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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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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Health Populi

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

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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The PHTI notes many benefits from using digital health, organized in this second chart captured from the report: For patients, the ability to self-care at home, more timely and convenient access to services (both primary and specialty care), improving medication management, and enhancing the healthcare experience (when well-designed).

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

We heard from the Mace family, a couple who experienced first hand the difficulties with health data exchange after Tristan (26 yo M) had to undergo an emergency heart transplant after experiencing a catastrophic cardiac event. It quickly becomes evident that Dr. Shiuh and his team are pioneers in digital innovation.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

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

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.

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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

However, while there’s plenty of hype around generative AI, few companies possess the depth and quality of health data and financial resources to accurately train models with the goal of making healthcare more affordable, equitable, or effective.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2021

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

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

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. Christian Hardahl, Global Health Care Solutions Manager at SAS Patients push to own their health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2020

Consumerism and the use of patient-generated data are no fads, but rather a lasting change to the healthcare landscape, according to a new survey conducted by Healthcare IT Today of our readers.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

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. Using intelligent automation to improve health data produces better results faster than manually performing the tasks.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

The benefits of this can have a cascading impact, ultimately helping to ensure that more patients are willing to provide personal health data and engage with public health programs more of the time – leading to better health data acquisition, knowledge, and potentially better health outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The following is a guest article by Sean Vandeweerd, Sr. Product Manager, PointClickCare Technologies Inc. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission released an updated Mobile Health Apps Tool created with input from ONC, OCR, and the FDA. Workflow automation provider Hospital IQ found that 70% of health systems face staffing challenges and 61% struggle to forecast department-level staffing capacity.

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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

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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