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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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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"The industry has been moving to cloud-based services, and those services are being leveraged now. "If an organization is implementing an on-premises system, it's been put to the side unless it's absolutely critical," Moore added. There's still an amount of work being done in the cloud."

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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint, Inc. 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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Where telemedicine is headed now that the PHE has ended

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This also happens to coincide with the World Health Organization declaring an end to the COVID-19 global health emergency. What can be expected in healthcare and health IT now that the PHE has ended, and what does this mean for the future of telehealth? The fact is nothing that dramatic happened on the day the PHE ended.

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Direct Recruiters, Inc. and INNOVA People Merge to Launch Healthcare and Tech Staffing Divisions

Healthcare IT Today

CEO Joel Slenning, drawing from over two decades of experience, alongside the INNOVA People team, will leverage their distinctive technology stack and artificial intelligence platform, which have cemented the firm’s reputation as a crucial staffing ally for the healthcare and technology industries. “We

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic has put the healthcare industry through the wringer. Eric Jimenez, CIO at Artesia General Hospital in Artesia, New Mexico. Dr. Paul Testa, chief medical information officer at NYU Langone Health in New York City. "As I look back at 2020, innovation in the healthcare industry was accelerated.

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Will Oracle save the day with its EHR database?

David Chou

In a move that promises to shake up the healthcare industry, Oracle this month announced a bold vision after acquiring health IT giant Cerner for more than $28 billion. The combined companies will soon create a national health records database that pulls data from thousands of hospitals, said Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison.

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