Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

One Healthcare Solution’s premier software and expertise in EMR integration will allow us to support practice owners and physicians more than ever before,” said Emmet Seibels, President of Verustat. As a result, the company has one of the highest compliance rates among its patient populations in the RPM industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Wheel , the health technology company powering the future of care, today announced it will acquire GoodRx Care ‘s backend virtual care technology, including its clinician-centric EMR, powerful clinical management tools, and flexible patient experience software. About Wheel.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2021

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. When a CIO looks at their healthcare organization, they see hundreds of opportunities to improve their processes and better leverage technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

If I were to map out the phases of EMR, it would look like this: EMR Adoption. Rapid EMR adoption and implementation fueled by the generous government incentive program (Meaningful Use) EMR Consolidation.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 19, 2023

Epic started out as a rather inert data repository, but decades of use and growth have allowed it to look beyond the EHR itself. According to Project Manager Erika Koch, they have taken on the pressing challenges of health care: making doctors’ work lives easier, reducing costs, and improving the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2021

If you read Healthcare IT Today regularly, or listen to our health it podcast, then you’re probably tired of hearing me talk about the potential of Ambient Clinical Voice in healthcare. For good or bad, I’m probably not going to stop. At least not until it’s proven that it can’t ever fulfill it’s potential.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2021

In another in our ongoing series that highlights issues with the EHR vs how a health system configures the EHR comes this tweet from Stacy Hurt: In ongoing Epic/MyChart saga, tech support told me I have to fill out this proxy request form and ?? MAIL it to my dr’s office to send attachments ????? […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

There are many books about design, but a recent book by Craig Joseph, MD and Jerome Pagani, Designing for Health: The Human-Centered Approach , applies design principles to EHRs and to IT systems in general. In this video, Dr. Joseph, chief medical officer at Nordic , explains some of the experiences and achievements that lay behind the book.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2022

We’re excited to extend our services expertise with NextGen Healthcare’s product and services leadership to further solidify NextGen Healthcare as among the most trusted names in ambulatory healthcare.”. president and chief executive officer at TSI Healthcare. About NextGen Healthcare, Inc. NextGen Healthcare, Inc.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2020

Whether it’s changing government regulations, new technologies like an EMR or telehealth, or a pandemic which literally turns things upside down, change is just […]. No one likes change and healthcare is included. Although, ironically, the one constant in healthcare is change.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 21, 2023

Here’s a preview of the topics we will be rolling for in this episode: Artificial Intelligence Hospital Finances RPA Epic Cerner/Oracle Health ONC Healthcare Analytics Patient Experience Workforce Patient Privacy Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast.

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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. Now learning about their acquisition of Collective Medical and Audacious Inquiry. pic.twitter.com/BuyrjSvGty.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2021

Our modern Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems’ origins can be traced back to the 1960s. The following is a guest article by Stephan Herron, President and CEO of Scriptel Corporation. Fifty-five years ago, slightly over 100 clinical information and/or storage systems existed.

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

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Given its position atop the EHR industry, the things Epic does can have an outsized influence on the healthcare world. Will such be the case when Epic debuts its new voice assistant at HIMSS20? I’d argue that this time, perhaps, not so much. According to a piece appearing in Healthcare IT News, Epic is debuting […].

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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 1, 2023

ChatGPT, or other AI-based language translation systems, can serve as a resource for multilingual interaction, simultaneous translation, and can help to communicate a message in a patient’s first language, reducing the language-based gaps in health care and improving the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

Portals have the ability to improve patients’ health outcomes by reducing prescription errors and increasing patient education. 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

JANUARY 19, 2024

In the spirit of prevention of burn out, where technology can automate administrative burden, make chart reviews more efficient, use ambient listening capabilities to reduce time spent in the EHR will have a positive impact on the clinical burnout epidemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

At ReMedi , we frequently support health systems going through transitions at various stages of the EHR life cycle. Along the way, we almost inevitably uncover challenges surrounding the quality of the patient data transferred to the new and existing EHR. Clinicians vs. Abstractors: Who should do it?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2023

healow is a service provided by eClinicalWorks that really changes how a medical practice can change the experience for its patients at scale.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Patient portals have existed since the late 1990s, but the onset of a global pandemic triggered a drastic shift within the healthcare community and fueled interest in patient portals. The following is a guest article by Doreen DeGroff, Senior Product Director MEDITECH, CereCore.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

As you can imagine, we’ve been innundated with COVID-19 related health IT news. We’ve done our best to cover the areas we thought were most important to healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

This will allow the healthcare industry at large to use AI and Automation where it needs to be used, to provide a better patient experience and increase the quality of healthcare delivery, instead of used to increase or decrease profits. Data minimalism can maximize clinical results.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 12, 2021

The following is a guest article by Richard Scully from Atos. While the vision of the Digital Hospital has been much talked about in health systems all over the world, relatively few organizations have yet realized it. Yet the realities of delivering a digital hospital are less about purchasing the high-tech of tomorrow, and more […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

I was pretty struck by the title of a session at the upcoming HIMSS 2022 conference in Orlando, “Papercuts don’t have to hurt: How to gain physician adoption.” ” It’s happening Wednesday, March 16th at 4:45–5:05pm in the Spotlight Theater, booth #8240.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2020

Little did we know on March 10th when we filmed this great discussion about healthy data in healthcare hosted by Intersystems what we were in store for with COVID-19. Although, as COVID-19 has progressed we’ve learned even more how important healthy, quality, trusted data is to healthcare.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

One of the people who’s had a front row seat to some of the major happenings in health IT is Zane Burke. Most of us got to know Burke during his two decades at Cerner Corporation (now Oracle Cerner ) where he eventually became President. Then, Burke was CEO of Livongo Health before it was eventually acquired by Teladoc.

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APRIL 29, 2020

As part of our Healthcare IT 100 in 100, we asked a wide variety of healthcare interoperability experts to chime in on the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare interoperability. Plus, then we asked them how it will impact health data sharing going forward. Their responses were largely positive, but did highlight the challenges we still […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The response to my article asking the question “Are we at the end of the healthcare interoperability tunnel?” ” was quite interesting. I think some people thought that I was hammering on all the work that’s being done on healthcare interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2020

The following is a guest article by Emily Burch Harris, Freelance Health Writer. DirectTrust recently hosted their second annual Summit (recordings still available), an event focused on connecting DirectTrust members and non-members with some of the nation’s greatest healthcare and interoperability experts.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

New healthcare AI and Machine Learning research conducted by Healthcare IT Today suggests that many industry leaders are serious about adopting healthcare AI and machine learning tools and what’s more, that these technologies are being used as part of mission-critical efforts rather than one-off pilot tests.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2021

Highmark Health has signed a six-year deal with Google Cloud under which the two will build and manage a new platform designed to streamline patient care delivery. The two companies are developing a new digital care model dubbed Living Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

I remember when I first fell in love with an Apple computer – the day I brought home a Macintosh Performa. I opened the box, plugged it into the wall and dove into it with a passion. By today’s standards, its 33 MHz processor, 4 MB of RAM and 250 MB hard drive seems laughable, […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 21, 2020

Following in Epic’s footsteps, Cerner has struck a deal with a vendor supporting a range of digital health tools designed for both consumers as well as physicians. What makes the agreement notable is less the fact that both Cerner and Epic have signed on with digital health vendor Xealth – though a bit unusual – but […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The 2020 HIMSS Annual Conference is just under 4 weeks away. In case you don’t know about the HIMSS conference, it brings together 40,000-50,000 of the best and brightest healthcare IT professionals along with 1300+ exhibitors in one conference in Orlando, FL.

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