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Ensuring the Security and Privacy of Patient Data while Managing Large Volumes of Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2024

How can healthcare organizations ensure the security and privacy of patient data while managing large volumes of electronic health records (EHRs) ? Andrew Hines, Chief Technology Officer at Canvas Medical While managing large volumes of electronic health records, it’s critical to keep patient data safe and secure.

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Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Enhance Data Integrity and Streamline Processes

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Emerging technologies can even detect anomalies or mistakes which can help a patient get the care they need faster or give you more accurate data. Today, we are going to focus on emerging technologies in regard to health information management.

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From Paper to Pixels: The Future is Bright for Health Information Management

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The evolution of Health Information Management (HIM) professionals has been remarkable. They are no longer paper pushers (literally) and are now stewards of healthcare data. Jennifer Mueller, President of the American Health Information Management Association ( AHIMA ), sees a bright future for the HIM industry.

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One Way to Improve U.S. Healthcare, Lower Costs and Drive Outcomes? “Unvendor,” Asserts Dr. Harm Scherpbier in His New Book

Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2025

Health information technology professionals charged with selecting, implementing, updating, and paying for health IT in hospital and care delivery settings are essentially the first-line consumers of health IT specifically, electronic health records. I also started to see the downsides of doing this.

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A Fresh Approach to Safeguarding Healthcare Data

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 28, 2025

The following is a guest article by Andrea Hopkins , Chief Information Security Officer at Juno Health Think about whats in your own health records for a moment: your name, address, Social Security number, insurance informationnot to mention diagnoses.

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Reducing Administrative Costs Within US Healthcare: A Summary

Continue Education Journal

DECEMBER 30, 2021

These parts are 1) establishing a clearinghouse for bill submission, 2) simplifying prior authorizations, 3) harmonizing quality reporting, and 4) enhancing data interoperability in the health-care system. We will go through them in detail below. This would contribute to the harmony of reporting metrics nationwide.

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A Chilling Patient Story and The Sequoia Project’s Consumer Engagement Group’s Efforts to Improve Patient Access to Data

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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Te Toka Tumai Auckland rolling out FHIR-ed-up PAS and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The FHIR-based API will enable Te Toka Tumai Auckland's new PAS to reconcile data "within the wider information systems environment." It will also make data more updated, consistent, and reliable, he added. The CARe-MED study, which has received A$1.4 The CARe-MED study, which has received A$1.4

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BluByrd and DrChrono Deliver Seamless Staff and Patient Experiences for Source Healthcare

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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HIE Launches New COVID-19 Data Monitoring Platform

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 18, 2020

The following is an interview with Jaime Bland, CEO of Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NEHII). Tell us about the new COVID-19 Data Monitoring Platform that NEHII launched. NEHII partnered with KPI Ninja to develop the COVID-19 Data Monitoring Platform. The COVID-19 platform ingests data from multiple […].

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Queensland begins telestroke pilot and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

didgUgo offers a software-based check-in/check-out solution to health, aged care, and disability providers. By adopting IRIS for Health, it aims to allow its users who are also utilising the TrakCare EMR system to plug in its solution, enabling near real-time data exchange.

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Insights into Key Topics at HIMSS25 Europe

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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This Week’s Health IT Jobs – January 22, 2025

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2025

We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week.

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How Reframing the Benefit of Interoperability May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered

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. This analysis is possible because the data inside MEDITECH is interoperable and therefore easily retrievable and standardized.

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Adelaide virtual care project gets state backing

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

It will use the health information taken from regular monitoring to promote clinical decisions and actions that will improve patient well-being and outcomes. In addition, the project will form a new digital health workforce by training doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in both hospital and primary care.

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Unified Data: The Key to HIE Success

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 21, 2021

Electronic Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are exploding globally and in the U.S., The following is a guest article by Todd Broadhurst, Solutions Director, Tamr. with 92% of the U.S. population now served by them. Private companies, states, and even large counties and cities are scrambling to launch their own HIEs.

