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Stephen Sofoul, SVP, Data & Decision Science Services at MultiPlan A critical challenge lies in the shortage of experienced financial analysts or data analysts capable of effectively analyzing the wealth of information that the healthcare industry holds.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

To address this risk at an enterprise level, physician leadership (CMO, compliance officers) will need to establish that best practices are followed consistently across the physician population. All of this could lead to incorrect data being recorded, stored, and used for patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Murry a much more effective application of AI is ambient clinical voice – where an AI-powered application “listens” to the clinical visit and turns the conversation into data that can be used to populate the EHR. When you can remove the EMR from the conversation, you can have a patient-provider discussion face-to-face.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The thing is, the job they’ve learned to do – serving as an exchange point for any and all data coming their way – may already be outmoded, according to Claudia […]. After years of evolving and struggling to find a solid business model, HIEs have finally found a reasonably secure place in the healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A new survey concludes that many health IT executives are not too familiar with new federal regulations which, among other things, require that patients have more access to their health records and forbid providers from hampering health data sharing across networks.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

New healthcare AI and Machine Learning research conducted by Healthcare IT Today suggests that many industry leaders are serious about adopting healthcare AI and machine learning tools and what’s more, that these technologies are being used as part of mission-critical efforts rather than one-off pilot tests.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For the health IT community, 2022 has been a big year. . In January, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) became a reality, and in October applications opened for organizations seeking designation as Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs). Does the Exchange Allow Participants Full Control Over Their Data?

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