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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

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These new ideas and technologies are only successful, however, if enough people collectively take notice and talk about it in order to make it trend. This then results in certain topics being neglected – regardless of their quality and how much you would personally like to see them trend. FHIR, HL7).

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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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Health systems, care delivery groups, Amazon launch hospital-at-home initiative

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THE LARGER TREND. Patients using home-based care services within 14 days of discharge from hospital are about 25% more likely to avoid readmission within 30 days of discharge. Many healthcare leaders have seen the trend moving in this direction for some time. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media.

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Orlando Health to launch Hospital Care at Home program

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THE LARGER TREND. Given impressive achievements in quality and cost efficiencies at early pioneers such as Johns Hopkins , Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente , more and more hospitals and health systems are launching care-at home programs for both acute and chronic conditions, some tailored to specific clinical use cases.

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Telestroke service reaches rural NSW faster than the metro

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The NSW Telestroke Service has been fully rolled out across New South Wales, transforming healthcare in rural and regional communities. This life-saving service connects patients with a network of specialist stroke doctors via video consultation, managed by Prince of Wales Hospital.

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More Hospitals Achieving Interoperability Goals

Healthcare IT Today

New research from the ONC has found that a meaningful percentage of hospitals are engaged in data sharing, with a growing number making patient health information available from outside sources. Though the data goes back a couple of years, it’s still a worthwhile look at where data sharing trends are among hospitals.

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5 Ways to Close the Cloud Security Gaps in Healthcare

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The following is a guest article by TJ Houske, Senior Vice President of Technology, Operations, and Engineering at OTAVA Ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations doubled in the last five years, according to a new study by JAMA Health Forum. The most common victims have been health clinics.