Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2023

Who better to talk to the Healthcare IT Today community about interoperability than the National Coordinator himself? Read more… The Role of Innovation and AI in RCM. Read more… Seeing How Patients Experience RCM. John also asked the experts what RCM looks like to patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

RCM outsourcing vendor Ensemble Health Partners expanded its partnership with Microsoft. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Hospitals serving marginalized communities are less likely to participate in interoperable patient data exchange , according to the latest ONC research. Partnerships Interoperability service provider MedAllies was selected to the MEDITECH Alliance Innovator Program. higher rate than MA members not covered under a VBC model.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2023

News and Research Five in six (83%) of hospitals are collecting SDoH data , according to the latest ONC Data Brief, with 74% using structured, electronic screening tools. Another 60% of hospitals are receiving SDoH data from outside sources, primarily from HIE entities.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2024

Read more… 2024 Health IT Predictions: Generative AI and Data. The most pressing needs include better data collection, training AI models, privacy and security, and a smart approach to personalization. Read more… 2024 Health IT Predictions: Interoperability, Data, and the Cloud. million in funding.

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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. ONC’s latest data brief indicated that, as of the end of 2021, more than 60% of hospitals are actively engaged in sharing health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 1, 2023

Moreover, the network and platform they have created can solve many of the data sharing issues in healthcare because you connect once to the network and you’re plugged in to the entire network of available data.

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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

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. Tellingly, 70% of organizations cite data visibility as a major supply chain issue, as it limits to understand and address risks with suppliers.

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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

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. Read more… How Do You Make Interoperability Data Useful? You still have to know how to talk.”

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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

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

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

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

KLAS CEO Adam Gale told Colin Hung how adding the patient perspective to technology research has helped uncover the “deceptive” challenges of patient engagement , from managing data to staffing call centers to compromising with clinicians. Read more… Improve IT Compliance and Automation in a Digital Health World.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2023

News CMS has opened the Hardship Exception application period for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) that participated in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program in 2022. EHR and RCM vendor for therapy and rehab practices Raintree released Raintree Payments.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

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. ” Another success metric was the lack of learning curve for COPE’s staff, he added.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2023

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. RCM vendor Aspirion acquired FIRM Revenue Cycle Management Services.

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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. Data archive vendor MediQuant completed its acquisition of Knowledge-Based Systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 1, 2022

It was also interesting to see how every vendor at the event was a data analytics company. Every company had some angle on the data they have and how they were using that data to help healthcare organizations. Although, he pointed out that it takes good data governance and an effort to drive action from the data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2023

Not surprising RCM is also a popular use case for AI, with 78% of health systems currently using it or evaluating its use. Interoperability engine Infor Cloverleaf Integration Suite is now available in AWS Marketplace. RCM vendor PMMC is working with CAST Imaging to accelerate its migration to the cloud.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

The patient is worried about privacy and data security. The patient is growing aware of her personal “data space.” Patient’s privacy and data security. One reason is because a medical data breach is more valuable than a hack of, say, consumers’ credit card identities. The patient’s personal data-space.

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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

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

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

JANUARY 15, 2023

ONC released the Draft United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) v4 and its accompanying Standards Bulletin. USCDI is a standardized set of health data classes and data elements that enables data exchange across care settings. News and Studies. DrFirst promoted G.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Read more… Interoperability’s Role in Value-Based Drug Pricing. The ability to share data among EHR systems is critical for value-based drug contracts , according to Lyfegen’s Girisha Fernando.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

The ONC certification represents a major product milestone for the company: Canvas is one of the first EMRs in the United States to support a standardized patient data API as envisioned by the 21st Century Cures Act. About Canvas Medical. Canvas Medical, founded in 2015, provides the digital infrastructure for care delivery companies.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2023

For example, on the AI side, providers are combining data from a range of clinical, social and environmental sources to better understand the forces driving patient health and identify high-risk patients in need of additional support. At the same time, one of the biggest focus areas of healthcare systems and providers is interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Involving revenue cycle management (RCM) is necessary for any comprehensive SDoH/health equity strategy. One of CMS’ most important SDoH tenets is data collection and reporting. Code sets and coding guidelines have expanded over the years to capture SDoH information at a level not possible with other data sources. 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. Referential matching and data enrichment then further reduce duplication rates. Previous steps are then rerun.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

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. If managed incorrectly, this can actually impact outcomes.

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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

APRIL 23, 2023

Hospital interoperability platform Olinqua is partnering with FiveP , maker of a a role-based messaging app for Microsoft Teams called Baret. Noyo achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance for its benefits data management platform. AI and virtual care are the top clinical technology investments. at NYU Langone Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

2022 Predictions for Healthcare Interoperability – A third predictions post doing so well. Does this mean people cared about RPM and Healthcare Interoperability the most in 2022? Five Key Factors When Selecting the Right Data and Tech Partner in Healthcare. The State of Interoperability – COVID and Beyond.

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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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