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

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

For the 24th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, and we’re talking about the health data myths and realities. The collection of health data is happening everywhere. Many organizations are realizing how much value is stored in health data and they’re treating it as an asset for their organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Grace Cordovano, PhD, Founder of Enlightening Results , co-Founder of Unblock Health , and a devoted patient advocate, says that administrative burdens and failures at data sharing affect more than clinicians and administrators: These glitches in the healthcare systems also contribute to burn-out among patients and their families.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The following is a guest article by Vince Kuraitis, co-chair of Health Data Unbound: Innovations in Health Data Sharing for the COVID-19 Era and Beyond. Day-by-day, the business case for data sharing is growing stronger.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Two health systems have become the latest healthcare organizations to name a web tracking tool created by Meta (formerly Facebook) as responsible for their data breach. What makes the tool questionable is that in addition to tracking web activity, it sends some of the data it gathers to Meta.

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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 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Chris Anello, Director of Digital Platforms at iTech AG The COVID-19 pandemic pushed healthcare organizations to the edge and exposed both challenges and opportunities related to public health data. This is one area where CX can come in.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Previous articles in this series showed why social determinants of health (SDoH) are the hottest recent addition to data used by the medical industry. We’ve explored how SDoH data is defined and shared. It uses data collected from patients as well as ZIP code or census block data on populations.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

Just when clinicians—inspired by the HITECH act and new forms of analytics—are grappling with new uses for traditional clinical data, they are being pushed to include a far vaster data set: social determinants of health (SDoH). Specific needs assessment data which is typically provided by the patient. .

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Suraj Kapa, Chief Medical Officer at TripleBlind Data is arguably the most critical driver of innovation in healthcare today. When you think about it, everything in healthcare hinges on having access to the right data: From developing new drugs and medical devices to allocating scarce resources amidst supply chain issues.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

The following is a guest article by Ameesh Divatia, Co-Founder and CEO at Baffle Healthcare organizations were early adopters for protecting data in the modern environment — from stringent compliance regulations to the need to share health records between offices securely.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2023

They were in the partner area of the conference and had created a really interesting middleware solution to be able to better manage all your data across a multitude of applications. While this is a very familiar problem in healthcare, it was interesting to learn how this problem happened in a lot of other industries as well.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 30, 2023

The data generated by AI can facilitate early disease detection, personalized medications and care, the prevention of diagnostic or prescription interaction errors, analysis of treatment risks, and much more. Rethinking Data Storage and Accessibility Data is the lifeblood of healthcare and continues to reshape how the industry functions.

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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

JUNE 1, 2023

We live in a messy world (and a biased one), so hardly any organization can claim to have data as accurate as they want. ” In other words, the way to good data is to know how it was collected, who collected it, when events happened and were recorded, and so on. .” How much is it costing your organization?

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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

MARCH 8, 2023

Many healthcare organizations are taking a fresh look at their data, hoping to exploit it better for both clinical outcomes and operations. But as Kreg Hall, Chief Data Officer, says, the variety of such data makes it complex and therefore hard to integrate. You should use just the data you need to solve each problem.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For those not familiar with the healthcare interoperability space, you may not know that a major portion of health data exchange happens on open source software called OSS Mirth Connect. For many organizations, OSS Mirth Connect is like the “Intel Inside” of their healthcare interoperability efforts.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 13, 2023

which it says shared sensitive healthcare data inappropriately. This is the latest move by the FTC to crack down on healthcare organizations that share healthcare data inappropriately. This time, the FTC has issued a proposed order demanding BetterHelp stop sharing consumers’ health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2020

Consumerism and the use of patient-generated data are no fads, but rather a lasting change to the healthcare landscape, according to a new survey conducted by Healthcare IT Today of our readers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

has admitted that it inappropriately shared private health data on 3.1 million of its users, a problem that arose from its use of pixel-based tracking technologies which gather and share data on people who visit the site. which it said shared sensitive healthcare data inappropriately.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2021

Many of the health IT innovations today are happening on the back of health data. I don’t think anyone would disagree that future health IT innovations are going to rely on high quality data. However, what happens when there are reasons you can’t or don’t want to share that data?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2019

For the 25th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, and we’re asking the question “Do You Trust Google with Patient Data?” In this episode Colin Hung and John Lynn discuss what this means and whether patients should trust their data being shared with a company like Google.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

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. Yes, and the EHR has patient data too. Sometimes the data just isn’t processed in a timely manner.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2023

Healthcare IT Today had the chance to ask Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture , for his perspective via email. The Trusted Exchange Framework is the technical standard that governs the actual sharing of data, and the Common Agreement is the legal agreement that governs the obligations of those sharing the data.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Civitas Networks for Health is a non-profit consortium that brings together a broad community of organizations interested in health data exchange. Many members are HIEs, but a number of other organizations in health care including community organizations are members as well. Tell us what you think.

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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 30, 2024

The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) keeps releasing new rules to address the urgent need for data exchange. Patients will have access to data and can share it across healthcare systems. ” (Although deliberate blocking does sometimes take place, access to data is usually difficult for structural reasons.)

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The following is a guest article by Shawn Fergason, Senior Vice President of Information Technology and Technology Services at MediQuant Securing healthcare data archiving is not just good practice – it’s essential for safeguarding confidential patient information and should be a cornerstone of a healthcare organization’s cybersecurity program.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The agreement positions it to become the top vendor in the maturing market for patient-generated health data. In early November, news broke that Google parent Alphabet had agreed to acquire wearables maker Fitbit for about $2.1 billion in cash.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2022

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. Partnerships.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

We don’t even have the time or word count to cover it all in this article, so instead we will be focusing on healthcare interoperability. What isn’t being talked about enough when it comes to sharing health data? Gregg Church, President at 4medica – Data quality and patient identification.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

UnitedHealthcare has struck a deal with national physician group Privia Health under which it will offer more and better data on patients enrolled in the payer’s Medicare Advantage plans. The agreement builds on the payer’s relationship with Privia’s ACO, which has been in place since 2017.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

With this commentary on IT companies trying to promise data sharing as a turn-key solution or package, Hyland lays out in this video his vision of “point-in-time interoperability,” which would allow bidirectional data exchange among multiple organizations while the patient is undergoing a health care episode.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 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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