Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

AI-powered tools like ambient clinical listening can convert provider-patient conversations into clinical notes to add to electronic health records. AI can help reconcile health data to prevent the creation of duplicate patient records, improving data integrity, and AI-enhanced scribing allows for more precise medical recording documentation.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2025

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Quest Diagnostics is collaborating with Google Cloud to streamline data management and data analytics. Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The following is a guest article by Gurpreet (G.P.) How Healthcare Organizations Can Modernize Legacy Data Infrastructure to Power AI, Cloud, and Digital Transformation The Next Era of Healthcare is Data Driven The future of healthcare belongs to organizations that can harness the power of their data.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

The following is a guest article by Mariann Yeager, CEO at The Sequoia Project. On October 6, 2022, the healthcare and health IT community woke to a new reality – one in which electronic health information (EHI) included far more than it did the day before. . What a difference a day makes. . Why was that so important?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

I recently came across an article by Verto which identified 3 fundamental problems with interoperability and care coordination in healthcare as follows: Data Integration and Aggregation Sub-Set of the Data Relevant to a Particular Care Step Data Governance and Patient Transitions The article was spot on in identifying these problems.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2024

While it may seem obvious that sharing data between these organizations is beneficial, there is now concrete evidence to support its value. We first highlighted some of these benefits in our previous article, The Value of Bridging the Data Gap Between Acute and Post-Acute Care at St. Joseph’s Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This was reflected in a BMJ Global Health article published this year, which attributed professionals’ apprehension to concerns regarding AI errors that cause patient harm, data privacy and security, and incomplete or biased data.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. AVIA added RUSH, MUSC Health, and United Regional Health Care System to its network. San Diego Health Connect chose 4medica to improve patient matching and health data quality.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 21, 2021

The following is a guest article by Todd Broadhurst, Solutions Director, Tamr. Electronic Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are exploding globally and in the U.S., with 92% of the U.S. population now served by them. Private companies, states, and even large counties and cities are scrambling to launch their own HIEs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 6, 2024

The following is a guest article by Laura Miller, Founder and CEO at TempDev It is a trusted healthcare provider’s responsibility to put the patient’s needs at the forefront of everything else. Their health and well-being should always be the top consideration when providing the best possible care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2021

The following is a guest article by Amy Heymans, Founder and Chief Experience Officer, Mad*Pow. Electronic Healthcare Records were supposed to be the wave of the future, allowing clinicians more time to spend with patients, and offering individuals access to their personal health data. But is it working the way we intended?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2023

The following is a guest article by Josh Coleman , Managing Partner at Treacy & Company by Cherry Bekaert Healthcare has undergone massive changes over the past few years. In this article, we look closely at how AI is being used in healthcare and the innovations in store for the near future.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The following is a guest article by Chad Anguilm, Vice President of Growth at Medical Advantage. In today’s technology-driven world, patients now expect a seamless healthcare experience, which translates to a digital “one-stop shop” for managing their personal health information. . Removal of Barriers to Patient Data.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The response to my article asking the question “Are we at the end of the healthcare interoperability tunnel?” ” was quite interesting. I think some people thought that I was hammering on all the work that’s being done on healthcare interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The following is a guest article by Troy Bannister, CEO and co-founder of Particle Health. For many health tech founders, there’s nothing more exciting than working at scale. And as we say at Particle Health, you can’t […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2020

The following is a guest article by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. For most clients migrating to MEDITECH Expanse, one of the most challenging decisions to make is how much data needs to make the transition.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

The following is a guest article by Nitin Kunte, Sr. Director at NTT DATA On February 8, 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1) Final Rule in the Federal Register, which took effect on March 11, 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2023

The Time for Collective Action is Now The DxF provides a unique opportunity to exchange valuable health information in a secure, equitable, and affordable manner that hasn’t been possible before. Smith-McCurdy and Leslie urge California providers and entities to use the resources available, take action, and get involved.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

