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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2020

From 2006 to 2010, they explained, an integrated delivery system staggered implementation of an integrated EHR across 17 hospitals. "This created a stepped-wedge study design to study the impact of shared inpatient-outpatient EHR use," the researchers wrote. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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ECRI, EHR Association put forth safety practices for behavioral health IT

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

ECRI's Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety is working with the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association chart some of the common challenges involved in integrating behavioral health systems with primary care EHRs. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Bonus Features – October 9, 2022 – Optum completes Change Healthcare acquisition, interest in flu shots is declining, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2022

A report from Western New York HIE HEALTHeLINK and the Milbank Memorial Fund found that enrollment in a CMS Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) model at a institution that was a member of the HIE led to a 24% decrease in hospital admission rates, a 21% drop in outpatient surgeries, and a nearly 33% reduction in hospital length of stay.

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Bonus Features – December 10, 2023 – 84% of physicians still use manual processes to manage care transitions, 70% of executives prefer managed services for RCM, plus 26 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Clinician shortages, virtual care partnerships, and weight loss medications are the major trends that will shape the healthcare landscape in 2024 , according to a report from SteadyMD. Partnerships Qualtrics and Epic are partnering to integrate patient experience data into the EHR.

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Revolutionizing Healthcare: The Role of Informatics

BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

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 data analytics also facilitates population health management, identifying trends, and patterns to optimize preventive care and public health interventions.

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Bonus Features – June 18, 2023 – 68% of health systems lack the staff to handle another health crisis, 46% of Americans are using consumer health tech, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2023

The latest Syntellis Performance Trends report showed hospital margins in the black – barely – for the second consecutive month. New York HIE entity Hixny updated its snapshot application to help providers screen patients for SDOH. Texas-based behavioral health practice Life is a Journey selected eClinicalWorks EHR.

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Weekly Roundup – March 18, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2023

Andy Oram talked to Cam Holt at Weave about modernizing patient intake forms with digital tools that can pull patient data from EHRs (via API integrations) and give practices the option to customize forms for their own needs. Read more… What It Takes to Digitize Patient Intake Forms. No one likes paper forms.

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Healthcare Interoperability, Data, and Cloud – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

The traditional HIE subscriber model continues to become more complex, with challenges in achieving clinical outcomes and maintaining sustainable funding. The evolution of interoperability is happening now, and payers and providers need to be on top of TEFCA and HIE updates to provide continued clinical value.

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Bonus Features – May 28, 2023 – 20+ health systems pledge to use Epic to share info under TEFCA, 84x increase in telehealth for mental health from 2019 to 2022, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2023

News and Studies Nearly two dozen health systems have pledged to use Epic to share health information through the TEFCA framework , the EHR vendor announced, adding, “Our plan is to deliver software this year that will help our customers to be among the initial participants in TEFCA.” Noom announced Noom Med for obesity care.

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Weekly Roundup – August 19, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2023

Read more… Uncovering Diagnostic Information in the EHR. Eli Ben-Joseph at Regard talked to John about the benefits of analyzing EHR data to find old data relevant to new treatment , along with the importance of making this functionality available with a single click. Read more… CIO Podcast : Patient Engagement.

RCM

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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

The latest monthly trends report from Syntellis showed a -0.9% Florida-based Palm Plastic Surgery & Medspa selected eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR. Awards Western New York HIE HealtheLINK was named one of the Phase 2 winners of Building Bridges to Better Health , a primary care challenge sponsored by HRSA.

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HIMSS14: Patiently Waiting for Progress

Chilmark Research

MARCH 6, 2014

So beyond all of the countless patient engagement rah rahs on the expo floor, we did see a few faint signs of progress amidst the following trends, based on our conversations with a dozen or so health IT vendors, clinician leaders, and tech entrepreneurs. EHRs Look Inward. HIEs Look Backward.

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Featured Health IT Job: Data Scientist

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Position Summary: This dynamic team is seeking a Data Scientist for the Analytics team within NYeC to use directly contribute to moving the needle on New York’s pressing healthcare needs you will leverage HIE and savvy data analytics to serve public health needs, address health inequities, and mature NYeC’s analytics capacity.

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HIMSS or Bust

Chilmark Research

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Secondly, we are seeing some interesting trends in the market as of late that need further validation. So if analytics is the engine, what is the steering wheel, what are the tires, is HIE the gas tank, or the fueling station? Looking to HIE, as we mentioned in late 2013 , we see a need to redefine this sector.

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#HIMSS24 Europe: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Lloyd Price

APRIL 13, 2024

We’ll also help you make sense of all today’s trends in health technology—from machine learning to digital maturity and telehealth. It provides a platform for networking, sharing best practices, and learning about the latest innovations and trends in healthcare technology. Among many others.)

