Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2020

The following is a guest article by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. Note: While this article addresses specifically converting data to MEDITECH Expanse, most of these principles apply to any EHR data conversion.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2024

The following is a guest article by Bill Lewkowski, Vice President of Strategic Client Services at HCTec Gone are the days when patients or couriers physically transported copies of patient records from their primary care physician’s office, lab or imagining center to a specialist.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2025

Because of how critical that function is to most revenue models in the US, they have evolved to become the default ‘operating systems’ for most US healthcare systems, in that almost every new function and capability a healthcare system desires must leverage and integrate through the EMR.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2024

AI can pull data from EMRs, consumer health, nutrition and fitness apps, and connected smart devices (e.g., Addressing moral injury requires more than offering wellness benefits; it calls for leadership to remove barriers and ensure teams are empowered to focus on care. When healthcare providers thrive, so do their patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

By connecting this new technology to EMR systems hospitals are accustomed to using as part of their clinical workflow, healthcare professionals are more effectively scaling equipment resources based on real-time patient demand. And thank you to all of you for taking the time out of your day to read this article!

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2022

I remember my first EMR implementation about 16 years ago and we put up this same sign (although, it was Medicat instead of Epic for the EMR). To be fair, I can’t read this article since it’s behind a subscriber wall, but I consider this announcement another data point in Amazon’s ongoing move into healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Laudio and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership will produce biannual reports and insights from the perspective of nursing leadership.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2019

Not long ago, CNBC published an article describing an unusual partnership between Microsoft and the Providence St. Among other things, the facility will feature a streamlined EMR designed to make it easier for clinical providers to find and share information. Joseph Health System.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Pete Heydt, President at PatientPay In recent years, we’ve seen EMR vendors promote internal solutions for patient financial responsibility communications and payments. Thank you so much to everyone who took the time out of their day to submit a prediction to us and thank you to all of you for taking the time to read this article!

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The following is a guest article by Tisson Mathew, Founder and CEO at SkyPoint AI Why Large Language Models Trained on Industry Context are Essential for Effective Generative AI in the Healthcare Space Ask ChatGPT an important but complicated healthcare-related question, and you might very well get a wrong—and potentially dangerous—answer.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The following is a guest article by Frank Forte , CEO at EnableComp The healthcare revenue cycle has never been more complex. Forte has also held leadership roles in business development, operations, and strategy at several healthcare, services, and technology companies, including Emerson Electric Corporation.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 31, 2024

And thank you to all of you for taking the time out of your day to read this article! We could not do this without all of your support. What role do you think patient-generated health data and wearable technology play in the future innovation of EHR systems?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jonathan Shoemaker , CEO at ABOUT Healthcare As hospitals and health systems face increasing pressure from capacity constraints, many are being forced to turn away patients while struggling to meet revenue and profitability goals.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The following is a guest article by Gurpreet (G.P.) Singh, VP Interoperability Solutions at ELLKAY. With innovations like AI, predictive analytics, and digital health solutions transforming patient care, success hinges on having a strong, interoperable data foundation.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2021

The following is a guest article by Matthew Wilson, Senior Vice President of Healthcare Strategy at Infor. Every health system across the globe strives to consistently deliver great treatment outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2020

The following is a guest article by Heather Haugen, PhD and Vivian Chan from Atos. The definition of working “remotely” is evolving quickly. Coronavirus has created a new sense of urgency to prepare employees to work effectively in non-traditional environments.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The following is a guest article by Sam Manjarres, Sr. Creating drag-and-drop virtual private networks (VPNs) encrypts and anonymizes data, which can be effective when sharing patient electronic medical records (EMR) or during telemedicine scenarios.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 8, 2021

Thanks for my friend Shereese Maynard for pointing out this article that suggests Cerner might be an acquisition target soon. The article makes the salacious statement that “Cerner is a wounded gazelle, and the lions are hungry.”

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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

JULY 29, 2020

The following is a guest article by Brian Russell, Solution Architect at Atos. Because of the shelter-in-place protocols that have been implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, remote visits to the doctor’s office have transformed from a rarely-used novelty to a necessity in many cases.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by Natalie Tkachenko, Healthcare Software Solutions Consultant at NIX To obtain test results today, there’s no need to visit the hospital. Unlike EMRs, requests for access to EHR records can be made by other medical centers. Simply open a mobile app and download the report to your smartphone.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2021

Back in the late 90s, I read an article in a trade magazine and the piece made such an impact on me that the ideas articulated have stayed with me to this day. The article, “The Rise of the Stupid Network,” was written by a man named David Isenberg who worked at AT&T Labs Research. […].

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eVisit

JULY 8, 2019

Published by HIMSS Media, this is a reliable, daily updated source for all your healthcare IT news, whether you're looking for the most recent updates on meaningful use rules, tips for implementing your EMR successfully, or are wondering how to leverage patient data to provide better care. Healthcare Leadership Blog.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2023

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. This article will explain how the patient experience can be improved, focusing on the two modest requests seen in the Notable survey.

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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. HIEs […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The following is a guest article by Heather Haugen, PhD and Darshan Nandi from Atos. Cloud isn’t as complex or risky as we like to believe for healthcare, but it does have far-reaching impacts across IT, business, and clinical operations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 3, 2020

An article published a few weeks ago is still buzzing around Health IT circles about Epic’s choice to have their 9000 employees return to the office rather than continuing remote work. This is surprising considering how many tech companies are choosing to continue remote work well into the fall or even the end of year. […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This article summarizes the key findings in that study. What We’re Looking For in Ambient Voice Transcription Ambient voice transcription has been covered extensively on this web site in articles and video interviews.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The following is a guest article by Doreen DeGroff, Senior Product Director MEDITECH, CereCore. Patient portals have existed since the late 1990s, but the onset of a global pandemic triggered a drastic shift within the healthcare community and fueled interest in patient portals.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

However, what prompted the title of this article was Alvin Rajkomar, MD, Product Manager at Google Health who shared this as Google’s ambition in […]. It’s a sentiment I’ve heard over and over from people who think that Google or Apple could enter healthcare and finally make the software a joy.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2024

The following is a guest article by Nick Barger, PharmD, Vice President, Product at DrFirst. This article is the fourth 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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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2021

The following is a guest article by Dr. Nadeem Dhanani, MD, MPH and Medical Director of Urology, Modernizing Medicine. There has been a great deal of discussion over the last year and a half about the value of telemedicine and its potentially transformative benefits long term.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 12, 2021

The following is a guest article by Richard Scully from Atos. While the vision of the Digital Hospital has been much talked about in health systems all over the world, relatively few organizations have yet realized it.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2021

The following is a guest article by Stephan Herron, President and CEO of Scriptel Corporation. Our modern Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems’ origins can be traced back to the 1960s. Fifty-five years ago, slightly over 100 clinical information and/or storage systems existed.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The following is a guest article by Graham Dodge, President at PathCheck Foundation The homelessness crisis in the United States has reached alarming levels with over 650,000 people in the U.S. experiencing homelessness in 2023 according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 7, 2021

The following is a guest article by Heather Haugen, PhD from Atos. The healthcare industry has been hesitant to adopt cloud solutions- asking tough questions about return on investment, security, and data governance. As we peek ahead to 2021, we are seeing significant momentum and interest in cloud.

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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. We particularly focus on NextGen EHR and EMR patient record solutions and Practice Management tools.

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