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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. 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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How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Jim Jirjis, Chief Health Information Officer at HCA to discuss the value of data quality in healthcare and find out more about the link between their sepsis project and better emergency preparedness. That is a much more complex data quality challenge.” Tell us what you think.

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NYU Langone Health used its FCC grant to expand Epic-linked telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telemedicine is not only cost-effective for both the patient and the hospital, it also can reduce the risk of exposure to disease for all parties, especially during a pandemic. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center boosts telehealth with $600K from the FCC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare IT News published a comprehensive listing of these vendors with detailed product descriptions. Virtual visits information was tracked by a structured documentation section in the provider's EHR documentation. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. " MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

To help shed a light on these topics, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to see what health IT trends they believe deserve more attention. One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies. So what trend isn’t being talked about enough?

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Connected Medical Devices—the Next Target for Ransomware Attacks

Healthcare IT Today

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recognized the problem and issued multiple guidance documents over the years—as recently as this March —to ensure the cybersecurity of medical devices. Further, insecure medical devices were the top cybersecurity concern identified by healthcare IT security practitioners.

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Lessons From a Ransomware Attack: The Importance of Partnership & Collaboration

Healthcare IT Today

Now imagine that business is a hospital. Add to the scenario a global pandemic that is steadily ravaging the nation’s healthcare system. Alongside 3M, Sectra, and Abbadox, we designed, built, tested, documented and validated a fully functional Diagnostic Imaging network (RIS, PACS, Reporting) in 20 days.