Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

One of the nice things about living in Las Vegas is that almost all the health IT conferences come to Las Vegas. Sadly, that wasn’t actually true for the Cerner user conference which was held in Kansas City. Below you’ll find a summary of some of the perspectives and announcements I heard at the conference.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Okta is currently integrated with a number of EHRs including Epic, allowing automatic onboarding, offboarding, and role changes for both staff and patients. A diversity of identity systems, loosely tied together, also creates more opportunities for cyberattacks, which are growing rapidly.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 13, 2024

One of the hottest topics in healthcare and particularly at the HIMSS 2024 conference is ambient clinical voice. We haven’t seen this much universal interest in a health IT product since the government offered $36 billion in stimulus money for EHR software. Plus, we dive into the important topic of EHR integration.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

While at the CHIME 2019 Fall Forum conference in Phoenix, AZ, I had a great chance to sit in on one of the CIO focus groups at the event hosted by Optimum Healthcare IT. The session discussed a wide variety of topics including EHR optimization, EHR training, and other related topics. While listening to these […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2022

MEDITECH continues to invest and expand into the ambulatory EHR market. At the recent MGMA Practice Excellence Conference (#MPE22), the MEDITECH booth had steady traffic and attendees were curious to learn more about the company’s offering.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2024

I recently was able to attend the Qualtrics X4 conference that’s focused on collecting and using data to improve the patient experience. It’s always a fun event to attend because many conferences just talk about patient experience anecdotally and in generalities.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2023

A More Unified Solution – CPSI CPSI is well known as an EHR vendor in the rural health and community health market. To help all healthcare organizations implement proper cybersecurity measures, Wright suggests that governments consider a funding program like Meaningful Use which accelerated the adoption of EHRs.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2021

Still on my bucket list of conferences to attend is the Epic UGM (User Group Meeting) they hold every year for Epic users. I love user conferences because you hear about the true realities users face. Plus, there’s a common bond on the same application that makes finding someone who shares your challenges easy. As […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In this video at the Oracle Health conference, Senior Vice President of Product Management, Suhas Uliyar describes how Oracle Health is creating tools that accompany and augment the workflow of physicians, nurses, and patients. Oracle Health wants to move further.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2025

The conference covers European legislation, workforce trends, women’s health, digital transformation, AI implementations and more. HIMSS25 Europe From 10–12 June 2025, healthcare leaders will gather in Paris to learn, connect, and explore ideas to improve healthcare. See our coverage on this page.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

While at the HLTH 2024 conference in Las Vegas, we had a chance to catch up with Lebrun to hear about their growth as a company and how their product has evolved, from a solution focused on ambient clinical voice documentation to becoming a comprehensive AI assistant for clinicians.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2021

This week he nailed the Healthcare IT Today audience with this video he calls “When the EMR goes down.” ” When the EMR goes […]. That’s ok though since we like to share some of his humor on our regular Fun Friday series.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This was the topic I explored recently with Tracey Nyholt, Founder & CEO at TechJutsu , at the Oktane conference by Okta in Las Vegas. The simple solution is integrated with many of the popular software systems out there including EHR systems. Such a simple to implement, but powerful solution for identity management.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2023

AI is Trending – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Kevin Jones, Director of Enterprise Architecture & Health System Informatics at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center – stopped by the Healthcare IT Today booth to share how much the topic of AI was trending at the annual HIMSS conference.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2020

Coming into the year, one of the most exciting technologies I saw coming down the pipe was ambient clinical voice technologies and EHR AI Assistants. I thought this would be a major theme at the HIMSS20 Annual conference. Then, everything blew up included HIMSS20 being cancelled.

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Clear Arch Health

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

OVERVIEW: This webinar examines specific ways that EHR interoperability and electronic health records systems integration can deliver a range of benefits to remote patient monitoring (RPM) for driving improved care coordination.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 3, 2024

The annual eHealth conference is Canada’s version of HIMSS/HLTH/ViVE. It is the largest digital health conference in the country and attracts a who’s who from the Canadian healthcare ecosystem. The 2024 edition of the conference was held in rainy-yet-lovely Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2022

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Smart at a recent conference in Toronto to discuss the healthcare workforce crisis and how Health IT can help. An EMR is supposed to make your life easier and there are really powerful things about EMRs, but inadvertently they have actually increased the amount of time physicians spend on paperwork.”.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2025

I’m happy to say that this year’s conference attendees seemed much more upbeat and optimistic about the future. While at the conference, we had a chance to talk with some of the PointClickCare leaders and their customers to hear their insights and perspectives.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2022

