Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Check out what Seema Verma said about Oracle Health’s desire to have their AI assistant be EHR agnostic. Obviously, the proof is in the pudding and it’s one thing to say we want to be EHR agnostic and another to make the experience great across EHR vendors. Especially if EHR vendors resist that approach.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Despite the historical challenge of healthcare organizations safeguarding data, the healthcare sector, rich in information, is now learning to embrace digitalization, enabling real-time movement of data between systems. Data minimalism can maximize clinical results.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In this edition of Buy or Sell we’ll […] In another edition of "Buy or Sell", Colin and John talk about a number of hidden dangers in healthcare and whether they're "buying" or "selling" that it's really a hidden danger or not. Buy or Sell: Old Windows Machines Are Healthcare's Greatest Security Risk. *

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

When a hospital’s Electronic Health Record (EHR) system is compromised or inaccessible, the vendor’s systems may contain the sole accessible records of upcoming patient appointments, procedures, and other critical healthcare activities.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

In the spirit of prevention of burn out, where technology can automate administrative burden, make chart reviews more efficient, use ambient listening capabilities to reduce time spent in the EHR will have a positive impact on the clinical burnout epidemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

that are in the process of adopting or have implemented electronic health record (EHR) systems. The proof of this is in the 78% of office-based physicians and 96% of non-federal acute care hospitals in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2020

Being a hospital CIO can be an unenviable – and sometimes nearly thankless – job even at the best of times. Things have arguably gotten even worse for health IT leaders as COVID-19 caseloads mount and the need to slap together solutions addressing the pandemic grows. Given this level of chaos, it’s predictable that cyberattackers […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2022

For the 91st episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we’re doing another edition of our popular Health IT: Buy or Sell. In this episode, we look at four grand statements about something in healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Hospital and healthcare services provider Universal Health Services has restored its network after being offline for more than a week in the wake of a massive cyberattack which forced it to shut down systems at locations across the US. The health system had disconnected the network to prevent the propagation of a malware attack.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

A new report by a security vendor says that it has seen a big increase in the volume of threats against healthcare organizations during the first three quarters of this year. The report, by Malwarebytes, says that it saw a 60% increase of threats at healthcare organizations when comparing all of 2018 with just the […].

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Another day, another scheme to profit from the high prices commanded by healthcare data. This time, the industry is confronting a new wave of cybercrime in which intruders are selling access to patient portals.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. When decommissioning healthcare systems to archive legacy data, there are often significant tradeoffs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Instead, patients will start to see consumer-grade tools that make it easy to download, register, book and conduct visits – all fully integrated into major EMRs. Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2020

New research has concluded that healthcare CIOs see analyzing social determinants of health data as a top priority going forward, along with tackling data interoperability and cybersecurity. The focus group study, which was conducted by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, involved bringing together a group of CIOs who were members of CHIME.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

For the 26th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, and we’re taking a look back at the last decade of Health IT. Hard to believe that it’s almost 2020, but as we enter the new decade join us as we look back.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

But what most healthcare professionals don’t realize is that AI can do so much more than respond to patient messages. AI can listen to patient visits and integrate accurate notes and next steps directly into the EHR. Take something simple and agreed upon across clinical guidelines, like genomic testing for EGFR in NSCLC.

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