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 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

JUNE 28, 2021

For the 65th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Health IT Headlines and Their Signal for the Near Future. There have been a number of big announcements and interesting health IT headlines lately. There have been a number of big announcements and interesting health IT headlines lately.

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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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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. Also stay tuned as we delve deeper into each trend each week.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. Electronic Health Records encompass a broader context of patient medical information storage, incorporating treatment records, diagnoses, lab results, allergy data, vaccinations, and more.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. We need to refine the Ryan Haight Act to develop a telemedicine registry that can safely prescribe controlled medication virtually.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2022

The ATA (American Telemedicine Association) conference, along with offering some qualifying CME sessions, is made up of more broad topic discussions, meant to bring value to many different industry roles and professionals. You may be surprised to see what technology is possible and be inspired.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2023

Read more… Equity, AI, and EMR Maturity at HIMSS23. Read more… The Critical Need for Robust Telemedicine Security. Older remote monitoring devices pose significant security threats because they’re exempt from broader security standards , noted Narinder Singh at LookDeep Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Anne Zieger reflected on the limitations of disruptive innovation in healthcare – namely, the long and slow path of wearable and telemedicine adoption despite years (if not decades) of hype – and called on innovators to instead focus on healthcare’s more pressing problems.

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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. But in our work treating patients with opioid use disorder, we’ve seen first-hand that telemedicine can help people find long-term recovery. 2023 was a tipping point for telehealth treatment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. Experts from across the health IT field will share insights about everything from AI and cloud computing to telemedicine and population health. Health IT implementation best practices. Allscripts, Northwell Health to co-develop new AI-powered EHR.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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? How will AI be leveraged to deliver actionable insights from all this new data? How can we ensure patients’ privacy with all the devices and sensors transmitting data?

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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

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

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.

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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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The Healthcare Guys

JUNE 7, 2015

But telemedicine also improves patient care and the customer experience of medical travelers. In telemedicine and m-health, telecommunications, mobile devices and information technologies provide clinical health care at a distance. (M-health IT helps deliver safe medical care and a pleasant trip to facilities overseas.

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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

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

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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Skyler Wason, Director of Product Management at Allscripts, and Kate Palazzolo, Vice President of Sales at FollowMyHealth. In this series, we talk with EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Andy Penn, Vice President of Virtual Health at Cerner. In this series, we talk with EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth.

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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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