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. I expect we’ll see many more health IT companies become QHINs. This is a big step forward for QHINs who can now start sharing health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2020

Amazon has quietly struck a data-sharing deal with England’s National Health Service giving it free access to a range of health data from British consumers. While the trove of data Amazon captured may not be as rich as those gathered by, say, Google or Apple, it’s still a pretty sweet deal, especially given that few […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2023

Starting Simple with Interoperability RRH began integrating external lab data into their Epic EMR to elevate interoperability. We needed to bring in external lab data from the many health information exchanges in New York state to augment our charts. Our clinicians needed that information so it was our job to get it to them.”

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Ensure PHI Compliance with VPN Tunnels The HIPAA Privacy Rule has strong requirements around Protected Health Information (PHI). Creating drag-and-drop virtual private networks (VPNs) encrypts and anonymizes data, which can be effective when sharing patient electronic medical records (EMR) or during telemedicine scenarios.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2024

Healthwise’s Current Operating Assets will become part of WebMD Ignite, Creating an Industry-Leading Healthcare Growth and Engagement Platform Serving 650+ Healthcare Organizations WebMD Health Corp. , Originally announced February 29th, 2024

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2023

Read more… Equity, AI, and EMR Maturity at HIMSS23. John spoke to Natalie Pageler, MD, at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health about the unique data privacy challenges that children’s hospitals face. Read more… Supporting the Unique Needs of Small Medical Practices.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 21, 2021

Electronic Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are exploding globally and in the U.S., The following is a guest article by Todd Broadhurst, Solutions Director, Tamr. with 92% of the U.S. population now served by them. Private companies, states, and even large counties and cities are scrambling to launch their own HIEs.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For the health IT community, 2022 has been a big year. . In January, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) became a reality, and in October applications opened for organizations seeking designation as Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs). The Case for Federal Agencies.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

Detlef Koll, Vice President Global R&D at 3M Health Information Systems Individual users will need to be diligent in reviewing draft notes to avoid incorrect or incomplete capture of information. Without proper oversight and reviews, overreliance on this technology could lead to incorrect prescriptions and treatments.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 30, 2022

The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, CEO and Founder of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS). While mobile technologies and smartphone use have become completely mainstream, adoption in health care falls dramatically short. But despite health care advancements, cutting-edge […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, Founder and CEO of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS) EHRs are ubiquitous because they’re useful – but how useful are they really, and to whom? The truth is that an EHR by definition serves multiple masters, satisfying some more than others.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 18, 2020

The following is an interview with Jaime Bland, CEO of Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NEHII). Tell us about the new COVID-19 Data Monitoring Platform that NEHII launched. What does it accomplish and how does it work? NEHII partnered with KPI Ninja to develop the COVID-19 Data Monitoring Platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

Be clear about what information is most important and make it easy for your partners to supply it via automation or simple workflow tools. Look for technology that integrates into case management systems and EMRs for a seamless experience. Gain visibility into service delivery and satisfaction.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2021

According to The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, […]. Patient portals have existed since the late 1990s, but the onset of a global pandemic triggered a drastic shift within the healthcare community and fueled interest in patient portals.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2022

No doubt those of you in the world of health IT and interoperability saw the news that Epic plans to apply to join TEFCA as an inaugural QHIN (Qualified Health Information Network).

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

The following is a guest article by Oakkar Oakkar, Co-Founder and CEO at Keona Health Imagine a tool that puts your health information right at your fingertips. In an age where data breaches are common, some patients are hesitant to put their health information online. Then there’s the worry about privacy.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2023

The organization’s 5,000+ physicians, who are treating people across the socioeconomic spectrum, believe that comprehensive health information is crucial to deliver high-quality care for their patients. Any patient should be able to see a physician or care provider without spending valuable time recounting their history.

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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. Traditionally, we think about interoperability as HIEs (health information exchanges), but in 2024 I expect to see new models emerge. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

They handle data like protected health information (PHI), intellectual property (IP), clinical trial data and payment card data, giving attackers many options to cash in, and healthcare is a critical infrastructure industry that can be hardest hit by ransomware attacks. Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint, Inc.

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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. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Health Equity and SDoH. Healthcare AI. Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care. Healthcare Workforce. Telehealth and RPM.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 18, 2023

To learn more about this announcement we sat down with two leaders at 3M and AWS to talk about the collaboration that led to AWS HealthScribe: Detlef Koll, vice president of global research and development for 3M Health Information Systems , and Tehsin Syed, general manager of Health AI at Amazon Web Services.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Under this final rule, individuals and entities that violate the information-blocking requirements face a penalty of up to $1 million per violation. This final rule does not apply to healthcare providers but instead is directed at health information networks and health information exchanges, as well as developers of certified health IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

First, email addresses are often mistyped, which can result in dangerous disclosures of protected health information (PHI). As a result, email communications can more easily be intercepted by third parties than information conveyed through a secure web portal.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The HHS Office for Civil Rights is investigating whether Google met HIPAA requirements when it pulled together millions of patient records when working with the Ascension health system.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The following is a guest article by Jessica Campbell, DNP, RN, Clinical Informaticist at LogicStream Health and Tiffany McCauley, MSN, RN, Clinical Executive at Elsevier. Much of that documenting rests on the shoulders of nurses, who use health information technology to help juggle their many roles: […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2023

Clever use of A QR Code for Portal Adoption Many healthcare organizations struggle to get patients to log into their online portal to access health information and perform other health-related tasks.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

We look forward to true interoperability and computable health information and hope that TEFCA will become one of those building blocks rather than serve as a detour in our search for true interoperability. ONC and HHS should carefully think about the policies that might lock in the past and policies which would enable the future.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2022

OneRecord CEO and co-founder Jennifer Blumenthal will join Milliman IntelliScript, where she will further the effort to help patients exercise their right under the 21st Century Cures Act to access and control their health information via consumer-directed exchange.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 1, 2019

In what may be the nightmare scenario for most health IT leaders, a post-acute care provider has entered into a legal battle with a former vendor over access to its patient data. In the suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania, Post Acute Medical accuses vendor, Meridian Hospital Systems Corp., of refusing […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2023

In a recent Perspectives on Health Information Management article posted by the National Institutes of Medicine, “improving system usability and proper use” was cited as a valuable strategy to reduce this type of EHR risk.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2024

Travis Bias, DO, MPH, DTM&H, FAAFP, Chief Medical Officer, Clinician Solutions & Family Physician at 3M Health Information Systems Ambient clinical documentation tools are being used by clinicians so they can focus on the patient in front of them, rather than on their computer screens.

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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

JANUARY 6, 2023

On October 6, 2022, the healthcare and health IT community woke to a new reality – one in which electronic health information (EHI) included far more than it did the day before. . The expanded definition of EHI now includes virtually any health information tied to an individual that is used in decision making.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dave Cassel, Chief Customer Officer at Health Gorilla and Former Executive Director of Carequality Talking about privacy and security in health information exchange is tricky. Health IT Security reported just last month that the number of health records exposed rose from 21.1

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Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

That session will feature CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and new national health IT coordinator Karen DeSalvo, M.D. We also discussed other aspects of healthcare reform, trends in health IT and expectations for HIMSS14. 22:42 What healthcare.gov struggles might mean for health IT. 6:30 Surviving ICD-10 transition.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Note: In case you missed the other 12 Days of #HITChristmas, you can start with the first day here along with the story behind #HITChristmas or read all 12 days here as they are published. On the 9th Day of #HITChristmas we’re excited to feature, Keith Boone, Enterprise Architect at Audacious Inquiry.

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