Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 7, 2025

A risk analysis must include all systems, not only the systems that process health information, because other systems could be compromised to allow access to those containing health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

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. Ryan Johnson, Chief Product Officer at CallRail All players in the healthcare space should expect the U.S. The following is what they had to share.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2025

Currently, all notifiable conditions (an instance of a communicable illnesses) go through eHealth Exchange electronically, but we are working to further role out case investigations to allow public health agencies to query for additional information when they receive a notification rather that using old-fashioned phone calls or faxes.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. This type of document will require not only top-notch billing tools but also new levels of contractual collaboration between separate provider entities.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2025

As we wrap up another year and get ready for 2025 to begin, it is once again time for everyone’s favorite annual tradition of Health IT Predictions! We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on what will happen in the coming year and boy did they deliver.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, well be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why theyre important to the healthcare IT community. Delivering Seamless Staff and Patient Experiences for Source Healthcare. We posed many questions to the Healthcare IT Today experts recently.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because theres so much happening out there in healthcare IT we arent able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure youre informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The two groups outline some recommendations to help support and improve such IT integrations in their recent white paper, Optimizing Health IT for Safe Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care. Ensure integration and easy accessibility of validated and clinically accepted behavioral health screening tools in the EHR.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Or are there areas in healthcare where past regulations are now too restrictive and are holding us back? In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update regulations. The following is what they had to say.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2025

Starting small allows organizations to fine-tune their approach while building staff confidence and documenting clear wins. Clinical teams can document improved medication verification rates and reduced documentation errors. Clinical teams can document improved medication verification rates and reduced documentation errors.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

In search of an answer to this question, we reached out to our insightful Healthcare IT Today Community and this is what they had to share with us. The potential negative impacts of this are well documented; quality assurance processes can effectively address this risk to documentation quality.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The following is a guest article by Tom Romeo, General Manager of Healthcare IT at Quest Diagnostics. Effective content management can help hospitals, health systems, and large ambulatory groups turn piles of paper and digital content into actionable data. Looking to better manage your paper, digital, and legacy content?

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

Vaccination status, demographic information and notes are increasingly shared. 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.” Why would they do this? With more than 21.7

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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 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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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2021

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

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

The first is the ability to exchange a list of health data locations, which enables Record Locator Services to interoperate with consumers wishing to discover the location of patient records within a health information exchange. Document Sharing Across Network Topologies- Rev.

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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. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Guillaume de Zwirek, CEO of Well Health, told Healthcare IT News that he believes the best strategy is to "meet patients where they are." " "I don't think healthcare really understands what true patient engagement is," said de Zwirek, whose company offers patient communication tools.

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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. He has been practicing in this field for over 15 years.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Procurement Coordinator position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Healthcare organizations need to have robust security tools and protocols in place not only to safeguard their data, but to protect the health of the patients they serve.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

RIN 0945-AA22: A Game-Changer for ePHI Protection The HHS has introduced RIN 0945-AA22, a Notice of Proposed Rule Making, to enhance the protection of electronic protected health information (ePHI). Document an incident response plan and establish contingency measures to restore operations within 72 hours, minimizing disruptions.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Enterprise Architect position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The following is a guest article by Jeff Lusby, General Manager, Healthcare IT at Quest Diagnostics As healthcare organizations come to terms with value-based care, many are hitting the wall of unstructured clinical and administrative data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2025

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because theres so much happening out there in healthcare IT we arent able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure youre informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This move keeps our 250,000 members on the forefront of healthcare’s digital transformation, ensuring they remain vital and effective in their current roles and future-proof their careers in this evolving industry.” To learn more about Semantic Health, visit semantichealth.ai.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

There are a great many telemedicine technology and services vendors on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News has published a comprehensive listing of these vendors, which can be accessed by clicking here. All that information is sent from HealthEC to eClinicalWorks. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Jim Jirjis, Chief Health Information Officer at HCA to discuss the value of data quality in healthcare and find out more about the link between their sepsis project and better emergency preparedness. And for an exclusive look at our top stories , subscribe to our newsletter.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Focused guidance is needed to create reliable and sustainable standards and processes that work with healthcare today. TEFCA aims to create one unified technical framework to exchange data across the country between healthcare providers, health plans, public health agencies, and individuals. .

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2023

There has been a lot of activity and news coverage of Qualified Health Information Networks, or QHINs, recently. Healthcare IT Today had the chance to ask Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture , for his perspective via email. An analogy I use for people not steeped in healthcare is air travel. But what are they?

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The biggest impact I had this year: IHE whitepaper on Health Information Exchange models (3.7k) From Implementation-Guide to IHE-Connectathon (2.7k) Healthcare use of Identity level of assurance (2k) When is a document not a Document but still a document?

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