Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The following is a guest article by GP Hyare, Managing Director at ReMedi Health Solutions One year ago, the average EHR go-live involved hundreds of support personnel flying to a hospital and working on-site for four to six weeks.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Ransomware gangs will leverage AI to better determine how to best value what has been stolen (e.g. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

There’s a collective holding of breath right now in health IT as the ONC appears likely to issue its final HTI-1 rule with new data standards for the next stage of healthcare interoperability soon. How effectively can the industry innovate while navigating new standards that may add complexity along with frustration?

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

“Patients, their care partners, caregivers, and advocates are already utilizing AI powered tools and creating their own LLMs in ways that the average physician, healthcare executive, and health IT vendors would not believe. But how to bake in “patient-first-ness?” ” Cordovano further explained to me.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Requests are then electronically communicated directly to the provider organization’s EHRs and other systems. The specific, requested data is intelligently pulled from the provider organization’s systems to fulfill the request—including over 200+ EHRs using MRO’s proprietary technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

“In mid-March, as soon as New York’s Governor issued the stay-at-home order, the institute’s leadership, clinicians, health information technology staff, clinical operations staff and communications staff worked to rapidly develop and deploy basic telehealth functionality across our organization,” Lever recalled.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2023

EHR data is a prime target for cyber attackers, as it includes personal data and medical data that can be resold and used to perpetrate financial fraud, extortion, medical billing fraud, and illicit access to medication. 1 This is a good step forward in protecting these devices and the patients they serve.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. Documentation and billing still were to be completed within the EHR.” THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. It’s time to clean out the garage: simplification and consolidation of health IT is our next step toward optimization. Rob Cohen, CEO at Bamboo Health. Jon Kimerle, Epic Alliance Manager at Pure Storage.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2021

One of the most exciting areas of healthcare IT is the automation of so many of the mundane tasks that exist in healthcare. In many cases, our first efforts in this regard were to outsource these mundane tasks, but now healthcare AI and other things like robotic process automation (RPA) have come along to help […].

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

One of the nice things about living in Las Vegas is that almost all the health IT conferences come to Las Vegas. However, now that Oracle bought Cerner , the Oracle Health conference is now co-located with Oracle World and is being held in Las Vegas. The US EHR market is quite saturated, but the same isn’t true internationally.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

I think it’s probably fair to say that HIMSS 2023 attendees are burnt out of talking about how burnt out everyone in healthcare is right now. I guess the one bright spot in all of this is that many of the health IT solutions that are being shared at HIMSS are things that can help with some of this burnout.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2024

There are an endless amount of problems that you are being tasked to find solutions for, endless amounts of technology to look into and consider for your organization, and endless considerations on how to make your organization better for both your employees and your consumers. Number two I think that is the people.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 13, 2024

The importance of data and digital health literacy for patients and providers As healthcare becomes more digital, it's becoming increasingly important for both patients and providers to understand how data is being used and how to use digital tools effectively.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2020

Whenever you change EHR software, one of the biggest pieces of the project is to figure out how to handle the data that resides in the system (or more often systems) that you’re replacing. Needless to say, there’s a lot that goes into this part of the project. In fact, it really is almost a […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

” The EHR also provided useful statistics, because the organization could track how much time doctors logged into it. Analysis showed that physicians who used the AI note generator spent less time in the EHR, especially between 7:00 PM and 7:00 AM.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

However, given that the facilities are already stretched to the breaking point in staffing and funding, they need outside incentives to install EHRs and other digital technologies. The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 27, 2023

Then, we move onto her work at LCMC Health and their recent achievement of stage 7 in the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) at two of their hospitals. Part of achieving stage 7 was an EHR consolidation project, so we discuss what the impact of that has been and lessons she has learned along the way.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

So Yosi Health works with each care center to replicate its business and workflow needs. Similarly, clinicians have traditionally balked at patient self-scheduling because the patient doesn’t know what types of appointments are offered and how to choose the right one. Staff are usually required to ask the right questions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

One of those core causes of burnout is the documentation burden and poorly created EHR interfaces which are built around billing rather than the physician or nurse workflow. This includes resistance from the end users and how to get buy-in from others like the CFO.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

In fact, a recent JAMA Health Forum report indicates that from 2016 to 2021, the annual number of ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector more than doubled. Furthermore, the transition to electronic health records (EHRs) has reinforced the need for tightened identity and access management processes.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2023

A number of factors contribute to the complex data security risks faced by healthcare organizations, including the inherent trust in electronic health record (EHR) systems and continued reliance on legacy systems. Addressing these challenges requires a comprehensive data security strategy that goes beyond HIPAA requirements.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2023

Hari Prasad, CEO of Yosi Health , and Joseph Demmons, Application Integration Product Manager at Azalea Health , point out that patient self-scheduling portals are usually provided by the organization’s EHR vendor. When clinics rely on their EHR vendor for self-scheduling, they are almost always disappointed in the result.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. Let’s discuss how to tackle them and explore the IT solutions essential for modern healthcare institutions. Unlike EMRs, requests for access to EHR records can be made by other medical centers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Gary Hamilton, CEO at InteliChart The surge in healthcare consumerism is empowering patients to choose how and from whom they receive care, prompting healthcare leaders to adapt to patient preferences for retention and acquiring new patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The previous articles in this series discussed what kinds of programmers do well and enjoy working in a digital health company. This final article looks at some important aspects of culture and how to cultivate the developers you have. We educate our managers on how to be a coach first.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2023

“The healthcare workforce is a vital part of our communities, and addressing their health is key to helping our clients materially improve healthcare.” The Chartis Center for Burnout Solutions is led by psychologists with deep healthcare and leadership experience. Their industry-leading assessment tool with more than 12.5

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Aasim Saeed, Founder and CEO at Amenities Health 1.) In 2024, we should start talking about how to modernize health system websites. Is there a topic you believe we will all be talking about next year?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2022

"Another problem we had was with the number of solutions we were using," noted Jody McCloud Missmer, behavioral health network administrator, St. Luke's University Health Network. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. " MARKETPLACE. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 25, 2024

There’s a whole lot of great information about patient data, whether it’s lab records, information, medications, referrals, and all of that which doesn’t necessarily exist instantly in the EHR systems. So some examples include a virtual agent assisting a patient with how-to information.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Decision support based on a patient’s complete health profile will become instantly available. In 2024, EHR data will play an even larger role in contextualizing care as adoption of AI rapidly increases across the continuum.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2022

ONC released a framework to improve integration of health IT tools used to treat drug overdose patients. The aptly named Integration Framework covers how to integrate state Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) with clinical systems such as EHRs, HIEs, and pharmacy systems in hospital, primary care, and outpatient settings.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2024

They do ask callers to distinguish between regular service and the “clinical service desk,” which mostly helps people use the EPIC EHR. UI Health switched its EHR to EPIC in 2020, planning to do intensive training for service desk workers after the switch. It can better scale up and down to handle 24/7 services.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Workflow optimization tools give the clinical team visibility to the patient pathway in real time, and empower them to make data-driven decisions about how to best manage critical medical situations. Greg Miller, Chief Growth Officer at Lumeon. Let’s talk about the problem first.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Corporate Development for Healthcare Technology companies in EMEA Healthcare Technology Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors – Market Insights, Analysis & Predictions. Email , lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk , HealthTech M&A Newsletter from Nelson Advisors - HealthTech, Health IT, Digital Health Insights and Analysis.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This walk is no different when navigating how to reimagine your provider data management. When looking for solutions, look beyond the EHR and other clinical operations tools to find where sales, marketing, service, and call centers are all managing their relationship data.

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