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Greenway Incorporating Health Equity Features into its EHR

Healthcare IT Today

The natural place to capture and display this type of information is in the Electronic Health Record (EHR). Greenway Health , a leading ambulatory EHR provider, has added new features to accommodate this non-medical information and make recommendations based on that data. Public health policies. Occupation.

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Telehealth, supply chain monitoring key areas of investment during pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

These were among the results of a report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, which offers answers and recommendations related to coordinated response to future pandemics, protection of front-line healthcare workers and improved EHR interoperability.

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In telehealth hearing, House committee weighs access against cost

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Health Policy and Medicine Dr. Ateev Mehrota proposed a more measured approach. Although the need for telehealth is unmistakable, said Mehrota, policies should encourage "higher-value" applications for care and discourage "lower-value" ones. Larry Bucshon, R-Ind.

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6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.1

Digital Health Global

Overall, we can positively say that a new mindset has been established: healthtech is no longer seen as a nice-to-have “add-on” to healthcare. It is a key ally in the effort to make healthcare more accessible, agile and effective. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are the obvious solution to the issue.

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So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare IT Today

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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Revolutionizing Healthcare: The Role of Informatics

BHM Healthcare Solutions

The field encompasses a wide range of technologies, such as electronic health records (EHRs) , clinical decision support systems (CDSS), telemedicine, and health data analytics. Health informatics research contributes to advancements in healthcare practices, treatment modalities, and public health policies.

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How IT leaders are reimagining and repurposing technologies to handle new challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In this newest installment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era – read others in the series here – we talk with four health IT executives with very different vantage points: a CIO, a telemedicine director, a chief nursing informatics officer and an IT director.

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