Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2024

First up was a look at how AI, NLP, LLMs, and automation improve health information management. Read more… Integrating AI and Machine Learning into EHR Systems. Read more… Is Your EHR Improving Patient Access to Technology Equitably ? We posed many questions to the Healthcare IT Today experts recently.

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 9, 2023

This HIPAA-eligible service is set to empower healthcare software providers by leveraging speech recognition and generative AI to revolutionize clinical documentation, enabling clinicians to save time on these tasks and enhance patient care. These notes encompass essential details, allowing clinicians to finalize documentation with ease.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2020

One of the greatest challenges facing the military health system is finding consistent, effective ways to communicate a warfighter’s health information as he or she moves from point-of-injury to a military treatment facility (MTF). That can result in a lot of gaps in care.”

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2021

There is a lot of valuable information lying dormant in paper and electronic documents in healthcare. Although EHRs have almost eliminated the use of paper charts, the same cannot be said for faxes. Fax continues to be a common method for sharing health information between providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2025

The focus will move from deploying isolated AI tools to creating integrated clinical intelligence platforms that combine decision support, documentation improvement, and patient engagement while maintaining human oversight.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Only 14% of Americans are confident in their health plan choices, according to a survey from Softheon. Partnerships AI documentation and coding vendor Ambience Healthcare joined athenahealth’s Marketplace Program. Behavioral health screening vendor Mental Health Technologies joined AdvancedMD’s marketplace.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2024

New data standards announced last December by the Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare Technology (ONC) are an extraordinarily significant expansion of regulations around health IT and could hijack product roadmaps for years to come.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

"There are many use cases that don't include [protected health information] that will get way higher compliance." He noted that EHR integration is "critical," saying that EHRs can trigger bots to reach out to patients and help to make the process more personal.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

Detlef Koll, Vice President Global R&D at 3M Health Information Systems Individual users will need to be diligent in reviewing draft notes to avoid incorrect or incomplete capture of information. In this new age of generative AI in the clinical documentation space, the physician’s role moves from that of creator to editor.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The following is a guest article by Jessica Campbell, DNP, RN, Clinical Informaticist at LogicStream Health and Tiffany McCauley, MSN, RN, Clinical Executive at Elsevier. Clinical documentation is widely known to be a time-consuming task.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

Guillermo Diaz, Chief Medical Information Officer at Los Angeles Department of Health Services – Ambulatory Care Network , and Ali Modaressi, CEO at Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services (LANES) When Alex was brought into L.A. From a physician perspective, this is more than just another technology to adopt.

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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. They have advanced the current TEFCA implementation which is based on the 1990’s IHE document exchange protocols with a brokerage model (QHIN) overlay. For the doctor’s eyes only” if you will (Bond fans anyone?)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Greater Lawrence Family Health Center , which intends to make systematic changes in the way healthcare is delivered through the innovative use of electronic health information technologies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

" The challenge was to provide those who seek care from the organization with the best digital patient experience – one that was intuitive and integrated, and valued their health information, he added. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MARKETPLACE.

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TheraNest

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Recent technology advancements, like EHRs, have produced numerous benefits for both providers and clients, including faster intake, accessing documents and bills through the client portal, and enhanced collaboration among healthcare professionals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

" EHRs: Automation can help. "Amidst the ongoing health crisis, clinicians need relief," said David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems, which develops EHR optimization tools. "A primary health IT focus for 2021 must be empowering clinicians with solutions that deliver relief today," said Laureau.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

When the sector is set to face shortages of between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034, generative AI could alleviate administrative work, such as summarizing patient calls and managing electronic health records (EHRs), to allow medical staff to focus on improving patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2023

When it comes to financial priorities, the main concern for 56% of organizations is getting the most out of existing EHR or ERP systems. About 60% of patients are comfortable with their provider sharing information about social needs such as food, transportation, or housing with other providers, according to the latest ONC Data Brief.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2025

The EHR Association responded to OCR’s proposed rule to strengthen security for electronic PHI, generally agreeing with the specificity of requirements while worrying about “the substantial time and cost required for EHR developers.” Clinical data exchange vendor MRO now enables automated retrieval of HEDIS data.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2024

Integrating this solution into your organization can save your clinicians a lot of time through documentation automation. Embracing the power of this technology to reduce clinician toil, by way of more information about individual patients, is a win/win for both providers and patients. One such solution is ambient clinical voice.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 6, 2023

For nearly 30 years, IMO solutions have helped physicians document in their own words while capturing the right codes behind the scenes. IMO is the clinical terminology foundation in all major EHRs and 89% of US clinicians use IMO solutions. For more information, visit imohealth.com.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

scheduling, billing, documentation) Reimbursement models: How do you ensure providers are adequately reimbursed for telehealth services? Without a robust methodology for data management, analysis, and utilisation, the potential of wearable health trackers to improve health outcomes will remain untapped.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

On the clinical side, this can include analyzing data from patients’ EHRs to provide decision support interventions , which is a term introduced by the U.S. hours per day beyond work hours completing EHR documentation. On average, physicians spent 1.84 That adds up to 9.2 hours spent each week on work outside of the workday.

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Digital Health Today

JANUARY 28, 2021

A Sponsored Post by Azalea Health. Since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was passed in 2009, healthcare has digitized rapidly, with electronic health records (EHRs) now ubiquitous across medical practices – except for within behavioral health.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Now that the integration work is done it is being rolled out on a limited basis.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Now that the integration work is done it is being rolled out on a limited basis.

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TheraNest

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Digital intake changes how behavioral health providers collect the patient health information to offer the best care. Traditional intake, or the process of gathering client/patient information and history, was completed with paper and pen. The post Why Intake Tools Matter in EHRs appeared first on TheraNest.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Now that the integration work is done it is being rolled out on a limited basis.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. After that, you can listen on demand (See podcast information below.)

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. After that, you can listen on demand (See podcast information below.)

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. After that, you can listen on demand (See podcast information below.)

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TheraNest

MAY 14, 2024

Let’s explore why an EHR’s user experience truly matters. You spent a lot of time mastering the intricacies of mental health, and many of you had to learn business, billing, and administration on the fly as well. On the other hand, a well-designed EHR with a seamless user experience can help alleviate these challenges.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2023

Over the past ten years, we’ve worked hard to integrate a care management philosophy and capabilities directly into our EHR,” said Dr. Steven Buslovich , Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Patient Pattern. The marriage of an integrated care management platform with population health data will prove to be a major differentiator for us.”

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 17, 2023

The following is a guest article by Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP, Family Medicine Physician and Chief Medical Officer of the Clinician Solutions Team at 3M ’s Health Information Systems Division The release of ChatGPT has ignited dueling flames of excitement and concern regarding the potential of artificial intelligence (AI).

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JUNE 17, 2024

However, alongside the benefits RPM offers, healthcare providers must navigate a complex terrain of documentation requirements to support billing claims effectively. Disclaimer: The information provided in this article is intended for informational purposes only and should not be construed as legal, medical, or financial advice.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

That same report also showed the company delivered: 55 billion medication histories 25 billion clinical documents …via its platform. “We Exchanging health information is everything we do.” Confirmation of Vaccination The pandemic accelerated the use of Surescripts’ platform as an information exchange. With more than 21.7

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