Digital Health

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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

The survey of provider, EHR, lab, and digital health executives found that 69% of digital health companies experience gaps in their data sets, while 60% of health systems report that data retrieved from HIEs is duplicative or incomplete.

Digital Health

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Bonus Features – December 11, 2022 – CMS holds off on good faith estimate enforcement, 61% of patients see primary care moving out of the doctor’s office, and more

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2022

A workplace safety trends report from Stericycle showed a 23% increase in the number of health professionals saying improper medical waste disposal greatly impacts patient health and puts provider safety at risk. Behavioral health EHR Valant launched Prospective Patient Management , a tool for matching patients and providers.

Primary Care

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Who will regulate mHealth? Patient Engagement at Crossroads; New Alliance Takes On Interoperability

Chilmark Research

APRIL 3, 2013

The announcement of CommonWell Health Alliance was likely the biggest story to come out of HIMSS (Allscripts acquiring longtime HIE partner dbMotion may have been a close second). The group’s stated purpose is to enable interoperability across the five founding members’ EHRs.

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How far away is Healthcare from a platform-dominated Digital business model?

Lloyd Price

JUNE 29, 2019

The closest we have come to this ideal in healthcare is in health information exchanges (HIE), and even those have failed to gain traction due to a variety of issues. For now, the custodianship of the data rests with health systems and their electronic health record (EHR) vendors.

Digital Health

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Bonus Features – December 11, 2022 – CMS holds off on good faith estimate enforcement, 61% of patients see primary care moving out of the doctor’s office, and much more

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2022

A workplace safety trends report from Stericycle showed a 23% increase in the number of health professionals saying improper medical waste disposal greatly impacts patient health and puts provider safety at risk. Behavioral health EHR Valant launched Prospective Patient Management , a tool for matching patients and providers.

Primary Care

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Progress Amidst the Stumbles: Patient Engagement at #HIMSS15

Chilmark Research

APRIL 21, 2015

Intersystems is the latest HIE outfit to leverage their back end capabilities into a singular point of patient access, following the likes of Orion, NoMoreClipboard, RelayHealth/McKesson, Jardogs/Allscripts, and others. The concept of “portal sprawl” driving market appetite for a “portal of portals” was ubiquitous.

HIE

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mHealth13: Lots Going On, But Few New Developments

Chilmark Research

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Evangelists have defaulted to pointing out the broader trends, waving around the hockey stick charts of mobile phone adoption worldwide, and referencing data about consumer mobile searches for healthcare data. Driving (and capitalizing on) this trend, Health2.0 A noteworthy example of a company capitalizing on these trends is Validic.

mHealth

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Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Oracle’s proposed monolithic provider proposition won’t prove flexible enough to respond to new trends and the need to combine different workflow systems and APIs. Instead, we anticipate a more mix and match, custom approach to EHRs. Susan Taylor, VP, HCLS Core Administration at Pegasystems.

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Connected Health Pulse

Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

ECRI, EHR Association put forth safety practices for behavioral health IT

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Bonus Features – October 9, 2022 – Optum completes Change Healthcare acquisition, interest in flu shots is declining, and more

Bonus Features – December 10, 2023 – 84% of physicians still use manual processes to manage care transitions, 70% of executives prefer managed services for RCM, plus 26 more stories

Revolutionizing Healthcare: The Role of Informatics

Bonus Features – June 18, 2023 – 68% of health systems lack the staff to handle another health crisis, 46% of Americans are using consumer health tech, and more

Weekly Roundup – March 18, 2023

Healthcare Interoperability, Data, and Cloud – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Bonus Features – May 28, 2023 – 20+ health systems pledge to use Epic to share info under TEFCA, 84x increase in telehealth for mental health from 2019 to 2022, and more

Weekly Roundup – August 19, 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

HIMSS14: Patiently Waiting for Progress

Featured Health IT Job: Data Scientist

HIMSS or Bust

#HIMSS24 Europe: What are the key talking points likely to be?

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

Bonus Features – December 11, 2022 – CMS holds off on good faith estimate enforcement, 61% of patients see primary care moving out of the doctor’s office, and more

Who will regulate mHealth? Patient Engagement at Crossroads; New Alliance Takes On Interoperability

How far away is Healthcare from a platform-dominated Digital business model?

Bonus Features – December 11, 2022 – CMS holds off on good faith estimate enforcement, 61% of patients see primary care moving out of the doctor’s office, and much more

Progress Amidst the Stumbles: Patient Engagement at #HIMSS15

mHealth13: Lots Going On, But Few New Developments

Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

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