Healthcare IT, Leadership, Patient Experience and Public Health

Transforming Chronic Care Management: A Comprehensive, Technology-Driven Approach

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Mental Health Integration : With approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. experiencing mental illness each year, integrating mental health into chronic disease management is a public health imperative. Optimized Care Coordination: Enhancing communication tools and collaborative strategies for better patient outcomes.

Patient Experience

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Weekly Roundup – December 9, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 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. Read more… What Area of Healthcare Needs More Investment ? At HLTH, we asked the Healthcare IT Today community to weigh in on this important topic.

EHR

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New efforts try to balance nurse staffing ratios with access to care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

Healthcare organizations are "greatly interested" in innovations that can modernize nursing and solve the challenge, according to Tom Leary, senior vice president and head of government relations at HIMSS, the parent company of Healthcare IT News. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

Nursing

Nursing Healthcare IT Telehealth Leadership

AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.

EHR

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Milwaukee County Addresses Health Equity with Data and GIS Technology

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

They are now incorporating an equity lens into other areas of public health. Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity recently to sit down with Zachary Swingen, Lead GIS Coordinator at Milwaukee County Office of Emergency Management. We wanted to learn more about their pioneering work combining health equity and GIS technology.

Public Health

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Maximizing Healthcare Data Starts with a Human-Centric Approach

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Chris Anello, Director of Digital Platforms at iTech AG The COVID-19 pandemic pushed healthcare organizations to the edge and exposed both challenges and opportunities related to public health data.

Public Health

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Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 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.

Digital Health

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Former CMS chief of staff previews 4 areas of value-based care in 2022

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Value-based care continues to take root in healthcare. This is why, as the new year approaches, Healthcare IT News has sat down with an expert in value-based care to get his views on what 2022 will hold for the payment system. Team-based care means that patients are at the center of care delivery. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

Accountable Care

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Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 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.

Telehealth

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Steadfast Commitment to HIE Opens the Door for Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Collaboration in healthcare delivers remarkable outcomes. Such was the case at the first ever collaborative conference for health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, public health, and health equity. Embrace an Equity-First Mindset.

HIE

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Healthcare Chatbot Explosion on The Way?

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Providers have also begun testing chatbot applications to improve patient communication. One interesting case comes from my colleague Colin Hung, who recently shared the story of how a chatbot helped stem a crisis at Piedmont Healthcare.

Public Health

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data. Strategic Solution Group, LLC (SSG) has a low-code software platform called Casetivity. do so in different ways and often have incomplete data.

Health Data

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COVID-19 Is Ushering in a Consumer Revolution in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2020

We’ve collectively journeyed from shelter-in-place, to cautious reopening, to varying levels of comfort with (and adherence to) public health practices designed to keep us safe while we figure out […]. We’re now several months into navigating our next normal.

Public Health

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CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

The pandemic has created an atmosphere in healthcare unlike anything seen before in modern times. It has set the stage for CIOs and other health IT executives to rethink their approach to accomplishing new tasks. In fact, growth has been exponential, and it has been very positive in terms of making the patient experience even better."

Telehealth

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Leveraging Data to Reduce Member Churn, Maintain Access to Care, and Avoid Care Gaps as a Result of the Medicaid Redetermination Process

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 26, 2023

The following is a guest article by Ashley Perry, MPH, Chief Strategy and Solutions Officer at Socially Determined When Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 , it decoupled the Public Health Emergency (PHE) from the Medicaid program’s continuous enrollment provision, which was implemented as part of the PHE in March 2020.

Public Health

Public Health Patient Experience Healthcare IT Leadership

Patient Engagement and Patient Portals by 2030

Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Promoting preventive care and population health: Patient portals can be used to promote preventive care and population health. For example, patients can use their portals to receive reminders for vaccinations and screenings. Visit [link] What exactly is patient engagement? Visit [link]

Health Information

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Paxlovid Paradox, Part 2: An Ideal Scenario

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2022

Now let’s look toward the future: what we do ideally if we had an epidemic and a treatment we wanted to administer quickly to patients? The first article in this three-part series criticized the conditions of COVID-19 treatment in the United States.

Patient Experience

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Telehealth and VR – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. 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. Brianna Zink, RN, MSN, Sr.

Health IT

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Cybersecurity: Hoping for the Best, but Preparing for the Worst

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

We reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for these answers. The following is what they had to say on how to stay safe and can be used as a little check list for your healthcare cybersecurity efforts. Healthcare IT companies regularly release updates to fix identified vulnerabilities.

Healthcare Cybersecurity

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Healthcare Interoperability, Data, and Cloud – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. 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.

Interoperability

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The Ins and Outs of Healthcare Communication Platforms

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

How do you maintain the security and privacy of your patient’s health information as cyberattacks continue to climb? In the search for some of these answers to help ease your burden, we have reached out to our incredibly brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights on communication platforms.

HIPAA

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). That data can reveal important information that might not make it into the patient’s own record, such as an emergency room visit.

Public Health

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Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. 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. 2023 was a tipping point for telehealth treatment.

Health IT

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Let’s Think of Patient-Centered Care, Not Value-Based Care

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Gradually, payers and clinicians are incorporating social determinants of health into their care, including attempts to empathize with the cultural views and immediate surroundings of the patients. Modern medicine must treat communities, not individual patients.

Public Health

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Uses of AI in Healthcare – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. 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.

Health IT

Health IT Mental health Interoperability Patient Experience

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Transforming Chronic Care Management: A Comprehensive, Technology-Driven Approach

Weekly Roundup – December 9, 2023

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New efforts try to balance nurse staffing ratios with access to care

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Milwaukee County Addresses Health Equity with Data and GIS Technology

Maximizing Healthcare Data Starts with a Human-Centric Approach

Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes, and more

Former CMS chief of staff previews 4 areas of value-based care in 2022

Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

Steadfast Commitment to HIE Opens the Door for Health Equity

Healthcare Chatbot Explosion on The Way?

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

COVID-19 Is Ushering in a Consumer Revolution in Healthcare

CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools

Leveraging Data to Reduce Member Churn, Maintain Access to Care, and Avoid Care Gaps as a Result of the Medicaid Redetermination Process

Patient Engagement and Patient Portals by 2030

Paxlovid Paradox, Part 2: An Ideal Scenario

Telehealth and VR – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Cybersecurity: Hoping for the Best, but Preparing for the Worst

Healthcare Interoperability, Data, and Cloud – 2024 Health IT Predictions

The Ins and Outs of Healthcare Communication Platforms

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

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Let’s Think of Patient-Centered Care, Not Value-Based Care

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