Healthcare IT Today

MAY 15, 2023

Greenway Health continues to focus their efforts on optimizing their EHR. Healthcare IT Today recently caught up with Dr. Michael Blackman, Chief Medical Officer at Greenway Health to learn more about the company’s EHR optimization activities. EHRs are like plumbing – it just needs to work.

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Redox

MARCH 15, 2024

That said, after doing a deep research dive, I’ve come across some great content that can help move your healthcare IT (HIT) down the digital transformation path. Data’s role in healthcare’s digital transformation Healthcare Revolution: Bold Predictions for 2024. EHR Intelligence.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Datavant also announces completing its acquisition of Healthjump , the leader in health data exchange for value-based care organizations, which has built connections to more than 1,500 healthcare organizations participating in risk-bearing arrangements.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

We reached out to the Healthcare IT Today community to get their thoughts on the IT infrastructure needs in healthcare. However, amidst the IT infrastructure responses we received a number of health IT experts talking about the importance of health data and interoperability infrastructure. What do you think?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2022

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

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2023

However, in this case she is talking about establishing meaningful connectivity to drive individual outcomes for patients and healthcare organizations. Sometimes health IT professionals forget that the goal is not just to put data in an EHR or to provide interoperability of data between health IT software.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2023

The good news is that the opportunity to do population health is now there thanks to all of the data that’s available to a healthcare clinic in their EHR. However, it takes more than just a report to do population health effectively and to ensure their closing the gaps in care. A few years ago.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

When someone wants to create a healthcare app, they often think that getting the data they need to make their app work will be easy. They assume that there must be some easy EHR API they can tap into that will provide them with the data access they need. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2022

Over the last several years, concern has grown among healthcare professionals over the ways patient data is being used, and just as importantly, how well patients understand what those uses are.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2022

Recently, we shared news about the growing feature set under development as part of Google Health’s Care Studio, most recently its “Conditions” feature which summarizes patient conditions and uses NLP to link related information like labs or medications to those condition listings.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2021

Remote monitoring device-maker Withings has partnered with EHR integration software developer Redox to create a wearable which connects with a wide variety of EHR platform. In addition to wearables, the Withings connected health line includes smart scales, hybrid smartwatches offering […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 18, 2022

The topic of TEFCA and QHINs has been an extremely important one in the world of healthcare IT and particularly when it comes to healthcare interoperability. In many ways, it’s setting the national infrastructure for healthcare interoperability going forward. So, we should be paying attention. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

A new health data interoperability survey by Healthcare IT Today with 82 responses suggests that when it comes to interoperability, healthcare organizations are struggling with many of the same challenges they faced five or even 10 years ago. Their objectives for doing so […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

EHR Development Standards: New teeth, bigger bite After years of dashed hopes that EHR workflows will achieve true interoperability and allow patients to easily access and share their healthcare data, many are looking at the ONC’s final standards with a skeptical eye and cautious optimism. There’s no time to waste.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

In an interview with Healthcare IT News , Dr. Anderson asserted that, “We have this great promise of AI: that it’s going to enable people that traditionally don’t have easy access to healthcare to be able to have access to patient navigator tools.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2020

CMS has released a proposed rule that will require Medicaid managed care plans and other insurers offering products on the ACA Exchanges to support the sharing of patient data amongst themselves.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 6, 2023

In addition to expanding the successful partnership between the two organizations, the medical center will also implement Paragon® Ambulatory Care EHR, as well as Microsoft Azure hosting and several other Altera solutions. I look forward to growing our organizations together in the years to come.”

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Most data about patients exists in EHRs or other repositories in a variety of legacy formats. Thus, SAS Health Solutions offers a common data model, ingesting data from disparate sources of FHIR data into the appropriate fields for analysis. Analytics, though, requires you to compare apples and apples.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2022

Its dashboards have explainers on each data point to explain what an AI algorithm is; internal alerts notify users if AI algorithms go off track. Health data is extremely complex. Also, the percentage of data in the EHR that is actually plain text is astonishing and we have seen publications that put that number above 80%.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

Looking forward to this great panel: Real Talk: TEFCA, Evolution or Revolution in Health Care Interoperability? HIMSS23 #HITsm #healthit @CommonWell pic.twitter.com/yLIq8NBs9m — Healthcare IT Today (@hcittoday) April 18, 2023 FHIR APIs are wonderful, but they’re not sufficient on their own. Interoperability is not just a tech problem.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

They are no longer paper pushers (literally) and are now stewards of healthcare data. Jennifer Mueller, President of the American Health Information Management Association ( AHIMA ), sees a bright future for the HIM industry. There were 14 volunteers that would file papers. Within 10 years, we had no more paper records.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2019

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. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and […].

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy. Streamlining Enterprise Network Management and Monitoring.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

APRIL 30, 2019

Patient-generated health data (PGHD) has not yet been embraced as a revolutionary tool for healthcare, despite being touted as having the potential to increase patient engagement and clinician insight, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2023

" So even as they continue to spend on advanced IT initiatives such as virtual care and remote patient monitoring, about 40% of poll respondents say data reliability and data availability are top-of-mind as they look to new investments. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2020

A new report from Stanford Medicine suggests that after years of holding it at arms’ length, physicians are becoming more comfortable with the use of patient-generated health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Before dissolving , MAeHC had assigned its contract with the New England Healthcare Exchange Network to the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. Massachusetts Health Data Consortium , which will design, test and complete a documented prototype for Electronic Prior Authorization integrated with the EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

One of the most interesting evolutions in healthcare IT has been the evolution of healthcare IT staffing and consulting companies. During the boom that was meaningful use and adoption of EHR software, consulting companies played an integral role in almost every large healthcare organization when it came to rolling out EHR software.

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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 14, 2023

This is a big step forward for QHINs who can now start sharing health data. We’ll see how effective it is at solving the healthcare interoperability problem. So, the final HTI-1 rule shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to readers of Healthcare IT Today.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

New research suggests that while consumers are continuing to expand their use of digital health technologies, they’re still careful about with whom they share their health data. The survey, which was backed by Rock Health and […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 27, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Rusty Yeager on EHR Standardization and Rehabilitation Hospitals. Read more… Federal or State Health Data Collection?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2020

As health clinics, dentists, and specialists gradually reopen during what we hope is a reprieve from the first COVID-19 wave, lapses in effective data sharing come into glaring view. For instance, some friends told me that when they arrived at a clinic, the receptionist handed them paper forms and pens.

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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

MARCH 18, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Bringing Machine and Human Intelligence to Data Cleansing. Read more… BetterHelp Hit With $8M Fine Over Patient Data Sharing Lapses.

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