Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

On today's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock talks to Kajeet's Director of Strategy, Dominic Marcellino, about some of the different roadblocks to secure, reliable connectivity and how to approach tackling them. The current state of health data interoperability. Making health data not just readable, but useful.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

doctors, driven by turnover and understaffing, compassion fatigue, and challenges using digital tools — think EHRs. Getting to interoperability of systems and data is key, and BDO provides a helpful sidebar int he report speaking to getting more of your EHR system. How to move forward? BDO asks and answers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2023

One of the big challenges ambulatory practices face today is how to navigate the increasingly complicated world of population including things like HEDIS scores. The good news is that the opportunity to do population health is now there thanks to all of the data that’s available to a healthcare clinic in their EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Read more… An Interoperability and EHR API Deep Dive with Brendan Keeler. Sandy Washburn at Compass Health Systems joined John to outline how health systems can benefit from eClinicalWorks RCM Consulting Services , especially in addressing challenges such as claims denials.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Most striking in the Edelman 2023 research was the finding that more consumers trusted peer voices – friends and family – on par with medical experts, and well above the advice of national health authorities and global health authorities. But how to bake in “patient-first-ness?”

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 12, 2022

While many of us know ELLKAY from their work in EHR conversion, it’s really amazing how much ELLKAY has done when it comes to healthcare interoperability and also making that interoperability data useful. I was recently meeting with Gurpreet (GP) Singh from Ellkay when I was in his area. Knowing a language is one thing.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

EHR Development Standards: New teeth, bigger bite After years of dashed hopes that EHR workflows will achieve true interoperability and allow patients to easily access and share their healthcare data, many are looking at the ONC’s final standards with a skeptical eye and cautious optimism. There’s no time to waste.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2020

Whenever you change EHR software, one of the biggest pieces of the project is to figure out how to handle the data that resides in the system (or more often systems) that you’re replacing. Needless to say, there’s a lot that goes into this part of the project. In fact, it really is almost a […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Requests are then electronically communicated directly to the provider organization’s EHRs and other systems. The specific, requested data is intelligently pulled from the provider organization’s systems to fulfill the request—including over 200+ EHRs using MRO’s proprietary technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Examples include using Teams for virtual care visits, Teams integration with Cerner electronic health record, and additional enhancements on the Azure Health Data Services using AI. Salesforce has announced that it will improve its Salesforce Customer 360 for Health product, adding new features. Virtual care.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Innovar Healthcare also branched out to help labs with data sharing when COVID-19 hit, and now is working more and more with digital health companies who have similar data sharing problems. The problem most organizations face with health data interoperability is that it is not just about the data or the formats.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 4, 2019

888 of the fetchingly titled, “ Proposed Rule, CMS-1715-P ” – I’ve greatly abbreviated the full title – CMS says this: We believe the bi-directional availability of data, meaning that both patients and their health care providers have real-time access to the patient’s electronic health record (EHR), is critical.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

At ReMedi , we frequently support health systems going through transitions at various stages of the EHR life cycle. Along the way, we almost inevitably uncover challenges surrounding the quality of the patient data transferred to the new and existing EHR. Clinicians vs. Abstractors: Who should do it?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We talk a lot about sharing data and how it will improve patient outcomes and interoperability, but do we talk enough about how to do it safely? Most of the data that we are looking to share is highly sensitive health information, the kind of information that cybercriminals love to hold for ransom.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Healthcare IT Today received a demo from Rajat Mukherji at Spectrum Enterprise on how to monitor network traffic in the hospital and at home – including temperature and humidity sensors in key locations. Read more… Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2022

Think improvements to the nurse call button, a virtual whiteboard, and actions triggered by activity in the EHR. Several members of the Healthcare IT Today community took the time to share their thoughts on how technology will support the healthcare facility of tomorrow.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Educate Patients on the Benefits of RPM Devices Patients are willing to engage in remote monitoring programs if they understand how to improve their health and reduce hospital visits. Provide timely feedback: Let patients know how their health data is progressing to motivate continued use of RPM devices.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 6, 2024

It includes remote voice or video appointments, text messages between physicians and patients, and securely transmitting health data to facilitate treatment. Patient Portals Electronic health/medical records (EHR/EMR) have increased collaboration between healthcare providers, removing data silos and improving outcomes for patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2023

