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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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Doctors Love Alerts Until They Don’t

Healthcare IT Today

You can imagine the EHR Product Manager that had the great idea to alert physicians to a drug to drug interaction or an allergy issue. Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. This sounds great until you get into the nitty gritty details.

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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

Lastly, most healthcare IT expenditure over the last ten years has been focused on digitizing patient records, and investment in cybersecurity capability has lagged other industries. Threat actors know healthcare is a prime target for extortion and target them accordingly.

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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center boosts telehealth with $600K from the FCC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"First, while we had in place technology to enable telemedicine – in particular virtual visits – it had not been optimized for use nor integrated within our clinical workflows or our EHR," said CIO Thomas Furlani. Healthcare IT News published a comprehensive listing of these vendors with detailed product descriptions.

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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This is at the core of population health.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

To help shed a light on these topics, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to see what health IT trends they believe deserve more attention. One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies. So what trend isn’t being talked about enough?

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Rather, our patients, physicians and nurses have grown accustomed to digital health over years of incremental and foundational work, and all came rushing to make this the new normal." "In the six years prior to the pandemic, we slowly were shifting healthcare IT at AGH," he reported.