Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Diana Ibrahim, Public Health Program Manager and Umang Sharma, Statistical Analyst at the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health ( SBCDPH ), to learn more. That information is used to raise awareness and to marshal resources to limit the spread. Tell us what you think.

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JUNE 28, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Stephanie Deitrick, Chief Data and Analytics Officer for the City of Tempe, to learn more about their public health initiatives and how it relates to being a 20-minute city. And for an exclusive look at our top stories , subscribe to our newsletter. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 12, 2023

Promium shares our deep belief that the future of improved public health is ensuring the highest safety in the food that we eat, water we drink, and in the environments which we live,” said Michael Simpson, CEO at Clinisys. Promium is a great fit with Clinisys.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2022

However, if no action was taken to head this off, these rules were due to expire with the official end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. For some time now, special pandemic rules have been in effect which allowed providers to offer various forms of government-funded telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. In the meantime, here are some of the most-read Healthcare IT News stories of 2020 so far. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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JULY 22, 2020

The Linux Foundation has launched a new project to harness open source software to help global public health agencies fight back against COVID-19 and prepare for future public health challenges. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This week’s chat will be hosted by Maram Museitif (@MaramMPH) on the topic “Self-care in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Public Health Preventions.” We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 12/17 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). The […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In a play for public health street cred, Microsoft has announced the creation of a new program designed to help public health researchers and organizations to leverage AI.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 15, 2022

CliniSys Group has acquired ApolloLIMS, a leading provider of laboratory information management systems based in Nashville, Tennessee, and with specialist expertise in clinical, public health, toxicology and molecular diagnostics. The announcement confirms a significant step toward fulfilling our vision to […].

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” While the AMA and many others are advocating for continued support of telehealth post-pandemic, healthcare providers and practice leaders should anticipate and prepare for a return to more standardized regulation after the public health emergency (PHE). Anticipated New CMS Rules for Telehealth. Staying Ahead of Change.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2021

” I heard this summing-up in a recent interview with Dr. John Showalter, chief product officer for Jvion, a prescriptive AI analytics company in health care. His point is that we need to compare two or more populations to find out what makes one health and another unhealthy.

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APRIL 14, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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JULY 25, 2023

public health departments with implementing sexual health testing to reduce the incidence of rising sexually transmitted infections in their communities. "The COVID-19 pandemic led to disruptions in STI-related prevention and care activities and brought the realities of our strained public health infrastructure to light."

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MAY 5, 2022

The following is a guest article by Eliana Donner-Klein, Sr. Associate, Audacious Inquiry, a PointClickCare company. In-person meetups trumped video conferencing at the 2022 State HIT Connect Summit held last week in Baltimore, Maryland.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act would amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income and Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers to treat benefits for telehealth services like excepted benefits. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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JUNE 4, 2021

I often talk to patients who wonder why their healthcare data isn’t following them. Many patients just assume that the healthcare interoperability problem has been solved and that the data from their doctor or a lab or imaging center is going to be shared between doctors, specialists, and whomever needs it in healthcare.

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Health Populi

MAY 26, 2021

The emergence of the COVID-19 vaccine “infodemic” has slowed the ability for nations around the world to emerge out of the public health crisis. Growing cynicism among some health citizens facing the politicization of public health tactics like vaccines and facial masks is what we’re talking about.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

It's become common knowledge, at this point, that the flexibilities enabled by the federal government at the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency prompted an atmospheric jump in telehealth use. " The uncertainty about when the public health emergency will lift creates "a lot of anxiety," said Hayes.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2020

While the federal government has relaxed some patient privacy rules in response to the coronavirus pandemic, there are still avoidable mistakes healthcare professionals make when it comes to protecting patient data. The following is a guest article by Mark LaRow, CEO at Verato.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

Originally aimed at health care providers, they have championed the right of patients to get access to data, and now are working also with payers, public health agencies, pharmacies, and labs. Their membership and clientele have expanded in variety as well as numbers. Tell us what you think.

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MAY 23, 2023

To describe the current situation in healthcare, Wilder asked us to imagine if a retailer had to call your bank every time you made a credit card purchase. Wilder also dove into his experience with HIEs and how connectivity is key to public health and in preparation for future pandemics or other emergencies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The Connected Health Initiative on Monday published an open letter to Sen. expressing support for the Telehealth Modernization Act and stressing the urgency of safeguarding access to virtual care before the public health emergency is set to expire. Department of Health and Human Services to expand telehealth in Medicare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Along with telehealth, remote patient monitoring programs grew during the COVID-19 pandemic because federal rules gave providers the flexibility to use RPM for the duration of the public health emergency. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center said in its latest analysis that the Clop ransomware gang has shifted tactics, directly impacting the healthcare and public health sector. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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MARCH 3, 2020

The groups are also asking for an accompanying provision that would give Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar the authority to waive the restrictions on telehealth visits during a public health emergency currently imposed by Medicare. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. THE LARGER TREND.

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

Nearly 60 other services will be temporarily extended until the end of the calendar year in which the public health emergency expires. "Passing these bills would go a long way toward ensuring all Medicare beneficiaries have continued access to telehealth services after the COVID-19 public health emergency," said Johnson.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Public health agencies have come to understand the immense value of monitoring waste water, as demonstrated by a recent report calling for its expansion. At CES 2023 , Julius Dewavrin, Product Manager for U-Scan, explained how U-Scan works and the kinds of health benefits it can provide. Tell us what you think.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Associations such as HIMSS (parent company of Healthcare IT News ), the American Health Information Management Association, the American Telemedicine Association, the American Pharmacists Association and the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Shelley, a professor in the Department of Policy and Public Health Management at the New York University School of Global Public Health. "But primary care doctors are the front line of healthcare in this country, and their patients still needed care." Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

"The flexibilities that Administrator Milgram has afforded America for the last three years have fundamentally changed access for millions of Americans," Robert Krayn, CEO and cofounder of Talkiatry, told Healthcare IT News by email. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2021

Public Health 4.0, or Population Health 4.0, is the recognition of health as a global entity and the focus on identifying and eliminating health disparities, unnecessary costs, and comorbidity. Unlike the previous three phases of public health, the focus in […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS The DEA says it is expanding patient access to critical therapies beyond the scheduled end of the COVID-19 public health emergency – except for the remote prescription of controlled substances. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Mark Warner, D-Va. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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