EHR, Health IT, Interoperability and Survey

These Three Things Can Bring EHRs to the Next Level

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

This familiar scene exemplifies the unnecessary burdens traditional EHRs have placed on providers, patients, and the overall healthcare system. As a former ER physician and current digital health professional, I’ve dealt with these challenges firsthand—and see the enormous potential EHRs hold to change care experiences for the better.

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Health IT Execs Say They’re Unhappy With EHR-Based Analytics Packages

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 3, 2020

It would be nice if the analytics packages included with EHRs did exactly what you hoped they would do. However, for many health IT leaders these analytics platforms just aren’t cutting it, if the results of a recent survey are […]. After all, you want the various capabilities you manage to play nicely with one another.

EHR

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Centura Health blends RPM, carts and Epic EHR for expanded telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

"Virtual care required a recast in strategy to address interoperability, patient experience, provider experience and cost," said Gerard Frunzi, director of virtual care at Centura Health. "Interoperability issues resulted in many manual steps to get information between systems and tasks completed. MARKETPLACE.

EHR

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HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

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. Here’s what I wrote. That was tweeted ten years ago.

Health IT

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Healthcare AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Patches Seely, Executive Vice President of Clinical Solutions at Carenet Health Clinicians’ burnout is in both a state of prevention and cure.

Health IT

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Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Reps Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (MATCH IT) Act of 2024 , which would standardize the way demographic information is entered into certified health IT products and ensure more precise patient matches. Median hospital margins hit 5.2%

FHIR

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Weaving Zoom into workflow and updating EHR saves clinic during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In April 2020, the National Council for Behavioral Health discovered through its survey of 880 U.S. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. The reason for this is HiMS’ prioritization of interoperability.” To read this special report, click here.

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TEFCA Real Talk

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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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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4 Strategic Considerations for Digital Hospital Transformation

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2024

This phase could be informed by inputs, like the latest industry trends, patient survey data, and interviews with medical teams who understand the clinical and administrative workflows and challenges. These targets may include modernizing capabilities for general diagnostics, anesthesia, EHR, or other multi-department systems (e.g.

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Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. Instead, we anticipate a more mix and match, custom approach to EHRs. Wayne Johnson, Vice President of Special Operations at Sunwave Health. Susan Taylor, VP, HCLS Core Administration at Pegasystems.

Health IT

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Health care system financing, delivery, and workflows widely vary across nations around the world. Among the top obstacles are lack of access to data-sharing systems coupled with lack of interoperability between health IT investments, preference for paper and phone, and data privacy and security concerns.

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Health systems are notching big wins with their IT investments

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

As they roll out new leading-edge technologies – AI and automation, telehealth and remote monitoring, EHR optimization and patient engagement – they're realizing lasting positive outcomes for their patients and their bottom lines. million medication instructions without.

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Big Announcements at eClinicalWorks National Conference

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2022

If you’ve followed our coverage of health IT conferences for any amount of time, you know that we love to attend user conferences. This makes me feel old, but pretty amazing that they’ve been doing a cloud approach to EHR for 23 years. John Lynn (@techguy) October 7, 2022. eCW was particularly proud of their cloud origins.

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10 Healthcare Organizations Ask HHS to Postpone Information Blocking Deadline

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).

HIE

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Weekly Roundup – June 10, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2023

Read more… Surveying Lab Tests From a Health IT Perspective. Read more… Gaining More Control With a Cloud-Based EHR. Moving to the eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR simplified the IT environment – and improved account management and authentication.

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Bonus Features – April 9, 2023 – 63% of RCM departments face staffing shortages, small Stanford study shows 90% of GPT answers in clinical setting are “generally safe,” and more

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2023

Research and Surveys Stanford Health Care tested GPT-3.5 Further compounding the problem: 59% of providers rate patient health literacy as poor despite their education efforts. Libman Education is seeking input from the health IT community for its fifth annual HIM Professional Census.

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In Survey, Many Healthcare Execs Unfamiliar With New Health Data Access And Sharing Rules

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A new survey concludes that many health IT executives are not too familiar with new federal regulations which, among other things, require that patients have more access to their health records and forbid providers from hampering health data sharing across networks.

Health Data

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Bonus Features – August 20, 2023 – Healthcare orgs only use 57% of their data to drive decision-making, digital health is well represented on the Inc. 5000 list, and more

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

Healthcare organizations are only using 57% of their data to drive decision-making , according to a survey from Arcadia. Only 45% of consumers are fully satisfied with their health insurance , according to a survey from HealthEdge, and 40% blame insurers for the high cost of care. Disease detection company Viz.ai

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Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2023

News and Studies Amid the push for interoperability, data gaps persist, according to the inaugural State of Interoperability report from Health Gorilla , a health information network. This is despite the fact that 65% of survey respondents saying they believe patients should own their data.

