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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.

Health IT 101
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Nurses: The Force for Change

Mobile Health Matters

Frequently the organizers of hospitals’ better practice and outcomes teams, nurses are often the source of innovative ideas that improve workflows and internal processes. It is vital that nurses feel empowered to influence leadership and help implement large-scale changes that will improve patient care.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. 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.

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

Healthcare IT Today

When they finally have a chance to check their emails, they are frequently multitasking or rushing between meetings and discussions with colleagues. One of hospital IT’s traditional concerns – hospital data stored in a vendor’s data center – can be a source of relief in a ransomware attack.

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Will 2024 see a reboot of Google Glass-style headsets in Healthcare?

Lloyd Price

Challenges to a 2024 reboot: Regulatory hurdles: Medical devices need to meet strict safety and privacy regulations, which could delay the approval and adoption of Glass in healthcare settings. Medical training: Trainees could use Glass to visualize procedures and anatomy in 3D,enhancing their learning experience.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. Regulators have a greater success rate when engaging industry experts to develop rules in health IT.

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Secure Your Hospital’s Future: The Critical Need for Robust Telemedicine Security

Healthcare IT Today

The risk of security breaches through indirect access to other systems, like telemedicine solutions, can expose the entire health system. Verify, then trust to lower risk and increase the sustained pace of innovation, thereby improving the cost and care of patients in the hospital.