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

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

APRIL 7, 2022

For all its good and ill, meaningful use drove action and adoption of EHR in healthcare. However, the key to change was healthcare organizations having a common goal. Once health IT professionals are focused on something, it is amazing to see the results they […]. What made the difference?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine has agreed to pay $45 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower suit alleging that the vendor engaged in varied kickback schemes as well as causing its provider customers to submit false claims. For example, in 2021 CareCloud Health agreed to pay $3.8

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2020

Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based EHR vendor with a controversy-rich history, has agreed to pay $145 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme designed to increase opioid prescriptions and issues with their meaningful use EHR certification. This had been […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

After more than 15 years of creating and pushing health IT innovations forward in the state, the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative has completed its final dissolution. Before dissolving , MAeHC had assigned its contract with the New England Healthcare Exchange Network to the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. ON THE RECORD.

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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

JUNE 10, 2022

During the event, Aaron Miri, SVP & Chief Digital and Information Officer at Baptist Health, said something quite powerful “It’s hard to argue with hard ROI and that’s what we got with LeanTaaS. I was recently able to attend a press briefing with LeanTaaS and a couple CIO and Chief Transformation officers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2019

In retrospect, we probably should have predicted that once Meaningful Use was put into place, some physicians would be better situated than others to take advantage of the program.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

As someone who has covered the health IT industry for 17 years, I’m always fascinated when I see something really grab the attention of the health IT community. Certainly AI us currently doing that in health IT, but in the world of interoperability TEFCA and QHINs are grabbing all of the attention.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

But just like comparing different types of aircraft, the options for EHR solutions are widely separated in terms of complexity. The right cloud-based EHR solution is ideal for underserved and isolated providers. Rural healthcare administrators need a modern system to help them navigate the challenges they regularly encounter.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In an insightful conversation with Healthcare IT Today, Rob Fox, the Chief Executive Officer of OntarioMD , shared the organization’s pivotal role in advancing healthcare in Ontario. Tell us what you think. Contact us here or on Twitter at @hcitoday. OntarioMD is embarking on two ambitious initiatives.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

The following is a guest article by Liza Dzhezhora, Healthcare IT Analyst at Itransition. However, this titanic effort in patient portal development alone seems to be insufficient for portal adoption: the same poll reports that barely 30% of patients use these solutions, year after year. In fact, it was. Stage 2 requirements.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2021

EHR developer athenahealth has agreed to pay $18.25 In its complaint, the US Justice Department claimed that athenahealth violated the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute by running questionable marketing programs.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Whether you’re looking at CMS compliance, population health efforts, Payer to Payer APIs, or EHR connectivity, they can help make sharing […]. For those not familiar with 1upHealth, the provide a FHIR platform for payers, providers, and developers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

To get a better idea on what policies and regulations you need to be aware of and just how to get access to innovation funding, we reached out to our ever so talented Healthcare IT Today community for their insights and knowledge. Here is what they had to say. Since the U.S. Since the U.S.

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Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Lieber reiterated HIMSS’ position that the federal government should extend the attestation period for Meaningful Use Stage 2 by one year. That session will feature CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and new national health IT coordinator Karen DeSalvo, M.D. 9:05 Remember “macro objective” of Meaningful Use.

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Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 12, 2014

Tavenner: 2014 is your last chance for a hardship exemption for Meaningful Use 2 (Feb. Google Glass startup expecting third healthcare client in less than 6 months (Feb. DeSalvo: True EHR interoperability – and a national HIE – is possible by 2017 (Feb. Related posts: Podcast: HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber, 2014 edition.

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Chilmark Research

APRIL 3, 2013

As we’ve reported in a previous post , HIMSS13 afforded enormous buzz and less enlightenment regarding the state of health IT, particularly the four key areas we see as essential to this industry making a true difference in patient care. The group’s stated purpose is to enable interoperability across the five founding members’ EHRs.

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David Chou

MARCH 5, 2019

Besides focusing on EHR optimization, organizations see automation as a way to become more efficient and cut costs, Chou adds. Decentralization vs. Centralization in Healthcare IT There was a time when consolidation, aiming to eliminate shadow IT groups, was one of the larger drivers in IT, Nigrin says.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2021

This week’s chat will be hosted by Brendan Keeler (@healthbjk) on the topic “Healthcare Technology Regulation: Past, Present and Future.” We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 6/18 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). ” Regulation.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The following is a guest article by John D’Amore, President and Chief Strategy Officer, Diameter Health. Almost every article on the 10 years since the passage of the HITECH Act mentions the over $35 billion spent to incentivize the implementation of electronic health records. Most go on to conclude either “We failed!”

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This task won’t be solved by any single organizer or sector; the AMIA calls on providers and health systems, Health IT vendors, and policy and advocacy groups to join the effort. This seems to me a reasonable way to identify duplicates, although one can question what happens when an EHR automatically generates text.

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Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 14, 2014

As I alluded to earlier, I was leaving the press room one afternoon at HIMSS14, and there I see former national health IT coordinator Dr. Farzad Mostashari hanging around Gregg Masters and Dr. Pat Salber of Health Innovation Media.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2022

The healthcare staffing crisis is also putting severe margin pressure on organizations. We are passionate and dedicated to working with healthcare partners, RCM leaders and clinicians to put our extensive pool of primary-sourced data to meaningful use. Inovalon is a proud sponsor of Healthcare Scene. Good timing.

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