Digital Health

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The Digital Front Door in Healthcare Doesn’t Work Without Data from Across Systems

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While it may be true that the EHR is the main tool for a clinician, the same is not true for patients. Patient data is stored in a wide variety of systems including a CRM, health system website, secure messaging systems, call center systems, survey systems, mobile apps, iPads in the doctor’s office, kiosks, and much more.

Patient Experience

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Bonus Features – September 18, 2022 – HIMSS and WHO to collaborate on digital health, inpatient admissions for pediatric mental health up 60% since 2016, and more

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The Senate is currently considering a two-year extension of these flexibilities, which include lifting location limitations and in-person requirements for mental health, as they are due to expire at the end of the year. Interoperability and workflow platform Edifecs launched a point-of-care prior authorization tool.

Mental health

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Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Health Equity and SDoH. Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. Jean Drouin, Co-Founder and CEO at Clarify Health. Elizabeth A.

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Bonus Features – July 10, 2022 – Sequoia Project releases TECFA identity verification documentation, IBM Watson Health is now Merative, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2022

The Sequoia Project has released additional documentation support the implementation of TEFCA , the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement for health IT interoperability. At the HFMA conference, revenue cycle management vendor R1 shared data from a survey of more than 200 healthcare CFOs and finance VPs.

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Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition – April 18, 2023 – Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI dominate the headlines, plus news from Oracle, Orion Health, Salesforce, Surescripts, WebMD, and more

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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Bonus Features – July 23, 2023 – Number of people impacted by data breaches up 56% compared to last year, CMS keeps temporary telehealth expansion in 2024 Medicare fee schedule, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

ONC has released the United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 4 Standard , better known as USCDI v4. Texas-based UMC Health System deployed ZeroEyes AI-based gun detection video analytics platform. Missouri-based Rural Parish Clinic transitioned to the eClinicalWorks EHR.

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Bonus Features – January 29, 2023 – ONC says more than 70% of hospitals can use external data at the point of care, the 3 largest health info networks have indexed 90% of patients, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2023

News and Studies HLTH Foundation formed the Techquity for Health Coalition , with a mission to help organizations consider health equity in health technology innovation and data practices. The group also launched a health equity survey , with the results to be announced at ViVE in Nashville in March.

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Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, and more

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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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

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. CDA can be utilized in numerous medical applications.

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Bonus Features – November 6, 2022 – More than 90% of patients interested in telehealth, half of payers have had a data breach in the last five years, and more

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

A survey from virtual care platform KeyCare concluded that 92% of patients would be somewhat or very likely to use telehealth within the next year for routine medical care such as urgent care, chronic condition management, or mental health services. News and Studies.

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Patients – 2024 Health IT Predictions

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. In any case, health systems will need to work to improve access to care – and can do so by offering integrated, personalized options. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

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Bonus Features – November 20, 2022 – 90% of healthcare buyers prioritize virtual care but want a clear roadmap, wearable data helped predict COVID-19 infections 12 days before the CDC, and more

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

A joint study by Omada Health, Rock Health, and the Digital Medicine Society, based on a survey of employers, payers and benefit consultants, found that 90% of purchasers view virtual care as a high priority , and the majority are willing to adopt innovative approaches, but few have a real understanding of what virtual care is.

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Bonus Features – September 4, 2022 – CIOs struggling to retain talent and seek flexible staffing models, Sequioa Project set to begin receiving QHIN applications Oct. 3, and more,

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The 10th Annual Health IT Industry Outlook Survey from Stoltenberg Consulting found that the greatest IT challenge for CIOs is budgeting for and retaining qualified IT talent, with 65% of organizations saying this is their top operational burden. Partnerships. distribution of the BioButton medical grade wearable.

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Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

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. Health IT implementation best practices. Helping women entrepreneurs 'springboard' into health IT marketplace.

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Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement

Chilmark Research

JANUARY 17, 2014

For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and interoperability. As one example, the report lauds GHC’s eHRA model, which is based on a shared EHR and shared clinical staff for data review.

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Survey Finds 90% of Healthcare Organizations Adopting Digital Health, Despite Financial Pressures

Xealth

AUGUST 7, 2023

While financial pressures were the leading barrier to adoption cited by nearly half, most stated they have implemented digital health SEATTLE— August 7, 2023— Xealth , the leader in enabling digital health at scale, today announced recent survey findings that examine the digital health experiences and attitudes of healthcare executives.

Digital Health

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The Path Forward for Healthcare’s People Matching Problem

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 The result of difficulties managing patient identities, according to a whopping 70% of respondents to the HIMSS/Patient ID Now survey, are duplicative or unnecessary testing or services.

Public Health

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Helping Healthcare Professionals Evaluate AI Offerings

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Putting patients first means that health systems, their government partners, and regulators need to look at companies’ security and interoperability track records to ensure the technologies being adopted keep patients’ private records safe and usable across providers. Competition, then, is an important aspect of this focus on patients.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

By June more than 500 hospitals were connected to the Health Records app representing 50 health systems. This summer, Apple opened Health Records API to health IT innovators to enable them to create apps that utilize the data. Editor’s Note: Dr. Tamara StClaire is vice president of enterprise innovation at GuideWell.