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I Helped Accelerate FHIR, It’s Time to Scale

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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Full coverage: HIMSS22 APAC Health Conference

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 29, 2022

Our reporters will be present to cover discussions on care, data and connectivity, as well as how Indonesia can learn from the lessons of other nations to advance its digital transformation in healthcare. Get all the coverage for the event on this page. By Adam Ang | August 08, 2022. By HIMSS TV | July 29, 2022. By Adam Ang | June 29, 2022.

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Epic, Anthem Strike Deal To Support Health Information Exchange

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2021

Health plan management company Anthem has struck a deal with Epic rolling out data sharing technology to health systems and providers who use the EHR vendor’s technology. The Payer Platform allows the providers to exchange various types of data with […].

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Data Sharing Transforms the way Physicians Practice; Let’s Make it More Accessible

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2023

The organization’s 5,000+ physicians, who are treating people across the socioeconomic spectrum, believe that comprehensive health information is crucial to deliver high-quality care for their patients. A lot of work remains to make data sharing a reality. Access to discrete data is at the core of the DxF.

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Maximize Value and Efficiencies with Effective Content Management

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Effective content management can help hospitals, health systems, and large ambulatory groups turn piles of paper and digital content into actionable data. The best document management systems drive improvements by not only storing digital healthcare data, but by also ensuring data is easily accessible enterprise-wide.

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Full coverage: HIMSS23 APAC Health Conference

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By HIMSS TV | July 29, 2022 Sponsored Conquering new heights in healthcare Healthcare IT is an evolutionary process, not a revolution, says one health tech executive. Region Tag: ASIA Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Analytics Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Healthcare Interoperability, Data, and Cloud – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC). That said, the industry as a whole needs to find new ways to share data where the economics and the values are balanced.

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In Shrewd Move, Amazon Quietly Captures Huge Store Of UK Health Information

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2020

Amazon has quietly struck a data-sharing deal with England’s National Health Service giving it free access to a range of health data from British consumers.

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Pushing Forward Healthcare Interoperability Efforts by The Sequoia Project in 2025

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2025

New guidelines for health care privacy and consent, extending data sharing to new types of organizations, ensuring the clinical usability of data, and just lots and lots of growththese are on the agenda of The Sequoia Project in the upcoming year.

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HealthBI’s Scott McFarland says Step Away From the Fax Machine — Harlow on Healthcare

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Scott McFarland is President of HealthBI , where he leads the organization’s health information technology platform team. Scott McFarland is President of HealthBI, where he leads the organization's health information technology platform team. As Scott said, it takes chart chasing and faxing out of the equation.

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The Future of Healthcare: Integrated Data for Integrated Care

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The following is a guest article by Venki Subramanian , SVP Product Management at Reltio When data is missing, inaccurate, incomplete, or misdirected, it can have severe, sometimes life-altering impacts. This data segmentation hampers the holistic understanding of patient health and impedes timely and coordinated care delivery.

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Many Hospitals Still Holding Out On Direct Health Information Sharing

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2021

So, after investing what feels like infinite levels of effort, patient medical records are digitized across nearly all hospitals in the US, according to a new ONC Data Brief.

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Top 3 Digital Innovations that Transformed Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In today’s technology-driven world, patients now expect a seamless healthcare experience, which translates to a digital “one-stop shop” for managing their personal health information. . However, today patients are increasingly utilizing existing technology to participate in their own health journey more actively. .

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EHI is Not What it Used to be, but Don’t Panic

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

On October 6, 2022, the healthcare and health IT community woke to a new reality – one in which electronic health information (EHI) included far more than it did the day before. . The expanded definition of EHI now includes virtually any health information tied to an individual that is used in decision making.

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Key Cybersecurity Defenses for the Healthcare Sector

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Unsurprisingly, a recent Gartner Peer Insights survey – Cybersecurity in the Healthcare Industry – also showed that nearly half of participating healthcare organizations have experienced a data breach in the past two years. Patients need the peace of mind that their health and their data are both safe.

