The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

Digital health is unquestionably becoming part of healthcare lexicon and fabric. Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

If you’re familiar with the 21st Century Cures Act, then you know that October 6th is a major deadline that requires healthcare providers, health IT developers, HIEs, HINs, and others to share all ePHI (electronic protected health information) in the DRS (Designated Record Set). And the next chapter begins!

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

You can also visit our HIMSS23 page to see all our coverage of health IT’s biggest event. Announcements from HIMSS Lack of staff is the top barrier to robust cybersecurity for 61% of healthcare organizations, according to the HIMSS 2022 Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey Report. Surescripts released research noting that half of U.S.

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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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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 8, 2023

In addition to these general business models, clinical messaging apps may also generate revenue from other sources, such as: Integration fees: Some apps charge healthcare providers a fee to integrate with their electronic health records (EHRs) systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2023

Nearly 60% of Americans would visit a pharmacy as their first stop for non-emergency care , and 81% trust pharmacists and nurse practitioners to diagnose minor illnesses and prescribe medications, according to a Wolters Kluwer Health survey. Executives for Health Innovation will wind down operations over the remainder of the year.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Storage of Information in Various Systems While serving diverse medical institution needs, Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) parallel existence complicates information access and exchange between doctors, patients, and different medical centers.

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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. That may be changing in 2021, it predicted.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Health Equity and SDoH. Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. And now, check out our community’s healthcare analytics and interoperability predictions. Jean Drouin, Co-Founder and CEO at Clarify Health. Ashley Basile, Chief Product Officer at Diameter Health (now part of Availity). Healthcare Workforce.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The siloed nature of such data repositories can be attributed to various factors, including using different EHR systems, varying data capture standards, and a historical lack of emphasis on system interoperability. The solution to these challenges lies in the adoption of interoperable data systems.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 10, 2018

The developed markets are now moving to a new digital health model with increasing adoption of cloud and mobile- based technology in the healthcare system. But integration and interoperability challenges of existing traditional models will make this progress slower. Singapore is now transitioning to a new digital health model.

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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. Interoperability: Health IT's hardest problem is (finally) at an inflection point. EHR training is biggest predictor of user satisfaction, experts say. by May 10, 2019. The system is digitized. The new frontier?

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

EHR integration with your RPM Program. One of the most powerful ways to ensure that the knowledge gained from patient RPM data is used by all their providers is with EHR integration. Flexible program options available: education, questions and surveys, patient portal, video visit. Optional EHR integration. Am J Prev Med.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A recent survey from HIMSS and Patient ID Now also found that healthcare organizations are spending an average of 109.6 Lack of a consistent and accurate way to link patients to their health information is a significant contributor to an average duplicate record rate that runs as high as 18% in the typical facility.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

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. East Tennessee Health Information Network chose 4medica to manage duplicate patient records.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Embedded in Apple’s Health app, the new feature will bring together medical data from participating hospitals and clinics, as well as from the iPhone itself, giving millions of Americans direct digital control of their own health information for the first time.

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The Digital Health Corner

MARCH 26, 2018

now that it has entered the digital world (albeit tepidly) via EHRs and IT support. Interestingly, an IBM survey of 200 healthcare executives in 16 countries focused on interest in adopting blockchain technology revealed that this is a very rapidly evolving area. One may also imagine the implications for healthcare data security.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2023

News In a Microsoft press release announcing the availability of GPT-4 in Azure OpenAI Service, Epic’s Seth Hain, Senior Vice President of Research and Development, said the EHR vendor sees “tremendous potential” for the latest version of the multimodal large language model. More than 90% of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

for the thirteenth consecutive year and was also the top EHR in Canada and Europe. Meanwhile, KLAS noted that digital pathology, interoperability, and recovering from the pandemic have been driving health systems’ technology investment strategies. Epic won top honors in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2023

DirectTrust released the finalized criteria for the Trusted Network Accreditation Program (TNAP) Participant program , aligning accreditation requirements with the requirements necessary to participate with a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) under TEFCA. Healthcare organizations are spending $9.5

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HIStalk Interviews

MARCH 25, 2019

Grahame Grieve is a principal with Health Intersections of Melbourne, Australia and was the architect-developer of HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR, pronounced “fire”) specification that allows EHRs to exchange information. That puts them in good stead to get interoperable. Not so much weird.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Had PPS been required to have broader governance – including community-based organizations, health plans, faith-based organizations, Health Information Exchanges, and other nonprofits, we would have had more balanced governance decision-making that would have supported the policy goals of the program more consistently statewide.

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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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Health Blawg

JANUARY 7, 2019

As she describes it, the All of Us research program has “a simple mission and that is to accelerate health research and medical breakthroughs and in order to reach this goal we’re asking one million or more people to share their health information to inform future health studies.”

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 7, 2019

As she describes it, the All of Us research program has “a simple mission and that is to accelerate health research and medical breakthroughs and in order to reach this goal we’re asking one million or more people to share their health information to inform future health studies.”

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 7, 2019

As she describes it, the All of Us research program has “a simple mission and that is to accelerate health research and medical breakthroughs and in order to reach this goal we’re asking one million or more people to share their health information to inform future health studies.”

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 7, 2019

As she describes it, the All of Us research program has “a simple mission and that is to accelerate health research and medical breakthroughs and in order to reach this goal we’re asking one million or more people to share their health information to inform future health studies.”

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 7, 2019

As she describes it, the All of Us research program has “a simple mission and that is to accelerate health research and medical breakthroughs and in order to reach this goal we’re asking one million or more people to share their health information to inform future health studies.”

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 7, 2019

As she describes it, the All of Us research program has “a simple mission and that is to accelerate health research and medical breakthroughs and in order to reach this goal we’re asking one million or more people to share their health information to inform future health studies.”

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