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 News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2024

She also feels AI can encourage telemedicine innovation and holds strong opinions on the ethics of AI in healthcare. Healthcare IT News spoke with Dua to discuss these subjects and get her to offer a detailed look into the AI-powered Together by Renee app. This app is an example of how AI can simplify and enhance healthcare delivery.

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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 News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

"Yet, if telehealth technologies are not designed, implemented, and contextualized within appropriate policies, these benefits cannot be realized, and instead could worsen health inequities within this population," they wrote. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. ON THE RECORD. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Regarding their level of digital health competency, many are found to be capable of searching for health information and using it to practice a healthy lifestyle while there is low competency in using health information for disease and health management. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In this session "Cross-Border Collaborations: Improving Digital Health" (20 November, 13:00 - 13:50), speakers from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and beyond will share concrete examples of how governments and healthcare organisations are successfully collaborating across borders to implement various digital health initiatives.

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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

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

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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Lloyd Price

APRIL 8, 2023

Patient engagement refers to the active involvement of patients in their own healthcare. It involves a partnership between patients and healthcare providers, with patients taking an active role in decisions about their care and treatment. Overall, patient engagement is a key component of high-quality healthcare.

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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 15, 2022

Focused guidance is needed to create reliable and sustainable standards and processes that work with healthcare today. TEFCA aims to create one unified technical framework to exchange data across the country between healthcare providers, health plans, public health agencies, and individuals. .

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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 News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And despite advancement in treatments, said Ahlstrom in an interview with Healthcare IT News, "we still have 50% of patients dying after five years." She started HealthTree.org, which allows patients to aggregate their health information and connect with each other, and to find clinical trials that may be a good fit.

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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

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

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

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

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

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 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

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Zeev Neuwirth, author of Beyond the Walls: MegaTrends, Movements and Market Disruptors Transforming American Healthcare and Reframing Healthcare , kicked off the 2023 American Health Information Management Association annual conference (AHIMA23) with a heartfelt keynote.

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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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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This will be driven by a number of factors, including the increasing availability of high-speed internet, the growing popularity of mobile devices, and the government's efforts to promote the use of health information technology (HIT). For example, patients can use their portals to receive reminders for vaccinations and screenings.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to ask them what strategies and best practices are effective for developing and nurturing leadership skills within the field of Health IT, and how they differ from leadership in other sectors of healthcare. The following are their answers.

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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

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

JULY 10, 2023

Flannery also describes an actual example of specialty care his company has delivered via an employer, and the outcomes. Please describe an actual example of specialty care your company has delivered via an employer and the outcomes. What is the state of specialty care in the United States today? What challenges does it pose?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 30, 2024

The scheduling process shouldn’t just include setting an appointment time; the patient should also be asked brief but informative questions about their reason for seeking that appointment such that their care pathway can be tailored to their needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The new RTM codes resemble those for remote physiological monitoring, which reimburses providers for the review of physiological data that is automatically transmitted from a device (for example, heart rate). Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

One example is audio calls and how to establish reimbursement rates based on the care needed and the appropriateness of care delivery through that channel. The universal need for healthcare can make ACP coupled with telehealth a win-win for everyone," says Settles, a telehealth and broadband advocate. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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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

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

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 Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

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). Currently, perhaps 99% of health data exchange is initiated to support treatment. The Case for Federal Agencies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Even while the pandemic continues, healthcare provider organizations have begun to stabilize these infrastructures and revisit the technologies and workflows deployed earlier in the crisis and turn them into standard practices. Providers need to rely on a longitudinal health record to activate the right care anytime and anywhere.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2024

Example of accepting patient feedback. The Ada tool encourages patient suggestions for improvement (Figure 1), which are included when the staff evaluate AI results. A “topic-of-the-month” project highlights some form of user input each month.

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