Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2025

For hospitals, it costs $181 on average to appeal a single claim. Further, many incorrect denials go unappealed by hospitals due to the time and energy required to appeal them.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The former health IT employee at a New York hospital was charged with compromising dozens of coworkers email accounts and stealing their confidential information, the Department of Justice announced on Friday.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 21, 2025

" This forced Chase to retain patients longer than normal, requiring a higher level of care not typically seen in the critical access hospital. "As large health systems became overwhelmed and unable to accept new patients, transferring patients to other facilities became increasingly difficult."

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 15, 2020

IT outsourcing by hospitals has been booming the last couple of months, due in part to the pandemic. Effective outsourcing enables hospital IT staff to […]. The article Five Things Hospitals Should Look For In IT Consulting Firm Partners appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2024

NSW to trial body cameras in hospitals The state government of New South Wales is undertaking a 12-month trial of body-worn cameras in select public hospitals. According to a media statement, the trial seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of the technology in deterring and de-escalating violent incidents in hospitals.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) announced plans to build an independent, freestanding cancer hospital—a first-in-the-region move with rami | The collaboration will yield the Boston area's only free-standing adult cancer hospital.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2024

To be located next to the downtown line of the Bedok North MRT station, the Eastern General Hospital (EGH) Campus comprises the Eastern General Hospital and Eastern Community Hospital. It will provide a range of emergency, inpatient, and outpatient care services, as well as continuing and rehabilitative care services.

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DigitalHealth

MARCH 30, 2023

NHS Lanarkshire has upgraded Multitone Electronics' critical messaging system at The University Hospital Hairmyres in East Kilbride, a hospital it manages.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2023

This life-saving service connects patients with a network of specialist stroke doctors via video consultation, managed by Prince of Wales Hospital. The service has so far delivered treatment to over 3,000 stroke patients at 23 rural and regional hospitals in the state. It provides rapid 24/7 access to stroke diagnosis and treatment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2024

Hospital IT was big 15 years ago around HITECH, of course. Those are three huge electronic health records companies. Is there something about health IT that lends itself to companies being private? Has momentum shifted to companies more on the digital health front vs. EHRs? What is the market looking at now?

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 25, 2019

The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against West Virginia-based Wheeling Hospital, its CEO Ronald Violi and R&V Associates, the managing consultant contracted to operate the hospital.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2020

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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Morning eHealth

OCTOBER 26, 2018

ONC spotlights acute care hospital IT Does HHS get a cut of opioid bill’s PDMP grants? —

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2021

Mayo Clinic Platform president Dr. John Halamka, for instance, has said he foresees a future of "virtualist centers in what were formerly known as hospitals. Many healthcare leaders have seen the trend moving in this direction for some time.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 25, 2018

For hospitals, it highlights a difficult vulnerability within the imaging suite and broader concerns about medical device cybersecurity. A hacker group known as Orangeworm is launching targeted attacks against the healthcare industry focusing on well-known vulnerabilities within legacy devices to gain access to systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. Far too often the primary care doctor never learns about these health issues that are addressed at hospitals. It’s beautiful that PCPs can be informed in order to coordinate the care for their patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2024

While this growing connectivity does enable better patient monitoring within and beyond the hospital, it also raises cybersecurity risks, compromising patients' personal and medical data and disrupting treatment protocols and hospital operations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

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. And Allina Health spinoff Inbound Health announced its plans to help other providers develop home-based acute care and skilled nursing models.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

Telehealth can harness and focus broadband and hospital IT investments into digital advancements for urban and rural communities. Communities are finding that telehealth increases broadband adoption as well as improves the physical and economic health of residents.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic intensifies, hospitals are struggling valiantly to keep up with the influx of infected patients. Hospital IT departments, meanwhile, are undergoing stresses of their own as they work to support the rapidly escalating needs of clinicians.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 10, 2024

For-profit system Prime Healthcare has bought the real estate of five hospitals it runs from healthcare Medical Properties Trust for $350 million, the real estate firm announced Tuesday. |

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2025

The lapse didnt just hit hospitals; it disrupted insurers, pharmacies, providers, and patients nationwide. Consider the Change Healthcare breach of 2024, costing $3 billion (and rising) and exposing 190 million individuals data. This breach shows how far the ripples reach.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Telemedicine is not only cost-effective for both the patient and the hospital, it also can reduce the risk of exposure to disease for all parties, especially during a pandemic. The organization has offered services such as virtual urgent care, telepsychiatry and virtual post-op appointments for several years to meet the needs of patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 11, 2022

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 ). It would go crazy with fears over privacy even more than the ones we heard when Amazon acquired OneMedical and Google acquired Fitbit.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 1, 2024

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

National study gets federal grant to evaluate medication charting model involving EMRs A new federal government-funded project will involve pharmacists to validate a medication charting and deprescribing model in hospitals using EMRs. The CARe-MED study, which has received A$1.4

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 2, 2018

Community Health Systems reported a $2 billion loss for the fourth quarter of 2017, and while it continues to sell hospitals, it has provided few details for its future beyond more such sales.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

John Halamka, international healthcare innovation professor at Harvard Medical School, agreed, predicting a new era of "virtualist centers in what were formerly known as hospitals. It's going to be the emergency department for heart attacks or strokes.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2025

Great Potential With SAP exiting the HIS market by 2030, hundreds of German and European hospitals must rethink their system landscape. This presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to overhaul hospital IT, elevating the quality of care, and boosting process efficiency.

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HealthStream

APRIL 6, 2021

The intentional incorporation of transitional care during the pandemic has helped to ease some of the extraordinary pressure on acute care hospitals. It also has helped patients return to safe and comfortable environments after leaving the hospital.

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Hospital IT 52

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2024

" MEETING THE CHALLENGE TBRHSC automated the pre-op messaging for all surgeries across Northwestern Ontario surgical hospitals. They understand us and what we are trying to do."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2024

The Australian Private Hospitals Association (APHA) has recently shared that it was advised that the 2024-2025 Budget also introduces temporary Medicare Benefit Schedule (MBS) items for the admission and some subsequent teleconsultation of inpatients in private hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2021

"However, for many patients who live outside our area, this technology is critical as it allows them to schedule their follow-up visits without a long drive to the hospital. "That number has since dropped to 30 a day, mostly due to preference by patients and providers for in-person visits. " USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 2024

This transformative partnership combines DRI’s expertise in executive placements in digital health, employer health, pharmacy, hospital IT, and contract staffing with Health Innovations’ deep understanding of population health and data-driven healthcare solutions.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Healthcare organizations want to get the most out of their substantial IT investments, but for community hospitals, it is absolutely critical,” said Dr. Manoj Prasad, President & Group CEO, Resilience Healthcare. “As

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

With operations that span the US and EMEA, the company is experiencing record demand for its solutions from both private and public hospitals. Together, we’re driving the future of smarter and safer surgeries, making a meaningful impact on the world.” said Katrin Vatiska, Investment Partner at MTIP.

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