The following is a guest article by Oakkar Oakkar, Co-Founder and CEO at Keona Health Imagine a tool that puts your health information right at your fingertips. That’s what patient portals promise – a simple, digital way to access medical records, book appointments, and chat with doctors.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 27, 2024

This was one of the key learnings I found in this amazing case study published in the Management in Healthcare Journal, titled “ Improving patient outcomes while reducing readmissions with data analytics ”. Joseph’s Health , and shares their experience rolling out a successful post-acute skilled nursing network strategy.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 8, 2020

The following is a guest article by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. You will want to achieve data migration of a configurable and clean subset […].

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dave Cassel, Chief Customer Officer at Health Gorilla and Former Executive Director of Carequality Talking about privacy and security in health information exchange is tricky. As with many things, there are degrees – and when it comes to health data, you can never be too private or too secure.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 5, 2019

I don’t know about you, but I don’t like the idea of governments selling off patient healthcare data. Still, given the financial benefits it could generate, I’m not surprised that people are still kicking around the idea, which is what makes the following article to be so interesting.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The following is a guest article by Jay Nakashima, Executive Director at eHealth Exchange. For the health IT community, 2022 has been a big year. . Currently, perhaps 99% of health data exchange is initiated to support treatment. Does the Exchange Allow Participants Full Control Over Their Data?

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Unfortunately, however, these idiosyncrasies are one of the obstacles that stand in the way of better interoperability, according to an article by Corepoint Health. Given that clinicians have different styles, it’s hardly surprising that they document care in different ways.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The following is a guest article by Venki Subramanian , SVP Product Management at Reltio When data is missing, inaccurate, incomplete, or misdirected, it can have severe, sometimes life-altering impacts. Security Threats: Health data is a prime target for cyberattacks due to its sensitivity.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2023

When you combine an AI assistant with the powerful health data search in Prisma that looks across data from inside eCW and other outside EHR data, the benefits compound. Although, as Colin noted in his previous article, eClinicalWorks is implementing all of this in co-pilot mode instead of pilot mode.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dr. Bruce Bassi, Advisory Board Member at CharmHealth Most patients have almost certainly received an invitation to join their electronic medical record communication system, or portal for their particular doctor’s office.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

The following is a guest article by Sarah Bavar, RN, BSN, Director at ReMedi Health Solutions. At ReMedi , we frequently support health systems going through transitions at various stages of the EHR life cycle. Overall, we’re optimistic about the future of health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The following is a guest article by Sean Vandeweerd, Sr. Product Manager, PointClickCare Technologies Inc. Our healthcare system is approaching a critical time in which an aging population will bring baby boomers into hospitals and post-acute care facilities in record numbers.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 26, 2020

To do this we must be involved in our health data if we want, as our stories below will make clear. . Yet, somehow, in the year 2020 in the most technologically advanced nation on the globe, we, as American patients, remain unable to easily and quickly access our own health data, or to decide how it is used.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2024

In fact, let’s start by expanding use cases that have already proven some early successes like screening and prioritizing medical imaging for Radiologist review or scanning large EMR data sets for increased risk for heart attacks, stroke, and other cardiovascular events. AI is still a nascent and largely abstract technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Additionally, improving data interoperability and the seamless exchange of health information across different healthcare systems and providers has been a focus of policymakers. Thank you to everyone who took the time out of their day to share a quote with us and to all of you for taking the time to read this article!

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange Change is scary. At eHealth Exchange, which is one of the first Qualified Health Information Networks™ (QHINs™) under TEFCA, we have a front-row seat to the framework’s ongoing implementation. But we believe that is a mistake. The Common Agreement (CA) 2.0

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The following is a guest article by Nick Barger, PharmD, Vice President, Product at DrFirst. This article is the sixth in the Healthcare Regulatory Talk series. Check out all the articles in the Healthcare Regulatory Talk series. DrFirst is a proud sponsor of Healthcare Scene.

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