Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Watch the video for more ways in which interoperability and AI are making inroads in health care. Learn more about DrFirst: [link] Learn more about Unblock Health: [link] Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT.

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MARCH 13, 2024

Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONCHIT). Dr. Halamka is President of CHAI, and Dr. Brian Anderson was appointed the CEO this month following many years of leadership in responsible AI work.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2020

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. Plus, then we asked them how it will impact health data sharing going forward.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Executive Coordinator position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. This role will report directly to the Sr.

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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 12, 2024

To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery ? The AI actively guides conversations, ensuring compliance.

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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

JANUARY 19, 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. The key lies in adopting AI with appropriate human supervision at scale.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2021

What a beautiful statement that illustrates the power and importance of the work we do in healthcare IT. When a company leads with the statement that “Life Flows Through Our Software”, I get really intrigued and had to learn more about Dedalus. People’s lives really do flow through our software.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

More personalised and engaging patient portals: Patient portals in 2030 will be more personalised and engaging than they are today. They will use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to tailor the patient experience to individual needs. Visit [link] What exactly is patient engagement? Visit [link]

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

It would not be customary for the data to be visible solely by the patient, but if so, the data should be marked as private and they should be given the option to share it with the provider if desired. There is a tremendous benefit to viewing one’s health data in one secure place, where your doctor has access to it.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 20, 2021

Do patients want to manage their own health info? Mostly because there are 7 billion patients in the world that all have different needs and desires. That said, there are some important generalities we’ve learned over the years when it comes to patients and their info. This is a really big and complicated question.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2021

I don’t think any thread has captured the discussion around information blocking and the associated regulations that require sharing results with patients as soon as their available as this thread from Justin Maykel. Here’s what he shared that sparked a strong response from patients and doctors.

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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. 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

APRIL 8, 2020

Little did we know on March 10th when we filmed this great discussion about healthy data in healthcare hosted by Intersystems what we were in store for with COVID-19. Although, as COVID-19 has progressed we’ve learned even more how important healthy, quality, trusted data is to healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

AI helps geographically dispersed medical teams (and personnel working in the same building or campus) access patient medical data. When used correctly — with the proper safety precautions in place — AI becomes more than a tool with its ability to augment and support human judgment to enhance the patient experience within healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The response to my article asking the question “Are we at the end of the healthcare interoperability tunnel?” I think some people thought that I was hammering on all the work that’s being done on healthcare interoperability. ” was quite interesting.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2020

One of the big challenges healthcare faces is sharing data between healthcare organizations who need that data. Healthcare interoperability, as we call it, has been a challenge for a long time. To better understand where healthcare interoperability […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 25, 2021

In a recent message I got from EHNAC, they had this great image at the start of their email: Then, they had this line below it which really caught my attention: Interoperability has been an important topic in healthcare for over a decade. Are we there yet? Are we closer than we were? Absolutely. No […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft is working with Walgreens to pilot-test a new type of healthcare service, which it calls “health corners,” bringing a new and more technology-focused form of healthcare to its retail locations.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 8, 2022

“Front-line healthcare workers need more support than ever, and we’re excited to have partnered with several great investors to help us help healthcare professionals,” said Health Note CEO and co-founder Joshua Reischer, MD. About Health Note. To learn more, visit us here and follow us on LinkedIn.

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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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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

Specifically, the new code allows providers to bill the CMS for time spent collecting and interpreting remotely generated health data. The attribute that makes them successful is one of the same attributes that make any program successful — strong leadership.”. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

I remember when I first fell in love with an Apple computer – the day I brought home a Macintosh Performa. I opened the box, plugged it into the wall and dove into it with a passion. By today’s standards, its 33 MHz processor, 4 MB of RAM and 250 MB hard drive seems laughable, […].

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2020

The following is a guest article by Andrea Tait, VP of Client Value, Orion Health. Patient-Generated Data’s Place in Patient Care Today, health systems have increasingly recognized the need to be patient-centered, with a focus on empowering and engaging patients to assist them in maintaining their own 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 31, 2023

When done correctly, successful chart abstractions give clinicians a clean slate with accurate data for delivering top-quality care right away. They have more time to improve the patient experience and spend less time making sense of the EHR. ReMedi’s approach to chart abstraction is to first train our clinical data team.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We reached out to the beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to hear the different lines of thinking on automation. Additionally, automating processes such as this help to relieve employee burnout and simultaneously improve the patient experience. Lastly, data analytics resolves remaining duplicates and checks for overlays.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The following is a guest article by Cliff Frank, Executive Director, Shore Quality Partners Data infrastructure plays an important role in healthcare networks’ ability to navigate evolving care delivery and payment models.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

’ Health inequality and discrimination is not a new problem in healthcare. It is a problem that people have been fighting for since the very beginning but we still have not found the solution to achieving health equity. These are two key tactics that directly address mental health inequity.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

It’s becoming more common for consumers to use voice assistants for healthcare, but others are holding back due to privacy worries, according to the results of a new survey. The survey, which connected with 1,004 U.S. adults, was backed by AI vendor Orbita and conducted by Voicebot.ai.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Our healthcare system is approaching a critical time in which an aging population will bring baby boomers into hospitals and post-acute care facilities in record numbers. The following is a guest article by Sean Vandeweerd, Sr. Product Manager, PointClickCare Technologies Inc.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The modern health information API, FHIR, includes the Gender Harmony taxonomy developed by HL7. Sharing SDoH CRISP Shared Services is a nonprofit health data utility (HDU) that integrates data between health information exchanges (HIEs).

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In order to get a grasp on what there still needs to be done or areas that can be improved, we reached out to our Healthcare IT Today Community to get their input. Angie Franks, CEO at ABOUT Healthcare. It empowers people, improves access to care and enhances patient experience to achieve better health and business outcomes.

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