Healthcare IT Today

MAY 12, 2023

Generative AI systems such as chatGPT produce impressive summaries of documents on the Internet, including clinical studies. The user interaction offers a “conversation loop” that doctors rate highly.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The scheme, as outlined in court documents, exploited COVID-19-era amendments to telehealth restrictions. "We will continue to support the unprecedented COVID-19 public health effort by holding accountable people who use deceptive tactics to profit from the pandemic," he said. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data. Some sophisticated organizations offer APIs for access to data, but others still fax or mail in a scanned document.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 17, 2023

Right now, for every hour I spend with patients, I spend two hours clicking boxes, writing paragraphs, and searching for information in the electronic health record (EHR). All of this is to ensure accurate, compliant, and complete documentation. The above documentation use case makes clinicians nervous.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 23, 2024

Opportunities for Collaboration: LLMs and public health researchers: Collaborations can leverage LLMs to analyze large datasets and identify patterns in SDoH factors that contribute to health disparities. However, class imbalance and data limitations present challenges for this sparsely documented yet critical information.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2023

The companies are integrating third-party data with patient self-reported data and public health data to help providers understand what kind of interventions will work best for certain patients. Read more… Hearing From Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill. Read more… How Were the Spring Health IT Conferences ?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. This type of document will require not only top-notch billing tools but also new levels of contractual collaboration between separate provider entities.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

Read more… Public Health Transparency Improves Outcomes in San Bernardino County. Earlier this month, we highlighted Colin Hung’s conversation with San Bernardino County Department of Public Health about embracing GIS technology. Read more… Data Lineage Tools Help Unpack Complex Data Dependencies.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2022

Read more… How GIS Data Improves Public Health. At the recent Ersi user conference, Colin learned that GIS plays a valuable role in improving public health , whether through expediting disaster response, enabling proactive patient outreach, or identifying neighborhoods where residents may face SDOH issues such as food insecurity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

In addition, as a federally designated Telehealth Resource Center, UVA Health also worked to provide expanded technical assistance to providers and health systems across the nine-state Mid-Atlantic Region. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MARKETPLACE. " RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Hans Buitendijk, Public Health Workgroup Chair & Executive Committee Member at EHR Association At a high level, any interoperability must take place within the context of protecting patient privacy rights, whether from HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, or state laws.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 1, 2023

For Tempe, Public Health Means Being a 20-Minute City. Read more… Featured Health IT Job: Procurement Coordinator at the New York eHealth Collaborative, based in Albany, posted to Healthcare IT Central. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Colin Hung spoke to Neighborhood Health CIO Anthony Villanueva about enabling a grassroots approach to care by giving care teams NextGen mobile technology to document encounters well beyond the clinical setting. Read more… Taking Social Determinants of Health to New Heights.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2023

While many tools exist to automate clinical documentation, they require human intervention and that can cause delays. Andy Oram discussed how adopting FHIR should be a no-brainer for better public health data collection and sharing – and how that must be followed up with standards for what data should be collected and shared.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

According to the WHO , health equity is achieved when everyone can attain their full potential for health and well-being. The WHO, identifies many factors that influence health and health equity including: Socio-economic position. Public health policies. Access to the health system. Occupation.

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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. As the healthcare system is strained by an aging population and broadened access to public health care, it will be nurses that feel the weight of patient responsibility on their shoulders. million nurses in the U.S.)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 23, 2020

That said, as a large primary care office offering integrated behavioral health, it was important to expand mental health services to include specialty care for patients. Further, as a federally qualified health center, River Valley is charged with providing comprehensive, whole-person care. ” MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In contrast, TEFCA by design uses an ancient communication protocol and largely non-computable data (a CCD document that would need to be parsed every time). These API protocols are known and used by hundreds of thousands of developers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2023

Health IT vendor Recora proposed to Geisinger a technology and services platform to enable virtual cardiac rehab delivery. " MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Click here to read the special report. " The U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2023

News and Research With the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency due to end on May 11, the Drug Enforcement Administration has proposed restrictions on the remote prescription of controlled substances , with only buprenorphine and Schedule III-V non-narcotic controlled medications available via telemedicine, and available only in 30-day supplies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

"For us, that familiarity helped when the public health emergency hit because many of our patients understood not only how to use it, but why it worked for connecting with their doctor." "Many of our patients already interacted with the patient portal to message their physician or view test results," Raman said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

"Ryan Health started to test that solution and prepared training documents for deployment," he continued. "Ryan Health standardized on eCW telehealth as well as Doximity as our two approved telehealth solutions," Ajmal said. We contacted eCW and started to explore their integrated telehealth solution.

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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 IT Today

MAY 27, 2023

Scott Turicchi at Consensus Cloud Solutions told Colin that the ubiquity of fax shouldn’t be ignored as the industry aims for interoperability, especially since faxes can easily be converted to structured, digital documents. Read more… How Houston Methodist Stood Up a Virtual ICU in Six Months.

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Mobile Health Matters

MAY 7, 2018

Now, however, nurses are active participants in multiple sectors including technology, pharmaceuticals, education, law (as malpractice consultants), government and public health. Traditionally, the nurses’ role was limited in the hospital.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I talked to a number of health IT and telehealth experts in a search for answers to these questions. To explain why I’m devoting a special section of this article to behavioral health, I must digress into a discussion of health care costs. Improved workflows. Increases in kept appointments are just one example.

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Docnotes

MAY 31, 2017

In this case, the government moved to protect the public because a subset of meat packers was putting profit above public health. public outcry caused the government to step in and regulate the industry. Before Health IT Certification. After Health IT Certification. After The Jungle was published.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2024

The QHIN community is committed to helping all healthcare organizations achieve connectivity and advancing use cases such as Healthcare Operations, Public Health, and Individual Access Services. TEFCA relies on a 1990s document exchange protocol when the web was “page views” and didn’t support modern computing.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2023

The excitement has been largely fueled by the renowned public health benefits of, and the seductive commercial opportunity for, a seamless hypertension management solution that is virtually invisible – part of what people are already wearing, such as smartwatches, earbuds, smart rings, and apparel.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 27, 2015

In Wisconsin many hospitals were early adopters of EHR systems and the state scored 44% better than the national benchmark in "hospitals with computerized system that allows for electronic clinical documentation including physician notes." Contact WISHIN for more information regarding how Pulse could be integrated into your EHR system.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

John Blair, III, MD, CEO at MedAllies It’s been well-documented for years that the healthcare industry has an interoperability problem. healthcare system by creating a universal floor of interoperability that connects providers, public health groups, and healthcare consumers. The following is a guest article by A.

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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? Those are all things that are measurable and that health IT could take an active role in bringing forth. Despite that, we still had good outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

However, legacy systems that stored entire patient records in single PDFs pose challenges, as extracting specific data points from these documents is difficult. FHIR APIs also generally use a JSON formatted document for data exchange and oAuth2 and mTLS for security layering, which are standards used in other industries.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

GHC decided to use the OTTO Health telehealth platform, which would seamlessly integrate into the organization’s NextGen electronic health record system and enable GHC to quickly and efficiently launch telehealth services, said Lionel Yu, chief operating officer at Garfield Health Center. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2023

Jim Jirjis, MD, told Colin the back-end work for the project had an unintended benefit: By streamlining documentation, nurses had patient information readily available when facilities needed to be evacuated before a hurricane hit. Up to 18 million Medicaid beneficiaries are due to lose coverage as the public health emergency ends.

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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 News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2019

As a result, provider organization CIOs and other health IT leaders have had their hands full finding and implementing new telemedicine technologies to help their organizations best reach as many patients as possible in the most efficient manner as possible. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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