Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. Under this final rule, individuals and entities that violate the information-blocking requirements face a penalty of up to $1 million per violation.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Before I dive into the specifics of these new requirements from CMS, let’s consider what this means for EHR vendors: more work and increased investment on top of what’s waiting when the next regulatory shoe drops. Both will require EHRs to redevelop different aspects of their roadmap simultaneously. And then what?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

This included an update on CommonWell’s new technical service provider, ELLKAY and their recent designation by the federal government as a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN). Their membership and clientele have expanded in variety as well as numbers. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 3, 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

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

"About three-and-a-half years ago, we were looking to further scale our business across myriad, diverse markets, and were searching for a cloud-based EHR for multiple reasons," said Scott Parks, president and co-founder of CareTeam. " Additionally, CareTeam places a heavy focus on addressing patients' whole health.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

As part of their intake process, the team checked Alex’s (a pseudonym) medical history through the hospital’s health information organization and discovered the patient had recently undergone a cardiac surgery at a different hospital; their post-surgical issues had merely mimicked a neurological challenge.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2024

THE LARGER TREND The independent, nonprofit Joint Commission is the nation's oldest (founded in 1951) and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in healthcare, accrediting and certifying more than 22,000 healthcare organizations and programs across the United States. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

I have also seen HIPAA training courses that don’t educate staff that HIPAA lives on and protects health information for 50 years after a patient dies. While there is no mention of criminal charges in the DCH Health Systems notice, this incident might be being investigated for criminal intent. retained for 6 years.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The 21 st Century Cures Act codifies immediate access to health information for patients. There is little value for patients to access health information they cannot understand. The Act paves the way for patients to become more pro-active partners in their care. Access alone, however, is not sufficient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

To keep staff operational, meet remotely with patients and maintain the functionality of the organization, COPE turned to Health Information Management Systems (HiMS, no relation to HIMSS, parent company of Healthcare IT News ) for a rapid-response solution that included both hardware and software implementation.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Sun Life Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) near Phoenix, Arizona, is leveraging their eClinicalWorks EHR platform to persuade patients to get the care they need. By closing these care gaps, not only are they better serving the community, Sun Life Health is also able to secure more federal funding.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2021

Health plan management company Anthem has struck a deal with Epic rolling out data sharing technology to health systems and providers who use the EHR vendor’s technology. Under the terms of the deal, participating providers will have access to Epic’s Payer Platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 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 Today

FEBRUARY 25, 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

AUGUST 18, 2023

To learn more about this announcement we sat down with two leaders at 3M and AWS to talk about the collaboration that led to AWS HealthScribe: Detlef Koll, vice president of global research and development for 3M Health Information Systems , and Tehsin Syed, general manager of Health AI at Amazon Web Services.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 13, 2023

For the 50th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with David T. Ford, VP of Health Information Technology at California Medical Association (CMA). With the big spring CMA Health IT Conference coming up on May 22nd, Ford kicks the episode off with sharing what he expects the hot topics to be.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

When the sector is set to face shortages of between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034, generative AI could alleviate administrative work, such as summarizing patient calls and managing electronic health records (EHRs), to allow medical staff to focus on improving patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Technology plays a crucial role in HIPAA-compliant communication for behavioral health. Embracing Secure EHR Software and Patient Portal Effective EHR software helps ensure HIPAA-compliant interactions. First, email addresses are often mistyped, which can result in dangerous disclosures of protected health information (PHI).

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Verisma still has significant runway for further growth and we are thrilled to provide funding for this merger that will help the company continue to expand and improve the overall experience for healthcare providers and third-party requestors.” ScanSTAT is a proud partner to some of the industry’s best electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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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

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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2024

But many providers just enter into the databases and EHRs whatever the patient put down on a form during intake. But each system also has its own fields for storing address information, and communication among them is complicated. Payers, who would benefit from address standardization, have not required Project USA either.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Scott Alderman, Vice President of Operations at CyncHealth , wants to provide one-stop access to the longitudinal patient record, while reducing the clicks needed to navigate the electronic health record (EHR). One of the HIPAA-compliant solutions CyncHealth uses to exchange information is Direct Secure Messaging.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 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

MARCH 20, 2024

In search of an answer to this question, we reached out to our insightful Healthcare IT Today Community and this is what they had to share with us. So what are the risks and concerns of ambient clinical voice technology and how could they be holding people back from adopting it?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 21, 2023

“I am so proud of the professionals in our health information technology organization that push the boundaries of IT through collaborative and creative thinking and dedication to our mission. Through the journey of digital transformation, we rescue more patients and uplift their quality of life.” Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

To find out more, Healthcare IT Today sat down with Matt Wildman, Chief Commercial Officer at MRO. By narrowing the amount of information shared, MRO is addressing the trepidation that providers have over sharing data with payers. CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield has been working with MRO for several years.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 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. Like most of us, Andy Oram has a health insurance card in his wallet. Read more… Why the Future is Bright for Health Information Management.

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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

JUNE 2, 2023

Vaccination status, demographic information and notes are increasingly shared. Exchanging health information is everything we do.” Confirmation of Vaccination The pandemic accelerated the use of Surescripts’ platform as an information exchange. “We Why would they do this? With more than 21.7 Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2021

There is a lot of valuable information lying dormant in paper and electronic documents in healthcare. Although EHRs have almost eliminated the use of paper charts, the same cannot be said for faxes. Fax continues to be a common method for sharing health information between providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2021

So, after investing what feels like infinite levels of effort, patient medical records are digitized across nearly all hospitals in the US, according to a new ONC Data Brief. However, at least when this data was collected in 2019, hospitals were still playing their little passive-aggressive game where they make the data available to […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 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

DECEMBER 21, 2020

According to the company's website, the software integrates into a provider's electronic health record, allowing for electronic, HIPAA-compliant patient reports to be transferred into an EHR system. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

"We are returning towards pre-COVID-19 financials, and the organizations struggling before the pandemic are in the same predicament now," Chou wrote for Healthcare IT News in February. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 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 Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

HTI-1 Final Rule Appropriately, we’ve been breaking down what health IT and EHR vendors need to expect when it comes to HTI-1 in our Healthcare Regulatory Talk series. 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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