Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2023

By adding Corridor to its portfolio, WellSky will expand its medical coding and revenue cycle management (RCM) offerings to help care providers increase efficiency and improve performance across clinical, financial, operational, and compliance areas.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Answers include infrastructure management, resource utilization, data management, data protection, and security and compliance monitoring. Read more… Overcoming Obstacles to Healthcare Training Data Accuracy. AI models need to be trained on high-quality data. John Lynn talked to Mark Christensen at Xelex.ai

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

In other news, Quantum Health launched Premier Oncology , a cancer care navigation tool. RCM outsourcing vendor Ensemble Health Partners expanded its partnership with Microsoft. Specialty telemedicine vendor Thirty Madison is partnering with Talkspace to expand mental health support for women.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 1, 2023

Avaneer Health , a company created by a consortium of major payers and health care providers, is trying to solve these problems and other administrative inefficiencies once and for all.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2023

News and Studies HLTH Foundation formed the Techquity for Health Coalition , with a mission to help organizations consider health equity in health technology innovation and data practices. The group also launched a health equity survey , with the results to be announced at ViVE in Nashville in March.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 11, 2023

E-prescribing is an interoperability success, but regulatory standards get in the way of bringing innovation to medication management. Read more… Knowing Your Data and How You’ll Use It. Curation and integration of data is also critical, especially as data sources grow in number and complexity.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2022

HFMA Recap: Using Data to Do More With Less. The biggest takeaway was the role of technology in general – and data analytics in particular – to help healthcare organizations automate and outsource administrative financial tasks in a tight job market. Read more… Key Benefits of Successful Healthcare Data Management.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2022

5 Lessons from the Conifer Health Solutions Data Breach. Earlier this month, the RCM vendor reported a data breach that may have impacted patients at five Texas-based providers. The latest CIO Podcast featured Patrick McGill, MD, EVP and Chief Transformation Officer at Community Health Network (Indiana).

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 12, 2023

Achieving Interoperability One Practical Byte at a Time. Upstate New York’s Rochester Regional Health began its interoperability journey with lab data , Colin Hung learned, as there was a clear need to bring in lab test results from many external sources to help care teams make better clinical decisions and improve outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2023

News and Research More than four in five (82%) of wearable device owners are willing to share health data with their physicians, according to a poll conducted by the Connected Health Initiative. PatientsLikeMe is partnering with Massachusetts General Hospital to share de-identified patient data for ALS research.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

ONC has released the United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 4 Standard , better known as USCDI v4. The number of individuals impacted by healthcare data breaches is up 56% from last year , according to a Fortified Health Security analysis of HHS data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2022

The Sequoia Project has released additional documentation support the implementation of TEFCA , the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement for health IT interoperability. At the HFMA conference, revenue cycle management vendor R1 shared data from a survey of more than 200 healthcare CFOs and finance VPs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2023

Read more… Surveying Lab Tests From a Health IT Perspective. Lab tests are critical to the care process, but labs struggle to share data with other care providers , Andy Oram noted in the first piece in a three-part series on lab tests. Read more… Shifting From Data Dashboards to Valuable Action.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 1, 2022

Rod Nicholls from Knowtion Health really hit home on this point in this video we did together. I think this is a glimpse at the future of health IT. It was also interesting to see how every vendor at the event was a data analytics company. The reality is that not everyone was doing all of those things to make the data useful.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. The reason for this is HiMS’ prioritization of interoperability.” ” Through AXiOM, all of COPE’s technologies, including telehealth and revenue cycle management (RCM), can communicate with each other.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Read more… Facebook’s Meta Pixel Faces Legal Firestorm for Data Breach Role. Anne Zieger noted that multiple health systems have suffered data breaches when Pixel sent PHI back to Meta when patients were using MyChart. Read more… Featured Health IT Job: Clinical Systems Analyst with QuadMed, based in Sussex.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2023

A survey from the Health Management Academy and Outbound AI reported that almost half (48%) of health systems are using AI technology for workforce management , and 85% expect to see a moderate to significant increase in the use of such tools in the next one to three years.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Healthcare technology companies are urged to design interoperable data platforms that offer holistic data access and transparency to better meet the needs of health workers, care teams, and patients across the continuum of care. In fact, studies by the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2023

With Data Quality, We’re Still Learning the Lesson Charles Babbage Taught Us in 1821. At HIMSS23, Colin Hung tuned in to a session with Charlie Harp at Clinical Architecture and learned that providers have little trust in the patient data they collect – and even less trust of the data from outside their organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Keona Health’s Stephen Dean suggested that automation can be the answer: Automated scheduling, messaging, symptom triage, and other processes help touch more patients in less time. Read more… Interoperability’s Role in Value-Based Drug Pricing.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. This frees up staff to focus on more complex and strategic aspects of RCM. The key to solving these challenges is automating workflows and leveraging actionable data to address bottlenecks.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

In addition to this funding, Canvas has achieved federal certification through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). About Canvas Medical. Canvas Medical, founded in 2015, provides the digital infrastructure for care delivery companies.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

A strong business case exists for addressing the financial impacts of social determinants of health (SDoH) and new reimbursement models designed to emphasize health equity. Involving revenue cycle management (RCM) is necessary for any comprehensive SDoH/health equity strategy. Closing the Gap. Top Priority.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Unsupervised machine learning, a type of AI, is automating tasks that would otherwise have to be manually performed by analyzing large quantities of data across patients, locations, and time. Hospitals and health systems can then determine anomalous behavior in workflows, patient care, or patient outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

2022 Predictions for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and In Home Care – I know not everyone enjoys predictions, but the fact that last year’s prediction did so well means that people like them more than I realized which is good since we just started our 2023 Health IT Predictions. AI and Automation in RCM is All About Balance.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The potential challenges and considerations when migrating existing healthcare systems and applications to the cloud include data security, compliance, and vendor lock-in. These tools can help healthcare organizations optimize their cloud infrastructure, improve security, and gain tremendous insights into their data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2023

Studies A survey from data analytics vendor MDclone reported that only 16% of healthcare organizations successfully use data to define clinical best practices. Of the organizations hit, 84% reported a loss of revenue, and 73% reported that attackers succeeded in encrypting their data. magazine’s Best Workplaces for 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Andy Oram talked to Imprivata CEO Gus Malezis about the role of patient data harmonization and AI-powered analytics in helping Amazon capitalize on its One Medical buy – and why it will take at least five years for Amazon to put it all together. Read more… Understanding MEDITECH’s Culture and Approach to Health IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Andy Oram talked to Imprivata CEO Gus Malezis about the role of patient data harmonization and AI-powered analytics in helping Amazon capitalize on its One Medical buy – and why it will take at least five years for Amazon to put it all together. Read more… Understanding MEDITECH’s Culture and Approach to Health IT.

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