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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

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"In this new normal, digitally frictionless scheduling of imaging studies by patients in the right location for them, at the right time in their care, with the ability to electronically share those images with those they wish, is but one example," he continued.

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HIMSSCast: A pro checks in on the status of the health IT stock market

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Has momentum shifted to companies more on the digital health front vs. EHRs? He also talks about how HITECH made health IT and EHRs huge 15 years ago, but ponders whether today is more about digital health than EHRs. For example, MDRX, ATHN and CERN are history. Hospital IT was big 15 years ago around HITECH, of course.

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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

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A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This may seem like an insignificant example.

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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center boosts telehealth with $600K from the FCC

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"First, while we had in place technology to enable telemedicine – in particular virtual visits – it had not been optimized for use nor integrated within our clinical workflows or our EHR," said CIO Thomas Furlani. "Example visit types include results review, surgical follow-up visits and pre-surgical consults."

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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

All organizations, including those in critical infrastructure industries such as healthcare, need to consider a three-pronged approach to protecting sensitive data: monitoring user behavior, looking at content accessed by users, and applying additional controls to the most highly targeted users—for example, those with privileged access.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

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For example, the Brigham Home Hospital program leveraged Biofourmis’ AI-based technology to improve outcomes while lowering costs by 38%, the company reported. Myia provides clinical teams with contextualized proactive information targeted directly into their EHR and workflow.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

For example, artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to improve financial forecasting, risk management, and decision-making processes while automation can streamline routine operations and improve productivity to reduce costs. One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies.

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