Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery ? The following is what they had to share.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2022

It’s also well known that many physicians remain disappointed with the charting and clinical documentation capabilities of hospital and specialty EHRs. According to KLAS Research’s Arch Collaborative, physicians want three basic things from their EHRs: strong user mastery, a sense of ownership and system personalization.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While we are still in this mindset, let’s talk about how we can also improve as health IT leaders. So to become a better leader in health IT, we need to figure out what skills and best practices we must do and find out if these skills for health IT leadership is different than other healthcare sectors.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This means, for example, offering treatment and medication options that are suited to the patient’s current situation (socioeconomic status, transportation availability, location, etc.). The natural place to capture and display this type of information is in the Electronic Health Record (EHR). EHRs hold a lot of data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Here's what execs from some leading health IT vendors think about the most pressing challenges – and big opportunities – of the year ahead. " EHRs: Automation can help. "A primary health IT focus for 2021 must be empowering clinicians with solutions that deliver relief today," said Laureau.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

What health IT trend has you concerned? Dr. Sameer Ather, Co-Founder and CEO at XpertDox A major concern in health IT is cybersecurity. If unaddressed, this could lead to significant data breaches, undermining the integrity of AI systems in healthcare, like those used in modern EHRs and medical coding.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2020

As healthcare organizations ramp up efforts to treat COVID-19 patients, their health IT vendors are looking to provide them with tools to manage cases, analyze data and assess patients remotely. What follows are some of the tools and capabilities that EHR vendors have added to providers’ arsenals in dealing with the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. For example, HHS is proposing to update the HIPAA Security Rule in 2024 to strengthen requirements for HIPAA regulated entities to safeguard electronic health information from cybersecurity threats.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Monitoring will transition to Health Recovery Solutions. Aligning new technology and features with the Epic EHR has created more effective telehealth care pathways, Frunzi explained. Expanding the telehealth cart fleet and replacing aging technology will satisfy a significant need in Centura Health's system, he said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

Cary Medical Group uses the Allscripts Professional EHR and the FollowMyHealth patient portal. There are many vendors with electronic health records systems on the health IT market, including Allscripts, athenahealth, Cerner, DrChrono, eClinicalWorks, Epic, Greenway Health, HCS, Meditech and NextGen Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

Thanks to insurance companies’ and the governor’s direction, telehealth visits were allowed, which prompted Riad to explore options using the athenaOne Mobile EHR app. There are a great many telemedicine technology and services vendors on the health IT market. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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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

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

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

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

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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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

“Patients, their care partners, caregivers, and advocates are already utilizing AI powered tools and creating their own LLMs in ways that the average physician, healthcare executive, and health IT vendors would not believe. ” Cordovano further explained to me.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. Instead, we anticipate a more mix and match, custom approach to EHRs. This will, for example, enable the interflow and exchange of patients’ clinical lab results between clinical workforce and medical staff.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2020

I’m convinced that health IT can solve many of health care’s problems–but only when it is designed and rolled out with the greatest sensitivity to the needs of the users. The Rolodex of failed health start-ups confirm this principle through negative examples.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. For example, “Direct” (i.e.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. For example, “Direct” (i.e.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2024

For example, prior authorization and patient eligibility are now key steps to ensuring price transparency and fewer financial surprises for patients. “So We server over 2,900 clients that are on 19 different EHRs, so being able to have a standardized file format that can interact with those different EHRs in real-time is critical.”

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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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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. For example, “Direct” (i.e.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. For example, “Direct” (i.e.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. For example, “Direct” (i.e.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. For example, “Direct” (i.e.

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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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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For example, the rise of precision medicine is leading to more personalized and effective treatments for patients. The growing importance of social determinants of health is leading to healthcare organisations working to address the social and economic factors that can impact patient health. Email lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk

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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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