Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 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

DECEMBER 14, 2023

HTI-1 Final Rule Appropriately, we’ve been breaking down what health IT and EHR vendors need to expect when it comes to HTI-1 in our Healthcare Regulatory Talk series. 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

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The ISO 9241 standard presents the definition of usability as Effective Efficient and Satisfying in a specified context of use. We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 2/21 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Bennett Lauber (@uuAbility).

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

This is definitely something I’ve heard before this comment. Yes, that probably feels like a clickbait headline, but it was what one reader asserted in the comments of my article that Paper Is Contagious. You can check out the full comment here. In fact, I’ve heard it a lot.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Fortive Corporation (“Fortive”) (NYSE: FTV) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. to acquire Provation Software, Inc. Provation”), a leading provider of clinical workflow software solutions used in hospitals and ASCs, for $1.425 billion.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2020

My latest obsession is definitely ambient clinical voice. It holds so much promise for healthcare and EHR documentation, that it’s really hard for me to ignore. I truly believe that ambient clinical voice technology is going to remove much of the clinician documentation burden over time.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As actors work to comply with the Cures Act Final Rule, it’s become clear that greater consensus is needed regarding the interpretation of the definition of electronic health information (EHI) and […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Nasdaq: EVCM) (“EverCommerce” or the “Company”), a leading service commerce platform, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire DrChrono Inc., a company developing an essential platform and services for modern medical practices. Based in […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

He’s definitely shifted gears a bunch lately to more medical content and only lightly touches on health IT. Been a while since I’ve highlighted the work of ZDoggMD here. Plus, he’s doing less comedy, but his Doc Vader stuff is still quite good and often wades into the joy that is health IT (yes, I […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

And how can we make sure these devices are affordable, scalable, secure, and can interconnect with current healthcare technologies such as EMRs? She has a passion for patient care and healthcare IT motivates her to help deliver technologies that would positively impact both clinicians and patients alike.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

For starters, we do not support the proposal to replace “clinical decision support” (CDI) with DSI in the certification criterion, as “intervention” has other meanings in the healthcare space. We will also recommend limiting user feedback on DSI information to interruptive alerts, as passive alerts can’t have associated user actions.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2023

This is definitely just the start. While the new AI options feels like an overnight success, Navani did reference that Turing was doing some of the first AI learning models in World War II as is depicted in the move The Imitation Game (which you should definitely watch if you haven’t seen it).

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The truth is that an EHR by definition serves multiple masters, satisfying some more than others. 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?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 27, 2019

WebPT today announced that Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm focused on growth investing, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority interest in the company from the previous investor, Battery Ventures.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2022

They usually include big announcements on stage from the company and you get to spend time with the real boots on the ground of healthcare IT. Although, it’s definitely been an evolution as cloud has matured. One of the challenges we often hear at Healthcare IT Today is the cognitive overload that many doctors face.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2022

NextGen Healthcare, Inc. Nasdaq: NXGN), a leading provider of innovative cloud-based healthcare technology solutions, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire TSI Healthcare , a privately held value-added reseller located in Chapel Hill, NC. The acquisition shall be deemed effective 11:59 p.m.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 8, 2023

TPG , a global alternative asset management firm, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Nextech , a leading provider of clinical and administrative healthcare technology solutions for specialty physician practices, from Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL) for $1.4 and European late-stage private equity platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Integrating diverse systems–BD analytics, predictive tools, medical devices, patient portals, EMRs, and more–facilitates real-time information flow, for real time decision making.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2020

The definition of working “remotely” is evolving quickly. The following is a guest article by Heather Haugen, PhD and Vivian Chan from Atos. Coronavirus has created a new sense of urgency to prepare employees to work effectively in non-traditional environments.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Because penalties for information blocking – that is, any practice that interferes with access, exchange, or use of electronic health data – are tied to the definition of EHI. The expanded definition of EHI now includes virtually any health information tied to an individual that is used in decision making.

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HIStalk Interviews

MARCH 13, 2019

Mike Mardini is founder and CEO of National Decision Support Company of Madison, WI, which is part of Change Healthcare. I’m a healthcare IT veteran. We were acquired by Change Healthcare about a year ago. We want to understand all the components, not just whether you put this alert in my EMR.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2022

The healthcare staffing crisis is also putting severe margin pressure on organizations. Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT. Inovalon is a proud sponsor of Healthcare Scene. It’s definitely got complex in this world.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 26, 2022

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dan Czech, Senior Insights Director for Patient Engagement at KLAS Research to talk about these new categories, the reasoning behind the separation, and the findings in their new report: “ Patient Communications Landscape for 2022 ”. And for an exclusive look at our top stories, subscribe to our newsletter.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

These tools accelerate deployment by utilizing out-of-the-box configurations and data models designed to standardize information for patients, practitioners, provider organizations, plans, payers, and households, allowing healthcare organizations to quickly reap the benefits of unified data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

Oracle Cerner could definitely create an Epic Cosmos type of product, but it’s hard for me to imagine a road to them having a full longitudinal health record for patients. As Brendan Keeler on Twitter noted, the top end of what’s possible for this effort is Epic’s Cosmos (ie. a lot of data, but not all the data).

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 4, 2018

In 2002, the National Health Service began one of the largest and most ambitious healthcare IT projects of the time, with the help of four companies, including US based company Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). However, it’s wise to first have a look at past attempts and identify the hurdles faced and what led to failure.

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HIStalk Interviews

MARCH 11, 2019

Ask every leading healthcare IT company about their numbers and what engagement looks like with patients. I’m going to divert from your question a little bit, but I’d like to speak to a trend that happened 15 years ago with the EMR and the EHR. The EMR comes around and all the data comes together in one place.

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