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Small Wonder Providers Don’t Like Sharing Patient Data For Free. It’s Becoming Their Whole Business.

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2020

During the decade or so in which I’ve been following data interoperability, the cleverest people in the healthcare and technology industries have come together to make disparate systems work together effectively.

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Rochester Regional Health is Achieving Interoperability One Practical Byte at a Time

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2023

Rochester Regional Health is using a measured and practical approach to data interoperability. They have focused their efforts on data that clinicians want to use, that fits their workflow, and can be seamlessly incorporated into their Epic system. Our clinicians needed that information so it was our job to get it to them.”

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Health Care Data Wars: Stretching the Regulations on Information Blocking and The New Burdens of AI

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

and was prevented from using bots and screen scraping to get access to patient data. Now we’ll see how Real Time responded and look at the new burdens that AI is placing on health care as revealed by the case. Most barriers to data sharing were built into technology and institutions. Progress has been slow.

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For Facilities Struggling with EMR & HIPAA, Telehealth May Offer Solution

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JUNE 6, 2018

Discussing the accessibility (or lack thereof) patients have to their electronic medical records (EMR), the report also reveals some important underlying factors that have left many facilities unable to deal with both the transition to EMR and compliance with HIPAA. EHR is a synonym for EMR.).

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Health Care Data Wars: Exploring the Real Time v. PointClickCare Lawsuit and How to Get Access to Patient Data

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Department of Health & Human Services should be applied. But looming over all these arcane discussions is our data. health care system should be concerned about the points made in this article, because companies are fighting over our personal information, and the repercussions affect our health outcomes.

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Shaping the future of health technologies

Digital Leaders HealthTech

JANUARY 28, 2020

Patient information is the currency through which health systems process, exchange, and interpret information. Most patient data was (and much still is) contained within written notes. You can now search for health information online, simply by typing in your symptoms. Mobile health. Wearables .

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When Virtual Care Becomes the New Normal

CiscoHealth

MAY 6, 2020

If you need to share information with your patient, such as lab results or brochures, try using the screensharing and file upload feature s. . If you need to reference other platforms, such as your Electronic Medical Records (EMR) while on the call, use your laptop and open another window alongside the video meeting window. .

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This Week’s Health IT Jobs – July 31, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2024

Project Manager – Healthcare/Epic – NYU Langone Health If none of these jobs fit your needs, be sure to check out our previous health IT job listings.

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New York State HIE Is Lowering Healthcare Costs By As Much As $200 Million

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

A New York HIE has concluded that it’s having the impact supporters of data sharing have always hoped for – generating a substantial level of healthcare savings.

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Integrating Ambient Clinical Voice Technology – The Impacts, Challenges, and Benefits

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2024

Travis Bias, DO, MPH, DTM&H, FAAFP, Chief Medical Officer, Clinician Solutions & Family Physician at 3M Health Information Systems Ambient clinical documentation tools are being used by clinicians so they can focus on the patient in front of them, rather than on their computer screens.

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Emerging Technologies in Healthcare IT and Their Regulatory Considerations

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Matt Cohen, Director of AI at Loyal As the buzz continues around emerging technologies in healthcare IT, like generative AI, it’s paramount for health systems to practice a level of caution when adopting these tools. Technology – like humans – has both the power to hurt and to heal.

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This Week’s Health IT Jobs – September 4, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Louis EPIC Analyst- HIM – Christus Health Healthcare Technical Director, Digital Healthcare – Cerner/Oracle – Huron Patient Access Rep II – CommonSpirit Health Director of Chronic Care Management – US – Theoria Medical Senior Audiovisual Support Analyst – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Health (..)

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This Week’s Health IT Jobs – May 22, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 22, 2024

Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: Enterprise Systems Administrator III, Enterprise Systems – UT Southwestern Medical Center Client Integration Analyst – Healthcare – BuzzClan LLC Associate Clinical IT Support Specialist – Vanderbilt University Medical Center Oracle Cloud Testing Lead – Highstreet (..)

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