Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The following is a guest article by Mitchell Perry, VP Compliance & Security at Access In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare IT in US healthcare frameworks, integrating electronic health records (EHRs) has become a cornerstone for providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2019

For the second time this month, the HHS Office for Civil Rights has fined a provider for failing to make a patient’s medical records available to them promptly and within fee guidelines as required by HIPAA.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As mentioned previously, we’re taking part on the Virtual AHIMA conference this week. Exploring how things work in the virtual world, we tried something new today and did a text based chat interview with Rita Bowen, VP of Privacy, Compliance and HIM Policy from MRO. In this wide ranging text interview, we talked with Rita […].

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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. Paper documents continue to be part of the healthcare document workflow, and oftentimes, it’s tricky integrating paper and digital content while streamlining daily operations and securing sensitive patient data to meet HIPAA compliance.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

You can imagine the EHR Product Manager that had the great idea to alert physicians to a drug to drug interaction or an allergy issue. In many EHR, these messages are part of an EHR messaging system where doctors get notifications from patients, nurses, billing staff, etc. It’s basically HIPAA secure email for doctors.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

I started Actium Health with the belief that EMR data was being underutilized. This makes it possible for health systems to ensure access for all patients, but especially for those who need care the most, such as patients at highest-risk for chronic conditions such as breast cancer and heart disease. “I

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Digital Health Hub

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Preview in new tab Step 1: Data Collection To collect good quality data, it is essential to ensure: (i) data completeness : e.g. ensure that there are fewer missing values recorded from sensors, a smaller number of missing attributes in EHRs, EMRs, etc. (ii) EMRs, EHRs) and unstructured (e.g.,

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Digital Health Hub

OCTOBER 18, 2022

To collect good quality data, it is essential to ensure: (i) data completeness : e.g. ensure that there are fewer missing values recorded from sensors, a smaller number of missing attributes in EHRs, EMRs, etc. (ii) EMRs, EHRs) and unstructured (e.g., Step 2: Data Collection.

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CiscoHealth

APRIL 29, 2020

Integrate telehealth workflows into EHR and EMR applications, powering collaboration across the healthcare system with Webex Teams and our SDKs and APIs. In line with the HIPAA Security Rule, Cisco implements all the addressable specifications that are relevant to Cisco Webex services.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The platform integrates with Epic, allowing staff to launch virtual visits within the native electronic health record (EHR) environment. Awarded the Best in KLAS Virtual Care Platform (non-EMR) in 2021, 2022, and 2023, Caregility Cloud powers a purpose-built ecosystem of enterprise telehealth solutions across the care continuum.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

What You Will Do Design, implement, and optimize the schemas and data dictionaries across a broad ecosystem of platforms and vendors Manage the data lifecycle for all source, derived, and exported data ensuring accuracy and consistency Manage the systems that clean, normalize, and translate various data flows in HL7, FHIR, and other common healthcare (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon HealthLake, which AWS describes as “HIPAA-eligible,” was launched during Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference. Amazon Web Services is rolling out a new tool designed to make it simpler for healthcare organizations to work with their data.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

Our scheduling APIs allow EMR scheduling systems to synchronize scheduled visits with American Well, with the option to trigger emails to patient and physicians. EMRs: Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) contain the standard medical and clinical data gathered by a patient’s provider, and allows that provider to track data over time.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

Our scheduling APIs allow EMR scheduling systems to synchronize scheduled visits with American Well, with the option to trigger emails to patient and physicians. EMRs: Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) contain the standard medical and clinical data gathered by a patient’s provider, and allows that provider to track data over time.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

Sharing of Data in a Patient Portal Most patients are familiar with HIPAA and of course, expect data to be kept securely in accordance with HIPAA requirements. All clinicians should be equally concerned with patient portal usability as well as the usability of the charting system when choosing an EHR system.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2019

While we’ve been writing about EMR data archiving since back in 2009 and then again in 2013 and 2014 to name a few, the topic has never been more important than it is today. With many healthcare organizations literally supporting 100s and even 1000s of health IT software, how you handle legacy systems including data […].

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

A HIMSS statistic cited the average healthcare system as having 18 EMRs. For example, extensive pre-work to uplift network infrastructure is often a prerequisite for vital EHR enhancements. This is common in healthcare, especially with the merger and acquisition activity that occurs in our industry. Matt Donahue, CTO at CloudWave.

