Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2025

This week, Healthcare IT Today is attending HIMSS25 in Las Vegas! For those not familiar, HIMSS is one of the biggest events in health IT, bringing together global healthcare leaders, CIOs, executives, and innovators to discuss the future of healthcare technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 29, 2022

HIMS22 APAC The first HIMSS in-person conference taking place in the Asia-Pacific region since the pandemic will see healthcare changemakers gathering in beautiful Bali from 26 to 29 September 2022. Full coverage: 2022 HIMSS European Health Conference & Exhibition. Full coverage: HIMSS21 APAC Health Conference.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2025

Fax machines, pagers, compact discs (CDs), clipboards, printed educational materials, and only offering a phone number to book an appointment remain prevalent in healthcare despite having been all but phased out in other industries. At the 2024 RSNA annual conference (RSNA24), this message was loud and clear.

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Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2025

Given that Harm recently participated in the annual 2025 HIMSS conference , I was keen to know how his collegial physicians and health IT professionals were reacting to the idea of unvendoring. Get FHIR, hire people who know interoperability, and make the investment on the health IT leadership side.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. The Top Technologies For Improving Healthcare’s Security Posture. This was our latest question for the Healthcare IT Today community.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2024

At Healthcare IT Today we enjoy interesting stories and perspectives. Over the years we have learned this is the best place to find future trends and innovations in healthcare. While we were at the 2024 HLTH Conference #HLTH2024, we spoke with many companies that had interesting stories and announcements.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Concord Technologies , which started in 1996, focuses on secure document exchange, counting three of the world’s five largest healthcare payers as customers. Concord is also participating in DirectTrust’s Interoperable Secure Cloud Fax initiative. Watch the video for details.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2022

If you’ve followed our coverage of health IT conferences for any amount of time, you know that we love to attend user conferences. They usually include big announcements on stage from the company and you get to spend time with the real boots on the ground of healthcare IT. eCWNC22 pic.twitter.com/bQTobTkS4a.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 25, 2024

MEDITECH is helping to address interoperability in Canada with their Traverse solution. MEDITECH has long been a part of the Canadian healthcare landscape. Healthcare IT Today recently had the opportunity to catch up with the MEDITECH team at Canada’s largest health IT conference – eHealth 2024 in Vancouver, BC.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In this short video, CEO Lisa Bari describes the most interesting aspects of Civitas’s recent conference. That was on full display at the conference as each of these organizations connected and learned the unique approaches organizations we’re taking across the country. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. John connected with Angie Bass at Velatura to discuss why interoperability is about finding value in data and not just exchanging data.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

This month’s chat will be hosted by Erica Olenski Johansen ( @thegr8chalupa ) on the topic “ Back to the Basics: Implications of Interoperability. ”. At that time, the chats were inspired by advancements in interoperability, including some rather niche healthcare standards discussions, including HL7 v2, HL7 v3, CDA, and eventually FHIR.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We don’t even have the time or word count to cover it all in this article, so instead we will be focusing on healthcare interoperability. At the recent Civitas Conference, we took the time to ask various members of our talented Healthcare IT Today Community to see where their thoughts were on this subject.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2024

“Every innovation from Greenway going forward is going to be based on AI” That was just one of several bold statements made by Pratap Sarker, CEO of Greenway Health at the company’s user group conference (ReEngage) last week in Arlington, TX. How was the ReEngage conference? Overall, ReEngage was well attended.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Maybe it’s that time of year as we lead into the busy HIMSS and ViVE health IT conferences that are just around the corner, but there have been a number of interesting health IT awards programs given and announced. Here’s a look at a few of them that caught my eye. Congratulation to the Q4 […].

