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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

These new ideas and technologies are only successful, however, if enough people collectively take notice and talk about it in order to make it trend. This then results in certain topics being neglected – regardless of their quality and how much you would personally like to see them trend. FHIR, HL7).

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

Healthcare IT Today

One of hospital IT’s traditional concerns – hospital data stored in a vendor’s data center – can be a source of relief in a ransomware attack. Vendors should be ready to assist with data extracts when a hospital comes calling and hospital IT should leverage these relationships. What do you think?

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. 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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Weekender 5/3/19

HIStalk Weekender

The only area that has avoided this trend is smaller (and relatively newer towns) in the SW and West which never had much, if any, of a manufacturing base to begin with. The trend is going to be ASC/outpatient wherever possible and more micro-hospitals/hospital-at-home. Vaporware? ). SelfInfllictedWound ).

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Automation In Rural Health: It Should No Longer Be An Afterthought

Healthcare IT Today

Rural providers especially feel the pinch, as medical centers often have trouble attracting the talent they need, and many hospitals are increasingly closing their doors. The antidote to these trends is the automation of processes. Technology will lessen the administrative burden.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The final Zio report gives physicians a comprehensive look into their patient’s heart rhythm data including: daily and total atrial fibrillation burden, daily and total ectopy burden, symptom/rhythm correlation, most relevant heart rhythm strips, heart rate trends, preliminary interpretation and key findings, and PVC burden and morphologies.

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'Telehealth titans' discuss cost-savings of virtual care, describe the hospital of the future

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Just like the EHR is a tool. " Halamka agrees, and sees a future of "virtualist centers in what were formerly known as hospitals. "And if you look 20 to 30 years into the future, I think there is some virtual certainty around the trends of value-based reimbursement. " More than just virtualizing an old model.