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. Health organizations are making it a strategic priority to extract more value from the volumes of data they’re moving to the cloud. One big health data target in 2024? Training AI models on all that data.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2023

As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience in compliance and program development! If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply.

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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. Both HIPAA and related state laws create strict guidelines and restrictions on collecting, using, and maintaining patient-protected health information.

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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. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Health Equity and SDoH. Healthcare AI. Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care. Healthcare Workforce. Telehealth and RPM.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

Director at NTT DATA On February 8, 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1) Final Rule in the Federal Register, which took effect on March 11, 2024. The following is a guest article by Nitin Kunte, Sr.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

An incident response plan is essential to provide impacted parties with a clear understanding of the protected health information (PHI) and/or electronically protected health information (ePHI) that was compromised, when the incident occurred, and what action is being taken by the organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 31, 2023

Suddenly, a user with minimal computer literacy and no programming or data science training whatsoever could ask an AI-based application to create a response to a question in simple everyday language, regardless of complexity of the underlying subject matter. The release of GPT3 in late 2022 changed all of that.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ) is a federal law that safeguards sensitive patient health information (PHI) from being disclosed. Up to now, HIPAA-compliant data security and generative AI haven’t gone hand-in-hand as AI is trained on large datasets centrally and often by third parties.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

About Verisma With Verisma® services and technology, health information managers elevate their organization’s method of securely disclosing confidential information to patients, attorneys, and other third parties. ScanSTAT is a proud partner to some of the industry’s best electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2024

These formats include Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), used for the electronic exchange of clinical health information, and Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC), which provides a common language for laboratory tests and clinical measures.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In a press release issued at the time of the settlement, then OCR Director, Roger Severino stated, “People need to trust that their private health information will remain exactly that; private. In another settlement announced in 2017, 21st Century Oncology, Inc. 21CO) faced a $2.3

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sriram Rajagopalan , Enterprise Agile Evangelist at Inflectra Today’s most significant risk regarding security and privacy issues in health services is consumers’ need for more awareness of personal health information. What do I mean? So, I recommend the steps below, urging all patients to practice extreme care.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Reps Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (MATCH IT) Act of 2024 , which would standardize the way demographic information is entered into certified health IT products and ensure more precise patient matches.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2018

We who work in healthcare must pose the questions: going forward, how trusting will patients, consumers and caregivers be sharing their personal health information (PHI)? Health information breaches are more highly valued by cyber-attackers as they are worth more than, say, consumers’ bank account or credit card identities.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

Staying abreast of these changes requires constant monitoring, training, and adaptation. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets standards for protecting sensitive patient information and ensuring the privacy and security of protected health information (PHI).

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But when dealing with all of the many things that providers do and the highly important health information about patients, something as simple as selecting a communication platform becomes a very tricky situation. How do you maintain the security and privacy of your patient’s health information as cyberattacks continue to climb?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Such was the case at the first ever collaborative conference for health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, public health, and health equity. The four-day summit focused on the evolving role of HIE, new interoperability successes and the valuable implications of harnessing data to advance health equity.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In all these cases, well-trained AI can work much faster and more cheaply than a human consultant. MDClone can take a data set on real patients and generate a synthetic data set of fake people that contains no personal health information (PHI) but still reveals that limited set of dimensions.

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 24, 2024

Exec Summary: Personal health large language models (LLMs) are an exciting new area in healthcare that uses AI to provide users with personalised guidance and support. Here's a breakdown of how they work and their potential: What exactly are Personal health LLMs? What can Personal health LLMs do? Subscribe Today!

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

Detlef Koll, Vice President Global R&D at 3M Health Information Systems Individual users will need to be diligent in reviewing draft notes to avoid incorrect or incomplete capture of information. Without proper oversight and reviews, overreliance on this technology could lead to incorrect prescriptions and treatments.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

It was an early adopter of electronic health records and sponsored one of New York State's first health information exchanges. In 2018, Maimonides' leadership established digital health as a strategic priority for the medical center. THE PROBLEM. Click here to read the special report. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

They handle data like protected health information (PHI), intellectual property (IP), clinical trial data and payment card data, giving attackers many options to cash in, and healthcare is a critical infrastructure industry that can be hardest hit by ransomware attacks. Conduct cybersecurity training for employees.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Bill Young, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at SYSTRAN Keeping patient data confidential and secure remains a major healthcare challenge today, more than 25 years after the introduction of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act or HIPAA.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Rahul Sharma, CEO of HSBlox , points out that doctors haven’t been trained to use the Z codes, but that training will improve. The modern health information API, FHIR, includes the Gender Harmony taxonomy developed by HL7.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Accelerating future healthcare innovation on Microsoft Azure Healthcare data must be clean and use common terminology standards in order to train AI applications, to realize the promise of value-based care, or to simply share vital patient data across organizations. Applying AI to harvest insights from health data and train future AI models.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 3, 2023

As such, risk adjustment, condition management, and payment integrity are top areas of technology investment Online learning options and flexible scheduling re the two most important features of workforce training programs , according to a recent survey from Relias.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2023

The group also launched a health equity survey , with the results to be announced at ViVE in Nashville in March. ONC’s latest data brief indicated that, as of the end of 2021, more than 60% of hospitals are actively engaged in sharing health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2022

Epic has plans to join TEFCA as an inaugural Qualified Health Information Network. Read more… Virtual Reality as a Tool in Medical Training. John talked to Osso VR co-founder Justin Barad and orthopedic surgeon Cory Calendine, MD about the key role of VR in training surgeons.

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Medicine and Technology

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Want to improve health care in rural communities? Be a part of the Rural Health IT Workforce Program.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2024

Lack of Training – Rapid changes in software may outstrip the training provided to staff, leading to mistakes in using electronic systems effectively. Human Error – busy healthcare professionals may make mistakes in data entry, diagnosis coding, or interpretation, especially in high-stress environments like emergency rooms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. "Our digital health workshops are taught by Denver Health’s virtual care navigation team, which supports broader patient navigation and education through all our virtual care services at Denver Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 19, 2023

AI algorithms that are trained on limited or poorly representative data sets can exhibit signs of bias in their results, skewing decision-making and possibly leading to ethnic, gender, and social discrimination and other unintentional consequences for the patients they serve.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

the workgroup will explore consumers’ barriers to accessing, using, and sharing their health information. F utureRX launched its platform for health plans and PBMs , with modules for uses cases ranging from prior authorization to drug management. Process automation company D14.AI

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

Health data analytics also facilitates population health management, identifying trends, and patterns to optimize preventive care and public health interventions. Additionally, healthcare professionals need to be trained in the use of informatics tools and technologies to maximize their benefits. What is Health IT?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For example, unstructured conversational data — recorded conversations occurring thousands of times daily across healthcare organizations worldwide — provides a wealth of information and insights. Because AI can unintentionally exacerbate existing health inequalities, it’s paramount for data sets to be as objective as possible.

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