Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

The journey to achieve interoperability in healthcare has been too long and too expensive. To address this, companies have put effort into creating interoperability tools and platforms designed to make it easier to exchange data. To accelerate interoperability efforts, however, creating more technology may not the answer.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The healthcare industry is clamoring for AI and we are proud to offer a suite of full-featured solutions that seamlessly interoperate with existing tools. Health systems experience completion of notes up to 72% faster while increasing documentation quality, improving clinician well-being, and enhancing revenue capture.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

For a better understanding of how exactly EHR systems need to be tailored, we reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them how can user experience and interface design be improved in EHR systems to reduce clinician burnout and enhance workflow efficiency ? The following are their answers.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. The Top Technologies For Improving Healthcare’s Security Posture. This was our latest question for the Healthcare IT Today community.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. In the wrong hands, LLMs can generate false or exaggerated medical documentation in an instant. Read more… Breaking Down Healthcare’s Data Walls.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

We reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them how can health information management professionals leverage emerging technologies, such as AI , to enhance data integrity and streamline processes? AI-assisted coding ensures the correct diagnosis and procedure codes are accurately documented.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 2, 2024

While many healthcare systems have moved away from mail, phone, and fax for medical records transfer, it’s clear that not enough have taken advantage of available technologies to maximize healthcare interoperability. A secure, streamlined process also builds all-important patient trust.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. A Look at Epic Culture and Interoperability with Brendan Keeler. Read more… How Healthcare AI Automation Improves Accuracy and Trust.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. John connected with Angie Bass at Velatura to discuss why interoperability is about finding value in data and not just exchanging data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2025

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. We need to be purpose-driven in thinking about how the data will be used within the healthcare system to facilitate care and financial-related considerations between providers and payers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has put together further detailed guidance for how healthcare providers should be documenting and reporting electronic clinical quality measures for telehealth encounters. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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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

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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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Here's a glimpse of what we can expect: Enhanced Accuracy and Efficiency: Advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP): AI scribes will continue to refine their ability to understand and interpret complex medical terminology, leading to more accurate and comprehensive documentation.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 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. Idaho-based St.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Many smart, dedicated people have relentlessly pursued nationwide healthcare interoperability, and the arrival of TEFCA represents both a major milestone and a significant opportunity for the industry to pause and carefully consider our next steps based on past attempts and current endeavors. About Zach Finn.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2023

Rochester Regional Health is using a measured and practical approach to data interoperability. Starting Simple with Interoperability RRH began integrating external lab data into their Epic EMR to elevate interoperability. However, there was an unintended benefit of their interoperability efforts. They achieved both.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Based on Twilio’s Programmable Video API, the service will give healthcare professionals the ability to launch video visits with patients and to update clinical documentation and review patient histories within Epic EHR workflows. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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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 News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2020

The company is encouraging organizations to share COVID-19 information through Epic’s interoperability network, saying providers can share travel-screening documentation and infection-status information with both Epic and non-Epic organizations through Care Everywhere, Epic’s interoperability network.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

In a fast-paced exchanged with John Lynn of Healthcare IT Today, Rucker covers regulations and evolving data exchange standards that foster interoperability and data analytics. “The real point of interoperability is continuous, real-time computing,” according to Rucker. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2020

From that analog origin to enterprise-scale cloud fax, we have seen the evolution of fax from simple point to point document exchange to something extremely powerful and capable. The origin of the modern fax machine dates back to the 1960’s. Some pundits see fax […].

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

There are a lot of components to consider and talk about in regards to interoperability and data sharing. The inventive ideas and possibilities of where it can go and what it could do, the rules and regulations surrounding this area of healthcare, the privacy and concerns, etc. The following are their answers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2025

AI has made its way into nearly every corner of healthcare, but where it has been most successful is when it integrates well into existing workflows and makes the lives of clinicians as well as patients easier. Greenway Clinical Assist is helping providers reclaim 1-2 hours per day by reducing documentation burdens.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2024

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. Providers are saving more than two hours daily on clinical documentation, improving efficiency and the quality of notes. In 2024, we saw an increase in the use of AI medical scribes.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Built-in collaboration with leading health systems, the HealthEx solution will help manage massive amounts of unstructured content in lengthy consents, legal contracts, and other policy documents governing data access and transform this content into automated, enforceable workflows.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2025

Blackman promoted an “automated healthcare practice” that benefits from ambient documentation, but he said that AI is not yet ready for clinical decision-making, but it can be used for decision support. He pointed out that AI-designed models depend on being fed lots of patient data, and therefore depend on interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2025

Nakashima presents an interesting history of eHealth Exchange (originally named the National Health Information Network), including how close it came to being shut down after it first demonstrated in 2006 that the electronic exchange of patient documents was feasible. It is still around and thriving as a non-profit. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 18, 2023

"These are good steps; however, we believe the secret to accountability is improving the level of patient-provider engagement and keeping those practicing addiction medicine compliant with all required documentation. All of these components are critical for quality-of-care and for documentation if an audit is performed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

" Nicklaus Children's Hospital developed a technology roadmap and implemented telehealth platform enhancements with a focus on interoperability and integration with its EHR. "Data collection and integration of documentation also help measure important outcomes such as improvements in access to care."

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

This week’s chat will be hosted by Richard Bagdona (@richardbagdonas) on the topic “Interoperability with COVID“. Many health tech workers at facilities providing COVID vaccinations are being asked to create HL7 documents with vaccination […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

John Blair, III, MD, CEO at MedAllies It’s been well-documented for years that the healthcare industry has an interoperability problem. The commercial efforts to date to push interoperability forward have made true advances. The following is a guest article by A.

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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. The best document management systems drive improvements by not only storing digital healthcare data, but by also ensuring data is easily accessible enterprise-wide. Or click on the titles below for highlights. .

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 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

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Welcome to the special ViVE 2025 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

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Healthcare IT Today Podcast : RSNA 2024 Conference Preview. More Insights From the Experts at HLTH 2024.

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