Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Example: noise in drug interaction alerting. I wonder how many other EHR vendors think about this concept. I’ve seen so many across a wide variety of EHR vendors. Another example of usability putting patients at risk. I could give more specific clinical examples, but this can also be applied more broadly as well.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Sides points to the use of AI to craft automated responses to patient inquiries as an example of over-hype: “I think there is a lot of attention being placed on doing simple things with AI technology – like using it to respond to patient emails. There is no need to copy and paste the note generated from the ambient system over to the EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2024

I’ve always said that some of the most interesting things in health IT are when someone brings together the right mix of technology, partners, and users to do something that they couldn’t possibly do alone. I sometimes refer to this as health IT needing to put together the right packaging. The same is true in health IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. M&A will also be a bigger factor in the digital health landscape next year. Susa Monacelli, General Manager at Propeller Health. I think we’ll see an uptick in consolidations in crowded arenas like DTX and telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2021

One example of a […]. Balancing all of those competing IT projects that can provide value to their organization and improve the workflow for clinicians and patients is what makes being a CIO so challenging.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2022

I remember my first EMR implementation about 16 years ago and we put up this same sign (although, it was Medicat instead of Epic for the EMR). However, my guess is that this will always be the case with pretty much every EHR and not just Epic which is featured in the above image. VBC for the 5% that spend 50% of costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2020

Now, let’s take a look at some health system […]. We all know that telehealth has been growing thanks to COVID-19. Let’s be honest, a lot of healthcare doesn’t have any choice. They have to move towards telehealth or not see patients that need to be seen.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

A few examples are obtaining permission to share information with third parties, having patients “opt-in” to communications, and putting the right data security measures in place. Technology plays a crucial role in HIPAA-compliant communication for behavioral health.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

One of the nice things about living in Las Vegas is that almost all the health IT conferences come to Las Vegas. However, now that Oracle bought Cerner , the Oracle Health conference is now co-located with Oracle World and is being held in Las Vegas. The US EHR market is quite saturated, but the same isn’t true internationally.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2022

The problem is that EHR alerts are great until doctors stop looking at them – and with hundreds of alerts streaming into the average EHR every day, John Lynn said he’s worried the EHR may soon look like the email inbox with 10,000 unread messages. Read more… A Look at the Fall Health IT Conference Season.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Storage of Information in Various Systems While serving diverse medical institution needs, Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) parallel existence complicates information access and exchange between doctors, patients, and different medical centers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2023

Improved EHR Help Desk Support Mitigates these Issues while Making a Positive Impact on Clinician Workflow and Patient Care. Among many well-documented pain points for clinicians is the complexity of dealing with electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Take something like hosting your EHR as a simple example of this challenge. As a healthcare organization expands, this often would mean their IT staff would have to source a local data center vendor and everything that’s involved with hosting your EHR on a private cloud that is reliably close to the new locations.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2023

We’ve only seen a few times where something has dramatically changed the EHR product roadmap. The first time this happened was when the HITECH act and associated $36 billion of stimulus money was included to stimulate adoption of EHR software. In order to get access to that stimulus money, you had to use a certified EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It has been an up and down year for the ambulatory EHR maker and its customers in this ever changing climate. Candance Lemke, MS, RN, NP-C a Nurse Practitioner at Bowen Health, for example, had her comment enlarged on several signs displayed at the UGM. Their UGM was a chance to reset and chart a clearer path forward.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

For example, I attended a session on Medication Success that was presented by Franck Tricot, VP, Strategic Partnerships at Synapse Medicine. However, this one about cumbersome EHR really stood out to me. Reminds me of the EHR user conference recently where they said that simplicity is safety in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Patients often have trouble getting access to health cares services, suffer from serious illnesses, and need a lot of reassurance and communication to establish trust. Analytics in their eClinicalWorks EHR helps this front-line organization in several ways, according to Chief Medical Officer Hari Nallapaneni, M.D.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2022

For example, in my experience name brand corn flakes are just better than generic ones. Turns out, the same is true with health IT software and more specifically legacy application and archiving solutions. We all know in life that there are some things that are just better than others.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

