Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2019

As we head into 2020, I reached out to a number of people in Health Information Management (HIM) and Health Information Technology (HIT) to hear their thoughts on these hot topics: Social Determinants of Health (SDoH), Privacy and Security of Health Information, Medical Coding Standards, and Patient Matching.

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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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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. We’d love to hear from you as well!

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MAY 17, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Procurement Coordinator 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 Today

MARCH 3, 2022

And for 70% of teens, their first source of health information is the web. The following article includes contributions by Geri Lynn Baumblatt & Teresa Wagner. Most kids grow up online. It’s easier to use their phone, and they may not feel comfortable asking parents or teachers. Sometimes they do a search to find out […].

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2021

When it comes to HIM (Health Information Management), it seems like everyone has come to understand the value of outsourcing many of these services overseas. It’s hard to argue with being able to provide a high quality HIM service at a lower cost using less expensive overseas labor.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director/Sr Director of Finance position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. 5+ years of experience as a senior-level accounting or finance manager with significant leadership experience preferred.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 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 NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 27001/27002, SOC2, etc.)

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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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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. 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 Today

JUNE 28, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Procurement Coordinator 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 Today

MARCH 26, 2024

Healthwise’s Current Operating Assets will become part of WebMD Ignite, Creating an Industry-Leading Healthcare Growth and Engagement Platform Serving 650+ Healthcare Organizations WebMD Health Corp. ,

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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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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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Focused guidance is needed to create reliable and sustainable standards and processes that work with healthcare today. TEFCA aims to create one unified technical framework to exchange data across the country between healthcare providers, health plans, public health agencies, and individuals. .

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 26, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director, Application Development and Integrations position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 31, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director, Application Development and Integrations position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in Manhattan, New York.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2021

For the 6th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we’re sitting down with Aaron Miri, CIO at The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School and UT Health Austin.

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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. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

After more than 15 years of creating and pushing health IT innovations forward in the state, the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative has completed its final dissolution. Before dissolving , MAeHC had assigned its contract with the New England Healthcare Exchange Network to the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. ON THE RECORD.

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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

JULY 30, 2020

Health information management has seen many new processes quickly evolve during the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 forced the healthcare industry to change how healthcare is delivered, with telehealth taking a front row seat.

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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

MARCH 20, 2024

In search of an answer to this question, we reached out to our insightful Healthcare IT Today Community and this is what they had to share with us. To address this risk at an enterprise level, physician leadership (CMO, compliance officers) will need to establish that best practices are followed consistently across the physician population.

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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

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. We move onto health equity and discuss the work being done there. This time we’re diving into the world of HIEs! iHeartRadio.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Many people in the healthcare IT and HIM communities have been anticipating some changes to HIPAA coming soon. As Rita Bowen from MRO recently shared, “the rule is 20+ years old and the practice of medicine has changed, the maintenance of the health information, etc. so yes, it is time for a face lift.”

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2023

For the 54th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Natalie Pageler, MD, CMIO at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health to talk about patient information privacy! Then we shift into the roles healthcare organizations and patients/parents have in keeping information private.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 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

MARCH 4, 2024

New data standards announced last December by the Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare Technology (ONC) are an extraordinarily significant expansion of regulations around health IT and could hijack product roadmaps for years to come.

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MARCH 6, 2024

Ryan Howells , Principal at Leavitt Partners and Executive Director of the CARIN Alliance, a bipartisan, multi-sector collaborative dedicated to advancing consumer-directed exchange of health information, has joined the b.well board as an independent director.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Collaboration in healthcare delivers remarkable outcomes. Such was the case at the first ever collaborative conference for health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, public health, and health equity. Embrace an Equity-First Mindset.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Yet, privacy laws and a fragmented market have kept the healthcare industry from reaping generative AI’s full potential — until now. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ) is a federal law that safeguards sensitive patient health information (PHI) from being disclosed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2023

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

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). 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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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

One of the HIPAA-compliant solutions CyncHealth uses to exchange information is Direct Secure Messaging. In our conversation, Alderman sheds light on their recent decision to partner with Secure Exchange Solutions (SES) for Direct messaging and Health Information Service Provider (HISP) services. Tell us what you think.

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