Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

With 185 hospitals, it takes effort for HCA to maintain good quality health data across their entire organization. It means carefully mapping the data that is collected in its warehouses so that it is accurate, normalized, and semantically interoperable (the ability for computer systems to exchange data with unambiguous meaning).

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2024

News and Studies The National Institutes of Health’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) launched the Universal Patching and Remediation for Autonomous Defense (UPGRADE) program with $50 million in funding to develop tools for hospital IT teams to enhance cybersecurity measures and combat ransomware.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

We won’t see accelerated adoption of interoperability standards (e.g., This focus is missing a critical aspect of the equation because nursing and clinical support workforce is currently the most stressed and overworked and is likely to be the breaking point of healthcare organization’s ability to serve patients. FHIR, HL7).

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 8, 2023

For example, an app might partner with a hospital to offer patients a way to message their doctors and nurses directly. Enhanced collaboration: Clinical messaging apps can help to improve collaboration between different healthcare providers, such as doctors, nurses, and specialists. Subscribe today!

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. We need to refine the Ryan Haight Act to develop a telemedicine registry that can safely prescribe controlled medication virtually.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Each interviewee was asked for thoughts in the context of the categories suggested by ChatGPT and any other categories that will improve the work processes for those in the care-related industries – home care, home healthcare, senior living care (including nursing homes), and hospital discharge processes to any of those.

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