Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2024

In addition, ACOs and other value-based programs have to share data to get financial benefit. ” Watch the video for more on the potential for achieving ROI through digital sharing of health data. Husainy says the regulations put “new teeth” into requirements for interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2020

CMS has released a proposed rule that will require Medicaid managed care plans and other insurers offering products on the ACA Exchanges to support the sharing of patient data amongst themselves.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2020

As health clinics, dentists, and specialists gradually reopen during what we hope is a reprieve from the first COVID-19 wave, lapses in effective data sharing come into glaring view. For instance, some friends told me that when they arrived at a clinic, the receptionist handed them paper forms and pens.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Shelley Wehmeyer, Senior Director of Product and Partner Marketing at Rhapsody Optimizing user experience in EHRs is essential to maintaining clinician productivity and, by extension, patient satisfaction and health outcomes. Interoperability is enabled through standard data and information representation.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Each day in healthcare, data becomes more valuable, more useful, and more important to a healthcare organization. It’s easy to see that the future of healthcare rests on the back of data. The problem is that data in and of itself isn’t useful.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2019

A pair of senators have filed a bill which would impose new regulations on how companies manage data generated by consumer technologies such as health apps, wearables and direct-to-consumer genetic tests. The Protecting Personal Health Data Act, which was filed by Sen. Call it a HIPAA reboot for the wearables age.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2020

Note: While this article addresses specifically converting data to MEDITECH Expanse, most of these principles apply to any EHR data conversion. With Expanse, MEDITECH has delivered a single EMR platform that gathers all the health data needed for treatment […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

TJC (The Joint Commission) is the hospital accreditation juggernaut and in late 2023 they announced a new certification in relation to AI: Responsible Use of Health Data Certification. Doesn’t seem to get into model measurement, but overlaps upstream with data use. Instrumentation must happen in the EMR.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

A new health data interoperability survey by Healthcare IT Today with 82 responses suggests that when it comes to interoperability, healthcare organizations are struggling with many of the same challenges they faced five or even 10 years ago. Without a doubt, respondents are still interested in fostering health data sharing.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Health information exchange is about more than just the technical connections, it also requires policy and culture support for sharing clinical data when and where it is needed. Thanks to her long-earned expertise as a patient advocate and health IT nerd, McCollister is an extremely informed patient.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JUNE 6, 2023

This drove me to address these challenges and fulfill my purpose: advocating for a more equitable, transparent and patient-centered solution for health data exchange. The thinking is that by making the patient an active recipient in their health data, they will feel like an active participant in healthcare.

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Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2025

Ive worked in the health IT industry for many years, recently on the provider side as Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) of a large health system. I added that indeed, behavior change is hard and fax machines still proliferate health care delivery settings from hospital labs and admissions to doctors offices.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2025

When health data can be freely and easily exchanged between providers, doctors can make more informed care decisions, care is faster, waste is reduced, and patient experience is improved. Holland Bloorview analyzes the data within MEDITECH to make informed decisions about how they provide care and what processes they should improve.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Elaborate’s technology offers doctors a way to contextualize health data and deliver clear, action-oriented communications to their patients Elaborate , the tool that doctors and their staff use to deliver contextualized, action-oriented lab results to patients, announced today it has raised $10 million in Seed funding.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2020

A new report from Stanford Medicine suggests that after years of holding it at arms’ length, physicians are becoming more comfortable with the use of patient-generated health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2020

This is the tale of a quiet effort by Facebook to take over (more of) our lives, in this case by sliding laterally into the healthcare business and collecting data on our medical habits. What I’m about to share draws on a story appearing in The Atlantic laying out how Facebook might be able to […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 5, 2024

They partner closely with clients there to implement their cloud-based Sunrise EHR , their dbMotion data integration platform, and more. For example, how are they addressing interoperability of health data across the provinces in Canada.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

