Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

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. Cool to see the transition of leadership at @PointClickCare #connectatsummit. Is the data digital now and it’s just not shared? The data just isn’t connected and shared.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

According to Abhinav Shashank, CEO and co-founder, the chief differentiating factor of InScribe comes from its integration with other systems: clinical, claims, and labs data. He says that a “comprehensive” tool such as InScribe can save “pajama time” as well as “manage patient experience better.”

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 19, 2023

Epic started out as a rather inert data repository, but decades of use and growth have allowed it to look beyond the EHR itself. According to Project Manager Erika Koch, they have taken on the pressing challenges of health care: making doctors’ work lives easier, reducing costs, and improving the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 1, 2023

The following is a guest article by Heather Lane, Senior Architect of Data Science at athenahealth Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have transformed numerous industries in recent years, and healthcare is no exception. This could result in biased or non-factual responses for patients and providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 17, 2023

Ambulatory Patient Intake Automating the intake process and reserving staff resources for more valuable tasks. Drawing on the EMR for patient history and medication information. Digital entities can help remove the mystery and fear many patients experience because they don’t understand what is about to happen.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2019

As patients move from acute-care facilities to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), the sharing of critical patient information and associated data is extremely important for coordinating care. Despite best intentions, most acute-care providers are still not sharing all patient data and […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

This means ensuring better alignment on objectives (cost vs growth vs clinical vs satisfaction), it means operational work to evolve human processes and workflows, it means systems work to break down data silos and connect different data sets in real-time, and it means culture changes among administrators and practitioners.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Effective automation requires that digital tools interact seamlessly with other systems of record, including EMRs, CRMs and scheduling software. Frictionless automation means communications can flow from one system to another without forcing users – both staff and patient – to log in and out of various solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

Sharing of Data in a Patient Portal Most patients are familiar with HIPAA and of course, expect data to be kept securely in accordance with HIPAA requirements. Now, there is a trend toward an expectation that patients are able to either download or share their data on demand.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

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). That said, the industry as a whole needs to find new ways to share data where the economics and the values are balanced.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2023

When Martinbor joined SCHC in 2013, the organization was hosting their EHR on their own servers in a scattered set of data centers. Right-sizing their servers and data center infrastructure would have required a $400K investment. Since SCHC had been using eClinicalWorks since 2009, they had a lot of data that had to be migrated.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Along the way, we almost inevitably uncover challenges surrounding the quality of the patient data transferred to the new and existing EHR. Clinicians can spend more time on each patient chart before, during, or after the clinic visit. It’s like a fire hose sprayed data into the chart without any clear direction or control.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Over the years, D-H has invested in technologies that empower patients to collaborate with providers through shared decision tools and Telehealth, treating “patients and their families as partners in care” D-H has been a pioneer in innovative payment models with both the government and commercial payers. Patient Experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2020

Plus, then we asked them how it will impact health data sharing going forward. As part of our Healthcare IT 100 in 100, we asked a wide variety of healthcare interoperability experts to chime in on the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The following is a guest article by Sean Vandeweerd, Sr. Product Manager, PointClickCare Technologies Inc. Our healthcare system is approaching a critical time in which an aging population will bring baby boomers into hospitals and post-acute care facilities in record numbers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2020

One outstanding session was A Case Study in Automated Data Exchange Between EMS […]. DirectTrust recently hosted their second annual Summit (recordings still available), an event focused on connecting DirectTrust members and non-members with some of the nation’s greatest healthcare and interoperability experts.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

Director at NTT DATA On February 8, 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1) Final Rule in the Federal Register, which took effect on March 11, 2024. The following is a guest article by Nitin Kunte, Sr.

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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

AUGUST 10, 2022

One of the people who’s had a front row seat to some of the major happenings in health IT is Zane Burke. Most of us got to know Burke during his two decades at Cerner Corporation (now Oracle Cerner ) where he eventually became President. Then, Burke was CEO of Livongo Health before it was eventually acquired by Teladoc.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The response to my article asking the question “Are we at the end of the healthcare interoperability tunnel?” ” was quite interesting. I think some people thought that I was hammering on all the work that’s being done on healthcare interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2021

Highmark Health has signed a six-year deal with Google Cloud under which the two will build and manage a new platform designed to streamline patient care delivery. The two companies are developing a new digital care model dubbed Living Health.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

I remember when I first fell in love with an Apple computer – the day I brought home a Macintosh Performa. I opened the box, plugged it into the wall and dove into it with a passion. By today’s standards, its 33 MHz processor, 4 MB of RAM and 250 MB hard drive seems laughable, […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The 2020 HIMSS Annual Conference is just under 4 weeks away. In case you don’t know about the HIMSS conference, it brings together 40,000-50,000 of the best and brightest healthcare IT professionals along with 1300+ exhibitors in one conference in Orlando, FL.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2020

Now that I’ve shaken off the holiday malaise and gotten back to business, I’ve begun to wonder which areas of healthcare will become the new hotness for the coming year. After tossing off a short LinkedIn post on this subject, I decided to dig in further and share my conclusions with you. By the way, […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Interoperability and artificial intelligence will play a large role in the innovation of healthcare technology in 2024 and will be necessary to control the rising needs in healthcare data management and analytics. This will be enabled by advances in data analytics and technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2019

We recently sat down with Kamal Anand, CEO & Co-Founder of Asparia to talk about healthcare chatbots and their recent rebrand from SimplifiMed to Asparia.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

While there are obviously many options available, a small handful of technologies seem to have the greatest impact on patient engagement and efficiency within medical practices, according to a new survey.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

As behavioral health practitioners, we must make our voices heard from the very beginning of the generative AI conversation to bring the evidence-based data and experience to the conversation. It is all too easy for non-clinicians to bear on what is a therapeutic clinical experience. Embrace the value while protecting the data.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Healthcare affordability has traditionally been a challenge solved one patient at a time; however, digital technologies are revolutionizing affordability. Implementing financial navigation technology can identify patients who have previously been overlooked. Rob Cohen, CEO at Bamboo Health.

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