Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The improvements in prior authorizations alone could save the industry hundreds of millions, improve outcomes, and create a better patient experience. Prior authorizations could take minutes instead of days and weeks. These are just two of the many use cases.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Patches Seely, Executive Vice President of Clinical Solutions at Carenet Health Clinicians’ burnout is in both a state of prevention and cure.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2022

For the 87th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about The Business of Giving Patients Control of Their Health Data. It’s easy to say that patients should have access to their data. ONC and other legislation have made it clear that patients have a right to their data.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • The bases of competition in healthcare are shifting to competing on quality, cost, and patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

.” Risks can be subtle: For instance, although Apple Watch is fairly trustworthy on its own , breaches can open whenever you try to transfer your data to another service. The app is not practical at this point because it stores data on a server, but no one has set up a server for the data yet.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Using digital tech has improved consumers’ experiences with health care providers across a range of tasks: 53% told Philips it’s easier to schedule appointments, 47% think it’s easier to get test results, 42% receive appointment reminders, and 27% are able to monitor health indicators on their own.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. Turbocharging, really inspiring that bold statement is the love of a son for his parents coupled with tech-innovation chops that could, indeed, eventually bring that audacious claim of being health care’s OS to fruition.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

However, if a healthcare organization doesn’t combine data across these systems, they can’t achieve the optimal patient experience that’s needed to create a welcoming digital front door.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2020

As health clinics, dentists, and specialists gradually reopen during what we hope is a reprieve from the first COVID-19 wave, lapses in effective data sharing come into glaring view. For instance, some friends told me that when they arrived at a clinic, the receptionist handed them paper forms and pens.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In recent times, Apple has been making a number of public moves focused on getting its customers to pull their health data onto their iPhone. Using Apple’s Health app, consumers can have their health data downloaded automatically from any institution with which it has partnered.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We recently had a chance to sit down with Jessica Beegle, Senior Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer at  Lifepoint Health , who shared with us that her past experience has given her a unique view in crafting the patient experience. This would help to create the type of care experience patients now expect.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Elaborate’s technology offers doctors a way to contextualize health data and deliver clear, action-oriented communications to their patients Elaborate , the tool that doctors and their staff use to deliver contextualized, action-oriented lab results to patients, announced today it has raised $10 million in Seed funding.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This last chapter (#11) is titled “Get Started,” addressing both end-of-life care as well as everyday family health. I often eat dessert first, and in this book the 2.5

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

“Patients, their care partners, caregivers, and advocates are already utilizing AI powered tools and creating their own LLMs in ways that the average physician, healthcare executive, and health IT vendors would not believe. ” Cordovano further explained to me.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Harmony Healthcare IT (HHIT) , a leading health data management and platform solution provider, today announced a significant investment from Novacap , one of North America’s premier private equity firms. This strategic partnership will accelerate HHIT’s technological contribution and expansion in health information technology.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services unveiled the long-anticipated ONC Cures Act Final Rule for health data interoperability. That’s a wonky phrase that translates, simply put, into how our health data will be made available to us patients, consumers, health plan members, caregivers all.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2022

Supporting the medical community for research and innovation, physician-patient relationships, and bolstering public health. Central to Apple’s health support for consumers is putting “health data in one place,” a goal on which the Apple Watch and the Health app have been built.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. And as we move into 2024, understanding how to leverage technology will be critical in helping providers transform the patient experience and empower patients to take an active role in their care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

APIs can enable “Data liberación,” a concept proposed by Todd Park when he worked in the Obama administration. Without securing patients’ personal health data leveraging APIs, those intimate details are highly hackable explained in All That we Let In , a report from Knight Ink and Appr0ov.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, what was once the golden standard of optimizing healthcare performance has evolved from the Triple Aim (enhancing the patient experience, improving population health, and lowering costs) into the Quadruple Aim, which factors in the clinician’s well-being.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The survey, which reached out to primary care physicians around the world, found that despite having powerful health IT tools at the ready, U.S.-based A new survey has drawn conclusions that, while infuriating, probably won’t surprise anyone working in the U.S. healthcare system today.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data. The variety of organizations that provide data (clinical settings, labs, community-based organizations, etc.)

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Results from a new healthcare industry survey suggest that while payers and providers are somewhat at odds when it comes to data management, their strategies still have much in common. The survey in question was sponsored by Change Healthcare and the HealthCare Executive Group conducted by InsightDynamo.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Yesterday, we shared a number of the insights into the health data and interoperability needs in healthcare. We need to consolidate data stores, continuously update and maintain data protection mechanisms, provide diverse resiliency strategies and vigilantly analyze access behaviors.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Chris Anello, Director of Digital Platforms at iTech AG The COVID-19 pandemic pushed healthcare organizations to the edge and exposed both challenges and opportunities related to public health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2020

Plus, then we asked them how it will impact health data sharing going forward. As part of our Healthcare IT 100 in 100, we asked a wide variety of healthcare interoperability experts to chime in on the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Humana has cut a deal with a vendor allowing members to share data from a very wide range of devices and apps with its wellness division. Working with personal health data platform Validic, Humana will allow members to connect […]. Here’s a deal that could have a greater impact than it might appear upon first glance.

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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. Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC).

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2021

Long time readers of Healthcare IT Today and members of the Health IT and patient advocate community on Twitter probably are familiar with Erin Gilmer. She’s one of the most fierce patient advocates I’ve ever known.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

But while the new ONC rules may make it easier for health consumers to access personal health information, the Field of Dreams phenomenon subverts the noble goal: we may “build” a system for people to access health data (like Blue Button), but patients may not “come.”

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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. David Navarro, Senior Director of Data Science at Harmony Healthcare IT. Healthcare AI. Healthcare Workforce.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2023

Importantly, patients on Eureka have full control over their data at all times; they can remain anonymous if they choose, and decide for themselves what data they’d like to share and what to keep private. Beyond the basic, first-line treatments, which didn’t work, my mom’s doctor had no answers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As part of its National Health IT Week program, HIMSS presented a webinar this week exploring the advent of what it calls the "Smart Communities-Cities Movement." wellness" and more, said Gibbons — to say nothing of completely reshaping the patient experience.

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