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What is Your Perspective on TEFCA and QHINs?

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Here’s a quick summary of what everyone had to say in the video: Deven McGraw, Head of Data Stewardship and Data Sharing at Invitae – It’s not a replacement for Community HIE but I think it’s an essential tool for making sure that there’s nationwide exchange.

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Orion Health launches new healthcare AI-enabled patient navigation services

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The tools are designed to streamline care and tasks for overburdened healthcare workers and reduce reliance on emergency departments, the company says. It includes a symptom assessment tool enhanced with artificial intelligence that can help guide platform users to more targeted information and advice on available care.

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ECRI, EHR Association put forth safety practices for behavioral health IT

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

ECRI's Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety is working with the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association chart some of the common challenges involved in integrating behavioral health systems with primary care EHRs. Optimize clinical documentation for behavioral health and primary care integration.

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Bonus Features – December 11, 2022 – CMS holds off on good faith estimate enforcement, 61% of patients see primary care moving out of the doctor’s office, and more

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 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.

Primary Care

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Weekly Roundup – August 27, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 27, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Like it or not, fax is still part of today’s solution to healthcare’s interoperability problem.

HIE

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Bonus Features – October 9, 2022 – Optum completes Change Healthcare acquisition, interest in flu shots is declining, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 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. Partnerships.

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Bonus Features – February 19, 2023 – 80% of orgs collect SDOH data but struggle to make use of it, 2 in 3 cybersecurity pros say their orgs underestimate threats, and more

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

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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Bonus Features – February 18, 2024 – 89% of patients want a single platform for managing their health, 70% of organizations interested in AI plan to adopt solutions from their EHR vendors, plus 27 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

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.

EHR

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Bonus Features – December 11, 2022 – CMS holds off on good faith estimate enforcement, 61% of patients see primary care moving out of the doctor’s office, and much more

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 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.

Primary Care

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Weekly Roundup – March 18, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. The combination of healthcare-specific ontologies and data set gaps make fully automated healthcare data harmonization difficult.

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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The integrated EHR automatically includes patient history and clinical information with the outpatient EHR used by primary care providers and specialists, including order-entry capability for follow-up, medication reconciliation, secure messaging and notifications to outpatient providers that patients had been hospitalized.

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Weekly Roundup – September 24, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. NYU Langone Health is building an AI tool to rank the level of care that a patients in the hospital needs. Critically, professor Vincent J.

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Bonus Features – August 28, 2022 – Epic data shows only 5% of OD patients get tested for fentanyl, 40% of clinicians plan to add AI to their day-to-day work, and more

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 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.

HIE

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HIMSS CEO: How to capitalize on an 'exponential growth' in digital innovation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We've done a great job, the United States, of developing components of HIE. They're not necessarily sitting there, one in a hospital, one in primary care. I want to make sure that all the data that needs to be associated with me is being associated," Wolf added. "People have records, but they're pockets.

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Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

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. Staffing issues, record losses, and burnout continued to plague the healthcare industry in 2022. Healthcare Information Exchanges (HIEs) will continue to evolve in 2023.

Health IT

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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

There are hospitals within the same healthcare system in many places with disparate EHRs which do not talk to each other or exchange information. Increasing healthcare consolidation of hospitals has exacerbated the problem of lack of interoperability. I agree that traditional trials are neither practical nor necessary for most tools.

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Connected Health Pulse

What is Your Perspective on TEFCA and QHINs?

Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

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Orion Health launches new healthcare AI-enabled patient navigation services

ECRI, EHR Association put forth safety practices for behavioral health IT

Bonus Features – December 11, 2022 – CMS holds off on good faith estimate enforcement, 61% of patients see primary care moving out of the doctor’s office, and more

Weekly Roundup – August 27, 2022

Bonus Features – October 9, 2022 – Optum completes Change Healthcare acquisition, interest in flu shots is declining, and more

Bonus Features – February 19, 2023 – 80% of orgs collect SDOH data but struggle to make use of it, 2 in 3 cybersecurity pros say their orgs underestimate threats, and more

Bonus Features – February 18, 2024 – 89% of patients want a single platform for managing their health, 70% of organizations interested in AI plan to adopt solutions from their EHR vendors, plus 27 more stories

Bonus Features – December 11, 2022 – CMS holds off on good faith estimate enforcement, 61% of patients see primary care moving out of the doctor’s office, and much more

Weekly Roundup – March 18, 2023

Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Weekly Roundup – September 24, 2022

Bonus Features – August 28, 2022 – Epic data shows only 5% of OD patients get tested for fentanyl, 40% of clinicians plan to add AI to their day-to-day work, and more

HIMSS CEO: How to capitalize on an 'exponential growth' in digital innovation

Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

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