Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

We talk a lot about the importance of data in healthcare. Not just data, but clean data that can lead to insights that improve outcomes. It takes a thoughtful strategy and good partners to help you address your data and insight needs. It turns out that high quality healthcare doesn’t just magically happen.

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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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JULY 26, 2022

As we all grapple with what this means at this preliminary stage and then what could evolve over time, I focus on the dual aspect of the opportunity: is this about primary care or is this about data? “If Amazon’s data expertise can reduce that waste, this in theory can lower costs for patients,” Laz optimistically forecasted.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Health data utility is still a fairly new concept in the world of healthcare. How are health data utilities evolving? Lindsey Ferris, DrPH, Senior Interoperability and Public Health Director at PointClickCare – I think we’re at the very early stages.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The following is a guest article by Vince Kuraitis, co-chair of Health Data Unbound: Innovations in Health Data Sharing for the COVID-19 Era and Beyond. Day-by-day, the business case for data sharing is growing stronger.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Two health systems have become the latest healthcare organizations to name a web tracking tool created by Meta (formerly Facebook) as responsible for their data breach. This comes as the social media giant faces a growing number of lawsuits alleging that the tool improperly collects and sells sensitive patient health information.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2025

As for health inequities, the answer lies within data collection and analysis. We have been using these tools (data collection and analysis) for a while now, yet health inequity still remains a large problem. The following are their answers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2023

Sometimes health IT professionals forget that the goal is not just to put data in an EHR or to provide interoperability of data between health IT software. Using data meaningfully is the key to improving their conditions, and White says that CARE plan starts out from the onset as a fee-for-value model. .”

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2025

Discussing Data Quality and Migration With e4health. Krista Hawk and Todd Goughnour sat down with John Lynn to explain the challenges of improving healthcare data quality when 58% of data is in legacy systems , of which most health systems have close to 300. Read more… 2025 Health IT Predictions: Pharma.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2021

Many of the health IT innovations today are happening on the back of health data. I don’t think anyone would disagree that future health IT innovations are going to rely on high quality data. However, what happens when there are reasons you can’t or don’t want to share that data?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2022

For the 87th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about The Business of Giving Patients Control of Their Health Data. It’s easy to say that patients should have access to their data. ONC and other legislation have made it clear that patients have a right to their data.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2025

An EHR system needs to make a 360-degree view of patient data accessible in a secure manner that can be made available using standard interfaces like FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) APIs for structured data exchange and DICOM for imaging.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Exec Summary: In 2025, Apple's Health Records feature is likely to continue its expansion and integration with various healthcare providers and institutions. This could lead to a more seamless and comprehensive health data experience for users.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Health data analysis: Utilising machine learning and data science to extract meaningful insights from health data. Personalised health recommendations: Providing tailored advice and guidance based on individual health profiles. Receive personalised health recommendations.

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MARCH 26, 2025

That led to the question, so what can a Health Care Nation book do to inspire these voices to become a collective flywheel in a Butterfly Effect? The mentor-nuns who demonstrated values-driven leadership Ive been many things in my career, Tom reminded me, but always in and around health care.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Exec Summary: On the 24th April 2024, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) approved the creation of the European Health Data Space (EHDS). It will be possible to download the health record free of charge. This paves the way for establishing the legal framework and technical infrastructure for the data space.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Suraj Kapa, Chief Medical Officer at TripleBlind Data is arguably the most critical driver of innovation in healthcare today. When you think about it, everything in healthcare hinges on having access to the right data: From developing new drugs and medical devices to allocating scarce resources amidst supply chain issues.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Previous articles in this series showed why social determinants of health (SDoH) are the hottest recent addition to data used by the medical industry. We’ve explored how SDoH data is defined and shared. It uses data collected from patients as well as ZIP code or census block data on populations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 29, 2021

This in turn would lead to a governance architecture ensuring trust in digital health and regulating powerful players and organisations. Furthermore, it also recommended a greater push to increase public trust of the digital health ecosystem. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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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. But you need to open the door yourself, Harm encourages health IT buyers. I also started to see the downsides of doing this.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Bias and Fairness: AI models can inherit biases present in the data they are trained on. Data Privacy and Security Concerns: Patient Data: Healthcare data is highly sensitive and requires stringent protection. Concerns about data breaches and misuse can erode trust in AI systems that handle this information.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2025

Since telemedicine platforms handle and share sensitive health data, theyve become prime targets for cybercriminals eager to steal confidential patient information. From data breaches to hacking incidents, healthcare organizations face numerous cybersecurity challenges.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Harmony Healthcare IT (HHIT) , a leading health data management and platform solution provider, today announced a significant investment from Novacap , one of North America’s premier private equity firms. This strategic partnership will accelerate HHIT’s technological contribution and expansion in health information technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2022

Building great AI models in healthcare and life sciences requires lots of data that is diverse, well-labeled, and spans across different patient types. Things to consider include educating patients on how their data is deidentified, stored, and used in building AI models. The Tribulations of Labeling Clinical Data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

Just when clinicians—inspired by the HITECH act and new forms of analytics—are grappling with new uses for traditional clinical data, they are being pushed to include a far vaster data set: social determinants of health (SDoH). Specific needs assessment data which is typically provided by the patient. .

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Exec Summary: Self-sovereign identity (SSI) holds immense potential to revolutionize the future of health data, empowering individuals to take control of their information and fostering a more secure, transparent, and patient-centric healthcare ecosystem. This offers more control over their privacy and minimizes data oversharing.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2025

Healthcare was the most breached industry in 2024, and UnitedHealth is still sending breach notices about the Change Healthcare attack, which exposed the data of over 190 million people last year. First, protected health information (PHI) is a valuable target for cybercriminals, more so than other types of data.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

I’ve met a lot of companies in healthcare that are focused on data and analytics. However, I’ve never met a company that’s so focused on ensuring healthcare data is clean, useful, and trusted until I had a chance to meet Verinovum at the HIMSS 2021 annual conference.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We talk a lot about sharing data and how it will improve patient outcomes and interoperability, but do we talk enough about how to do it safely? Most of the data that we are looking to share is highly sensitive health information, the kind of information that cybercriminals love to hold for ransom.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

has admitted that it inappropriately shared private health data on 3.1 million of its users, a problem that arose from its use of pixel-based tracking technologies which gather and share data on people who visit the site. which it said shared sensitive healthcare data inappropriately. Online mental provider Cerebral, Inc.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2023

The Trusted Exchange Framework is the technical standard that governs the actual sharing of data, and the Common Agreement is the legal agreement that governs the obligations of those sharing the data. I think there are more than a few organizations excited to participate in TEFCA, and to receive data, you have to share data.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Data Integration: Digital health platforms can integrate data from various sources, providing a more holistic view of a patient's health. Healthcare Technology Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors Market Insights, Analysis & Predictions. Re-bundling simplifies the healthcare experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Read more… CHIME 2024: Perspectives on AI, Cybersecurity, Leadership, and More. Read more… Balancing Data Sharing With Protection Amid Competing Government Data Requirements. Read more… Evidence-Based Interventions That Improve Population Health.

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