Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This fall, The Sequoia Project began accepting applications for potential qualified health information networks (QHINs), the entities tasked with operationalizing the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) established by the 21st Century Cures Act. Reducing the Inevitable Impacts of Interpretation and Assumptions.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

eHealth Exchange is launching an incentive program that will waive annual fees for three years to the first five HIEs or state/local public health agencies that agree to exchange public health data. This brings the total number of approved QHINs to seven.

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Redox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

CA DxF expands upon this, requiring participants to fulfill data requests for Treatment, Payment, Health Care Operations, and Public Health activity purposes. And, while not required, participants may also share data for social services and research activity purposes. access to housing and food) is less common.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2023

After improving the quality of data collected at the point of care, HCA rolled out a project to better detect and prevent sepsis. Dan Liljenquist told John how Intermountain is using Qualtrics not only to gather data but to to build customer preferences into each individual’s record.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2023

Health Gorilla and LexisNexis Risk Solutions are working to make SDoH data actionable , John found out in an interview with Avery Haller (Health Gorilla) and Diana Zuskov (LexisNexis). Read more… Hearing From Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill. Legislation and policymaking are a black box for most people.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2023

John interviewed Joseph Zabinski at OM1 about the power of searching data sets for evidence that a rare condition might be emerging so physicians are better prepared to treat it. While many tools exist to automate clinical documentation, they require human intervention and that can cause delays.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 2023

Answers included making sense of unstructured data, reducing documentation, and predicting utilization trends – all based on the notion of using AI to aid healthcare workers and not replace them. Read more… Navigating Population Health Data and HEDIS in an Ambulatory Practice.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Position Summary: This dynamic team is seeking a Data Scientist for the Analytics team within NYeC to use directly contribute to moving the needle on New York’s pressing healthcare needs you will leverage HIE and savvy data analytics to serve public health needs, address health inequities, and mature NYeC’s analytics capacity.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Wearable monitoring devices, genomics, and AI play vital roles in this transformation, enabling personalized interventions and collective health data sharing for research. As the proportion of the population affected by chronic conditions grows, lack of adherence will soon be seen as the serious public health issue it already is.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2023

The largest county in the Lower 48 switched from a spreadsheet to a map to track 10,000 assets tied to environmental health. Data visualization led to more informed decision-making and led the public health department to roll out interactive maps for animal control, emergency response, family health, and more.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

The most notable approval is USCDI v3, and others include two implementation guides from CMS for Quality Reporting Document Architecture and three HL7 standards (for C-CDA, FHIR, and QRDA). ONC has approved six standards as part of its annual annual Standards Version Advancement Process.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 14, 2021

It will enable many things while it transitions from a "Standard for Trial Use" to something that is used to build CarePlans, Patient Engagement, Emergency Medicine, Disaster Management, Public Health, Artificial Intelligent clinical decision support aids, world wide COVID-19 tracking, and COVID-19 vaccine credentials.

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GlobalMed

JUNE 16, 2021

Like most physicians, PCPs spend considerable time on administrative documentation and managing capacity. Many clinical settings are adopting artificial intelligence tools to decrease administrative burden, pull clinical insights from public health data, and even perform diagnostic tasks.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 28, 2020

We’ll cover the types of conditions telemedicine can treat, how it can be used during this public health crisis and for other types patient care. Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) added a new ICD-10 emergency code, U07.1, This article describes some helpful basics. Coding and Billing Requirements for Virtual Visits.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

Remote patient monitoring: Remote patient monitoring refers to technology and programs that help track patient health data at a distant site outside of the hospital or clinic and send that data to care providers in real time. The act also contains rules about prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2015

According to the HRSA , telehealth “is the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care , patient and professional health-related education, public health and health administration.”. Telemedicine. Remote patient monitoring.

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Insulin Nation

MAY 5, 2014

A massive new study released in May 2014 has documented that the rate of Type 1 diabetes in U.S. Researchers have long suspected that T1 rates have been escalating, but hard data has been scarce. For once, Type 1 diabetes should be on the tip of everyone’s tongue. children has increased by 21% over 8 years.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Reeya Patel, Vice President of Healthcare Insights at Azalea Health, points out that a televisit can document that a follow-up appointment has been scheduled, a request for a medication took place, or a referral to a specialist has occurred, all for billing purposes. Improved workflows. In the opinion of many experts, the reason U.S.

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HIStalk Interviews

MAY 8, 2019

Are views changing on our expensive system of providing healthcare services vs. funding social programs and public health projects that might reduce the need for them? We can document these things, but unless we take action on those social determinants, they’re really not going to go anywhere.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 29, 2023

This can be especially useful during times of high demand, such as during a pandemic or other public health crises, when traditional healthcare systems may be overwhelmed. Improved Quality of Healthcare Utilizing virtual health, patients can obtain personalized solutions, and providers can consult with other specialists more easily.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

The quickly evolving COVID-19 public health emergency has warranted the growing use of telehealth and non-invasive remote monitoring devices to facilitate patient monitoring while reducing patient and healthcare provider contact and possible exposure to the virus.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

However, the Chronic Care Model offers approaches that could help us address this critical public health crisis. The Chronic Care Model is a framework that identifies the essential elements of a health system that promotes high-quality chronic illness care. CCM includes: Structured documentation of patient health information.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In 1990, the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act was signed into law to help consumers make better choices and encourage food companies to produce healthier food, the International Food Information Center has documented in its history of the Nutrition Facts label. As Juhan told me, And when we own our health data, … the kicker is….

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

In health care, this is an underlying tectonic trend with implications for research, translation to therapies, individual treatment plans, population and public health. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the Digital/Health Nexus. 2014 – Health Care at an Inflection Point: digital trends via Mary Meeker.

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