Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2022

Stryker (NYSE: SYK) announced today a definitive merger agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Vocera Communications, Inc. NYSE: VCRA) for $79.25 per share, or a total equity value of approximately $2.97 billion and a total enterprise value of approximately $3.09 billion (including convertible notes).

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MARCH 1, 2023

As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with data analysis. If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Plus, the fall conference season is the busiest time of year for health IT conferences. Just to give you a feel, Colin Hung and myself covered the following conferences: Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit. Hard to say, but this is definitely something to watch.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Hyland, a leading content services provider, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Alfresco, a content services platform and solutions provider. The transaction, expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2020, is subject to usual and customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2021

For the 62nd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we share our perspectives on the evolving health IT career landscape. Since we also run the health IT job board called Healthcare IT Central, we have a pretty unique view into the health IT job market. Where to start if you want a career in Health IT?

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

Many of our concerns center on the proposed implementation timeframes associated with various concepts included in HTI-1, as well as ONC’s failure to sufficiently consider the burden compliance will place on provider organizations and health IT developers.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

What health IT trend has you concerned? Dr. Sameer Ather, Co-Founder and CEO at XpertDox A major concern in health IT is cybersecurity. Patrick Tarnowski, Chief Commercial Officer at OneStep The health IT landscape is highly competitive and noisy, creating obstacles for startups to gain a foothold.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 31, 2022

(NYSE American: CTEK), a leading cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, and IT audit firm helping organizations in highly regulated industries navigate emerging security and privacy issues, announces it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Clearwater Compliance LLC (collectively with its affiliates, “Clearwater”), […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Manu Garg, Vice President, Head of Healthcare Consulting at Definitive Healthcare AI adoption will be crucial for biopharma and medical device companies in 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with healthcare data analysis. If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with healthcare data analysis. If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This includes documenting the Service Catalogue definitions, service level objectives, and measurement & reporting. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience as a senior technical analyst.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Seeing it definitely helped me better understand why innovation and […]. Hopefully, you’re enjoying the holiday and getting some time to slow down and enjoy life. As you’re enjoying the time off, I thought you all would enjoy this unique look at innovation.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

The previous articles in this series, Disabilities and Accessibility in Health IT: The Need Is Constant and Automating Accessibility in Health IT , explored the current landscape in accommodating diverse patients and web site visitors in health care. The WCAG recommendations reflect much of the wisdom cited so far.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 11, 2019

Hill-Rom Holdings has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Voalte for $180 million, the average cost of cybercrime for the healthcare industry dropped 8% to $11.8 million last year, and more health IT headlines.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

For quite some time, giant technology companies have struggled to get a foothold in the healthcare business, but with relatively little success. Now, if one Google executive is to be believed, these giants may have finally concluded that at least where the EHR market is concerned, they have thrown in the towel. On the other […].

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The HTI-1 proposed rule proposes updates to definitions for the information blocking regulations, and new and revised conditions for certain exceptions. The proposed rule also clarifies certain definitions like “Offer Health IT” and “Health IT Developer of Certified Health IT” “This is a big change,” said Dr. Blackman.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 4, 2023

We’ve taken the day off from our usual health IT content, but we definitely wanted to celebrate this important holiday. Have a great holiday and we’ll be back tomorrow with more great health IT content! At Healthcare IT Today, we hope that you’re having a great 4th of July holiday.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

93% of physicians see advantages in digital health tools for patient care, split by 44% seeing “definite advantages” and 49% seeing “some advantage.” ” There was an 8-point growth in those seeing “definite advantages” since 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. It’s time to clean out the garage: simplification and consolidation of health IT is our next step toward optimization. Check out our community’s healthcare business and value based care predictions.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

The following is a guest article by Todd Bellemare, SVP of Professional Services at Definitive Healthcare. The impact of COVID-19 has penetrated every aspect of daily life. From how we communicate to how we learn, shop and play, we’ve all had to adapt to the seismic shakeup of the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The bill also revises the definition of telehealth to expand beyond licensed physician-provided care and encompass treatment such as behavioral health. "Those 21 proponents outside represent all the stakeholders in this process, here to say what we've come up with works for them," said Jones. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It’s not a huge surprise that the week of the ONC Meeting, they would make a number of big announcements for those of us in health IT. I expect we’ll see many more health IT companies become QHINs. This is a big step forward for QHINs who can now start sharing health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

Galvin also looks forward to reducing the disparity in payments for different providers through the definition of “universal acceptable payment amounts,” and advances that allow a provider to receive full payment at the time of care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

” An additional definition of the verb is, “ to feel or exhibit anger or revulsion.” This last chapter (#11) is titled “Get Started,” addressing both end-of-life care as well as everyday family health.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 19, 2023

This week’s Fun Friday definitely puts into perspective all the crazy (good and bad) that’s happening in the world of health IT. However, this definitely looks like what some people in healthcare are doing. Healthcare CIOs be like…leveling up is easy…. ?‍? I know it’s not the right way.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic. You should follow me on Twitter: @healthblawg.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic. You should follow me on Twitter: @healthblawg.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic.

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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. 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 […]. Been a while since I’ve highlighted the work of ZDoggMD here.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2022

ResMed (NYSE: RMD, ASX: RMD) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held MEDIFOX DAN, a German leader in out-of-hospital software solutions for providers in major settings across the care continuum, from Hg, a leading software and services investor.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2024

What aspects of a hospital's or health system's patient experience can telemedicine touch? Many companies across the health IT landscape are talking about "responsible AI." " What is your definition of responsible AI and why is this especially important?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

I’ll be the first to admit that I didn’t know the history of the stethoscope and definitely didn’t understand how it worked. Although, we certainly all know how iconic the stethoscope is in healthcare. It’s been a fixture in medicine that hasn’t really been innovated on in years. At least until now.

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