Digital Health Global

JANUARY 30, 2024

The statewide nonprofit health information organization will send and receive Admit, Discharge, and Transfer (ADT) notifications at no cost for most CalHHS Data Exchange Framework (DxF) participants through new exchange EMERYVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Thinking about their health care experiences, consumers most-highly ranked having open access to their medical records and partnering for shared medical decisions with their health care providers as key to meaningful health engagement.

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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

APRIL 25, 2023

HCA Healthcare , one of the leading providers of care in 20 states and in the United Kingdom, has smartly been investing to improve the quality of the health data they collect. When you say the words ‘data quality’ to people, they interpret it differently,” said Dr. Jirjis. Technically, yes, that is poor quality data.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ) is a federal law that safeguards sensitive patient health information (PHI) from being disclosed. Up to now, HIPAA-compliant data security and generative AI haven’t gone hand-in-hand as AI is trained on large datasets centrally and often by third parties.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The website providing a guide to the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) asks the pertinent question: is using WhatsApp in a professional setting by healthcare workers compliant with the law? Lots of doctors take photos of patients’ wounds and x-rays and share them with other doctors on WhatsApp.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Representatives have introduced the WEAR IT Act , which would let Americans use money from Flexible Spending Accounts or Health Savings Accounts to pay for devices such as blood glucose and EKG monitors or sleep trackers. In particular, critical access hospitals are 16% less likely than other hospitals to engage in information exchange.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

I’ve mined the US data of this global survey to divine insights for health/care. Quite recently, health-tech app developers were frustrated by lack of smartphone penetration among older people — lots of the very folks who could benefit from self-tracking data that can be useful for managing chronic conditions.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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? It can serve every user from the patient to the receptionist to nurses, doctors, counselors, billers, and the CFO.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

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. News In a blog post, ONC highlighted trends in patient access to electronic health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 14, 2022

A survey of 5,000 clinicians conducted by experience management firm Qualtrics concluded that only half of nurses and physicians believe in the future of their organizations. The Iowa Hospital Association selected PayZen as the patient finance platform of choice for its network of 17 health systems and 117 hospitals. Partnerships.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

It will use the health information taken from regular monitoring to promote clinical decisions and actions that will improve patient well-being and outcomes. In addition, the project will form a new digital health workforce by training doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in both hospital and primary care.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

Clinical data exchange vendor MRO is now automating data exchange between providers for continuity of care purposes. Risk management vendor CorVel unveiled a data and service hub for its customers in managed care. Health information network Availity appointed Sean Barrett as Chief Product Officer.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2023

Read more… Data Quality Is a Journey, Not a Destination. To ensure that it’s sufficient for future needs, data must be continuously improved, audited, and refined , Colin learned from Charlie Harp at Clinical Architecture. Read more… Why Intelligent Communication Is Key to Retaining Nursing Staff.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

DeBakey Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and chief of health policy, quality and informatics program at the Houston VA Center for Innovation in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety. Through the program, practices also will build skills to learn from their own data. Andrea Bradford, PhD, is a co-investigator.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Here's what execs from some leading health IT vendors think about the most pressing challenges – and big opportunities – of the year ahead. " Going forward, using AI-powered big data analytics to optimize the supply chain is going to be essential, said Byczkowski. Supply chain: Machine learning insights.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

“If data is everywhere, how do you protect it?” This thought has been on my mind well before the Change Healthcare hacks (that’s plural) with which U.S. health care stakeholders are still dealing as this post goes live on the Health Populi blog. JSK: What’s your origin story with health information security?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

The following is a guest article by Sonia Chambers, Executive Director at West Virginia Health Information Network. Infrastructure is available nationally for states to leverage and customize locally for their unique Health Information Exchange needs. Agile Technology Tools.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Patients’ self-diagnosing conditions online is a new-normal for people engaging with health information online — whether via WebMD and the ClevelandClinic.com or via TikTok — a growing platform for medical information. ” In the COVID-19 public health emergency, the U.S.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Getting personal medical data from a disembodied electronic voice might seem like science fiction but is rapidly turning into reality as hospitals turn to devices like Amazon’s Alexa. Another Alexa project coming from Northwell will allow doctors and nurses to ask Alexa for details on a patient’s electronic health record.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

I have also seen HIPAA training courses that don’t educate staff that HIPAA lives on and protects health information for 50 years after a patient dies. While there is no mention of criminal charges in the DCH Health Systems notice, this incident might be being investigated for criminal intent. retained for 6 years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

A large number of the beneficiaries present multiple complex chronic health conditions with a high coexistence of mental health conditions making the coordination of care more complex and inefficient. If warranted, the nurse will recommend an assessment by telemedicine triage with the telemedicine triage provider, StationMD.”

