Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2021

Google is expanding its pilot of Care Studio, a new tool designed to help clinicians get to the information they need more easily. The tool, which comes from the Google Health team, takes advantage of its experience in organizing complex health information.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 21, 2023

The agencies contacted 130 health systems and telehealth providers by mail to emphasize the potential HIPAA risks of using Meta/Facebook pixel and Google Analytics tracking tools that may be "impermissibly disclosing" protected health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Two health systems have become the latest healthcare organizations to name a web tracking tool created by Meta (formerly Facebook) as responsible for their data breach. This comes as the social media giant faces a growing number of lawsuits alleging that the tool improperly collects and sells sensitive patient health information.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

One of the most significant applications of healthcare information technology is the exchange of health information among disparate clinical information systems and otherwise unaffiliated care providers. The Health Information Exchange model presented is an Infrastructure, it is not constraining the content.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 10, 2021

In the USA and elsewhere, there are Document Sharing based Health Information Exchanges. They also have mature testing tools, events, and have been specialized for many projects. These exchanges have been built up over the past ten or so years.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 2, 2020

With clinical documentation integrity (CDI) professionals playing a key role in efforts to “flatten the curve” of the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has developed tools designed to ease administrative burdens […].

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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. Some ready-made CSS tools that states will find useful include: .

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NiftyHMS

JULY 18, 2023

Managing a clinic’s social media presence and digital identity can be a time-consuming task, but there are several AI-powered tools that can help streamline the process. Here are some AI tools that can assist you in managing your clinic’s social media presence: Wepik : A powerful text-to-image tool for medical professionals.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The 21 st Century Cures Act codifies immediate access to health information for patients. There is little value for patients to access health information they cannot understand. It’s about giving patients the tools and confidence to fully participate in their care alongside providers.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Both companies have been leveraging on digital platforms to broaden the reach and access to health information tools.

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TheraNest

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

When it comes to getting clients/patients involved in their care, providers have more tools than ever at their fingertips. Digital intake changes how behavioral health providers collect the patient health information to offer the best care. The post Why Intake Tools Matter in EHRs appeared first on TheraNest.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Hospitals are taking their campaign against the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’) “rule for thee but not for me” crackdown on third-party web trackers to the courts. |

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

At a macro level, Civitas Networks for Health brings together over 170 member organizations from across the country, each committed to transforming healthcare through data-driven insights and multi-stakeholder health improvement.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

. “It is ironic,” they write, “that although patients (and their physicians) still have difficulty obtaining complete medical record information in a timely fashion, the HIPAA Privacy Rule permits massive troves of patients digital health data to traverse the medical-industrial complex unmonitored and unregulated.”

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 22, 2022

When it comes to healthcare and patient monitoring, there are more tools available, and they have gotten a lot easier to use. In this article, we will provide some tips for choosing the right RPM tool for your clinic or hospital. It’s important to choose a tool that is designed to meet the specific needs of your patients.

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KevinMD

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Nearly all hospitals and 80 percent of medical practices use electronic health records (EHRs), presumably to help improve access to health information and increase productivity. The problem is that none of these digital tools were designed specifically to advance the practice of good medicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

New tools from the American Telemedicine Association can help assess a community's digital infrastructure and estimate the cost of telehealth-based clinical or social interventions to show how virtual care can impact healthcare disparities. " she said in a statement.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2024

I talked recenly with Brent Francom, senior product manager at Smarty , about efforts to get the health care field to adopt the standard and tools for making it work smoothly. Smarty creates tools for address standardization used by many industries, such as real estate and retail.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The title of the report, “Health on Demand,” speaks to the first bar chart. Overall, company leadership is more bullish on digital health tools compared with workers who index relatively lower than management — by just a bit. Four in ten people would also trade health information to access more convenient care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

And most patients would also want access to information on their mental, behavioral, and substance use history. A newer category of personal health information, social determinants of health, garners well over one-half of Americans’ interest in access that data. One pillar of that trust is privacy.

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MedTech Boston

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Two Massachusetts public agencies, the Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech ( MeHI ) and the Center for Health Information and Analysis (. The post The ‘Price is Your Right’ Challenge Launches to Drive Patient Use of Cost Transparency Tools appeared first on MedTech Boston.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The legislation, which is supported by several industry representatives including athenahealth, Epic, IBM and Teladoc Health, would establish a commission tasked with providing recommendations to Congress about updates to health information privacy laws. "HIPAA must be updated for the modern day. And the U.S.

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iSALUS Healthcare

JUNE 20, 2018

There are tools and methods available that make patient engagement a simple process. Below are a few tools that you can use to get started. Tools You Can Use to Increase Patient Engagement 1) Patient Portal The first tool to increase patient engagement at your practice is the patient portal.

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FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 11, 2019

leads in aspects of health information technology, its primary care physicians still struggle to coordinate patient care and communicate with other health and social service providers, according to a new study. While the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

doctors, driven by turnover and understaffing, compassion fatigue, and challenges using digital tools — think EHRs. Clinicians’ feeling burnout is the top morale challenge facing U.S.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 31, 2023

To assist health plans with promoting well-being to their members, PDHI will be tailoring a variety of digital health solutions for Zipari’s clients, including its NCQA Wellness and Health Promotion (WHP) certified health appraisal and self-management tools.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Structural challenges, especially painful due to EHR barriers — with the promise of APIs (application programming interfaces) and the ongoing development of clinical decision support tools. Doing so is central to building trust between patients, families, and providers.

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hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

and Cedars-Sinai Health, sees health information technology on the verge of major breakthroughs in usability and capabilities, as HIMSS19 kicks off in Orlando Scott Weingarten, M.D., of Premier Inc.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

health care with the team at RVO Health — the creative and hard-working folks who serve up health information and digital tools that empower consumers and clinicians to inform and streamline health care. .” I had the opportunity yesterday (22nd February) to discuss the cost of U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Some of the key behaviors Deloitte gauged to measure health care consumerism were, Increasing use of technology and willingness to share personal health information. Use of tools for prescription drugs and self-care. Interest in and use of virtual care/telehealth. Levels of self-efficacy and prevention.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Regarding their level of digital health competency, many are found to be capable of searching for health information and using it to practice a healthy lifestyle while there is low competency in using health information for disease and health management. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In addition to streamlining the process of health ID cards for payers, it will be easier for consumers to access and share their health information when and where they need — and connect more seamlessly to personalized digital navigation tools that help them find and access the right care.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2021

Fax continues to be a common method for sharing health information between providers. Thankfully there are tools and technologies that can unlock […]. Although EHRs have almost eliminated the use of paper charts, the same cannot be said for faxes.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Coming together under the Verisma brand, the combined company provides faster turnaround times through automation, expanded services to manage compliance requirements, and advanced tools to improve patient experience. ScanSTAT is a proud partner to some of the industry’s best electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 16, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Dr. Chris Hobson, chief medical officer, Orion Health. Health information exchanges (HIEs) represent a key piece of health information technology and are ideal tools to assist providers and managers in flattening the COVID-19 case […].

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