Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

While at the CHIME 2019 Fall Forum conference in Phoenix, AZ, I had a great chance to sit in on one of the CIO focus groups at the event hosted by Optimum Healthcare IT. The session discussed a wide variety of topics including EHR optimization, EHR training, and other related topics. While listening to these […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2024

“Every innovation from Greenway going forward is going to be based on AI” That was just one of several bold statements made by Pratap Sarker, CEO of Greenway Health at the company’s user group conference (ReEngage) last week in Arlington, TX. We have launched many new products. How was the ReEngage conference?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, Founder and CEO of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS) EHRs are ubiquitous because they’re useful – but how useful are they really, and to whom? The truth is that an EHR by definition serves multiple masters, satisfying some more than others. The upshot?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Population Health Telehealth Workflow Workforce On the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, UW has ramped up telemedicine capabilities and made immediate changes to its EHR to support COVID-19 care. You will need staff to surge support for weeks or months.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A new study by The Permanente Medical Group (part of Kaiser Permanente) offers confidence that ambient voice transcriptions can save time and improve the patient experience by generating clinical notes about patient visits. This article summarizes the key findings in that study. This study provides encouraging data on some of these questions.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Integrating AI with Existing Systems Seamlessly integrating AI with current EHR/EMR systems is crucial. Transforming Urgent Care Groups (Or Centers) with AI While AI coding tools are still too new to have enough data to definitively prove their ROI, there is still anecdotal evidence that they are making a positive impact.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2024

SA Ambulance Service to implement EMR South Australia has earmarked A$23.5 According to a media release, the ePCR will also be integrated with the Sunrise EMR system used across SA hospitals, facilitating quick access to patients’ ambulance records. million ($15.6

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2022

Healthcare Performance Group, Inc. HPG), which has provided industry-leading consulting expertise for EHR technology since 2002, announced today that it acquired Health Data Specialists, LLC (HDS).

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2022

It’s also well known that many physicians remain disappointed with the charting and clinical documentation capabilities of hospital and specialty EHRs. According to KLAS Research’s Arch Collaborative, physicians want three basic things from their EHRs: strong user mastery, a sense of ownership and system personalization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

September 05, 2023 News Indonesia officially requires its healthcare facilities to implement EMRs The country enacted a Health Minister regulation on medical records in late August.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2024

At the 2024 NextGen Healthcare’s User Group Meeting (#NextGenUGM24 ) Neighborhood Health’s CIO Tony Villanueva and NextGen Healthcare ’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Robert (Bob) Murry shared how the strategic use of technology, like NextGen’s EHR platform, is helping to deliver care in a more personalized way.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 22, 2019

ettain group, a leading provider of talent solutions, announced today that it has acquired Global Employment Solutions (“GES”) and Leidos Inc.’s s commercial Electronic Health Records (“EHR”) consulting business (“Leidos Health, LLC”). ettain group provides a […].

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Clear Arch Health

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

OVERVIEW: This webinar examines specific ways that EHR interoperability and electronic health records systems integration can deliver a range of benefits to remote patient monitoring (RPM) for driving improved care coordination.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 11, 2020

Hospital EHRs frequently miss harmful or potentially fatal errors, according to a study published in the journal JAMA Network Open. To conduct the study, researchers analyzed 8,657 observations using the National Quality Forum Health IT Safety Measure, a CPOE and EHR safety test administered by the Leapfrog Group between 2009 and 2018.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2019

I don’t know about you, folks, but I read a lot of statements from trade groups which challenge a proposed law or regulatory action.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We caught up with them at their 2023 User Group Meeting (#NextGenUGM23) in Orlando Florida. Murry a much more effective application of AI is ambient clinical voice – where an AI-powered application “listens” to the clinical visit and turns the conversation into data that can be used to populate the EHR. It’s not going to do everything.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Telehealth looks different for millennials and retirees, rural and urban inner-city populations, and population groups with fundamentally different healthcare needs. The most mature health systems recognize the importance of context and design their telehealth programs accordingly.

