Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2021

Remote monitoring device-maker Withings has partnered with EHR integration software developer Redox to create a wearable which connects with a wide variety of EHR platform. In addition to wearables, the Withings connected health line includes smart scales, hybrid smartwatches offering […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) is a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of all health IT vendors. They are a trusted resource and voice for our industry so that policymakers at federal, state, and local levels can be better informed about emerging digital health technology. What is CHI?

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

In another lens on consumer health tech, CTA examined consumers health & wellness product ownership for air purifiers, smart/connected health monitoring devices, connected sports and fitness equipment, and UV light wand or container-based sanitizers. In 2020, one-fourth of U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

Our desire for data liquidity has eluded us across the health/care ecosystem for too long, notwithstanding American taxpayers’ $35 bn investment in EHRs dating to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that embedded the HITECH Act funding EHR adoption for hospitals and physician practices.

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Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2025

A key differentiator for the new-tech-DTC/AI purveyors is that “Bit Tech maintains control over their own data ecosystems,” and do not, in Dr. M’s estimation, “cede(d) control of their data assets to EHR vendors.”

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

One-half of these activated wearable consumers would prefer to share their data via an upload to their file in the doctor’s EHR system. And, one-half would also prefer to send “screenshots” of their health data between visits.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The poorly-conceived rollout of EHRs following the HITECH Act legislation and incentives, from design to implementation, led to a lot more insights about how technology can be well-intended and an epic fail for those who were meant to benefit from a shiny new thing. physicians and nurses as the pandemic emerged in early 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

News The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health Seven health system IT executives explain how they're strategizing to build on the post-. News How CIOs are prioritizing AI investments for the next 5 years In the first installment of Healthcare IT News' newest feature series, five hospital and health.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But a key limiting factor of these many sensors generating data has been inadequate backend algorithms that address signal noise and limited EHR integration, the authors observe. Privacy and scalability, where assuring the security of health citizens’ protected health information (PHI) must be designed into HaH programs.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

a market-leading digital health and personalized care company, continues to expand its healthcare IoT platform with the integration of Smart Meter. “And eliminating the need for patients to pair, sync or connect to Wi-Fi or an app on their phone may improve patient satisfaction and increase the use of their monitoring devices.”

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DigitalHealth

APRIL 9, 2025

A project to help connect electronic health record (EHR) systems across Europe has received 8 million from the European Commission.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The tool enables clinicians to see an array of digital therapeutics and apps in the Cerner EHR, assess their cost and clinical value, and prescribe them for patients from within their workflows. " Earlier this year, Healthcare IT News Features Editor Bill Siwicki explored how UPMC is using Xealth with its Epic EHR platform.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009. out of the Great Recession. GDP, in 2018.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

health care system today: namely, Managing patient violence Inadequate patient handoffs– but in this case, related to patient transport #5 and #9 in the list 10 years later identify care coordination challenges, which continue to mar health care quality in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

While more Americans appear to support data sharing between their physicians, and greater access to data for their own use, it’s concerning that only 36% of patients told the Pew that their providers’ EHRs let them access their own records electronically through an app or online patient portal. As with other aspects of U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

The IoB ecosystem includes the technologies that are part of the health care Internet of Things, as well as EHRs, robotic surgery systems, and smart ventilators which also generate data about peoples’ health and wellness.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

UHC’s research has revealed the bullish demand side among consumers seeking greater convenience, control, empowerment, and access for health care services.

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Connected Health Initiative

MAY 9, 2022

Connected Health Initiative (CHI) provided comments to the ONC on its Draft (v3) US Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) and its ongoing USCDI expansion process (draft USCDI). EHR Intelligence covered CHI comments.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Patient’s privacy and data security. That was tweeted ten years ago.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is adopting and supporting new Connected Health technologies that empower patients to monitor, collect, and share health and treatment data with their physicians and care providers. Connected Health and new technologies in health care don’t come without concerns and risks.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 30, 2023

a market-leading digital health and personalized care company, has acquired the assets of Trapollo LLC , a connected health, technical support, and device logistics provider that helps healthcare organizations care for patients at home. Validic Inc. , Trapollo is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cox Communications, Inc.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2022

"Fortunately, we already had started to explore remote patient monitoring solutions that integrated with our Epic EHR, were easily accessible and required minimal effort by the patient," Yarrington noted. There are many vendors of connected health and remote patient monitoring technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

What’s held up data liquidity and interoperability, and contributed to clinician burnout and administrative burden, has been the implementation of electronic health records poorly designed for relationship-building and shared decision making.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2020

” The TeleICU program combines data from the health system’s Epic EHR and medical device data captured from the remote hospital to drive consultation. There are many vendors of remote patient-monitoring technologies and services on the health IT market today. To access this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2025

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

“A cloud infrastructure lays the groundwork for future optimization as virtual care solutions grow to encompass new web-connected devices.” ” Device and EHR integration are another key facet of that system flexibility, he added. ” Adaptability is key. Integration for a better user experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2024

This includes Rs 200 crore ($24 million) for the Ayushman Bharat Digital Health Mission, which is lower than the Rs 341 crore ($40.7 The government scheme is building the foundations of a digitally connected health ecosystem through the creation of electronic health records. million) allocation last year.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Note that peoples’ use of apps to access their online records grew over the two years, as well, with one-half of consumers using an app to access their EHR — a shift from 60% using only the web for medical record access in 2020 down to just under 50% in 2022.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

Key to the potential power of this vision is that Copilot’s access to data would go across all aspects of Microsoft 365, from notes and text to apps and workflows – even within electronic health records ( more on the example of Epic EHR below ). Further value could be realized by integrating Copilot into the EHR.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people. Still, over 50% of consumers ages 56 to 74 would like to download their EHR data.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

Consumer experiences (CX) were not uniformly terrific, especially with an increasingly anxious patient dealing with a stressed provider system.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

The supply side of digital health tools and tech is growing at a hockey-stick pace. There are mobile apps and remote health monitors, digital therapeutics and wearable tech from head-to-toe. Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

. “Open APIs will make it easy for consumers — acting through authorized third parties — to gain direct access to their EHRs and their personal clinical data. Think of APIs as tunnels into the clinical data warehouses that have been created by EHRs.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The latter standards are helping to simplify data queries, access, and exchange between systems, supporting the development of APIs (application programming interfaces) which help to “appify” electronic health records and other traditionally ill-liquid platforms. Here, the U.S. is found to be lagging other nations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Mergers & Acquisitions Network Infrastructure Telehealth Health system CIOs are reducing their tech footprint and consolidating their IT systems for agility and efficiency. Despite the integration with patient data in EHR systems, the apps operate as stand-alone solutions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

As we've shown this month, there's been progress on unlocking data from EHRs , but still much work to be to be done with information sharing on a community level , even as a wide variety of interoperability groups throw their weight behind an array of different efforts. " House offers its spin on telehealth modernization.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners.

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