Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Additionally, AI-driven workflow automation that is natively integrated into an EHR can more easily handle routine administrative tasks, enabling HIM professionals to focus on more complex responsibilities, thereby optimizing resource allocation and improving operational efficiency.

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AMD Telemedicine

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

For many, the most obvious solution has been to rely on a third-party vendor to provide telehealth services and then work to make that service interoperable with existing electronic health records (EHR). Of course, successful integration still requires the right technology and expertise to implement. View our Solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We wrap up this interview series withBrendan Keeler, Interoperability Practice Lead at HTD Health , with a look at his time workin with Jonathan, Bush, a discussion of the EHR market including Epic’s rise to dominance, a discussion of whether Epic is a monopoly, and finally a look at patient access to health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2024

As I said in my previous writeup at an EHR user conference, I believe there’s no way for the culture of a company not to appear at their user conference. Amazing to see how impactful an integrated solution with access to the EHR data can be. Of course, you could slice and dice it by provider to know who was working late.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In a recent interview with Healthcare IT Today , Aidan Lee, Director of the Certification Program at OntarioMD , and Matt LaDuke, Director of Products, Integrations, and Service Management, shed light on the evolving landscape of electronic medical records (EMRs) and the state of interoperability in the healthcare sector.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 28, 2025

Research how cybersecurity can go sideways across the healthcare ecosystem and the top measures that you can use to course-correct as needed. Zero-trust is most effective as part of a layered defense strategy, starting with securing the electronic health record (EHR) platform and extending outward. Training Help staff learn by doing.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Clinicians have become dependent on these devices for documenting and accessing the documentation in the EHR and other locations. The coolest feature of course is the infinite scroll feature. My guess is that it would really depend on the EMR. In fact, there are more laptops and desktops in healthcare than ever.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Currently they are integrated with Epic, athenahealth, Oracle Health (Cerner), and eClinicalWorks EHRs, and attempt to make that integration fast at each clinical site. Workflow is also a specialty of Sayvant. An ER doctor might be seeing seven or eight patients at once, going back and forth and holding three or four sessions with each one.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 1, 2024

Some wondered if this may be the start of Epic slipping from it’s place on top of the EHR world. Here are 2 that I loved: They also had another that said that “ABC Chooses Epic as the Official EHR of Grey’s Anatomy.” Of course, we all know that nurses work magic every single day. Happy Birthday Drex!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement Telehealth With its three-pillar approach to modernization, the U.S. Modernization is a "learning journey" that requires review and course corrections along the way.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Regular readers know that I think ambient clinical voice is one of the most exciting things to happen in health IT since the $36 billion in EHR stimulus money. The promise of automatic note generation is so beautiful and would solve so many of the pains associated with EHR software and more generally clinical documentation.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Of course, there are also downsides to conferences being in Las Vegas where family considerations pull me away from the event. At Healthcare IT Today we’ve often talked about the international opportunity that’s available to EHR vendors and that Oracle will bring a lot of resources internationally.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

You can imagine the EHR Product Manager that had the great idea to alert physicians to a drug to drug interaction or an allergy issue. Of course, if you’re a doctor with a 2 month waiting list, it’s easy to ignore these alerts. This sounds great until you get into the nitty gritty details.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Of course, while it is great to hear about AI medical scribes in general, it’s always better to hear the first hand experience of actual medical practices that are using these products.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

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. One of the challenges with drug data is cumbersome EHR…not going to explain that since you all know. The list of medication challenges in healthcare is long.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2024

A year ago, eClinicalWorks made a big investment in AI, adding it to dozens of modules in their cloud EHR. At both Summits, the company announced bold plans to add Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities to numerous areas of their cloud EHR. That investment is paying off.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The doctor, of course, has to edit the note for accuracy. ” The EHR also provided useful statistics, because the organization could track how much time doctors logged into it. Analysis showed that physicians who used the AI note generator spent less time in the EHR, especially between 7:00 PM and 7:00 AM.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

The Sequoia Project, a spinoff of a prior EHR network, was chosen as the governing body for TEFCA. Today TEFCA only supports document exchange and frankly largely within legacy EHR vendors who have familiarity with the IHE protocols. Of course, the big question is, what is the public benefit?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This makes me feel old, but pretty amazing that they’ve been doing a cloud approach to EHR for 23 years. Of course, I’m sure it’s going to take time for users to fully adopt these new options. This is particularly true with EHR software. . — John Lynn (@techguy) October 7, 2022. pic.twitter.com/U9QB5Mpc3w.