New research suggests that while consumers are continuing to expand their use of digital health technologies, they’re still careful about with whom they share their health data. The survey, which was backed by Rock Health and […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Queensland University subbing health clinics' legacy systems Queensland University is set to replace the legacy and mixed systems across its network of outpatient clinics and teaching clinic settings. The data will then be used to identify trends and improve research and education about women’s health, according to a media release.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Dr. Davis is also the founder of BluByrd , a software company that automates surgical case data and provides a better way to schedule surgical cases. Davis has come to realize that when patient data is made more portable and sharable, patient experience improves. The company grew out of a gap that Dr. Davis saw in his own practice.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2019

While we’ve been writing about EMR data archiving since back in 2009 and then again in 2013 and 2014 to name a few, the topic has never been more important than it is today. With many healthcare organizations literally supporting 100s and even 1000s of health IT software, how you handle legacy systems including data […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Plus, we’ve come a long way in what data can be shared. We also dive into the discussion of information blocking and how EHR vendors are approaching their various app programs, pricing models, and what data access they support. There’s still plenty of work to do, but Brendan gives a good look at what’s possible today.

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NiftyHMS

JANUARY 29, 2025

Efficient management of patient data is essential for healthcare providers, and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems are the perfect solution. Veterinary Clinics : Pet Health Monitoring : Manage pet records for vaccinations, treatments, and overall health. Why NiftyHMS is the Right Choice for Clinics in Marseille ?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2024

The following is a guest article by Shannon West, Chief Product Officer at Datavant Since the dawn of electronic medical records, American healthcare delivery systems have traced a winding path toward the dream of seamless and timely health data interoperability. For personal health records, this may be possible.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

It will also look at developing a business model for other regions to use routine Medicare item numbers for primary care and a framework for scaling into routine care, including refining the interfaces with EMRs and clinics. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Population and Public Health Patient Access Care

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2020

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

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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

MARCH 28, 2022

Recently, we shared news about the growing feature set under development as part of Google Health’s Care Studio, most recently its “Conditions” feature which summarizes patient conditions and uses NLP to link related information like labs or medications to those condition listings.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Humana has cut a deal with a vendor allowing members to share data from a very wide range of devices and apps with its wellness division. Working with personal health data platform Validic, Humana will allow members to connect […]. Here’s a deal that could have a greater impact than it might appear upon first glance.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2023

Data sharing and interoperability are spreading too slowly in health care, and even if a doctor manages to get all the data, its varied formats make it hard to draw insights from. For instance, his neurology service works with 42 hospitals, each displaying data on patients in its own idiosyncratic way.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2025

By HIMSS TV | May 31, 2024 Topic: Analytics Artificial Intelligence Business Intelligence Career Planning Clinical Cloud Computing Compliance & Legal Connected Health Data Warehousing Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Government & Policy Health Information Exchange (HIE) Imaging Innovation (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2020

Little did we know on March 10th when we filmed this great discussion about healthy data in healthcare hosted by Intersystems what we were in store for with COVID-19. Although, as COVID-19 has progressed we’ve learned even more how important healthy, quality, trusted data is to healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2020

Whenever you change EHR software, one of the biggest pieces of the project is to figure out how to handle the data that resides in the system (or more often systems) that you’re replacing. Needless to say, there’s a lot that goes into this part of the project. In fact, it really is almost a […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

Zus Health , (pronounced “Zoose”), a next-generation shared health data platform bringing distributed patient data directly to the point of care, announced today that the company has closed a $40 million financing. Zus is building a healthcare common ground.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The agreement positions it to become the top vendor in the maturing market for patient-generated health data. In early November, news broke that Google parent Alphabet had agreed to acquire wearables maker Fitbit for about $2.1 billion in cash.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In recent times, Apple has been making a number of public moves focused on getting its customers to pull their health data onto their iPhone. Using Apple’s Health app, consumers can have their health data downloaded automatically from any institution with which it has partnered.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2022

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.”. Dr. Smart believes that vendors need put more effort into partnering with physicians and physician organizations to improve EMR technologies.

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