Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2023

You may not realize it, but poor connectivity can contribute to burnout , as nurses don’t have time to submit Help Desk tickets when they’re treating patients. Storing data and achieving interoperability hasn’t helped most health care organizations. Read more… Understanding Healthcare Interoperability Testing.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. I’ve been talking with hospitals all over the country this year, and in recent conversations I’ve heard more and more about virtual nursing. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Interoperability Platforms. Clinical Documentation Integrity. Scheduling: Nurse and Staff. MEDITECH Expanse. Clinical Decision Support: Care Plans and Order Sets. Zynx Health. Clinical Decision Support: Point-of-Care Clinical Reference. EBSCO Information Services. InterSystems. Pharmacy Surveillance. athenahealth. Credentialing.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We are facing an estimated 900K deficit of registered nurses by the end of this decade. Read more… What Healthcare Interoperability Topic Are Not Enough People Talking About? Since interoperability is a way of combining workflows in the interest of simplicity, there are so many topics and angles to discuss.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Overall, 75% of consumers trust medical doctors, and 69% trust nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Department of Health and Human Services unveiled the long-anticipated ONC Cures Act Final Rule for health data interoperability. On Monday 9th March 2020, at the start of this week, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As vaccines continue to roll out, requiring meticulous record-keeping and specialized shipping and storage conditions (and that's to say nothing of the ongoing critical need for PPE and other lifesaving equipment) nowhere are interoperability and data visibility more important than with healthcare supply chains.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. The AHA’s aim was to reduce unnecessary documentation and streamline the coding process.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2022

These disruptions range from delays in receiving documentation (such as prior authorization) to receiving conflicting information from different sources to being stuck between the provider and another entity (such as a payer or pharmacy) trying to resolve a dispute.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2023

The HIMSS EHR Association urged ONC to avoid moving too quickly with the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability proposed rule. Clinical guidance provider MCG Health is making its Learning Management System available to Shearwater Health ‘s nurse educators.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 27, 2023

Read more… Looking at Fax As An On-Ramp for Interoperability. 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. Pear Suite raised $2.5

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

MAY 1, 2018

The agency’s proposed payment rules also set out to continue to modernize Medicare through innovation in skilled nursing facility payment to drive value, advance meaningful quality measure reporting, and reduce paperwork and administrative costs. This will inform next steps to advance this critical initiative.

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In addition to walking through Oracle’s vision for healthcare data interoperability, we were let in on how the Cerner acquisition is likely to fit into their broader strategy for the Oracle Cloud. Key takeaways: From a nursing perspective – focus on virtual nursing. How to be the eye in the sky.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2023

Machine Learning has successfully assisted with back-end automation and document processing for some time, but these efforts have taken on new urgency with new interoperability regulations that have led to an exponential increase of documents coming into the chart.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

Interoperability: Health IT's hardest problem is (finally) at an inflection point. AI-powered clinical documentation boosts patient satisfaction and physician well-being. Health system leaders value nurse innovation skills -- just not at the leadership level, study says. Collection. by March 25, 2019. Collection.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

CareCloud earned ONC certification for two EHRs , VertexDR and talkEHR, for compliance with 21st Century Cures Act interoperability requirements. ModMed received a patent for its adaptive logic software , which is used to automat documentation. Northern Ohio’s NOMS Healthcare selected Axuall for workforce management optimization.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

More tech requires more upkeep, more data requiring complex management, and less interoperability or communication between dissimilar systems. Increasingly, stakeholders will need to prioritize system interoperability and cost-optimizing solutions that leverage data-driven insights. being at risk of closing due to lack of financing.

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HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 7, 2019

The six former National Coordinators express their support for the proposed interoperability rules of ONC/CMS. Vendor members of the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association raise “significant concerns” about proposed federal rules covering interoperability. Best Reader Comments. Maybe hospital chains start buying SNF and LTC chains.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Skilled nursing facility corrective actions resulted in a $1.04 The skilled nursing facility improper payment rate decreased from 9.33 populating it with the documentation rules for oxygen and Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) devices. . The home health improper payment rate decreased from 58.95 percent in 2015 to 17.61

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

Bill Charnetski, EVP, Health System Solutions and Government Affairs at PointClickCare HIT incentives and staying consistent with federal interoperability standards will be key in solving the nation-wide staffing crisis. According to a recent McKinsey study, 45% of inpatient nurses (who make up about nearly half of the 4.2

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Patients can directly contact their assigned nurse care manager to ask questions, provide additional information and receive updates on the status of their cases. The nurse documents the individual’s specific questions for the expert physician in Cleveland Clinic’s Epic electronic health record system.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

While the key components of privacy (administrative, uses and disclosures, individual rights, and general security) are all necessary today, I would put privacy, security, breach – and relevant 21 Century Cures Interoperability topics – all together and make sure everyone handling any type of sensitive information be subject to these rules.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 24, 2019

ONC finds little interoperability improvement among office-based physicians since 2015. You can see how many clicks it takes to fill out documentation, the amount of time a physician takes for a particular process and you can drill down into the individual users to determine who may be struggling or not even using the system.

