Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Tom Liddell, CEO at Harmony Healthcare IT A successful career in health IT leadership requires a unique blend of technical expertise, regulatory knowledge, and strong communication skills. Familiarity with interoperability standards is also essential, as is the need to stay abreast of evolving compliance requirements.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This HITRUST CSF®-certified solution empowers healthcare providers to reduce cost and risk in legacy system management through secure storage, release, and interoperability of records. Harmony Healthcare IT employs experts in data extraction, migration, retention, interoperability, and analytics to provide its clients with trusted solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It’s not a huge surprise that the week of the ONC Meeting, they would make a number of big announcements for those of us in health IT. We’ll see how effective it is at solving the healthcare interoperability problem. Let’s dive into both and what you should know.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

The alliance was a bold gesture made ten years ago by leading EHR vendors to demonstrate their commitment to data sharing. Buckle also shares her experience at the Interop Showcase and details of the recent CommonWell FHIR Connectathon where CommonWell members leveraged FHIR to improve interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

And requests for patient data are predicted to intensify as health plans work to reduce per-member/per-month costs, earn higher STAR ratings, and meet the CMS 2030 value-based care goals. Requests are then electronically communicated directly to the provider organization’s EHRs and other systems. Therein lies the rub. Patient privacy.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 13, 2024

The importance of data and interoperability in digital health As healthcare becomes more digital, it's increasingly important to be able to share data seamlessly between different systems. Let’s explore a potential new reality in healthcare where humans and robots work side by side to meet patients’ needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

We won’t see accelerated adoption of interoperability standards (e.g., Adopting a cloud-based security approach can promote agility in meeting customer needs and improve the resilience of a healthcare organization’s cybersecurity response. Ultimately, this will help improve payer-provider relations. FHIR, HL7).

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2023

At the same time, healthcare systems must meet the rising demand from patients for a personalized, tech-enabled care experience. From telemedicine and AI-enabled devices to integrations with EHRs, data is at the center of it all and needs to be accessible from an uptime, resiliency, and privacy perspective.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2023

While e-prescribing is one of the biggest healthcare interoperability successes, there is still plenty of work to be done to improve how medication is managed in healthcare today. This would allow them to better meet the needs of prescribers and patients.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 8, 2023

In addition to these general business models, clinical messaging apps may also generate revenue from other sources, such as: Integration fees: Some apps charge healthcare providers a fee to integrate with their electronic health records (EHRs) systems. link] HealthTech M&A Advisory by Founders for Founders, Owners & Investors.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

If your organization is interested in adopting enterprise content management through a DMI system, it is critical to determine the costs, evaluate the impact, and build an effective business case to share with leadership. Our experienced professionals can help you configure a system that meets your unique organizational goals.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As the next phase in the evolution of interoperability, SDC allows for the secure and near real-time sharing of health data between devices at the point of care, regardless of the manufacturer. Traditionally, we think about interoperability as HIEs (health information exchanges), but in 2024 I expect to see new models emerge.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For federal agencies and state and regional exchanges, this is an excellent time to demonstrate leadership in interoperability by joining a network that will likely provide a ready on-ramp to TEFCA. State and regional HIEs are critical to our nation’s goal of comprehensive interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2023

Fred Pinkett, Senior Director, Product Management at Security Innovation Meeting the new FDA requirements for medical device security will take more than just network security, it requires security upgrades in all aspects of systems, including their software. This is not a new or emerging problem. So much to think about here!

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. 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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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2023

could see a shortage of up to 124,000 physicians by 2033 and will need to hire at least 200,000 nurses per year to meet increased demand and to replace retiring nurses. Process intelligence can be especially helpful here since healthcare organizations tend to operate across multiple systems that sit within interoperable siloes.