The problem is that EHR alerts are great until doctors stop looking at them – and with hundreds of alerts streaming into the average EHR every day, John Lynn said he’s worried the EHR may soon look like the email inbox with 10,000 unread messages. Read more… A Look at the Fall Health IT Conference Season.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2023

Growing Number of EHR Cloud Migration Projects – CereCore Peyman Zand, Chief Strategy Officer at CereCore shared his perspective on the latest EHR trends. Although there continues to be a lot of effort being put to EHR optimization projects, he is seeing a growing number of EHR cloud migration projects.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Telemynd , a leading behavioral health practice, has integrated its CharmHealth EHR with the Salesforce CRM platform to scale its delivery from coast-to-coast. We spoke to them at the 2024 CharmHealth user conference – Charmalot2024. But we wanted to continue using our CharmHealth EHR. They understand our business.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Staff also must take the information from the fax and enter it into the appropriate fields in their EHR and take the appropriate action (ie: reach out to the patient for a referral, set up a follow up appointment for an abnormal lab result, etc). The playlist demo station was constantly busy.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 31, 2024

There were many pilots being discussed at the #eHealth2024 Conference and a noticeable uptick in the number of US digital health companies attending the event. The annual e-Health conference is Canada’s version of HIMSS. The 2024 e-Health conference (#eHealth2024) was held this week in picturesque Vancouver, BC.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 1, 2024

Our source which wanted to remain confidential for fear of retribution said that they were walking down the hall of Emerald City office and as they passed a conference room, they heard someone sneeze. Some wondered if this may be the start of Epic slipping from it’s place on top of the EHR world. There’s even a video.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I also ask Goehrs why EHR vendors and other digital health software vendors haven’t solved this problem already. This is an important question since I’m quite sure most hospitals and health systems think their EHR vendor is taking care of this. He then shares what Synapse Medicine has done to address these three challenges.

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Take something like hosting your EHR as a simple example of this challenge. As a healthcare organization expands, this often would mean their IT staff would have to source a local data center vendor and everything that’s involved with hosting your EHR on a private cloud that is reliably close to the new locations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 18, 2024

Innovative startups in the health IT, medical device, and biotech fields were among the shining stars at the annual Collision conference. The 2024 conference was held in Toronto, ON for the final time. In 2025 the conference heads to its new home in Vancouver, BC under its new banner – WebSummit Vancouver.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

John attended the user conference for PointClickCare – “the Epic of LTPAC” – and learned why it’s important to better connect acute care and post-acute care , how communication makes these connections easier, and how the entire continuum of care benefits when this happens.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2021

Plus, the HIMSS 2021 conference is just around the corner. Here’s a look at the headlines we discuss on this episode: * Jonathan Bush is creating another EHR company. Private equity is getting more and more involved in healthcare. There’s more government money on the way for health IT. Private Equity is gobbling up all of healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2025

News from NVIDIA’s GTC 2025 conference Smart hospital platform Artisight is integrating NVIDIA Jetson , an advanced AI computing platform, into operating room optimization software it previously built in collaboration with KARL STORZ. Quest Diagnostics is collaborating with Google Cloud to streamline data management and data analytics.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 12, 2024

At the HIMSS 2024 conference, we moderated a panel hosted by Rackspace Technology and Dell Technologies with healthcare multicloud experts and former CIOs who shared the benefits and challenges of implementing and integrating multicloud solutions in healthcare. Gone are the days of a single cloud instance that can support all your needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon HealthLake, which AWS describes as “HIPAA-eligible,” was launched during Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference. Amazon Web Services is rolling out a new tool designed to make it simpler for healthcare organizations to work with their data.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2021

As we head into the HIMSS21 Annual Conference next week, the news is already starting to come out. Healthcare IT News shared that Epic would be rolling out a new site EpicShare at HIMSS21. Well, the EpicShare site is now live and available for people to peruse. EpicShare is being billed as “a place for […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 2, 2023

For the 124th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are mixing together some of the recent health IT news with previews of some upcoming conferences to make our own little health IT potpourri! Lastly, we take a look forward and give a little preview of the upcoming HLTH and AHIMA conferences!

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

One of the great things about the HLTH 2022 conference is you get a wide range of topics across every part of healthcare. However, this one about cumbersome EHR really stood out to me. Reminds me of the EHR user conference recently where they said that simplicity is safety in healthcare.

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