Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2023

Nearly 60% of Americans would visit a pharmacy as their first stop for non-emergency care , and 81% trust pharmacists and nurse practitioners to diagnose minor illnesses and prescribe medications, according to a Wolters Kluwer Health survey. People Interoperability vendor Rhapsody named Jeff Chiumiento as Chief Financial Officer.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

We won’t see accelerated adoption of interoperability standards (e.g., This focus is missing a critical aspect of the equation because nursing and clinical support workforce is currently the most stressed and overworked and is likely to be the breaking point of healthcare organization’s ability to serve patients. FHIR, HL7).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

There still remain barriers to digital health tech adoption on both sides of this relationship, for doctors, nurses and other care providers, as well as for patients, consumers and caregivers. Think of APIs as tunnels into the clinical data warehouses that have been created by EHRs. Enhanced data privacy and data protection.

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Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2023

ECRI builds this report of the Top 10 patient safety issues leveraging its long-time expertise in this field: their staff are expert across the health care landscape including people in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, risk management, and of course patient safety and quality.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2024

Read more… Bonus Features for March 17, 2024: 65% of nurses think AI will negatively impact healthcare, and 14% of EHRs have known cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Interoperability vendor Moxe Health received $25 million in growth capital from Trinity Capital.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This acquisition will further extend the Netsmart CareFabric platform by enabling interoperable data sharing between opioid treatment program (OTP) facilities and the providers that treat and coordinate other types of care for individuals with SUD. Houlihan Lokey served as the exclusive financial advisor to Netalytics on this transaction.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

Interoperability vendor Innovar Healthcare released an OSS Mirth Connect plugin that’s now available on AWS Marketplace. Truveta released a mother-child EHR dataset to drive research from pre-pregnancy through childbirth and pediatric care. Acute virtual nursing vendor AvaSure appointed Paula Cobb as Vice President of Marketing.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2023

Wolters Kluwer and Unbound Medicine released a mobile app that digitizes Lippincott’s Nursing Drug Handbook. KMS Healthcare launched CONNECT , an interoperability platform for developers of digital health technology. California’s Orange County Migraine & Wellness Center selected eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR and healow.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2023

Who better to talk to the Healthcare IT Today community about interoperability than the National Coordinator himself? Read more… Understanding Where EHRs Are Headed in 2023. Colin Hung asked executives at seven leading EHR companies two questions: What can customers expect in 2023, and where is the market headed?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 8, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to tell us what topics need more attention, and answers included maintaining visibility into healthcare operations, making sense of the data deluge, improving patient communication, and understanding the value proposition for interoperability. EHRs aren’t suited for providing real-time data.

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Healthcare Innovation Consortium

JANUARY 24, 2023

Only recently, the paramedic and nurse strikes stemming from a lack of pay reflect the current standards of healthcare that are present today. Luckily, the previous years have been marked by significant technological advancements such as Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In addition, QR codes can alert doctors or nurses to a malfunction once scanned and give an option to open an IT service request. Enhancing Patient Safety The healthcare industry faces a significant barrier to interoperability: data siloes. Historically, healthcare systems haven’t shared patient data uniformly.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As vaccines continue to roll out, requiring meticulous record-keeping and specialized shipping and storage conditions (and that's to say nothing of the ongoing critical need for PPE and other lifesaving equipment) nowhere are interoperability and data visibility more important than with healthcare supply chains.

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In addition to walking through Oracle’s vision for healthcare data interoperability, we were let in on how the Cerner acquisition is likely to fit into their broader strategy for the Oracle Cloud. Key takeaways: From a nursing perspective – focus on virtual nursing. How to be the eye in the sky.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

An all-hands-on-deck push from heroic physicians and nurses to save the lives of as many COVID-19 inpatients as possible. Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. CMS final rule poses big hurdles for payers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2022

