Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

At HIMSS, we sat down to talk with CommonWell Health Alliance to learn about their passion for interoperability and some of the latest happenings with the CommonWell community. Their membership and clientele have expanded in variety as well as numbers. Tell us what you think. Contact us here or on Twitter at @hcitoday.

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David Chou

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The healthcare industry is rapidly transforming with the adoption of healthcare IT and digital healthcare solutions. The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) further bolstered this transition to a modern healthcare system.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

We reached out to the Healthcare IT Today community to get their thoughts on the IT infrastructure needs in healthcare. However, amidst the IT infrastructure responses we received a number of health IT experts talking about the importance of health data and interoperability infrastructure.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Healthcare executives and front-line users give solution highest marks for client satisfaction and user experience NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Altera Digital Health , a global health IT leader, today announced that dbMotion Solution earned the No.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Enterprise Architect position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere. On this note, Karsten Russell-Wood, portfolio leader for post-acute and home at Philips, shares his viewpoints with Healthcare IT News on the biggest priorities to ensure telehealth is sustained long term.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

To talk more about the regulatory considerations for implementing these emerging technologies, we reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights. This is what they had to say on this topic. For example, the CMS-0057-P proposed rule requires the use of FHIR APIs and essentially builds upon previous regulations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

Also on its policy agenda for the year ahead: advocating for data standardization, offering input for interoperability rulemaking and engaging with agencies and states to increase telehealth access. "How do you leverage it for healthcare, and how does healthcare get involved in those discussions?" " Leary said.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While we are still in this mindset, let’s talk about how we can also improve as health IT leaders. So to become a better leader in health IT, we need to figure out what skills and best practices we must do and find out if these skills for health IT leadership is different than other healthcare sectors.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

For HHM Health , an FQHC serving the Dallas area, interoperability and access to medical records is vital for establishing trust with their patients and saving lives. It brings together medical records from both Carequality and CommonWell Health Alliance networks as well as from a number of insurance payers.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. Under this final rule, individuals and entities that violate the information-blocking requirements face a penalty of up to $1 million per violation.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 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. More patients have been exposed to AI than ever before, as well.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the EHR Applications Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Harbor Health Services and is located in Massachusetts.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with healthcare data analysis.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2022

Joint technology solution will deliver an integrated data interoperability platform that streamlines data acquisition and delivers clean, actionable, and intelligent data. Fueled by Diameter’s technology, Availity will create the nation’s preeminent data acquisition and interoperability platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with healthcare data analysis.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

Ben Hsieh, Vice President of Product, says that Discern Health works with payers, providers, and Health Information Exchanges (HIE). Pinho would also like Discern Health’s analytics to help patients; families, decreasing their financial, physical, and emotional burdens.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It’s not a huge surprise that the week of the ONC Meeting, they would make a number of big announcements for those of us in health IT. I expect we’ll see many more health IT companies become QHINs. We’ll see how effective it is at solving the healthcare interoperability problem.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Watch this short video demo for more details about how Xealth connects hospitals and health systems to patients at home. Learn more about Xealth: [link] Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2022

Semantic Interoperability Pioneer, CareCom, Improves Clinician Experience with Advanced Healthcare Terminology Mapping and NLP Conversion of Unstructured Data. Around the globe, healthcare organizations rely on HealthTerm to support data quality governance and health information exchange.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Or are there areas in healthcare where past regulations are now too restrictive and are holding us back? In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update regulations. The following is what they had to say.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health. Paths to Interoperability A recent article exposes the woeful silo-ing of public health: Data often has to be faxed and re-entered into new systems manually. This article summarizes their responses.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information. Finally, Sara gives us a glimpse of what’s next for them on their roadmap. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2023

One of the biggest pieces of legislation to hit healthcare IT since the HITECH Act is the 21st Century Cures Act. While it doesn’t have the same stimulus money as the HITECH Act, it’s possible that it will have even more impact on healthcare organizations and patients. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 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

JANUARY 24, 2023

One area where we have seen this front and center is when it comes to how healthcare organizations approach interoperability and integration. In the past, interoperability and integration were kind of an afterthought. Now, every healthcare organization has hundreds of points of integration that they have to manage effectively.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2022

No doubt those of you in the world of health IT and interoperability saw the news that Epic plans to apply to join TEFCA as an inaugural QHIN (Qualified Health Information Network). Then, we ask him what he sees as Epic’s broader view around interoperability beyond TEFCA. Learn more about Epic: [link].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

For the 43rd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Henry Vynalek, Director of HIE & IT Operations at Ohio Health Information Partnership. Vynalek then shares what interoperability challenge he wishes he could get rid of. How real are efforts to address health equity?

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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

JANUARY 6, 2023

On October 6, 2022, the healthcare and health IT community woke to a new reality – one in which electronic health information (EHI) included far more than it did the day before. . The expanded definition of EHI now includes virtually any health information tied to an individual that is used in decision making.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

As part of their intake process, the team checked Alex’s (a pseudonym) medical history through the hospital’s health information organization and discovered the patient had recently undergone a cardiac surgery at a different hospital; their post-surgical issues had merely mimicked a neurological challenge. Care Health Plan.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But having learned some difficult lessons this pandemic year, it's worth taking stock of that hard-won wisdom – and forecasting how it might be put to work in the next 12 months as healthcare organizations chart a path forward to help a " shocked system emerge stronger " (as PwC puts it). " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

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

MARCH 7, 2023

The following is a guest article by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director, CommonWell Health Alliance. When it was announced on March 4, 2013, CommonWell was still just a concept, but by December of 2013, a pilot program was in place to test its interoperability services at four provider sites across Illinois, North Carolina and South Carolina.

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