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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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Asynchronous video for pre-op boosts patient and staff experience

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"And HCT are healthcare operations experts. " MEETING THE CHALLENGE TBRHSC automated the pre-op messaging for all surgeries across Northwestern Ontario surgical hospitals. "The vendor's project management and guidance has been really impactful to our leadership team," she added.

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

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Lastly, most healthcare IT expenditure over the last ten years has been focused on digitizing patient records, and investment in cybersecurity capability has lagged other industries. Threat actors know healthcare is a prime target for extortion and target them accordingly.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

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"2020 showed us that years of commitment to digital health and, specifically, the digital patient and clinician experience allowed NYU Langone to scale to meet the needs of our patients as well as clinicians," he said. "In the six years prior to the pandemic, we slowly were shifting healthcare IT at AGH," he reported.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

To help shed a light on these topics, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to see what health IT trends they believe deserve more attention. One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies. So what trend isn’t being talked about enough?

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

Healthcare IT Today

As inpatient telemedicine experiences rapid growth within hospitals, it presents unique challenges to Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Security Officers (CSOs), particularly regarding potential security risks associated with medical devices and other hardware.

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How Employer Health Plans Can Utilize Telehealth as a Value-Added Service

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Most employers who can embrace these benefits are already doing so: Healthcare IT News ’ Bill Siwicki points to a survey finding that “virtually all employers (96 percent)” are offering some form of telehealth in 2018 if allowed to do so by state law. Keeping hospital admissions to a minimum. Improving general employee satisfaction.