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Mend

AUGUST 22, 2023

Enhanced Data Security If a paper document gets lost or falls into the wrong hands, your practice could face HIPAA violations. Mend is 100% secure, confidential, and HIPAA-compliant telehealth software. This ensures compliance with healthcare mandates like HIPAA and is paramount to consider when choosing your digital solution.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

As healthcare systems and providers modernize (or build) their technology stacks, it will be more important than ever to prioritize privacy and to understand new regulations at the state level, from HIPAA, and from the FTC. However, EHR macros must accurately capture the patient’s condition on the day of the encounter.

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care innovations

JUNE 6, 2018

Discussing the accessibility (or lack thereof) patients have to their electronic medical records (EMR), the report also reveals some important underlying factors that have left many facilities unable to deal with both the transition to EMR and compliance with HIPAA. EHR is a synonym for EMR.).

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2019

Call it a HIPAA reboot for the wearables age. A pair of senators have filed a bill which would impose new regulations on how companies manage data generated by consumer technologies such as health apps, wearables and direct-to-consumer genetic tests. The Protecting Personal Health Data Act, which was filed by Sen.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

HIPAA regulations. For AI-software to be effective, it must integrate with your practice management and electronic health record (EHR) systems. When workflow software and EHR platforms are integrated, it creates a powerful telehealth machine, one in which both systems work symbiotically.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The HHS Office for Civil Rights is investigating whether Google met HIPAA requirements when it pulled together millions of patient records when working with the Ascension health system.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

While providers are bound by both HIPAA and state laws on how to handle medical record requests, as a patient I can tell you that many providers do at most the bare minimum to comply. As I’ve noted before, it’s harder for patients to access their medical records then you might think. In fact, as […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Purging Guidelines & Criteria HIPAA privacy rules do not address medical record retention requirements, and the guidelines from several states and the federal government are ambiguous at best. The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions.

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Mend

MARCH 1, 2022

Valuable EHR and PMS integration. Your patients deserve more than non-HIPAA-compliant video conferencing platforms like Skype and FaceTime. Your telehealth program must be HIPAA compliant to be safe, secure, and private. Between the EHR, PMS, EMR, and video screen, there can be a lot of confusion and wasted time.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The siloed nature of such data repositories can be attributed to various factors, including using different EHR systems, varying data capture standards, and a historical lack of emphasis on system interoperability. EHRs are real-time, patient-centered records that make information available instantly and securely to authorized users.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 1, 2023

Read more… Learning From Consolidating EHRs and Achieving HIMSS Stage 7. In the latest CIO Podcast, LCMC Health’s Tanya Townsend told John about the health system’s EHR consolidation as part of its effort to get to HIMSS Stage 7 for the EMR Adoption Model. Million Users.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Integrating diverse systems–BD analytics, predictive tools, medical devices, patient portals, EMRs, and more–facilitates real-time information flow, for real time decision making. Kari Hall, Chief Strategy Officer at PointClickCare In 2024, EHR data will be crucial for advancing care in conjunction with generative AI.

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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

APRIL 30, 2021

Cerner has struck a deal in which it will let a life insurance industry data vendor access patient records. Under the terms of the deal, risk management and digital services vendor MIB will be able to offer life insurance industry players access to 54 million patient medical records, as well as 5,400 patient portals. The […].

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Mend

DECEMBER 7, 2020

2) HIPAA Privacy and Security. With more and more patient information being stockpiled and shared electronically, healthcare providers need to ensure data is maintained in ways compliant with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and other privacy regulations.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2020

One of the things my family did a number of times as a child was to choose a family that we’d surprise with small gifts every day for 12 days before Christmas. My mom was always really creative and would turn the 11 Pipers Piping into a pipping hot pie or something delicious like that. […].

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 8, 2022

Therapy notes software such as therapy tech, mobile health applications, electronic health records (or EHR), video coaching, and many others are available to help with practice management. The software is HIPAA-compliant. In addition, Quenza also serves as a HIPAA-compliant counseling tool for storing and creating psychotherapy notes.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The following is a guest article by Lauren Riplinger, Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs at the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2020

A few months ago, we dipped into the various COVID-19 searches that were being done to find Healthcare IT Today and offered answers and commentary on what people were searching. We thought it would be fun to dip into the search engine traffic for another edition of Search Engine Q&A. Remember that these are searches […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2020

This is the tale of a quiet effort by Facebook to take over (more of) our lives, in this case by sliding laterally into the healthcare business and collecting data on our medical habits. What I’m about to share draws on a story appearing in The Atlantic laying out how Facebook might be able to […].

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