Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 17, 2021

The following is a guest article by Jaime Bland, DNP, RN-BC, Chief Executive Officer at CyncHealth, the health data utility for the Midwest, and Kat McDavitt, Principal Advisor and Head of Public Affairs for Innsena and advises organizations including PointClickCare on external affairs.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

Buckle also shares her experience at the Interop Showcase and details of the recent CommonWell FHIR Connectathon where CommonWell members leveraged FHIR to improve interoperability. FHIR, the API for automated data sharing, is mature and being adopted. CommonWell Health Alliance is a proud sponsor of Healthcare Scene.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This is a big step forward for QHINs who can now start sharing health data. We’ll see how effective it is at solving the healthcare interoperability problem. So, the final HTI-1 rule shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to readers of Healthcare IT Today.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2024

The government and many healthcare leaders are pushing for more interoperability and data sharing in healthcare. First up was an intro to Healthix, one of the largest public HIEs out there that serves New York. When you look at how much data is passing through Healthix, it’s kind of hard to comprehend.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2020

OCR (Office for Civil Rights) inside of HHS which is in charge of HIPAA enforcement has issued another notice of enforcement discretion. Roger Severino, OCR Director, announced that OCR will exercise it’s enforcement discretion and not impose penalties for violations of certain HIPAA provisions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 10, 2021

Convened by HIMSS VP of Government Relations Tom Leary, the panelists – who played a critical role in developing the Riyadh Declaration – reviewed the recommendations, compared them to progress so far and outlined digital health goals for the future. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.

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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

MAY 20, 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… Hearing From Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill. Read more… How Were the Spring Health IT Conferences ?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2023

"By acting as a health data utility, it provides a central hub for clinical data that can advance compatibility across networks and promote use cases, such as the stroke registry." In 2019, the NC HealthConnex modernized , combining the InterSystems HealthShare HIE with SAS’s health analytics.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For federal agencies and state and regional exchanges, this is an excellent time to demonstrate leadership in interoperability by joining a network that will likely provide a ready on-ramp to TEFCA. Currently, perhaps 99% of health data exchange is initiated to support treatment. The Case for Federal Agencies.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

Health Gorilla is devoted to deriving insights from a combination of traditional clinical data and SDoH. Specific needs assessment data which is typically provided by the patient. Watch the video for more insights on the role of the community, examples of SDoH in action, and other aspects of SDoH. Tell us what you think.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

It involves the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of healthcare data to support decision-making, facilitate communication, and improve healthcare outcomes. Health data analytics also facilitates population health management, identifying trends, and patterns to optimize preventive care and public health interventions.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2021

Rapid exchange of patient data is crucial not only for coordinating care, but for research and public health.

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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 Today

MARCH 24, 2023

In this article we explore the top lessons learned to make SDoH data effective, and three actionable examples of organizations who have turned data to analysis and action. What are the gaps in your clinical data, and how could social determinants of health data address them? What SDoH data do you have today?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

John Blair, III, MD, CEO at MedAllies It’s been well-documented for years that the healthcare industry has an interoperability problem. The commercial efforts to date to push interoperability forward have made true advances. This new regulation has delivered a unique opportunity for the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

Consolidating and coordinating information between providers, payers and public health departments is particularly tough, not only because there are so many providers, but because of the variability between data platforms and systems. Sonia Chambers has a wide variety of healthcare experience. Agile Technology Tools.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Healthcare stakeholders need the patient data that healthcare providers possess. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. Therein lies the rub.

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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. 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. Healthcare Workforce. Health Equity and SDoH.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH), which is the first fully digitalized-paperless health care institution in South Korea, was designated by the government on 1 March as a “public safety hospital,” an institution that separates the treatment process of respiratory patients to prevent COVID-19 spread with the facility.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2020

BIDI, which is under the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) in Thailand, is a 240-bed tertiary care hospital with 1000 staff under normal circumstances, Dr Sirikwin explained. Unfortunately, the data was in an information silos and couldn’t flow one system to another easily so the staff have to copy or re-enter the data manually.”

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 16, 2023

The ability to accurately report your quality measures, the ability to see what’s happening across your enterprise, and streamlining how you share data with registries, public health, and analytics platforms have hard-dollar implications. What are the significant stages or steps in the Data Quality Journey?

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CMS.gov

JULY 18, 2018

Sustaining our exceptional healthcare depends now more than ever on driving down costs, and a major part of the CMS strategy to drive down costs depends on smart and innovative use of information technology (IT). Digital Service, and alongside private industry and researchers to lead innovation and help inform CMS’s health IT strategy.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Because penalties for information blocking – that is, any practice that interferes with access, exchange, or use of electronic health data – are tied to the definition of EHI. Equally important is the tremendous potential for innovation that comes with greater access to health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

The second group to benefit from this National EHR Database was public health. Ellison highlighted how public health didn’t have a way to look across the health of a population. Of course, he highlighted the privacy area here by saying that the data would be anonymized.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They use claims data to track use of emergency rooms, medical equipment, and generic versus brand medications. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE).

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

We reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for these answers. The following is what they had to say on how to stay safe and can be used as a little check list for your healthcare cybersecurity efforts. Healthcare IT companies regularly release updates to fix identified vulnerabilities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

The platform is being leveraged around the globe by public health departments, academic researchers, health systems and managed care organizations. This ensures valuable health data is not lost, as could happen with a video-only telemedicine service. Another system the vendor offers is Teleisolation.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2015

According to the HRSA , telehealth “is the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care , patient and professional health-related education, public health and health administration.”. Interoperability. Telemedicine. Remote patient monitoring.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 9, 2018

Andy Williams has worked at the very sharpest end of technological transformation in the health sector. As CEO of NHS Digital, he was tasked with delivering IT infrastructure across public health and social care services, with responsibility for the secure use of patient data.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 30, 2020

That said, like many of my peers in the healthcare sector, there is overwhelming agreement that the last three months, and the next three, will undoubtedly be seen as the defining milestone for technology in healthcare. Needless to say in unprecedented times there is no such thing as an expert, just advisors. flood of talent.

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