Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2024

Has momentum shifted to companies more on the digital health front vs. EHRs? He also talks about how HITECH made health IT and EHRs huge 15 years ago, but ponders whether today is more about digital health than EHRs. Epic, of course, has always been private. Hospital IT was big 15 years ago around HITECH, of course.

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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. Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. This sounds great until you get into the nitty gritty details.

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Docnotes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

One day I posted an essay about EHR usability that (I thought) nobody read. Three months later, my boss called me and told me that the EHR company whose software I critiqued was unhappy with the post and asked me to take it down. Of course he doesn’t want people to be unhealthy so that they go to the hospital.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 3, 2019

Coming back full circle, there is still going to be a market for community hospital IT software but it will be one that is in long-term decline and largely a maintenance market that lives of the 16-20% annual software and maintenance feeds vendors charge (more if they host it). Vaporware? ). SelfInfllictedWound ).

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Louis, nestled among locust, elm and sweetgum trees, the Mercy Virtual Care Center has a lot in common with other hospitals. Electronic health records, which most hospitals started using over the past decade, “inundated us with data,” says Chris Veremakis, who runs Mercy’s TeleICU program. Of course, a nurse in St.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

The hospital promotes employee development and education through free professional and general education courses as well as educational assistance benefits for BSN, MSN and MHA degrees. Employees also have the option of taking up to a 48-month leave of absence in order to pursue a full-time course of study. Pinehurst (N.C.)

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