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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

But in a time when our industry is facing high staff overtime and burnout, there’s simply no way that we can be aware of everything happening in health IT. What should be trending right now in health IT? One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

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. There will be a separate notice of proposed rulemaking directed at healthcare providers that should be coming out in the near future.

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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The coronavirus pandemic is throwing a new factor into hospitals' calculations about how to proceed with current and future healthcare IT implementations. " Fred Bazzoli is a contributing writer to Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @fbazzoli.

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How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Jim Jirjis, Chief Health Information Officer at HCA to discuss the value of data quality in healthcare and find out more about the link between their sepsis project and better emergency preparedness. That is a much more complex data quality challenge.”

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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center boosts telehealth with $600K from the FCC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" In the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center expanded its platform and developed an integrated nurse triage telehealth solution pilot to prevent critical care patients from ending up in the ER. There are numerous vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Doctors Love Alerts Until They Don’t

Healthcare IT Today

Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. Far too often the primary care doctor never learns about these health issues that are addressed at hospitals. It’s basically HIPAA secure email for doctors.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The greatest health IT learning of 2020 in the face of COVID-19 has been the profound want of patients and clinicians to connect digitally, said Testa of NYU Langone Health. "In the six years prior to the pandemic, we slowly were shifting healthcare IT at AGH," he reported. Making digital connection the new normal.