Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 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. Ankit Gupta, CEO at Bicycle Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Talkiatry is a telemedicine service connecting psychiatrists with patients suffering from depression, bipolar disorder, substance abuse, and other common mental health and behavioral problems. This market is an especially complex area of health care for many reasons. In a remote rural are, they may be few or none.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

As you can imagine, we’ve been innundated with COVID-19 related health IT news. We’ve done our best to cover the areas we thought were most important to healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years News Brooklyn provider automates patient experience tracking to spot health equity gaps At One Brooklyn Health System, tools such as the Brooklyn Health Equity Index survey are helping.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

While virtual care doesn’t have quite the same funding that EMR had with meaningful use, there are a lot of similarities to where we’re at today with virtual care as compared to where we were with EMR back when the government poured down $36 billion of stimulus money on EMR. Thanks to COVID and new […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2020

A few months ago, we dipped into the various COVID-19 searches that were being done to find Healthcare IT Today and offered answers and commentary on what people were searching. We thought it would be fun to dip into the search engine traffic for another edition of Search Engine Q&A. Remember that these are searches […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2023

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. Read more… Searching for a New Angle to Address Health Equity. Read more… Equity, AI, and EMR Maturity at HIMSS23.

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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. Read more… How Greenway Health’s EHR Addresses Health Equity. Read more… A Look at the Fall Health IT Conference Season.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. However, along with advancements, challenges in digital healthcare are increasing. Let’s discuss how to tackle them and explore the IT solutions essential for modern healthcare institutions.

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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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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 30, 2015

This week’s round up includes everything from Health IT trends to the trends of Health IT purchasing. Whether you are thinking about implementing ICD-10 or a llocating resources for a new EMR/EHR system , these infographics are bound to get your brain moving. via Healthcare IT News. via Philips.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2022

Also, after being in healthcare for a decade, the topics are familiar and unless you’re in academia and research, probably not always that impactful on your medical practice day-to-day. The ATA is an active leader in defining digital health and telemedicine and best practices on implementation, reimbursement, and sustainability.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 7, 2020

In the nearly 15 years that we’ve been writing about EHR and health IT here at Healthcare IT Today, one of the most interesting topics we cover is pharma advertising inside an EHR or other health IT software product. It’s a topic that will likely never disappear since Pharma has a lot of money to […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

One Healthcare Solution’s premier software and expertise in EMR integration will allow us to support practice owners and physicians more than ever before,” said Emmet Seibels, President of Verustat.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2023

Data cleanliness is critically important in getting provider buy-in to leverage IoMT data in their medical decision-making, and it is imperative that IT departments display that data accurately in the appropriate EMR workflows.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 1, 2019

At UCLA Health, they’re rolling out a program in which its doctors will offer second opinion consults to patients around the world. To launch the program, UCLA is partnering with MORE Health, a technology vendor which offers what it calls a “physician collaboration platform.”

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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. 2023 was a tipping point for telehealth treatment.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Wheel , the health technology company powering the future of care, today announced it will acquire GoodRx Care ‘s backend virtual care technology, including its clinician-centric EMR, powerful clinical management tools, and flexible patient experience software.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

I am as comfortable with telemedicine as anyone I know. I’ve been using urgent care services like Teladoc for nearly a decade, and in recent years, have been getting the majority of primary and specialist care via video as well. In fact, by this point, I’ve gotten so accustomed to video visits that they feel […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

One of the people who’s had a front row seat to some of the major happenings in health IT is Zane Burke. Then, Burke was CEO of Livongo Health before it was eventually acquired by Teladoc. Burke is now CEO at Quantum Health. Check out our interview with Zane Burke, CEO at Quantum Health below.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

And how can we make sure these devices are affordable, scalable, secure, and can interconnect with current healthcare technologies such as EMRs? She has a passion for patient care and healthcare IT motivates her to help deliver technologies that would positively impact both clinicians and patients alike.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

Putting the right pieces together will enable providers to understand the story of each patient’s health by looking at trends and insights in their condition on a day-to-day basis in combination with all other aspects of their care.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

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

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

For the 39th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Linda Stevenson, CIO at Fisher-Titus Medical Center. What’s your experience like working as a CIO in a rural health organization? Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2023

Better Provider Matching Helps Balance Patient Load – Kyruus Last year, Kyruus completed the acquisition of Epion Health to add patient engagement capability to their leading search and scheduling platform. We also spoke about how improving search and provider matching can help organizations better balance patient load.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2020

The post Azalea Health EHR's Approach to Telehealth - EHR Telehealth Series first appeared on Healthcare IT Today. Are they developing telehealth in house or are they relying on partners? If […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

No doubt a month still isn’t enough to fully understand this quickly changing area of health IT. This month we’ve had an added focus on Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and all it’s nuances and features.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2020

Like its peers, the UW Medicine health system has been struggling to keep up with the preparations for COVID-19 patients seeking treatment. To address this problem, the medical center’s health IT leaders made some broad changes to its processes which are allowing to rapidly deploy solutions that support clinical responses to the pandemic.

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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. That’s what patient portals promise – a simple, digital way to access medical records, book appointments, and chat with doctors.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 30, 2020

Here at Healthcare IT Today, we’d like to help. With news on the coronavirus (COVID-19) shifting almost daily, it’s hard to keep track of what’s worth following. Clinical, operational and technical information is pouring in at an unprecedented rate.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2020

One look at these efforts comes courtesy of FierceHealthcare, which spoke with health IT leaders at […]. Hospital IT departments, meanwhile, are undergoing stresses of their own as they work to support the rapidly escalating needs of clinicians.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 4, 2022

Before the pandemic, many private practice physicians faced significant pressure to merge or consolidate with large health systems for survival. The following is a guest article by Devan Griner, MD, is board-certified plastic surgeon at Peak Plastic Surgery, based in Provo, Utah. He uses the all-in-one cloud suite from AdvancedMD.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2021

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been screaming for years about my frustration with how lightweight telehealth solutions are today. As I wrote in a recent telehealth post, I’m eager to see telehealth platforms emerge that take offer more robust services and integrate with enterprise care delivery platforms.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Back when patient portals were first introduced, one of the original concerns clinicians raised was that they were afraid that they would get too many patient messages and find themselves overwhelmed.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 17, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Patric Edmondson, Chief Technology Officer and Dr. Andrew Rosenthal, Medical Director of Plastic Surgery at Modernizing Medicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 17, 2021

Zus Health (“Zus” pronounced Zoos like the father of Athena), a Jonathan Bush-founded company focused on creating the industry’s first shared development platform backed by a shared data record, today announced its launch and the close of a $34M Series A financing led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2020

The following is a guest article by Brian Russell, Solution Architect at Atos. Because of the shelter-in-place protocols that have been implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, remote visits to the doctor’s office have transformed from a rarely-used novelty to a necessity in many cases.

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