In addition, the vendor is looking at how to support patients in managing their health outside the clinical setting. The FTC is continuing its crackdown on companies that share healthcare data inappropriately. Read more… Lessons Learned from Health IT in the Golden State. No one likes paper forms.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

In fact, a recent JAMA Health Forum report indicates that from 2016 to 2021, the annual number of ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector more than doubled. Furthermore, the transition to electronic health records (EHRs) has reinforced the need for tightened identity and access management processes.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2023

Health Gorilla and LexisNexis Risk Solutions are working to make SDoH data actionable , John found out in an interview with Avery Haller (Health Gorilla) and Diana Zuskov (LexisNexis). Read more… Hearing From Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill. Read more… Why Greenway Is Emphasizing EHR Optimization.

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Digital Health Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

Patient data unification startup b.well Connected Health cut through last week’s tradeshow noise with $40M in Series C funding to advance its mission to solve healthcare’s fragmentation problem.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Workflow optimization tools give the clinical team visibility to the patient pathway in real time, and empower them to make data-driven decisions about how to best manage critical medical situations. Corinna Dan, Senior Director of Public Health at Maximus. Greg Miller, Chief Growth Officer at Lumeon.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

TEFCA exchanges pave a way for sharing of data among broader national networks and scale up the successful local model of interoperability which has worked in the last few years. FHIR enables seamless data exchange by providing a standard for electronic health records (EHRs), while blockchain ensures secure and transparent transactions.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Surveys A survey of 2,600 AHIMA members found that about 80% of healthcare organizations are collecting social determinants of health data. The bad news: Organizations face multiple challenges in collecting, coding, and using SDOH data. Plano, Texas-based Care Choice Family Clinic chose eClinicalWorks.

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Redox

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

There is a delicate balance that organizations must strike between using FHIR APIs where possible, while having to maintain expertise and knowledge for how to exchange data with organizations using alternative standards. To meet these regulatory requirements, many digital health enterprises have focused on implementing FHIR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Current Health then uses AI to identify those at risk of disease and proactively alert physicians to potential issues, driving earlier intervention and treatment. For these reasons, Current Health can be valuable to health systems as they navigate the surge of patients requiring care due to COVID-19, the vendor said.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was created to promote and expand the adoption of health information technology, specifically, the use of electronic health records (EHRs) by healthcare providers. Health Informatics Trend #1: Interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

This federal regulatory document called for sharing EHR data with. patients to improve their engagement and independent health management. It would be helpful to create a simple user guide explaining to patients how to interact with the portal. In fact, it was. Stage 2 requirements. Patient portals. Summing up.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

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). Decision support based on a patient’s complete health profile will become instantly available.

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Redox

MARCH 15, 2024

The clincher: Just because the data is available to use doesn’t mean health systems are fully using that data—or capitalizing on the full capabilities of the analytics solutions they’ve deployed. Poor CDS EHR Integration Negatively Impacts Patient Care, Survey Finds.” EHR Intelligence. CEO Digital.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2024

The following is a guest article by Shannon West, Chief Product Officer at Datavant Since the dawn of electronic medical records, American healthcare delivery systems have traced a winding path toward the dream of seamless and timely health data interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The following is a guest article by Matt Murren, Co-Founder and CEO at True North Modern healthcare groups depend on dozens of vendors, from EHR and other software companies to imaging services and medical device manufacturers. This wave of venture capital crested in 2021, according to Rock Health’s Market Insights Report.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 27, 2018

. $10B contract w/Cerner = HUGE opportunity, 1ce in a lifetime, to rally around and use it to make something BE interoperable, and show the way to the rest of the healthcare landscape on how to do it. VA is largest health system in the country. and enable open sharing across systems. Society for Participatory Medicine.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 25, 2020

While she clearly believes in the potential of digital health technologies, (as does her boss, CEO Tim Cook), she’s also a health professional in her own right, and understands how important it is that patients and healthcare providers be sceptical as big tech attempts to get into the market.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 2023

Answers included making sense of unstructured data, reducing documentation, and predicting utilization trends – all based on the notion of using AI to aid healthcare workers and not replace them. Read more… Navigating Population Health Data and HEDIS in an Ambulatory Practice.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

Is it a privacy or data concern? Are they not technologically literate enough to understand how to use the portal? It’s a good idea to offer guidance on how patients can incorporate portal activities into their daily lives, emphasizing the convenience of accessing health information on the go.

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