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 13, 2024

Generative AI: Personalised Health Information: Generative AI can personalise health information delivery. This can lead to a deeper understanding of their health and better engagement with treatment plans. Privacy Concerns: Data privacy is paramount.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

Many skilled nursing facilities are short-staffed, so patients cannot always transition out of the hospital in a timely manner. At the same time, there simply are not enough nurses and other healthcare providers to care for the people who will need support and resources in the next five to 10 years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Over the past six months, as hospitals and health systems have pursued telemedicine and remote patient monitoring programs in earnest – whether launching new one or expanding existing ones – they've all had some learning curves and growing pains to manage. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity.

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

We heard from the Mace family, a couple who experienced first hand the difficulties with health data exchange after Tristan (26 yo M) had to undergo an emergency heart transplant after experiencing a catastrophic cardiac event. Key takeaways: From a nursing perspective – focus on virtual nursing.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2023

The experts said the keys to modern cybersecurity including managing assets, access, networks, infrastructure, and data , along with continuous threat monitoring and tried-and-true training that meets employees where they are. Read more… Turning Health Data Sharing Into Meaningful Outcomes.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 1, 2021

Health information is incredibly complex. Important parts of a patient’s history are often scattered across multiple systems, and gaps in information can lead to medical errors or even delays in treatment. Care Studio harmonizes medical data across different systems. Intro to Care Studio.

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

At its heart, Remote Patient Monitoring informs clinicians of a patient’s health status between face-to-face visits, which leads to timely intervention, improved engagement, and efficiency for both the provider and the patient. Data captured through RPM platforms can better inform clinicians and enrich the experience for all.

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Clear Arch Health

JUNE 16, 2023

Their level of expertise in remote patient monitoring and patient engagement has helped launch our RPMprogram for patients with chronic health conditions in rural North Dakota." 1 Utilizing comprehensive RPM solutions and services, patients with chronic diseases can avoid unnecessary hospitalizations/readmissions.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 26, 2020

We are writing you today to ask that you hear our point of view as decisions are made on the Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator Proposed Rule to Improve the Interoperability of Health Information. . To do this we must be involved in our health data if we want, as our stories below will make clear. .

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

Trust underpins health engagement, and that directly relates to the sharing of personal health information. Accenture found that 90% of consumers are willing to share health data from wearable devices with physicians and nurses, and 75% with their family.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 30, 2022

Data privacy concerns abound. With good reason, clients and patients are possibly leery of participating in telehealth because of uncertainties about the repercussions of data collection, where it’s being stored, and who has access to it. First, blockchain technology can protect data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2023

The announced noted that M*Modal parent company 3M Health Information Systems, virtual primary care provider Babylon, and ScribeEMR are early adopters of HealthScribe. One culprit is staffing in post-acute care – 87% of nursing homes report moderate to high staffing shortages. Nearly two-thirds (63%) of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2023

For example, following the implementation of an interactive patient system , the patient can manage the room’s temperature, reduce the lighting, order a meal, and place a service request without needing facetime with a nurse. Through open communication, patients can have better experiences and health outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2022

It may work for a majority of the people who have access to technology, smartphones, laptops, high-speed wireless connections and unlimited data, but it doesn't work for those who are living with limited economic resources. A Medicaid member may not have a smartphone, high-speed wireless internet or unlimited data plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Workflow optimization tools give the clinical team visibility to the patient pathway in real time, and empower them to make data-driven decisions about how to best manage critical medical situations. AI-driven care navigation platforms enable staff (medical assistants, nurses) to find patients who are falling through the cracks.

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