Life Science

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Healthcare AI and Automation: Good or Bad?

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Traditionally, patient experience has been defined by a paper survey at the end of a visit and employee experience as an annual engagement survey with a myriad of questions. In the future we will see even more connected devices sharing data and fueling diagnostically focused EHRs.

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CIOs at children's hospitals share lessons from a year of turmoil

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

creating all kinds of chaos for CIOs and other health IT leaders to contend with. " The biggest health IT lesson MacVey's team has learned from these efforts is that the emergence of the pandemic also has placed big demands on the team to be adaptive and agile. EHR evolution – not fast enough. Currently, St.

Telehealth

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Bonus Features – May 14, 2023 – Only 16% of organizations are using data to define clinical best practices, 84% of orgs hit with ransomware attacks lose revenue, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2023

Studies A survey from data analytics vendor MDclone reported that only 16% of healthcare organizations successfully use data to define clinical best practices. The company’s survey found that 62% of patients prefer paying bills online, while 59% prefer SMS bill payment reminders to phone calls.

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Surveying Laboratory Tests From a Health IT Perspective

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

This three-part series looks at modern tests from a health IT perspective. Miller says that the doctor’s intervention is built into the workflow by most EHRs. Sandeep Shah, CEO of Skyscape , points to problems with interoperability, secure access, and standards. This finishes my survey of testing.

Health IT

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Exhibit 2: SDHN Structural and Funding Diagram. Social Care Data Interoperability Exchange. For readers who haven’t tracked my career – I’ve worked in health IT for nearly 30 years – and (yes) I agree wholeheartedly that robust IT is an essential part of a healthy New York. .

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These Three Things Can Bring EHRs to the Next Level

Health IT Execs Say They’re Unhappy With EHR-Based Analytics Packages

Trending Sources

Centura Health blends RPM, carts and Epic EHR for expanded telehealth

HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Healthcare AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

Weaving Zoom into workflow and updating EHR saves clinic during COVID-19

TEFCA Real Talk

The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

4 Strategic Considerations for Digital Hospital Transformation

Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health systems are notching big wins with their IT investments

Big Announcements at eClinicalWorks National Conference

10 Healthcare Organizations Ask HHS to Postpone Information Blocking Deadline

Weekly Roundup – June 10, 2023

Bonus Features – April 9, 2023 – 63% of RCM departments face staffing shortages, small Stanford study shows 90% of GPT answers in clinical setting are “generally safe,” and more

In Survey, Many Healthcare Execs Unfamiliar With New Health Data Access And Sharing Rules

Bonus Features – August 20, 2023 – Healthcare orgs only use 57% of their data to drive decision-making, digital health is well represented on the Inc. 5000 list, and more

Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes, and more

The Digital Front Door in Healthcare Doesn’t Work Without Data from Across Systems

Bonus Features – September 18, 2022 – HIMSS and WHO to collaborate on digital health, inpatient admissions for pediatric mental health up 60% since 2016, and more

Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Bonus Features – July 10, 2022 – Sequoia Project releases TECFA identity verification documentation, IBM Watson Health is now Merative, and more

Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition – April 18, 2023 – Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI dominate the headlines, plus news from Oracle, Orion Health, Salesforce, Surescripts, WebMD, and more

Bonus Features – July 23, 2023 – Number of people impacted by data breaches up 56% compared to last year, CMS keeps temporary telehealth expansion in 2024 Medicare fee schedule, and more

Bonus Features – January 29, 2023 – ONC says more than 70% of hospitals can use external data at the point of care, the 3 largest health info networks have indexed 90% of patients, and more

Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, and more

Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Bonus Features – November 6, 2022 – More than 90% of patients interested in telehealth, half of payers have had a data breach in the last five years, and more

Patients – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Bonus Features – November 20, 2022 – 90% of healthcare buyers prioritize virtual care but want a clear roadmap, wearable data helped predict COVID-19 infections 12 days before the CDC, and more

Bonus Features – September 4, 2022 – CIOs struggling to retain talent and seek flexible staffing models, Sequioa Project set to begin receiving QHIN applications Oct. 3, and more,

Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement

Survey Finds 90% of Healthcare Organizations Adopting Digital Health, Despite Financial Pressures

The Path Forward for Healthcare’s People Matching Problem

Helping Healthcare Professionals Evaluate AI Offerings

The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Healthcare AI and Automation: Good or Bad?

CIOs at children's hospitals share lessons from a year of turmoil

Bonus Features – May 14, 2023 – Only 16% of organizations are using data to define clinical best practices, 84% of orgs hit with ransomware attacks lose revenue, and more

Surveying Laboratory Tests From a Health IT Perspective

Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

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