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TheraNest

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Of course, before you can go deeper into the more advanced features of your software, you must first familiarize yourself with its basic abilities. Both new and existing clients can enter their own information directly into the EMR via the client portal. Ready for an EHR to streamline your billing and practice management?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Of course, with ambient […]. Although, I’m really just a fan of relieving the documentation burden that the healthcare industrial complex has placed on doctors. That’s the real problem and ambient clinical voice is aiming to improve that situation.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Of course, this is the initial list of QHINs. Most EHR vendors I’ve talked to have planned to be part of the network through someone like CommonWell (see MEDITECH’s QHIN and TEFCA approach here ), but I’ll be watching to see if that changes as QHINs develop.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This Fall I’ve been able to attend a wide variety of EHR user conferences. Of course, we’re just getting started with what’s possible as these solutions become full AI assistants. Cowan shares more details about their approach to EHR integration and what they’ve been able to accomplish.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2020

Research collected over the course of last year suggests that hospitals plan to implement robotic process automation and AI technologies over the next few years. The study, which was compiled by HIT vendor Olive, includes data collected by Sage Growth Partners at the 2019 HLTH and Becker’s Revenue Cycle conferences.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2022

One important factor that is key to the growth and success of VBP – and making the transition to it smoother – is to expand the use of electronic health records (EHR). EHR systems are common in Europe, and many European countries have made significant strides in adopting some aspects of VBP for drugs and treatments.

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Mend

MARCH 1, 2022

Valuable EHR and PMS integration. Of course, telehealth programs weren’t just invented. Of course, it does. Between the EHR, PMS, EMR, and video screen, there can be a lot of confusion and wasted time. They can stay in the EHR and master schedule while meeting with patients. Timely calendar invites.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Of course, the health of the parents has an important impact on the health of the children, so it makes sense for Palm Beach Pediatrics to screen the parents and the children so they can provide early interventions. That’s right, they’re screening the mother for post partum as well as the children.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Of course, as someone who covers healthcare technology, I was particularly interested to see the event from a healthcare perspective. Check out what Seema Verma said about Oracle Health’s desire to have their AI assistant be EHR agnostic. Especially if EHR vendors resist that approach.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2023

Colin summarized the keynote from longtime CEO Girish Navani, highlighting how eClinicalWorks is using AI to power search functions within the EHR, augment tasks such as appointment scheduling, and generate patient summaries – and bring this functionality to community health centers and FQHCs, roughly 60% of which use the eCW platform.

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care innovations

OCTOBER 15, 2021

And this is possible thanks to the unprecedented availability of data collected from the home, mobile endpoints, EMRs, trials and other social determinants. Remotely monitoring new data sets such as daily adherence, patient-reported outcomes and biomarkers will shed light on how to better treat the patient using DTx solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Of course, we have physicians, nurses and all the therapy professionals, but we also have programs like music, arts, participation & inclusion, and pathways to employment.”. They serve children who have chronic medical conditions, disabilities, and trauma that requires complex rehabilitation programs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2024

It’s here where AI can have an immediate impact, be trained on a health system’s own data, and be course-corrected to ensure highly accurate outcomes. Today’s patchwork of datasets, from legacy EMRs to practice management systems, has created operational blind spots, preventing health systems from precisely managing the distribution of care.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2020

This, of course, was courtesy of the pandemic, which closed most offices and made delivering in-person care almost impossible While most available evidence suggests that the volume of telehealth visits […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

Etienne Boshoff, Managing Director at EHR Enhancify As Ambient Clinical Voice Technology becomes increasingly prevalent in healthcare settings, there are several critical considerations to be made for privacy and secure handling of patient data. Of course, it is fully the patient’s decision whether to employ this technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 22, 2020

Providers, of course, are far more focused on the contents of medical records, which offer a […]. Historically, health insurers have relied on one form of patient data, while providers operated in a different world.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Over the course of the study period from 2017-2022, LGH showed lower readmission rates than other healthcare organizations in Pennsylvania and throughout the United States. The study also utilized CMS SNF quality performance data to compare LGH’s readmission rates with those of other organizations at both the state and national levels.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2019

Of course, this is an issue worth discussing at any point, but especially noteworthy given that new regulations from CMS and ONC are soon to take effect. A new survey suggests that despite spending countless dollars and people-hours on the problem, hospitals and health systems are still struggling with data sharing.

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