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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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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

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The digital transformation in healthcare was elevated to a new level in 2020 as the industry had to rapidly roll out digital technologies like telehealth and help move the workforce to remote work, said Jimenez of Artesia General Hospital. "There are miles between training and mastery. " Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Budget 2024: Private hospitals tapped to provide psychiatric telehealth amid crisis

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The Australian government claims it has been committed to addressing the supply and demand crisis in the sector by pursuing reforms and making significant investments in both workforce training and retention and filling gaps in and raising mental healthcare access.

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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. Conduct cybersecurity training for employees.

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TikTok Owner Buys China Hospital Chain

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While it’s interesting to see ByteDance acquire a hospital, it’s likely not connected to TikTok at all (Side Note: Be sure to follow @healthcareittoday on TikTok ). If you want to address healthcare challenges, you need more than just an app. It’s even more powerful when connected to a trained professional.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

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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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NTIA hands over $45B to state broadband offices

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billion to communities to help residents with training, digital literacy, and fighting the digital divide. Telehealth can harness and focus broadband and hospital IT investments into digital advancements for urban and rural communities. Complementing BEAD is the Digital Equity Act program that is granting $2.5