Healthcare IT Today

MAY 27, 2022

Yesterday we shared 6 EHR optimization tips with you. Today, we’re going to look at the ecosystem of technology that interacts with the EHR and makes the EHR experience better (or worse if done wrong).

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

This familiar scene exemplifies the unnecessary burdens traditional EHRs have placed on providers, patients, and the overall healthcare system. As a former ER physician and current digital health professional, I’ve dealt with these challenges firsthand—and see the enormous potential EHRs hold to change care experiences for the better.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2022

HPG), which has provided industry-leading consulting expertise for EHR technology since 2002, announced today that it acquired Health Data Specialists, LLC (HDS). Healthcare Performance Group, Inc.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

EHR migrations are becoming more common as many healthcare organizations switch EHRs or choose to upgrade to a new version of their EHR. That was the situation Magnolia Regional Health Center found themselves in when they migrated to a new version of the MEDITECH EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2023

For Suncoast Community Health Centers, moving to a cloud-based EHR was a no-brainer. With careful planning, cross-department collaboration, and help from their EHR partner, eClinicalWorks, the migration to the cloud was seamless. Our servers couldn’t keep up, especially because we were not just running the eClinicalWorks EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2021

This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcitoday on the topic “EHR Wish List.” ” While the EHR market is quite mature and we don’t see new EHR implementations happening a lot, […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Juan Molina, Division President at CareCloud, an operating division of MTBC. In this series, we talk with EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 17, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Patric Edmondson, Chief Technology Officer and Dr. Andrew Rosenthal, Medical Director of Plastic Surgery at Modernizing Medicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 29, 2022

This time we’re taking a look into EHR strategies and their standardization on the Oracle Cerner solution. Yeager shares details on the rollout of the EHR and the value of having a standard EHR across the enterprise. Talk about your decision to roll out a standardized EHR across your organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2020

While many EHR projects were put on hold or at least slowed down during COVID-19, we’re starting to see many of these projects revving back up. Just because COVID-19 happened doesn’t mean it changed the fact that many healthcare organizations need to upgrade and switch out their EHR software or consolidate onto one EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Skyler Wason, Director of Product Management at Allscripts, and Kate Palazzolo, Vice President of Sales at FollowMyHealth. Are they developing telehealth in […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The session discussed a wide variety of topics including EHR optimization, EHR training, and other related topics. While at the CHIME 2019 Fall Forum conference in Phoenix, AZ, I had a great chance to sit in on one of the CIO focus groups at the event hosted by Optimum Healthcare IT. While listening to these […].

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Andy Penn, Vice President of Virtual Health at Cerner. In this series, we talk with EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2020

When we first started creating our live video telehealth list, we quickly realized that every healthcare organization was going to need to know and understand how their EHR vendor was planning to approach telehealth. Were EHR vendors going to roll out their own solution? Would […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 7, 2020

In the nearly 15 years that we’ve been writing about EHR and health IT here at Healthcare IT Today, one of the most interesting topics we cover is pharma advertising inside an EHR or other health IT software product. It’s a topic that will likely never disappear since Pharma has a lot of money to […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcittoday on the topic “The Future of EHR“ Much of health IT has been focused on the EHR for the past decade […]. We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 12/4 at Noon ET (9 AM PT).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Tim Costantino, VP, Head of Product at AdvancedMD. In this series, we talk with EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth. If […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Baha Zeidan, Co-founder and CEO of Azalea Health. In this series, we talk with EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth. If […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2023

One of the most impactful things in a clinical organization is the EHR. When you talk to staff in a medical practice, they all spend a large portion of their day inside the EHR. This makes sense because the EHR is the clinical record that drives the schedule, the care decisions, the clinical documentation, the billing, and much more.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Given the relatively recent transition of leadership , I thought it would be a good time to check in with MEDITECH’s Executive Vice President & COO, Helen Waters. In our discussion, we cover a broad range of topics including how the leadership change has gone, the impact of COVID, and where they’re headed in the future.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 21, 2021

Genomics is one of the most exciting parts of healthcare. It’s also one of the most complex and challenging topics out there. As genomic sequencing prices have dropped and genomic research has accelerated, I know of no area of healthcare that’s more exciting than genomics.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with David Cohen, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Greenway Health. In this series, we talk with EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Many companies are jumping on the AI bandwagon to offer services ranging from risk stratification to auto-generation of patient notes after a visit. Oracle Health wants to move further.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Paul Brient, Chief Product Officer, athenahealth. In this series, we talk with an EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2020

Many people don’t realize all the changes that were required by an EHR to be able to more effectively manage everything that was happening with COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Part of a growing body of evidence putting EHRs at the center of opioid use reduction efforts, a new study has concluded that small changes to EHR presets can lower the number of opioid pills physicians prescribe.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The following is a guest article by GP Hyare, Managing Director at ReMedi Health Solutions One year ago, the average EHR go-live involved hundreds of support personnel flying to a hospital and working on-site for four to six weeks. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the inability for so many individuals to fly-in and stay in […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Murry a much more effective application of AI is ambient clinical voice – where an AI-powered application “listens” to the clinical visit and turns the conversation into data that can be used to populate the EHR. When you can remove the EMR from the conversation, you can have a patient-provider discussion face-to-face.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 16, 2023

When doctors first see output from Regard’s AI analytics , they often say, “This is what I imagined the electronic medical record would be like when I heard about it for the first time.”

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 1, 2021

When you have 220 million customers and members visit approximately 10,500 locations, you have a lot of opportunities before you. I think this is what Walmart is looking at as they’ve begun opening Walmart clinics. Plus, Walmart also has 2.2 million employees which need healthcare as well.

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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

JUNE 27, 2019

In 2019, they represent about 33% of the EHR inpatient hospital market share. The following is a guest blog post by Heather Haugen & Mia Erickson from Atos Epic continues to gain market share across the healthcare landscape.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 17, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Jim Tate, Founder of EMR Advocate & MIPS Consulting. Just as the Meaningful Use (MU) EHR Incentive program brought potential audits to providers, so it will be with the MIPS program. Both programs were enacted by Federal legislation, and while there are differences, they are also similarities.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2019

When Colorado-based integrated health system UCHealth set out to reduce the burden their Epic EHR imposed on clinicians, it started by prioritizing improvements that affected the largest number of clinicians possible, along with distributing EHR tip sheets and holding training sessions.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

While many in the industry are ready to move past the EHR, the reality for health IT leaders is that the EHR still takes up a large portion of their mindshare and has some of the biggest impact for good or bad on an organization. Stemmler also offered her advice to other CIOs that are looking at similar solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

First we dive into what she’s done to integrate SDoH data into the EMR and how she’s kept people from over looking it. Here’s a look at the questions and topics we discuss on this episode: What’s been done at your organization to integrate SDoH data into the EMR?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2021

Back in the late 90s, I read an article in a trade magazine and the piece made such an impact on me that the ideas articulated have stayed with me to this day. The article, “The Rise of the Stupid Network,” was written by a man named David Isenberg who worked at AT&T Labs Research. […].

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