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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. Currently, ChatGPT does not meet HIPAA standards.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

Department of Veterans Affairs' effort to modernize its IT systems and create an interoperable EHR shared among VA, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Nathaniel is also a member of the Forbes Technology Council and is the president of Calcom Technologies, using his expertise to improve technological adoption in his area.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

Success Story #3: Meeting Patients Where They Are to Improve Medication Adherence and Management. This rich data provided insight into how pediatric cancers have disproportionate disease burden, as they also impact household financial toxicity across the lifespan.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

In the spirit of prevention of burn out, where technology can automate administrative burden, make chart reviews more efficient, use ambient listening capabilities to reduce time spent in the EHR will have a positive impact on the clinical burnout epidemic.

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CMS.gov

JULY 18, 2018

It’s 2018—most doctors are using electronic health records (EHRs) and most patients have access to the Internet and a smartphone, providing many ways to view healthcare data securely. The CHIO role will enhance my leadership team, working across CMS, with federal partners including the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

Director at NTT DATA On February 8, 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1) Final Rule in the Federal Register, which took effect on March 11, 2024. The following is a guest article by Nitin Kunte, Sr.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2024

For EHRs faced with the daunting task of revamping platform technology and innovation roadmaps, the “ Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) ” final rule is like the elephant in the old proverb: too hard to consume all at once, more doable bite by bite.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Instead, we anticipate a more mix and match, custom approach to EHRs. Current staffing levels are barriers to accessing care at a time when the industry is focusing important thought leadership on health equity. Supply in healthcare was not meeting demand before the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

Jude employees working remotely during the initial pandemic response, we also had to look at effective leadership through a different lens." " Virtual meetings and check-ins. Use of virtual meeting platforms and daily team check-ins has been vital to the organization's successful communication efforts, he said.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2023

But centralizing data from core systems (including EHRs, CMSs, patient portals, and billing systems) is a difficult, time-consuming task. By 2025, less than 30% of healthcare organizations plan to invest in the infrastructure (specifically data activation platforms and data lakes) necessary to achieve full interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As we approach 2023 it is amazing that interoperability, true broad-based connectivity between healthcare systems, looks like the Verizon heatmap back in 2005 when there was as much white on the map as there was red. She says of Kno2, “We enable interoperability and the magic happening on the edge.”

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Vijay Verma, VP of Product Strategy at TeleVox A common shortcoming in healthcare communication systems is interoperability. Many healthcare organizations use disparate EHRs and communication tools that may not seamlessly integrate, leading to data silos and communication gaps.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Corporate Development for Healthcare Technology companies in EMEA Healthcare Technology Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors – Market Insights, Analysis & Predictions. Demographic shifts: Aging populations and growing urban centers demand adjustments to healthcare infrastructure to meet evolving needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Healthcare organizations should carefully evaluate their options and choose a migration strategy that best meets their needs. Michael Brickman, Medical Director of Plastic Surgery at ModMed Cloud-based EHRs are the gold standard for physician practices.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Several EHRs now provide a longitudinal view of a diagnosis’ key indicators with just a single click/voice command and display hallmark indicators of the condition’s status, e.g., blood pressure trends for hypertension or blood sugar levels for diabetes.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Health IT administrators should also be accounting for the growing number of healthcare cybersecurity tools that health organizations are acquiring and how their interoperability will affect the security of patient information. These changes require budgetary allocation and a willingness from leadership to invest in new technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Interoperability and artificial intelligence will play a large role in the innovation of healthcare technology in 2024 and will be necessary to control the rising needs in healthcare data management and analytics. Unfortunately, all the recent government regulations focused on interoperability exclusively focus on liberating patient data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

Integrating health benefit accounts, payment plans and even Medicaid enrollment will help meet patients where they are on their financial journey. We can expect to see significant improvements in health equity through the use of patient engagement technologies to meet the Quintuple Aim. I see this gaining more traction in 2024.

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HIStalk Weekender

AUGUST 10, 2018

DoD will be first in line once it’s ready, so as to exhibit “leadership,”right?) This is the great golden spike moment for interoperability – except with the Carequality Railroad traversing the entire continent to connect CommonWell San Francisco trolley network. CommonWell hooks itself up to the rest of the world! Vaporware? ).

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