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

For the 123rd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are discussing the recent Epic UGM and Civitas Conferences! We kick the episode off by going through the big announcements that were made at this year’s Epic UGM conference. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 4, 2024

What data and quality related policy changes are on the horizon for healthcare? Healthcare IT Today sat down with Eric Musser, Vice President of Federal Affairs at the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) to find out. This work supports broader efforts to modernize healthcare and drives interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2024

Many government leaders come to both the global and the European conferences. Plus, one of the important topics is how to make the patient’s record interoperable if a French citizen is visiting Italy for example. In European countries, patients are treated as citizens which changes their approach. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

A few weeks back, we shared that we were going to attend what we termed the Woodstock of Healthcare Interoperability which was the annual conference hosted by DirectTrust and Civitas. Was great to briefly talk #healthequity with @EricaGalvez CEO of @ManifestMedEx at the #Together4Health2022 conference.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2022

Dr. Katharine Smart, President of the Canadian Medical Association believes interoperability is key to reducing physician burnout. 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. Worrying Trend. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While at the AHIMA conference, I had a chance to dive deeper into this topic with MRO’s Chief Product Officer, Mo Weitnauer. We start off our interview with asking Weitnauer about what’s required to reconcile the competing requirements of government regulations (CURES Act, Interoperability Regulations, HIPAA, etc).

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Envision Radiology wanted more control over how healthcare information was shared so they could focus on delivering outstanding patient experience and outcomes. Only with this level of control could Envision connect with their healthcare partners and share imaging information quickly. Here’s how.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Healthcare loves to talk about the challenge that is data and interoperability in healthcare. Indeed, healthcare faces a major challenge when it comes to data and interoperability. I realized this when talking with ELLKAY as they prepare for the upcoming ViVE and HIMSS conferences. As I saw […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

We attende a lot of healthcare IT conferences every year, but there’s nothing quite like the nearly back to back conferences of ViVE and HIMSS. We’ll be sharing a number of short videos on LinkedIn from the event, so be sure to follow me and Healthcare IT Today on LinkedIn to get the latest updates.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

For more than a decade, healthcare has struggled with sharing data. We have not achieved data interoperability despite an abundance of technology, standards, and legislation. Healthcare Data Interoperability. Data in healthcare is siloed. Inspiration From Outside of Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 1, 2022

This week was the HFMA Annual conference in Denver. It brings together a great community of healthcare financial professionals with a lot of healthcare CFOs and revenue cycle management pros. I’d say the hottest topic at the conference was the lack of workforce available and the impact that is having on organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2024

Plus, they look at how interoperability can help address this problem and provide valuable analytics. In many cases, one of the biggest problem with these devices is that they’re not interoperable. An interoperable platform relieves the clinicians of this duty so they can spend more time with patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

To start this week, I was lucky to be able to attend the DirectTrust conference in St. This was a really great event because it had basically everyone on the full continuum of interoperability and identity all in one place. Patients Susannah Fox was really the best start to a conference to remind us of the patient perspective.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As mentioned previously, we’re taking part on the Virtual AHIMA conference this week. Exploring how things work in the virtual world, we tried something new today and did a text based chat interview with Rita Bowen, VP of Privacy, Compliance and HIM Policy from MRO. In this wide ranging text interview, we talked with Rita […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Healthcare IT Today once again attended the annual RSNA conference in Chicago, IL and once again the event was filled with interesting sessions and innovations. Today was all about catching up with companies and connections from prior RSNA conferences. It was no surprise that AI utter dominated the discussions and the booths.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

Certainly AI us currently doing that in health IT, but in the world of interoperability TEFCA and QHINs are grabbing all of the attention. There are a lot of views on TEFCA, but the one thing that’s certain is that it’s grabbing a lot of the interoperability focus from government regulators and the industry.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Combined with the recent close of its acquisition of Nuance Communications, Microsoft seeks to amplify healthcare organizations' ability to help others by leveraging artificial intelligence to address the biggest challenges transforming the future of healthcare. Interoperability for better outcomes and clinical advances.

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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 Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

Most Visited Healthcare IT Resource Pages. Healthcare IT and EHR Conferences and Events. Healthcare GIS. Most Visited Healthcare IT Today Articles Published in 2022. 2022 Predictions for Healthcare Interoperability – A third predictions post doing so well. Check out our top resource pages.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2025

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, well be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why theyre important to the healthcare IT community. The Healthcare IT Today community said flexible work models, dynamic scheduling, outsourcing, and greater emphasis on staff management should all help.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Healthcare IT Today Podcast : RSNA 2024 Conference Preview. More Insights From the Experts at HLTH 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At the Civitas Conference, there was a lot of talk about TEFCA and QHINs and what their impact will be on healthcare and interoperability. What do they mean for healthcare organizations and how will they be participating in them? Are they replacing current interoperability efforts? When will they be implemented?

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