Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Although promising in its ability to transform healthcare through more efficient and accurate data capture and management, there is still much that we as an industry and society need to understand before scaling its use, especially when it comes to patient care. hours per day beyond work hours completing EHR documentation.

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Xealth

MAY 2, 2024

Discover strategic approaches for leveraging your existing digital health investments to create more engaging and effective patient experiences for all involved. Electronic Health Records (EHR) streamline the management of patient data. The post Does Engaging ALL of Your Patients Matter?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The Global Software report recognized regional leaders in acute care EHR and PACS. ONC and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) are launching a $20 million Behavioral Health Information Technology Initiative to improve IT adoption in psychiatry and behavioral health. For the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

Director at NTT DATA On February 8, 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1) Final Rule in the Federal Register, which took effect on March 11, 2024. The following is a guest article by Nitin Kunte, Sr.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

In addition, with the advances in telemedicine, many services that would have been previously impossible are now available to patients in remote locations. Where does the healthcare industry go from here with telehealth? Patients today are demanding more of the providers that serve them.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 12, 2024

They were the champions of open access to doctor’s notes for patients and worked tirelessly to share stories from healthcare organizations who had successfully implemented an open approach to notes. Through the Lab, OpenNotes will now work with select industry partners. “We With generative AI, we can work to make it more seamless.”

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

His wife Jordan was then responsible for communicating all of his pertinent health information at the most stressful point in her life. Medications, allergies, blood type, previous surgeries – not information everyone knows about themself let alone their significant other who up until now has been perfectly healthy.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Their home is the site for most of their health care, with sensors in the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and in the car all informing Quincy’s digital phenotype that further populates data into their EHR which they control and audit. Privacy protections are assured through the GDPR which the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Microsoft has had a strong focus on health systems and providers especially via clinical decision support, EHR, data analytics, and voice (think: Nuance). Samsung has worked most intensively in virtual care and wearable tech in health along with digital imaging and telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

The goal of Azure Health Data Services is interoperability that drives better patient outcomes and clinical advances. The health industry generates an overwhelming amount of data, much of which is unstructured and inaccessible. Microsoft took a step to address health data interoperability with Azure API for FHIR in 2019.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond. There’s also a trust deficit between some patients and providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

While competition for the best possible solution remains fierce, cross-industry cooperation can spur new partnerships and breakthroughs that will benefit clinicians and patients. Traditionally, we think about interoperability as HIEs (health information exchanges), but in 2024 I expect to see new models emerge.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 22, 2023

The importance of patient engagement in healthcare is multifaceted, including better patient outcomes, improved patient experience, and reduced readmission rates. Why is Patient Engagement Important? This can improve health outcomes and help patients manage chronic conditions more effectively.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2023

Mountain Park Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center serving the Phoenix Metro area, cleverly used a QR code to help staff and patients adopt a new technology. Internal champions collaborated with their EHR partner, eClinicalWorks, to double the use of their new patient portal in just twelve months.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2023

Amazon and 3M are the latest to enter the market for ambient clinical voice products , so John sat down with Detlef Koll at 3M Health Information Systems and Tehsin Syed at Amazon Web Services to talk about why the companies are partnering and what they’re doing differently. Read more… CIO Podcast : Patient Engagement.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Why is this so important? That was tweeted ten years ago.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Canvas provides a full-stack ambulatory EMR and digital health developer platform, enabling both established and startup healthcare providers to launch new patient experiences and business models faster. Canvas Medical, founded in 2015, provides the digital infrastructure for care delivery companies.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Inflation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and healthcare staffing shortages have reshaped the industry landscape. Consumers are accustomed to sharing personal data, such as an address and birth date, in exchange for instant availability of information, grocery and meal delivery, and even meeting like-minded people or dating.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

"But perhaps none is more important than our electronic health record, as it serves as the backbone of our communications between providers and patients." " Parkview Health made strategic moves in 2012 to implement and integrate Epic as its EHR for all hospitals and providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

"One of the lessons of COVID-19 – meaningful data sharing – will continue unabated, made even more valuable as data becomes more accessible and machine learning provides deeper insights," said Michael Byczkowski, global VP and head of healthcare industry at SAP, the developer of enterprise application software.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

This translates to consumers’ growing expectations of the healthcare industry…including hospitals. Hospitals are falling short of consumers’ experience-expectations, Kaufman Hall explained in their 2017 State of Consumerism in Healthcare Report with the apt sub-title, “Slow Progress in Fast Times.”.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

This federal regulatory document called for sharing EHR data with. patients to improve their engagement and independent health management. Patient portals. have to be made a key tool enabling patient onboarding, with providers who managed to enroll. their patients receiving a monetary incentive.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This will be driven by a number of factors, including the increasing availability of high-speed internet, the growing popularity of mobile devices, and the government's efforts to promote the use of health information technology (HIT). For example, patients can use their portals to receive reminders for vaccinations and screenings.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Download our white paper, “ Leading enterprise content strategy with health information management: An executive guide for acquiring a document management and imaging platform.”. Focus on meeting care improvement and cost-efficiency goals to provide an enhanced patient experience while inspiring better healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Make way for enterprise platforms purposely built to deliver on-demand patient journey insights. The on-demand, self-service approach to analytics, more commonly associated with the financial services industry and its Bloomberg terminal, will become broadly accessible to hospitals, payers, and life sciences companies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?” “Some specialties, such as mental health, may find stronger footing via virtual visits.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

This prediction hinges on whether EHR vendors will step up and support United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI)/FHIR data standards for the creation, storage, and transport of more robust social determinant data. Mike is recognized in the healthcare and IT industries for his creativity and entrepreneurial development expertise.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

With some 95 percent of healthcare providers having deployed EHRs, the healthcare system is officially digital. How the consumerization of healthcare is changing the industry. Although hiring in healthcare has slowed, the trend has been positive overall, with the industry adding about 391,000 jobs over the past 12 months.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 22, 2023

Health information technology (HIT): This refers to the use of information technology to store, manage, and analyze healthcare data. Examples include electronic health records (EHRs), clinical decision support systems, and population health management systems.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

my alma mater) and colleagues track the growth of consumer-facing digital health tools and initiatives leading to consumers’ engagement with websites and apps. Article #3 in my deep dive here extends the second analysis into digital health information, next focusing on Americans’ use of quality information on doctors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has put the healthcare industry through the wringer. Healthcare executives up and down the line have learned many valuable lessons from their experiences this past year. Tina Esposito, chief health information officer at Advocate Aurora Health, based in Downers Grove, Illinois.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 25, 2024

Disclaimer: This overview of DrKumo’s patient monitoring system in reducing hospital readmissions for chronic patients reflects general industry observations and may not predict specific outcomes. Effectiveness varies by several factors, and this content is not medical advice or a product endorsement.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Some of the biggest and most famous tech companies are making big bets on health care. The blue chips of Silicon Valley have announced they’re interested in disrupting an industry that has bedeviled us with rising costs and inefficiencies for decades. That is more than any tech firm except Apple.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 26, 2020

We are writing you today to ask that you hear our point of view as decisions are made on the Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator Proposed Rule to Improve the Interoperability of Health Information. . Some use other EHRs. Some are informal “curbside” consults. No I don’t!” she replied.

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