Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by Natalie Tkachenko, Healthcare Software Solutions Consultant at NIX To obtain test results today, there’s no need to visit the hospital. Doctors remotely manage patient data without being tied to a specific medical facility. When it comes to managing medical information, we go even further.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2024

Healthwise’s Current Operating Assets will become part of WebMD Ignite, Creating an Industry-Leading Healthcare Growth and Engagement Platform Serving 650+ Healthcare Organizations WebMD Health Corp. ,

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 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

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Health data utility is still a fairly new concept in the world of healthcare. We gathered up some of our brilliant members of the Healthcare IT Today Community to get their perspective. We gathered up some of our brilliant members of the Healthcare IT Today Community to get their perspective.

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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

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

MARCH 20, 2024

Ben Hsieh, Vice President of Product, says that Discern Health works with payers, providers, and Health Information Exchanges (HIE). Pinho would also like Discern Health’s analytics to help patients; families, decreasing their financial, physical, and emotional burdens.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are improving the quality of their data to further increase their value. Higher quality data means they can help healthcare organizations understand their region more clearly, allowing them to allocate their resources in the areas that need it.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 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 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

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

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

AUGUST 10, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Senior Solutions Architect – HIE position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Here’s a description of the position: Company: TransForm Shared Service Organization.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

In search of an answer to this question, we reached out to our insightful Healthcare IT Today Community and this is what they had to share with us. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 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

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission has cited telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx for sharing sensitive consumer health data with several advertising platforms, in violation of its own privacy promises to consumers. The agency has filed a proposed order demanding that GoodRx pay $1.5 including Facebook and Google.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Yet, privacy laws and a fragmented market have kept the healthcare industry from reaping generative AI’s full potential — until now. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ) is a federal law that safeguards sensitive patient health information (PHI) from being disclosed.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2023

For the 54th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Natalie Pageler, MD, CMIO at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health to talk about patient information privacy! To kick things off, Pageler shares some of the unique challenges that exist with data privacy for children.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

But they also say privacy and data security are big concerns – and that breaches involving virtual care technologies could cause them to stop using telehealth or switch physicians. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. WHY IT MATTERS. Millennials and Gen X were comparably enthusiastic (81% and 79%, respectively).

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2024

Ryan Howells , Principal at Leavitt Partners and Executive Director of the CARIN Alliance, a bipartisan, multi-sector collaborative dedicated to advancing consumer-directed exchange of health information, has joined the b.well board as an independent director. “The support from Leavitt Equity Partners and the expertise of Dr. .

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This article is the second in the Healthcare Regulatory Talk series. 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. Let’s take a closer look at what’s coming as part of the latest CMS data standards for e-prescribing: 1.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director/Sr Director of Finance position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. 5+ years of experience as a senior-level accounting or finance manager with significant leadership experience preferred.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 17, 2021

In response to this tweet by Kristen Valdes during the SHIEC 2021 conference happening this week in Arizona, Brendan Keeler offered this really important look into healthcare data exchange and HIEs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Particularly for risk adjustment (RA) reviews, even the slightest gaps in reporting leaves health plans at risk for drops in quality ratings and subsequent revenue loss. Furthermore, the 21 st Century Act opens the door for greater availability to clinical data among patients, providers, and other requesters such as payers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Before dissolving , MAeHC had assigned its contract with the New England Healthcare Exchange Network to the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. Massachusetts Health Data Consortium , which will design, test and complete a documented prototype for Electronic Prior Authorization integrated with the EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The following is a guest article by Tom Romeo, General Manager of Healthcare IT at Quest Diagnostics. Effective content management can help hospitals, health systems, and large ambulatory groups turn piles of paper and digital content into actionable data. Beyond COVID-19: Data considerations when switching your EMR.

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Healthcare IT Today

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

JANUARY 16, 2020

Amazon has quietly struck a data-sharing deal with England’s National Health Service giving it free access to a range of health data from British consumers.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sriram Rajagopalan , Enterprise Agile Evangelist at Inflectra Today’s most significant risk regarding security and privacy issues in health services is consumers’ need for more awareness of personal health information. Encrypt data and backup your data frequently to avoid having your data lost.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Collaboration in healthcare delivers remarkable outcomes. Such was the case at the first ever collaborative conference for health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, public health, and health equity. Establish Trust, Yield Critical Data. Embrace an Equity-First Mindset.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

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). Currently, perhaps 99% of health data exchange is initiated to support treatment.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This is a big step forward for QHINs who can now start sharing health data. We’ll see how effective it is at solving the healthcare interoperability problem. So, the final HTI-1 rule shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to readers of Healthcare IT Today.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

In an era where the HHS itself notes a 93% increase in large healthcare data breaches from 2018 to 2022, as well as a 278% increase in those that involve ransomware, suggesting “voluntary cybersecurity goals” is akin to applying a band-aid on a hemorrhage. This isn’t just about data; it’s about lives.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2023

One of the biggest pieces of legislation to hit healthcare IT since the HITECH Act is the 21st Century Cures Act. While it doesn’t have the same stimulus money as the HITECH Act, it’s possible that it will have even more impact on healthcare organizations and patients. Tell us what you think.

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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.

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