All organizations, including those in critical infrastructure industries such as healthcare, need to consider a three-pronged approach to protecting sensitive data: monitoring user behavior, looking at content accessed by users, and applying additional controls to the most highly targeted users—for example, those with privileged access.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine has agreed to pay $45 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower suit alleging that the vendor engaged in varied kickback schemes as well as causing its provider customers to submit false claims. For example, in 2021 CareCloud Health agreed to pay $3.8

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Over time, most stopped complaining about this problem, though I’d wager it was because they simply had worse things to worry about during the painful initial period of EHR adoption. According to the article, an increasing number of health systems in metro Chicago – as well as elsewhere in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Carlos Aros, Director of Operations at Community Health Alliance to find out how they are driving the adoption of and engagement their patient portal. Adoption Though Conversation CHA uses eClinicalWorks as their EHR. “We made the portal relevant to the conversation with them.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

For example, a doctor who’s used the same EHR at a different organization may know of a feature they really like that hasn’t been implemented yet at their new organization. That’s just one of many examples of how tech can help and hurt. However, poorly implemented tech can be a major cause for burnout.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

A HIMSS statistic cited the average healthcare system as having 18 EMRs. I see five trends in health IT infrastructure that people should be watching: cloud computing, digitalization, information exchange, AI, and wearables. This is common in healthcare, especially with the merger and acquisition activity that occurs in our industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2022

If you’ve followed our coverage of health IT conferences for any amount of time, you know that we love to attend user conferences. This makes me feel old, but pretty amazing that they’ve been doing a cloud approach to EHR for 23 years. This is particularly true with EHR software. John Lynn (@techguy) October 7, 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Plus, they have the relationships with the interoperability experts at that vendor who can answer any health data sharing questions they may have on a new project. He shared an example of a pediatric EMR vendor that took weeks to integrate with initially, but only took days with their second client.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2023

For example, we are working to empower patients to manage their health and support caring for patients outside of the clinic with tools such as messaging, remote patient monitoring, and telehealth. In a recent KLAS report on clinical EHR satisfaction, system response time was listed as a top factor hindering clinician EHR satisfaction.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2023

Mountain Park Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center serving the Phoenix Metro area, cleverly used a QR code to help staff and patients adopt a new technology. Internal champions collaborated with their EHR partner, eClinicalWorks, to double the use of their new patient portal in just twelve months.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We sat down with Lathe Bigler, General Manager at FDB Vela , and FDB Vela’s first customer, Vince Lopez, Founder and CEO at Parker Health , to get a closer look at FDB Vela’s move into ePrescribing and how that move is being received. “We work with pharmacies, hospitals, EHRs, PBMs, you name it.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Integrating diverse systems–BD analytics, predictive tools, medical devices, patient portals, EMRs, and more–facilitates real-time information flow, for real time decision making. Data minimalism can maximize clinical results.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. For example, athletes’ recovery times from ACL/UCL reconstructions basically halved in time from what they used to be. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Today, most health IT leaders seem sold on the potential healthcare AI deployment can offer, as its benefits are becoming clearer every day. It’s becoming almost a no-brainer to believe that AI can do great things for the practice of predictive analytics, for example.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

And how can we make sure these devices are affordable, scalable, secure, and can interconnect with current healthcare technologies such as EMRs? Jeff: The examples Romina shared illustrate the intelligent use of ‘active data’. How will it change the healthcare landscape?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Using a collaborative, inclusive, and open approach, Holland Bloorview is blazing a trail and setting an example for other organizations. Innovation Examples. Hanigsberg shared three examples of innovative projects that her team is working on: Brain-computer interfaces.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 14, 2018

This will allow the developers to address issues in connecting their apps to the Epic EMR. Previously, Epic wouldn’t let mobile app developers connect to its EMR until a customer requested permission on their behalf. He launched and scaled Healthcare.Digital from an idea in 2016 into one of the UK's leading Digital Health blogs.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

that are in the process of adopting or have implemented electronic health record (EHR) systems. HIPAA, for example, standardizes and maintains the protection of sensitive patient information, so healthcare professionals must ensure their data storage methods comply.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 1, 2023

Although this type of technology can be beneficial, and the chatbot can help facilitate interaction between patients and providers, there are concerns about the accuracy of answers and whether it can consider each case’s uniqueness when being used as a summarization tool, for example.

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