Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 7, 2023

It requires critical resources to access and analyze comprehensive EMR data – which is often time and cost prohibitive – therefore the utilization and effectiveness of many protocols and care plans for CMC remain unknown. For example, survival rates for preterm infants continue to improve.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2022

So much more work to be done #healthtech #healthcare pic.twitter.com/hMdsDUbRRm. I remember my first EMR implementation about 16 years ago and we put up this same sign (although, it was Medicat instead of Epic for the EMR). This is an example of small moves that will add up to a great position for Amazon on healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Building a Solid Foundation for Accurate Generative AI The success of generative AI in healthcare rests upon the synergy of critical components—enterprise knowledge graphs, industry-specific large language models, and unified data sources like Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and other healthcare-related systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But despite the availability of FHIR and of APIs from many vendors, interoperability is often described as “difficult and “not frictionless” according to Loyd Bittle, CEO and Founder at Innovar Healthcare. It takes a real expert with the right connections to make interoperability a reality for healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Michael Blackman about new EHR features that capture and display health equity information at the point of care.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Campaign Registration : Businesses must give examples of the messages they’re sending, as well as show proof patients opted-in to receive text messages from your practice. the EMR, call center solution, etc). The process is straightforward, though requires a W-9 form. Standard messaging and data rates apply.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Patients often have trouble getting access to health cares services, suffer from serious illnesses, and need a lot of reassurance and communication to establish trust. CareSTL, for example, makes use of the new AI-powered tool from eClinicalWorks that can help identify patients who are a most likely to miss their appointment (ie: no-shows).

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2022

For example, in my experience name brand corn flakes are just better than generic ones. Turns out, the same is true with health IT software and more specifically legacy application and archiving solutions. We all know in life that there are some things that are just better than others.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Example: noise in drug interaction alerting. Another example of usability putting patients at risk. I could give more specific clinical examples, but this can also be applied more broadly as well. For example, if the EHR or other health IT software is difficult to use, it can cause two important patient safety issues.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Patient education is just one example of many where pharmacists could take a more active role in the healthcare system and we could all benefit from pharmacists’ expertise. Not to mention, they generally more accessible to talk about the medication and how it works than the doctor. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Community Health Alliance (CHA) a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving 27,000+ patients in Reno, Nevada, is using an old-school way to encourage use of its online patient portal – by having in-person conversations about it. “We made the portal relevant to the conversation with them. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Using a collaborative, inclusive, and open approach, Holland Bloorview is blazing a trail and setting an example for other organizations. Innovation Examples. Hanigsberg shared three examples of innovative projects that her team is working on: Brain-computer interfaces. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Dan Kompare, Vice President of Information Systems at Harmony Healthcare IT. This is common in healthcare, especially with the merger and acquisition activity that occurs in our industry. A HIMSS statistic cited the average healthcare system as having 18 EMRs. Matt Donahue, CTO at CloudWave.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2024

I’ve always said that some of the most interesting things in health IT are when someone brings together the right mix of technology, partners, and users to do something that they couldn’t possibly do alone. I sometimes refer to this as health IT needing to put together the right packaging. The same is true in health IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Take something like hosting your EHR as a simple example of this challenge. As a healthcare organization expands, this often would mean their IT staff would have to source a local data center vendor and everything that’s involved with hosting your EHR on a private cloud that is reliably close to the new locations.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

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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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

How will it change the healthcare landscape? And how can we make sure these devices are affordable, scalable, secure, and can interconnect with current healthcare technologies such as EMRs? Jeff: The examples Romina shared illustrate the intelligent use of ‘active data’.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

For example, Rx fill isn’t often utilized by ePrescribers due to the price, despite it being a great tool for providers to know when prescriptions are picked up. Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT. ” said Vince Lopez.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

For example, a doctor who’s used the same EHR at a different organization may know of a feature they really like that hasn’t been implemented yet at their new organization. That’s just one of many examples of how tech can help and hurt. However, poorly implemented tech can be a major cause for burnout.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A recent report from Cigna indicated 60% of consumers expect their digital healthcare experience to mirror that of retail – and 50% say that one bad digital experience with a healthcare provider ruins the entire experience with that provider. One example of where automation can deliver significant results is patient access.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2023

Mountain Park Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center serving the Phoenix Metro area, cleverly used a QR code to help staff and patients adopt a new technology. Patient can, for example, authenticate using facial recognition or by using a PIN that is texted to the phone number on file. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

One of the nice things about living in Las Vegas is that almost all the health IT conferences come to Las Vegas. However, now that Oracle bought Cerner , the Oracle Health conference is now co-located with Oracle World and is being held in Las Vegas. Many EHR vendors are using AI, but only for very basic tasks.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Addressing health equity starts with meeting patients where they are. This means, for example, offering treatment and medication options that are suited to the patient’s current situation (socioeconomic status, transportation availability, location, etc.). Factors influencing health equity. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Trend #3: WALANT is on the rise.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Today, most health IT leaders seem sold on the potential healthcare AI deployment can offer, as its benefits are becoming clearer every day. It’s becoming almost a no-brainer to believe that AI can do great things for the practice of predictive analytics, for example.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2021

One example of a […]. Balancing all of those competing IT projects that can provide value to their organization and improve the workflow for clinicians and patients is what makes being a CIO so challenging.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 1, 2023

In one example from a health system utilizing Memora’s postpartum care program, over 32,000 messages were exchanged with Memora’s platform and less than 150 required a manual response from clinical staff.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2022

The ATA Annual Conference offers disruptive, equitable, and sustainable digital health innovation conversations, often inspiring new ways to imagine how traditional healthcare is delivered and how patients and providers engage. Get the most up to date info about telehealth reimbursement and digital health care policy.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For example, a physician should be able to see all of her appointments for the day at a glance in one panel. For exampl e: Gather up patient summaries, codes, and claims, total them up, and send them to the CFO. Key terms would be normalized (e.g., revised to client , patient, or member as the organization prefers).

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.

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JULY 24, 2023

Examples of the most common inbound requests to help desks include workflow optimization, user configuration, and after-hours availability for support. Examples of application management support include conducting an in-depth analysis of the issue and the ability to provide detailed product information to users.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

A few examples are obtaining permission to share information with third parties, having patients “opt-in” to communications, and putting the right data security measures in place. Technology plays a crucial role in HIPAA-compliant communication for behavioral health.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

At least in the early days, health system administrators were very excited about giving patients the ability to trade messages with clinicians, as they believed that getting patients to do so was a great way to get them more engaged with their care. In so doing, it joined Northwestern Medicine and Lurie Children’s Hospital.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 1, 2023

Although this type of technology can be beneficial, and the chatbot can help facilitate interaction between patients and providers, there are concerns about the accuracy of answers and whether it can consider each case’s uniqueness when being used as a summarization tool, for example.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Healthcare AI. Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

Unless a product is developed by a healthcare organization for that healthcare organization, each hospital and practice has its own unique set of needs and priorities to address. Health IT has come a long way, but today’s providers deserve elevated EHRs that go beyond electronic versions of paper charts.

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