Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2023

He also shares how the Suki solution compares to many of the other competitors in the market and what differentiates them from those competitors. Then, we ask him to share what the workflow looks like for a clinician that wants to use Suki. Tell us what you think. Contact us here or on Twitter at @hcitoday.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2024

For the 66th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are talking to Sergio Melgar, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at UMass Memorial Health (UMMH) about his organization’s recent achievement of Epic Gold Star Level 10! What was the hardest part of becoming Epic Gold Star Level 10?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 19, 2023

Epic started out as a rather inert data repository, but decades of use and growth have allowed it to look beyond the EHR itself. According to Project Manager Erika Koch, they have taken on the pressing challenges of health care: making doctors’ work lives easier, reducing costs, and improving the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

There’s a collective holding of breath right now in health IT as the ONC appears likely to issue its final HTI-1 rule with new data standards for the next stage of healthcare interoperability soon. With compliance the immediate concern for many EHR vendors, when and where is the industry prepared to lead? There’s no time to waste.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 12, 2023

The user interaction offers a “conversation loop” that doctors rate highly. Currently, queries are monitored by a person who can help the doctor refine and improve the query. Watch the video for more details about the services, how databases are rated, and more. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

You can imagine the EHR Product Manager that had the great idea to alert physicians to a drug to drug interaction or an allergy issue. It seems obvious that an alert like this is going to help doctors provide better care to their patients. Many times a doctor may ignore the risk of the interaction given other clinical needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2023

Data sharing and interoperability are spreading too slowly in health care, and even if a doctor manages to get all the data, its varied formats make it hard to draw insights from. Plus, much like Google, the doctor can ask for precisely what they need to see, instead of being handed a data dump. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 9, 2023

Where doctors are reimbursed for each test, it’s well known that they order more tests than necessary. Mukul Mehra, cofounder of Illumicare , says that many doctors, trying to track the progress of a patient, order follow-up tests that add little new information to the original test. What’s next?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Furthermore, 62% of doctors are pessimistic about the future of medicine. Contributing to this expected physician deficit is the expectation that 46% of doctors plan to change career paths. About one-quarter of physician-time is spent on non-clinical paperwork, Physicians Foundation found. The post Most U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As someone who has written about health IT and EHR for 18 years, I like to think there’s nothing about health IT that I haven’t written about. There’s nothing worse for a nurse or doctor than to have to search for a charged device to be able to help the patient.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2023

We’ve only seen a few times where something has dramatically changed the EHR product roadmap. The first time this happened was when the HITECH act and associated $36 billion of stimulus money was included to stimulate adoption of EHR software. In order to get access to that stimulus money, you had to use a certified EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

We reached out to our network of security experts to get their opinions and perpsectives on the Ascension ransomware attack and what healthcare should learn from it. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should follow what the U.S. Doing so raises awareness about phishing scams and other common attack vectors.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

When I watch doctors and nurses on Twitter talk about burnout, one common theme emerges. One of those core causes of burnout is the documentation burden and poorly created EHR interfaces which are built around billing rather than the physician or nurse workflow. Learn more about TransformativeMed: [link].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 30, 2023

I talked to Tim Costantino, vice president and head of product, about challenges and potential barriers to meeting these goals. AdvancedMD is a cloud-based service merging an EHR with a health care management solution, and has recently announced upgrades to its EHR, practice management, and patient engagement functions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2023

Several surveys about the online patient experience were recently released. This article interviews a dozen experts to better understand why healthcare lags behind retail, finance, and other industries in serving customers online—and what we can do to improve the patient experience. patients about their patient experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2022

With the huge initial swell in the use of virtual care in the rearview mirror, many industry experts – from health plans to big tech and practicing clinicians – are considering whether a doubling down on telehealth is just what the doctor ordered for the future of patient care. Do they offer ongoing training?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2023

The biggest player in this right now is Nuance (now part of Microsoft) and their DAX product (They like to call it ambient clinical intelligence). First, if there are humans doing the work in the backend, that means that you can’t use technology to drive the cost of the service down. Why is this a problem?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine technology and services to a mainstream audience – like it or not. As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. What role has telemedicine grown to play during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2023

