Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2025

Health information technology professionals charged with selecting, implementing, updating, and paying for health IT in hospital and care delivery settings are essentially the first-line consumers of health IT specifically, electronic health records. I also started to see the downsides of doing this.

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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! Check out the community’s predictions down below and be sure to follow along as we share more 2025 Health IT Predictions ! Let us know on social media.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. Turbocharging, really inspiring that bold statement is the love of a son for his parents coupled with tech-innovation chops that could, indeed, eventually bring that audacious claim of being health care’s OS to fruition.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We wrap up this interview series withBrendan Keeler, Interoperability Practice Lead at HTD Health , with a look at his time workin with Jonathan, Bush, a discussion of the EHR market including Epic’s rise to dominance, a discussion of whether Epic is a monopoly, and finally a look at patient access to health data.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Top among these factors include feedback loops for channeling experience and input, data privacy assurances by the hospital/provider and EHR vendors, integration with EHRs and workflows, training and seeing a physician-leader overseeing the Ai implementation.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Tim Davis envisioned for his state-of-the-art orthopedic health and surgery center, he built his own software solution and launched it as a standalone company BluByrd. He also needed an EHR that could grow with him and that had open, well-published APIs. Dr. Davis needed to find an EHR platform that could meet the practices needs.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. Improve health care for all New Yorkers, 2.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2025

Read more… 2025 Health IT Predictions: Pharma. Read more… How Patient-Generated Health Data and Wearable Tech Will Impact EHR Innovation. Critically, this may mean EHR systems need a bit of a redesign. They also discussed how leveraging the EHR as well as AI is driving future IT initiatives.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

However, amidst the IT infrastructure responses we received a number of health IT experts talking about the importance of health data and interoperability infrastructure. If the future of healthcare is built on the back of data, then it makes sense why health data infrastructure would be such an important topic.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

health care system today: namely, Managing patient violence Inadequate patient handoffs– but in this case, related to patient transport #5 and #9 in the list 10 years later identify care coordination challenges, which continue to mar health care quality in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Datavant also announces completing its acquisition of Healthjump , the leader in health data exchange for value-based care organizations, which has built connections to more than 1,500 healthcare organizations participating in risk-bearing arrangements.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Startups that want appropriate access to data and some who want to push the envelope of what data should be shared. Patients who want access to their health data. Plus, there’s a complex maze of national and state laws which govern when and how healthcare data can and should be shared.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2024

They have received the Certified EHR Technology (CEHRT) designation from the ONC. In addition, ACOs and other value-based programs have to share data to get financial benefit. ” Watch the video for more on the potential for achieving ROI through digital sharing of health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

As a board-certified physician in clinical informatics working for the second-largest municipal health system in the U.S., When applied correctly, data sharing platforms and tools will improve the quality of care delivered at the individual and population levels. Prior to LANES, Modaressi was a health IT leader at L.A.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 15, 2023

Greenway Health continues to focus their efforts on optimizing their EHR. Michael Blackman, Chief Medical Officer at Greenway Health to learn more about the company’s EHR optimization activities. Job #1 for an EHR “An EHR should help people provide better care,” Dr. Blackman stated emphatically.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Using digital tech has improved consumers’ experiences with health care providers across a range of tasks: 53% told Philips it’s easier to schedule appointments, 47% think it’s easier to get test results, 42% receive appointment reminders, and 27% are able to monitor health indicators on their own.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2023

Sometimes health IT professionals forget that the goal is not just to put data in an EHR or to provide interoperability of data between health IT software. However, in this case she is talking about establishing meaningful connectivity to drive individual outcomes for patients and healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2022

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

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2022

Recently, we shared news about the growing feature set under development as part of Google Health’s Care Studio, most recently its “Conditions” feature which summarizes patient conditions and uses NLP to link related information like labs or medications to those condition listings.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

The IoB ecosystem includes the technologies that are part of the health care Internet of Things, as well as EHRs, robotic surgery systems, and smart ventilators which also generate data about peoples’ health and wellness. Back to the Ordr report, noting the rise of also the Internet of Stranger Things, abounding.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) is a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of all health IT vendors. They are a trusted resource and voice for our industry so that policymakers at federal, state, and local levels can be better informed about emerging digital health technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2024

What’s changed is the explosion of data in healthcare and the availability of this data to clinicians as well as a whole host of healthcare professionals. Bringing context and meaning to this vast amount of data including unstructured health data is going to be key for every healthcare organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

When someone wants to create a healthcare app, they often think that getting the data they need to make their app work will be easy. They assume that there must be some easy EHR API they can tap into that will provide them with the data access they need.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery ? The following is what they had to share. The AI actively guides conversations, ensuring compliance.

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APRIL 22, 2025

We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to ask How can health IT solutions improve interoperabilitybetween healthcare providers and systems to enhance care coordination and data sharing ? Integrating advanced AI tools with EHR systems can ensure health data is accurate, timely, and easily accessible.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Rock Health’s research has tracked peoples’ use of telemedicine, wearable technology, digital health tracking, and online health information since 2015, and the results this round show relative flattening of adoption across these various tools. What do health trackers track, then? Samsung down 4 points.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2020

CMS has released a proposed rule that will require Medicaid managed care plans and other insurers offering products on the ACA Exchanges to support the sharing of patient data amongst themselves.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

This included an update on CommonWell’s new technical service provider, ELLKAY and their recent designation by the federal government as a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN).

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

“Patients, their care partners, caregivers, and advocates are already utilizing AI powered tools and creating their own LLMs in ways that the average physician, healthcare executive, and health IT vendors would not believe. ” Cordovano further explained to me.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2024

New data standards announced last December by the Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare Technology (ONC) are an extraordinarily significant expansion of regulations around health IT and could hijack product roadmaps for years to come.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2020

As health clinics, dentists, and specialists gradually reopen during what we hope is a reprieve from the first COVID-19 wave, lapses in effective data sharing come into glaring view. For instance, some friends told me that when they arrived at a clinic, the receptionist handed them paper forms and pens.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

After more than 15 years of creating and pushing health IT innovations forward in the state, the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative has completed its final dissolution. Before dissolving , MAeHC had assigned its contract with the New England Healthcare Exchange Network to the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC).

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2019

A pair of senators have filed a bill which would impose new regulations on how companies manage data generated by consumer technologies such as health apps, wearables and direct-to-consumer genetic tests. The Protecting Personal Health Data Act, which was filed by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and […].

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