Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

Vaccination status, demographic information and notes are increasingly shared. Exchanging health information is everything we do.” Confirmation of Vaccination The pandemic accelerated the use of Surescripts’ platform as an information exchange. “We Why would they do this? With more than 21.7 Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In our conversation, Alderman sheds light on their recent decision to partner with Secure Exchange Solutions (SES) for Direct messaging and Health Information Service Provider (HISP) services. He shares why they chose SES and some of the business impacts resulting from the change. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

The first is the ability to exchange a list of health data locations, which enables Record Locator Services to interoperate with consumers wishing to discover the location of patient records within a health information exchange. This Provenance definition is now in mXDE along with examples and requirements CapabilityStatement.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

However, the deployment of AI in health care necessitates vigilant oversight to prevent biases and ensure data integrity. Civitas suggests that by leveraging the established infrastructure of Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Health Data Utility (HDU) models, we can develop a robust framework for AI governance in health data management.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

People with communication-related disabilities, for example, may not be able to use video-based services, and patient portals are not always compatible with assistive technology. The authors outlined several design considerations for health IT, including: Assistive-technology compatibility and Intuitive user interfaces. ON THE RECORD.

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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? For example, a physician should be able to see all of her appointments for the day at a glance in one panel.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2024

The following is a guest article by Ann Krutsko, Healthcare IT Researcher at ScienceSoft In healthcare, working with inaccurate patient data is a dangerous game. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were designed to streamline operations and improve coordination across healthcare systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

For example, in the healthcare industry, we have to abide by HIPAA — a law that helps protect the privacy and security of people’s health information. We can’t serve our patients if we don’t ensure that protected health information (PHI) is kept private.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Healthcare firms have long been targets for cyber criminals. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Jim Jirjis, Chief Health Information Officer at HCA to discuss the value of data quality in healthcare and find out more about the link between their sepsis project and better emergency preparedness. For example, they think that the potassium value in the lab result is not correct.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

An incident response plan is essential to provide impacted parties with a clear understanding of the protected health information (PHI) and/or electronically protected health information (ePHI) that was compromised, when the incident occurred, and what action is being taken by the organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2024

These formats include Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), used for the electronic exchange of clinical health information, and Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC), which provides a common language for laboratory tests and clinical measures.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

If you’re familiar with the 21st Century Cures Act, then you know that October 6th is a major deadline that requires healthcare providers, health IT developers, HIEs, HINs, and others to share all ePHI (electronic protected health information) in the DRS (Designated Record Set). And the next chapter begins!

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Yet, privacy laws and a fragmented market have kept the healthcare industry from reaping generative AI’s full potential — until now. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ) is a federal law that safeguards sensitive patient health information (PHI) from being disclosed.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Collaboration in healthcare delivers remarkable outcomes. Such was the case at the first ever collaborative conference for health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, public health, and health equity. Establish Trust, Yield Critical Data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

They come preloaded with telehealth applications, as well as links to educational materials that are specific to the patient group – for example, our transplant program.” It chose PadInMotion devices because they are familiar to the health system, having been used successfully in the past. We have prior experience with it.

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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

APRIL 25, 2024

The Cost of a Cybersecurity Breach Cybersecurity at its core is a way to protect valuable data and personal identifiable information (PII), such as credit card information, social security numbers, tax records, and more. For a healthcare entity, this number could drastically change, depending on the impact of the attack.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In a press release issued at the time of the settlement, then OCR Director, Roger Severino stated, “People need to trust that their private health information will remain exactly that; private. How Compliance Supports Your Security Posture Regulatory compliance requirements facilitate cybersecurity in several ways.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

But the administrative costs for providers to share this information keep escalating. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. Here is one example of how payer exchange is being automated today.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

According to the FTC, GoodRx has been funneling personal health information from these consumers to advertising companies and platforms such as Facebook, Google and Criteo, along with other third parties such as Branch and Twilio. More than 55 million consumers have visited or used GoodRx’s website or mobile apps since 2017.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2023

Digital Innovation and Artificial Intelligence are two huge topics recently in the world of Healthcare IT. We reached out to the Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights on this topic. If incorrect patient health information is shared between providers, consequences could be dire.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

Internal actors are the second-leading cause of breaches in healthcare. This is mainly due to misuse, such as unintentionally compromising consumer credentials, Personal Identifiable Information (PII), and Personal Health Information (PHI).

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2023

To hear more about the current healthcare cyberattacks , we reached out to our lovely Healthcare IT Today Community. Matthew Sciberras, CISO and VP of Information Security at Invicti Before the pandemic, the most exploitable security vulnerabilities were built into on-premises systems. Awareness of the latest threats.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere. On this note, Karsten Russell-Wood, portfolio leader for post-acute and home at Philips, shares his viewpoints with Healthcare IT News on the biggest priorities to ensure telehealth is sustained long term.

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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. Level 2 help desk queries typically occur during peak clinical care times such as shift changes.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

The following is a guest article by Sonia Chambers, Executive Director at West Virginia Health Information Network. Infrastructure is available nationally for states to leverage and customize locally for their unique Health Information Exchange needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

We interviewed Bronwyn Spira, CEO and cofounder of Force Therapeutics, to dig into RTM and the CPT codes to help healthcare-provider organization CIOs and other health IT leaders understand this new way of getting reimbursed for care. How do healthcare provider organizations go about this education? Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

To get a better idea on what policies and regulations you need to be aware of and just how to get access to innovation funding, we reached out to our ever so talented Healthcare IT Today community for their insights and knowledge. Here is what they had to say. Since the U.S. Since the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

In-person visits are still perceived more positively than virtual visits when it comes to telehealth quality, outcomes, convenience and utility, according to a soon-to-be-released healthcare survey of more than 6,000 consumers in the U.S., Canada, England, Ireland, Australia and Germany. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 31, 2023

These data are held by care delivery organizations, patients, payers, academia, and industry (bio pharmas, contract research organizations, healthcare device vendors, etc.). Early examples of additional training of the LLM base models have shown promising results with improved performance.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

It's been a relentless 16 months, and healthcare CIOs and other health IT leaders can no doubt use a breather. "For example, we can leverage the data to deliver more personalized care through predictive models that take into account all aspects of patients' histories. Leveraging technology to further strategy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

"Once again, this served as a pilot opportunity to then showcase that digital health can provide meaningful interactions and deliver high-quality outcomes without the need to be face-to-face," he said. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Another important component in Singapore’s effective approach in containing the pandemic is the Ministry of Health’s method of risk profiling through multi-agency efforts to capture data, and subsequently having tiers to provide different levels of care based on the COVID-19 patient cases’ severity.

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