”) A previous article listed some alarming statistics about the number of patients who don’t take their medications as advised, and the dire effects on life expectancy as well as costs to the health care system. DarioHealth (Figure 1) offers online coaching, including help about how to talk to your doctor.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The report, The Intersection of Value and Telehealth , surveyed nearly 100 qualified representatives about their organization's prioritization and adoption of telemedicine. "Yet, as the findings in this report demonstrate, usage has fallen with the reopening of doctor offices and hospitals," authors added. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

She shares that experienced partners like Clinical Architecture helped to streamline the process. They expect a consumer experience that looks more like what they experience in the rest of their lives. Tell us what you think. For Lifepoint Health, this meant approaching the problem with a fresh perspective.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

What do I mean? When our fingerprint is associated with the laptop or our insurance card is stored in the Apple wallet, how much do we know where they are stored and how they will be protected? Do not enable automatic updates and develop the practice of reading about what these updates involve.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Most patient visits to doctors result in a prescription written for a medicine that people retrieve from a pharmacy, whether retail in the local community or via mail order for a maintenance drug. Nor do most physicians track patients’ ongoing adherence and persistence to a prescription regimen, the OptimizeRx study revealed.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

While everyone seems to be excited about it, you might be left with questions and concerns about what its impact will be. What health IT trend has you concerned? What health IT trend has you concerned? What can be done about it and what’s the impact if we do nothing? Who owns the data?”

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

I’m happy (and kind of sad) to say that are predictions of the top topics were what we predicted in our HIMSS 2023 preview. I think it’s probably fair to say that HIMSS 2023 attendees are burnt out of talking about how burnt out everyone in healthcare is right now. In fact, almost all of them do.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

US healthcare is notorious for whiffing on the consumer experience, and it looks like we are about to miss another big opportunity to get things right if the current TEFCA plans stay mired in 90s tech. Obviously, the Internet seems like the place to start thinking about an exchange framework.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 27, 2023

If you think about technology as simply being able to do more with less, healthcare is a great place to apply those skills” Steve Krupa , CEO, Psilos Group On March 11 th , 2020, the World Health Organization officially declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Navani commented on how they love to see their customers grow and it seems like eCW is really benefiting from the consolidation that’s happening in the industry. That seems like a really strong area for eCW. This makes me feel old, but pretty amazing that they’ve been doing a cloud approach to EHR for 23 years.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For the 40th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Mark Weisman, MD, CIO at TidalHealth to talk about legacy applications and EHR data conversion. Then, we ask him about TidalHealth’s move from Cerner to Epic and the process he went through and lessons learned.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

I've seen it said before that year-ahead predictions are like weather reports: Everyone reads them, but almost no one looks back later to see whether they were accurate. Certainly, few could have guessed, as we rang out 2019, just what 2020 would have in store for the U.S. " EHRs: Automation can help. healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 27, 2023

During the serious conversations going on currently about privacy and potential bias, we should also highlight the benefits of non-traditional data sources to improve health, as shown by the SDoH service from LexisNexis Risk Solutions. Similar gaps in information occur if they rarely go to a doctor.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This article looks at what it will take to let us all check in to our doctor’s office as easily as we wave our cell phone before a scanner in a retail store. Furthermore, the card can contain useful information about the patient’s identity, policy, benefits, and coverage.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Doctors remotely manage patient data without being tied to a specific medical facility. In contrast, Electronic Medical Records capture information about specific visits to a doctor or medical facility, circulating within one institution. Unlike EMRs, requests for access to EHR records can be made by other medical centers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Many of us have gotten used to the idea that telehealth is just a new way to meet the doctor, only now it is through a video visit. The modalities become relevant when we start understanding the differences among populations – who they are, where they live, and what kind of device and network access they have.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

These inputs include education, personal economics (like job security and financial stability), physical built environments (think: transportation access, safe and healthy housing), food and nutrition, and access to health care. What options do people have to opt out of sharing their personal/social data? Does the U.S.

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Mend

MARCH 3, 2022

2021 had a lot to teach us about where telehealth is going. So what does the future of telehealth look like? Virtual doctor appointments will continue to be a major player in the healthcare industry, as 79% of patients were very satisfied with the care they received during their last visit. In 2022, the U.S. . •

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery ? The following is what they had to share. This is just the beginning.

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