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Hinduja Global Solutions

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Priyankar: Some of the industry-level bottlenecks that are associated with credentialing are: Low Portability: Lower portability (or, interoperability of data among existing silos) affecting the process workflow and data management tasks in credentialing —translating to less traffic and lag time while seeking response.

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Redox

APRIL 29, 2019

And as a company leading the charge to improve interoperability, we’ve observed that some lessons learned in the startup world may help our healthcare industry go where it wants and needs to go faster and without the pain of earlier transitions. Unless you’re in healthcare. Technology is one of the easiest and cost-efficient ways to do this.

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HIStalk Weekender

DECEMBER 21, 2018

3M will acquire MModal’s physician documentation technology business for $1 billion. Change Healthcare acquires the API and blockchain assets of interoperability vendor PokitDok. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Weekly News Recap. Monday Morning Update 12/17/18.

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Redox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

All general acute care hospitals, physician organizations, medical groups, skilled nursing facilities, health service plans and disability insurers, Medi-Cal managed care plans, clinical laboratories, and acute psychiatrist hospitals were required to sign the CalHHS data sharing agreement (DSA) by January 2023. Who must participate?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

In part three, Andy discussed how standards for documenting wellness and measuring progress are constantly evolving , vary significantly from one person to the next, and are even more difficult to define for mental and behavioral health. Read more… Making Interoperability a Priority for Canada’s Largest Province.

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mHealth Insight

OCTOBER 31, 2018

And appropriate use of NHS data could radically reduce the cost and time needed to generate new evidence on the effectiveness of interventions” It’s such a shame that NHS documents about the future so quickly run ahead of themselves with wishful thinking about artificial intelligence. “Interoperability and openness.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2022

ONC released the United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 3 (USCDI v3). As described in the latest ONC Standards Bulletin , v3 expands the USCDI from 52 data elements in 16 classes to 94 elements in 19 classes, with additions focusing on equity, public health, and documenting health insurance coverage.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

For acute care in particular, the patient’s full care team – which includes various specialists, nurses, EMS, and others – must have access to the platform from anywhere at any time, including via mobile devices, to collaborate and communicate faster throughout the entire patient journey, not just at one specific point of care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The pandemic generated uneven experiences for millions of Americans as physicians, therapists, nurse practitioners, hospitals and other caregivers – all coming to telehealth with varying levels of experience themselves – tried suddenly to meet patients where they were, said PwC researchers. ” The report read.

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Some of the documented benefits RPM can offer your patients is the ability to reduce acute care use for patients with cardiovascular disease and COPD, and improve their quality of life. . Is the program capable of offering additional options, such as nurse lines, additional programming, patient education, PERS, step-down options, etc.? .

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 10, 2018

But integration and interoperability challenges of existing traditional models will make this progress slower. Nurses and midwives who usually record health data on paper were trained to use the system to generate timely reports for DOH national vertical health programs. CHITS is managed by the UP Manila – National Telehealth Centre.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

Nursing continues to explore ways to use telehealth for inpatient care to reduce the use of personal protective equipment and the number of times in and out of patient rooms." "More than 2,000 virtual patient visits were performed in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic," he said. " Screening and testing.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The American Medical Informatics Association began a project to reduce patient documentation to 25% of its current volume by 2025. That question would call for yet another study, which would interview the nurses and doctors themselves. Most hospitals are not set up share their records; interoperability is still limited.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 5, 2024

Care coordination Seamless care coordination among healthcare providers, including pulmonologists, primary care physicians, respiratory therapists, and nurses, is crucial for delivering comprehensive COPD care through RPM. Clear communication channels and collaborative care plans are vital components of successful care coordination.

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HIStalk Interviews

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Patti, who is a pretty intimidating and awesome lady, told them to “build a computer program” for what she was doing in a circulated Word document and they did. How do you see the company fitting into the interoperability landscape? I’m not sure I would even classify what we do as carte blanche interoperability.

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