Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2024

Each day that passes, I’m seeing how ambient clinical voice has become the most impactful part of health IT since the $36 billion of stimulus money for EHR software. We also asked Dr. Lee about his decision to join Nabla as CMO.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

We focused especially on systems that use advanced machine learning techniques to address the serious problem of physician burnout related to heavy workloads required to document patient care in electronic health record systems (EHRs). EHRs have multiple benefits. EHR workloads have become a significant cause of physician burnout.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2023

With its implementation, the data aggregation will partly be done for the physician group, which allows physicians to get to patients sooner and cut down on administrative time. About Gregg Smith-McCurdy Gregg Smith-McCurdy is CIO at Hill Physicians Medical Group , the largest independent physician association in Northern California.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

While there was a lot of gratitude for being back together, it was also great to see the transition of leadership that happened on stage. Cool to see the transition of leadership at @PointClickCare #connectatsummit. Don’t just throw regulations at a group that’s already overburdened with staffing issues.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates. However, EHR macros must accurately capture the patient’s condition on the day of the encounter. physicians, hospital care, freestanding imaging centers, ambulatory surgical centers, etc.)

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 26, 2023

Talent Group , a leading national IT staffing company, announced today the acquisition of Queen Consulting Group , a nationally recognized IT staffing and consulting company specializing in healthcare and pharma IT, Epic EMR implementations, financial services, and niche technical recruiting.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2020

Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based EHR vendor with a controversy-rich history, has agreed to pay $145 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme designed to increase opioid prescriptions and issues with their meaningful use EHR certification. This had been […].

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Despite operating in Canada’s capitated healthcare system where investment in innovation is challenging, the leadership team at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Holland Bloorview) in Toronto, Ontario has found a way to make it part of their DNA.

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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? How will AI be leveraged to deliver actionable insights from all this new data? How can we ensure patients’ privacy with all the devices and sensors transmitting data?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2021

Still on my bucket list of conferences to attend is the Epic UGM (User Group Meeting) they hold every year for Epic users. I love user conferences because you hear about the true realities users face. Plus, there’s a common bond on the same application that makes finding someone who shares your challenges easy. As […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

All clinicians should be equally concerned with patient portal usability as well as the usability of the charting system when choosing an EHR system. Portals may perpetuate treatment inequalities in favor of those with high technology literacy and, therefore, should be designed for universal usability.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2020

The focus group study, which was conducted by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, involved bringing together a group of CIOs who were members of CHIME. Focus group leads asked the […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2023

and Chief Medical Officer at CPSI New collaboration between mobile app developer, EHR vendor and health systems decreases clinician stress The perennial challenge of clinical burnout has reached an inflection point. The following is a guest article by William J. Hayes, M.D.,

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2020

At Delaware Valley Community Health, a nonprofit group of clinics and medical offices in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, providers serve almost 50,000 patients across eight locations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2020

An industry workgroup research group has concluded that despite the availability of HealthIT tools, many organizations don’t have a comprehensive, useful view of their diagnostic testing and specialty referral processes.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

Much has been written about Larry Ellison’s vision of what he called a “National EHR Database.” To be clear, I’m not sure if this was Ellison’s goal with a “National EHR Database” or not. The second group to benefit from this National EHR Database was public health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 12, 2020

One participant in the group is Joel Betesh, […]. Ordinarily, these systems would be loathe to let their guard down and work together. In Philadephia, however, competitors have come together to solve some difficult problems that affect them all.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The survey, which was backed by the Medical Group Management Association and vendor Cedar, found that patient portals, automated appointment reminder systems, check-in technologies, […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

The theme of this year’s Epic User Group Meeting (UGM) was Castaway which was inspired by both the Tom Hank’s movie as well as earlier fare like Gilligan’s Island. A more appropriate theme may have been the Fast and Furious movies given the fast pace of announcements from senior company leaders on Day 2 of the event.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2019

In Colorado, groups like Prime Health are dedicated to improving healthcare in rural parts […]. Rural areas are historically perceived as a harder market for healthcare startups: They have tighter margins, and recently many safety net and rural hospitals have closed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2019

In Colorado, groups like Prime Health are dedicated to improving healthcare in rural parts […]. Rural areas are historically perceived as a harder market for healthcare startups: They have tighter margins, and recently many safety net and rural hospitals have closed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2019

It’s not hard to see the appeal of such technologies, which stand to meet the objectives of many groups within healthcare. Digital therapeutics — therapeutic interventions driven by software rather than pharmaceuticals – have been on pharma’s viewscreen for quite some time.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The 2023 MGMA Leaders Conference (#MGMALeaders), a gathering of healthcare professionals from medical practices, showcased new innovative approaches to addressing industry challenges.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Integrating diverse systems–BD analytics, predictive tools, medical devices, patient portals, EMRs, and more–facilitates real-time information flow, for real time decision making.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

Healthcare IT and EHR Conferences and Events. DoJ Joins False Claims Whistleblower Suit Against EHR Vendor Modernizing Medicine – Everyone seems to flock to judgments and lawsuits like this one. Plus, it illustrates how much the EHR still impacts so many in health IT. Most Visited Healthcare IT Resource Pages.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 11, 2019

As part of its “Patients over Paperwork” effort, CMS recently issued a Request for Information seeking new ideas on reducing levels of administrative burden. The initiative seems to be making a serious impact.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 26, 2019

Not long ago, I shared the results of a survey concluding that healthcare organizations generally felt pretty confident about the state of their cybersecurity defenses, despite having had WannaCry wipe the floor with them just two years before. Now, another survey has come out which underscores just how misplaced that confidence might be.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. The healthcare industry will grapple with the implications of the No-Surprises Act, as professional fees paid by health systems to physician groups have seen unprecedented increases.

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HIStalk Weekender

AUGUST 10, 2018

UnitedHealth Group is reportedly the only non-financial company that’s in the running to acquire Athenahealth. DoD will be first in line once it’s ready, so as to exhibit “leadership,”right?) When the students finished their creations, they shared about them (first with a partner, then with the whole group). Weekly News Recap.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2022

Joining me today is a group of experts who will be sharing their insights with us on the before and after affects of technology adoption on the revenue process. Whether it’s clients or clearing houses, the EMR technology and the workflows that are available there. Hello everyone, and welcome to the program.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. AI can listen to patient visits and integrate accurate notes and next steps directly into the EHR.

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