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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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

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

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 Today

DECEMBER 17, 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 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

AUGUST 10, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Senior Solutions Architect – HIE position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Here’s a description of the position: Company: TransForm Shared Service Organization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 21, 2020

"BioTelemetry’s leadership in the large and fast growing ambulatory cardiac diagnostics and monitoring market complements our leading position in the hospital. The COVID-19 crisis has pushed the utility of remote patient monitoring into the spotlight, including for chronic health conditions. Capper in a statement.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2021

The following is a guest article by Stephanie Jamison, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Greenway Health. Since its passage in late 2016, the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act has been setting the stage to reform the healthcare sector.

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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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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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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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JULY 21, 2021

Fenway Community Health Center , which intends to improve healthcare through increasing capacity, expanding access, improving outcomes and reducing costs, particularly regarding the LGBTQ community. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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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

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 News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

At the same time, 48% percent of respondents said they'd be unlikely to use virtual care again if their own protected health information was compromised due to a telemedicine-related breach – women (54%) more so than men (41%). Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. THE LARGER TREND.

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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

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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MARCH 13, 2023

For the 50th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with David T. Ford, VP of Health Information Technology at California Medical Association (CMA). With the big spring CMA Health IT Conference coming up on May 22nd, Ford kicks the episode off with sharing what he expects the hot topics to be.

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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

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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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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AUGUST 18, 2023

To learn more about this announcement we sat down with two leaders at 3M and AWS to talk about the collaboration that led to AWS HealthScribe: Detlef Koll, vice president of global research and development for 3M Health Information Systems , and Tehsin Syed, general manager of Health AI at Amazon Web Services.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2020

Amazon has quietly struck a data-sharing deal with England’s National Health Service giving it free access to a range of health data from British consumers. While the trove of data Amazon captured may not be as rich as those gathered by, say, Google or Apple, it’s still a pretty sweet deal, especially given that few […].

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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. 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

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The following is a guest article by Tom Romeo, General Manager of Healthcare IT at Quest Diagnostics. Effective content management can help hospitals, health systems, and large ambulatory groups turn piles of paper and digital content into actionable data. About Tom Romeo.

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Healthcare IT Today

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. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

But the administrative costs for providers to share this information keep escalating. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. With a master’s degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

HTI-1 Final Rule Appropriately, we’ve been breaking down what health IT and EHR vendors need to expect when it comes to HTI-1 in our Healthcare Regulatory Talk series. So, the final HTI-1 rule shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to readers of Healthcare IT Today.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In January, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) became a reality, and in October applications opened for organizations seeking designation as Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs). Already, several large networks – including mine – have signaled their intent to apply.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 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

JANUARY 12, 2024

For example, in the healthcare industry, we have to abide by HIPAA — a law that helps protect the privacy and security of people’s health information. We can’t serve our patients if we don’t ensure that protected health information (PHI) is kept private.

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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

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.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2023

We can’t talk about healthcare 24/7, the best we can do is pick the most important things for today and leave the rest for the future. At the HFMA Annual conference we talked with our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights on what more people need to be focused on in healthcare right now.

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