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Health Blawg

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Across all of the provider sites that work with HealthBI (over 60,000 and counting) the company interacts with multiple EMRs (there are now over 100 EMR tie-ins) in order to extract data needed to report quality measures and qualify for incentive payments. The Harlow Group LLC. Your comments are welcome here. David Harlow.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2019

On Monday, the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) released the Annual Regulatory Burden Report at their Annual Conference. With responses from over 400 medical group practices, the findings from their survey reveal the impact of federal regulations on physician practices and medical groups.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

As electronic health record (EHR) systems become nearly universal and interoperability initiatives gain momentum, many healthcare providers assume their revenue cycle challenges are solved. In 2008, 9% of hospitals and 17% of office-based physicians used EHR systems. By 2021, these numbers had soared to 96% and 78%, respectively.

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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. Beyond COVID-19: Data considerations when switching your EMR. The following is a guest article by Tom Romeo, General Manager of Healthcare IT at Quest Diagnostics.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Increased workloads, difficult-to-navigate EHRs, documentation processes, administrative tasks, and more challenging work-life balance. A 2019 article published in the American Journal of Medicine estimates that 37% of the time primary care providers spend with patients is actually spent interacting with EHRs.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2023

NextGen announced several AI initiatives at their annual User Group Meeting, including the launch of their Ambient Assist product to help with clinical documentation. The roller coasters and thrill rides in Orlando, FL were the perfect backdrop for the 26 th edition of NextGen Healthcare ’s annual User Group Meeting (#NextGenUGM23).

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2020

A quartet of patients has filed a class-action suit against an Alabama based hospital group detailing the harm they allegedly suffered after a ransomware attack hit their local hospitals. According to a news story, patients seen at the three hospitals run by Ala.-based

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

a leading provider of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) solutions, today announced the acquisition of Net Health ’s EMR line of home health, hospice, home care, and palliative solutions and RCM services (collectively, “home health and hospice”). Careficient Inc. , About Careficient. About Net Health .

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 11, 2024

Greenway Health ’s CEO, Pratap Sarker, made several bold statements at the company’s annual user group meeting and has set the organization on an aggressive path forward. One of his promises was that all future innovations from Greenway would be based on AI. We have launched many new products.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 27, 2024

Plus, I’m confident that recruiters will still send us their often hard to fill health IT and EHR jobs. Over time, I’m confident this will still be a great resource for those searching for jobs.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2024

Epic Cupid Analyst – Bluebird Staffing Senior EHR Analyst, Epic Beacon – Ardent Health Services Sr. We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Health Epic Beaker Analyst – Engage Partners Inc.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2020

Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based EHR vendor with a controversy-rich history, has agreed to pay $145 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme designed to increase opioid prescriptions and issues with their meaningful use EHR certification. This had been […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

One Healthcare Solution’s premier software and expertise in EMR integration will allow us to support practice owners and physicians more than ever before,” said Emmet Seibels, President of Verustat. As a result, the company has one of the highest compliance rates among its patient populations in the RPM industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

We focused especially on systems that use advanced machine learning techniques to address the serious problem of physician burnout related to heavy workloads required to document patient care in electronic health record systems (EHRs). EHRs have multiple benefits. EHR workloads have become a significant cause of physician burnout.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Read more… On MEDITECH’s Push Into the Ambulatory EHR Market. Hospitals, health systems, and large ambulatory groups are full of paper and digital content, but most clinical content is unstructured and therefore isn’t actionable. Read more… The Value Proposition for Effective Content Management.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2024

Each day that passes, I’m seeing how ambient clinical voice has become the most impactful part of health IT since the $36 billion of stimulus money for EHR software. We also asked Dr. Lee about his decision to join Nabla as CMO.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Insurers both large and small , for example, are partnering or even acquiring organizations that specialize in VBP; the same goes for physicians groups and groups that provide home care. EHR systems are common in Europe, and many European countries have made significant strides in adopting some aspects of VBP for drugs and treatments.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2023

With its implementation, the data aggregation will partly be done for the physician group, which allows physicians to get to patients sooner and cut down on administrative time. About Gregg Smith-McCurdy Gregg Smith-McCurdy is CIO at Hill Physicians Medical Group , the largest independent physician association in Northern California.

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TheraNest

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Both new and existing clients can enter their own information directly into the EMR via the client portal. Group therapy and the multi-staff functions streamline the process of inviting more than one person to an appointment. Ready for an EHR to streamline your billing and practice management? Information Updates. Cross-Check.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This task won’t be solved by any single organizer or sector; the AMIA calls on providers and health systems, Health IT vendors, and policy and advocacy groups to join the effort. This seems to me a reasonable way to identify duplicates, although one can question what happens when an EHR automatically generates text.

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