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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

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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. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

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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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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

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A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This is at the core of population health.

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

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Joel Slenning and INNOVA People are the ideal partner based on their existing footprint in the hospital IT space. Additionally, their expertise in several other areas of hospital staffing will allow us to become a complete solution for our clients. shared Dan Charney, President and CEO at DRI.

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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.” Tell us what you think.

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Asynchronous video for pre-op boosts patient and staff experience

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" MEETING THE CHALLENGE TBRHSC automated the pre-op messaging for all surgeries across Northwestern Ontario surgical hospitals. " Follow Bill's HIT coverage on LinkedIn: Bill Siwicki Email him: bsiwicki@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. They understand us and what we are trying to do."

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Orlando Health to launch Hospital Care at Home program

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Mayo Clinic Platform President Dr. John Halamka has said that he sees a healthcare future based around "virtualist centers in what were formerly known as hospitals. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. It's going to be the emergency department for heart attacks or strokes. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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