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 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

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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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 News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Last month, Bupa Arabia announced the launch of its telehealth platform that specialises “value-added healthcare services such as doctor-patient video consultations [telemedicine] and appointment booking” Bupa Arabia COO, Mohamed El Missaoui, said at the time: “Digital transformation is a key pillar in our strategy.

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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. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. THE PROBLEM.

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2023

What isn’t being talked about enough when it comes to sharing health data? At the recent Civitas Conference, we took the time to ask various members of our talented Healthcare IT Today Community to see where their thoughts were on this subject. The video below is a compilation of their answers.

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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. Establish Trust, Yield Critical Data.

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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

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

JANUARY 13, 2023

The following is a guest article by Sonia Chambers, Executive Director at West Virginia Health Information Network. Infrastructure is available nationally for states to leverage and customize locally for their unique Health Information Exchange needs.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2023

We gathered up some of our brilliant members of the Healthcare IT Today Community to get their perspective. How are health data utilities evolving? But as we talk about it, more and more HIE organizations have started to use it and the concept has been embraced by many. Where are we now with it and where do we see it heading?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2023

Engaging in Digital Transformation As healthcare moves to new venues and consumers continue to engage in new technology, healthcare providers must be able to digitally transform to increase access and solve challenges. Reducing operational inefficiencies can be accomplished by addressing legacy IT systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2023

In a recent Perspectives on Health Information Management article posted by the National Institutes of Medicine, “improving system usability and proper use” was cited as a valuable strategy to reduce this type of EHR risk.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This will be driven by a number of factors, including the increasing availability of high-speed internet, the growing popularity of mobile devices, and the government's efforts to promote the use of health information technology (HIT). Buy Side, Sell Side, Growth and Strategy mandates - Email lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2023

Digital Innovation and Artificial Intelligence are two huge topics recently in the world of Healthcare IT. We reached out to the Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights on this topic. Revenue cycle leaders can use this analysis to understand gaps in care and develop patient-focused investment strategies.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Getting ready to meet compliance standards is a survival tactic; important for today, but not a strategy for success in the long run. A compliance strategy, for example, enables clinicians to share information and provide ongoing feedback as the standard requires.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Healthcare firms have long been targets for cyber criminals. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2023

The following is a guest article by Steven Lazer, Global Healthcare & Life Sciences CTO, Alex Long, Head of Life Sciences Sales Strategy, and Michael Giannopoulos, Healthcare Global CISO and CTO for the Americas at Dell Technologies. About Alex Long Alex Long is the Head of Life Sciences Sales Strategy at Dell Technologies.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2023

The organization’s 5,000+ physicians, who are treating people across the socioeconomic spectrum, believe that comprehensive health information is crucial to deliver high-quality care for their patients. Any patient should be able to see a physician or care provider without spending valuable time recounting their history.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

To get a better idea on what policies and regulations you need to be aware of and just how to get access to innovation funding, we reached out to our ever so talented Healthcare IT Today community for their insights and knowledge. Here is what they had to say. Since the U.S. So much to consider here!

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Risks Healthcare Organizations Face in this New Mobile-First Environment The healthcare sector has always been a prime target for cybercriminals. Organizations should employ mobile-first strategies that can adapt to these new challenges. and sadly, often cannot be replaced.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Yet, despite the stakes, many healthcare organizations aren’t as well-protected as they could be. For instance, only 24% of healthcare organizations have multi-factor authentication (MFA) policies in place, which is an essential component of a modern security strategy.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Even while the pandemic continues, healthcare provider organizations have begun to stabilize these infrastructures and revisit the technologies and workflows deployed earlier in the crisis and turn them into standard practices. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 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

APRIL 27, 2023

Essentially, we need a way to have our cake (access raw health data to drive life-saving advances in medical care) and eat it too (maintain said data’s privacy). Historically, organizations have tried to get around this by using synthetic, abstracted, or pre-anonymized datasets, but that strategy just doesn’t cut it.

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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

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

MARCH 23, 2023

To hear more about the current healthcare cyberattacks , we reached out to our lovely Healthcare IT Today Community. Matthew Sciberras, CISO and VP of Information Security at Invicti Before the pandemic, the most exploitable security vulnerabilities were built into on-premises systems.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Our current healthcare system fails to work with and respect the Latino person’s identities, care needs, and preference.” said Mariza Hardin, co-founder and Head of Strategy and Operations at Zócalo Health. Our services include same-day virtual healthcare appointments and navigation assistance for a monthly fee.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 18, 2023

Ethical Considerations Around Patient Consent The use of large language models in telemedicine may require obtaining patient consent for collecting, storing, and using their personal health information.

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CMS.gov

JULY 18, 2018

At CMS we are putting patients first, and we are moving to break down silos of patient information that is being captured by the system, and depriving the patient the access to the best quality, and most affordable care. The CHIO role will enhance my leadership team, working across CMS, with federal partners including the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

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. Data minimalism can maximize clinical results.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Vice President, Compliance and Program Development position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Easterseals Louisiana Inc. and is in Louisiana, New Orleans.

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