Think improvements to the nurse call button, a virtual whiteboard, and actions triggered by activity in the EHR. Half of all physicians and nurses are experiencing burnout these days , Canadian Medical Association President Dr. Katharine Smart told Colin Hung. Read more… Better Technology Can Reduce Physician Burnout.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The addition of Corridor allows WellSky to strengthen its position in home health coding and RCM and move into the skilled nursing facility billing business. Corridor has a proven track record as a leading tech-enabled services partner to post-acute providers, serving more than 2,600 client sites and supporting more than 52,000 clinicians.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Today, Netsmart announced the acquisition of GPM, a North Carolina-based Software-as-a-Service technology and services company, dedicated to supporting Long-term/Post-acute care (LTPAC) medical practices that provide medical care to geriatric patients – many of whom reside in skilled nursing facilities.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Combined with the nursing shortage, razor thin margins, the need to reduce hospital readmissions, […]. Our healthcare system is approaching a critical time in which an aging population will bring baby boomers into hospitals and post-acute care facilities in record numbers.

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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. Subscribe today! This can help to improve the efficiency of patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 27, 2022

Rusty Yeager on EHR Standardization and Rehabilitation Hospitals. In the latest CIO Podcast, Yeager, the Senior VP and CIO at Encompass Health, talked to John Lynn about the benefits of deploying a standardized EHR across an organization. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 26, 2024

With technology always improving, doctors and nurses can now help patients even more than before. Electronic Health Records: Seamless Information Sharing The adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) has transformed the way patient information is captured, stored, and shared across healthcare settings.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Hospitals serving marginalized communities are less likely to participate in interoperable patient data exchange , according to the latest ONC research. For example, while 79% of patients trust their doctors and nurses, only 54% of front-line workers trust leaders in their organizations.

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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

JULY 9, 2023

The HIMSS EHR Association urged ONC to avoid moving too quickly with the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability proposed rule. Clinical guidance provider MCG Health is making its Learning Management System available to Shearwater Health ‘s nurse educators.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2020

IT teams have worked tirelessly to ensure the EHR is accessible at every point of care. This new scenario has highlighted the lack of interoperability between the public and private healthcare systems in Spain. A situation that “will be fixed in the near future” according to David Vidal.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

President, Emirates Nursing Association. Al Mahri is also group chief nursing officer at Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, or "SEHA," where she was the first senior nursing leader to identify the importance of the nursing informatics specialty. They are: Aysha Al Mahri. Abu Dhabi, UAE. Washington.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. I’ve been talking with hospitals all over the country this year, and in recent conversations I’ve heard more and more about virtual nursing. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Thus far, Remedy Partners has been involved in managing about half a million episodes of care, representing $12 Billion in medical spending, in 48 different DRG-based episodes – working with many hospitals, physician groups, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, all of which may bear risk in the program.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Thus far, Remedy Partners has been involved in managing about half a million episodes of care, representing $12 Billion in medical spending, in 48 different DRG-based episodes – working with many hospitals, physician groups, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, all of which may bear risk in the program.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 27, 2023

At the recent eClinicalWorks Enterprise Summit, CEO Girish Kumar Navani spent an hour on demos of AI across the eCW EHR, from search to summaries to robotic process automation. Read more… Looking at Fax As An On-Ramp for Interoperability. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Thus far, Remedy Partners has been involved in managing about half a million episodes of care, representing $12 Billion in medical spending, in 48 different DRG-based episodes – working with many hospitals, physician groups, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, all of which may bear risk in the program.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Thus far, Remedy Partners has been involved in amanging about half a million episodes of care, representing $12 Billion in medical spending, in 48 different DRG-based episodes – working with many hospitals, physician groups, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, all of which may bear risk in the program.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Thus far, Remedy Partners has been involved in amanging about half a million episodes of care, representing $12 Billion in medical spending, in 48 different DRG-based episodes – working with many hospitals, physician groups, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, all of which may bear risk in the program.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Snowflake announced two partnerships: Cloud-based business intelligence platform Sigma Computing has teamed with Snowflake to release an integrated data cloud, while Arcadia’s de-identified EHR and claims data is now available on Snowflake. Interoperability and workflow platform Edifecs launched a point-of-care prior authorization tool.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

Electronic Health Record (EHR). With the advanced EHR, we were able to electronically manage and monitor all medical records of COVID-19 patients. Integration of Government-provided airport quarantine system into EHR. ICT infrastructures already implemented in SNUBH have been helpful in coping with COVID-19 situation.

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