Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2025

Amid a history of high-profile breaches, more organizations are taking a proactive approach to cybersecurity and having discussions at a leadership level. Read more… 2025 Health IT Predictions: Pharma. Read more… How Patient-Generated Health Data and Wearable Tech Will Impact EHR Innovation.

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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

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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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

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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As health data sharing continues to evolve, the mere collection of patient data is no longer sufficient; it’s imperative that the data collected have tangible value for overburdened clinicians increasingly being requested to gather more data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2022

Over the last several years, concern has grown among healthcare professionals over the ways patient data is being used, and just as importantly, how well patients understand what those uses are. However, if a new study is any indication, a minority of consumers understand the extent of the health data being shared, and many have […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

Much has been written about Larry Ellison’s vision of what he called a “National EHR Database.” To be clear, I’m not sure if this was Ellison’s goal with a “National EHR Database” or not. The second group to benefit from this National EHR Database was public health.

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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 News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Before dissolving , MAeHC had assigned its contract with the New England Healthcare Exchange Network to the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. Greater Lawrence Family Health Center , which intends to make systematic changes in the way healthcare is delivered through the innovative use of electronic health information technologies.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONCHIT). Dr. Halamka is President of CHAI, and Dr. Brian Anderson was appointed the CEO this month following many years of leadership in responsible AI work.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Additionally, AI-driven workflow automation that is natively integrated into an EHR can more easily handle routine administrative tasks, enabling HIM professionals to focus on more complex responsibilities, thereby optimizing resource allocation and improving operational efficiency.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Platforms: Digital health platforms are emerging as centralised hubs for patient data, care coordination, and communication between healthcare providers and patients. These platforms enable seamless data sharing, improve care quality, and enhance patient engagement.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Despite the promising advancements, health systems still face hurdles in fully harnessing the potential of digital health. Financial pressures and the difficulty of meaningful integration into EHRs can limit access to these technologies. This shift accelerates the adoption of best practices in population health management.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 18, 2022

Before we dove into the topic of TEFCA and QHINs, I asked Wilder to share about CommonWell and their relationship with EHR vendors. They both shared what it’s like to work alongside multiple competing vendor voices where they are working collaboratively towards the goal of interoperable health data.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Healthcare Technology Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors Market Insights, Analysis & Predictions. Remote patient monitoring: Patients can use text messages to send health data, such as blood pressure readings or glucose levels, to their providers. Patients can also respond to messages with text or images.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Each day in healthcare, data becomes more valuable, more useful, and more important to a healthcare organization. It’s easy to see that the future of healthcare rests on the back of data. The problem is that data in and of itself isn’t useful.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

However, legacy systems often fall short of integrating this data into core healthcare operations. Implementing FHIR standards and API-based integrations is critical for seamless data sharing between digital health tools and core EHR systemsensuring patient-centric, connected care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2020

Note: While this article addresses specifically converting data to MEDITECH Expanse, most of these principles apply to any EHR data conversion. With Expanse, MEDITECH has delivered a single EMR platform that gathers all the health data needed for treatment […].

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Just as importantly, they can work together to address social needs for some of our most vulnerable populations through increased care coordination thats preventative, facilitated by new and emerging technologies, and better use of health data that can predict risk. What fantastic insights!

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 28, 2024

They serve as intermediaries, facilitating the secure and efficient exchange of health data between different systems and organisations. Key Roles of TIEs in Healthcare AI: Data Aggregation: TIEs collect data from various sources, including electronic health records (EHRs), medical devices, and research databases.

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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

JANUARY 6, 2023

On October 6, 2022, the healthcare and health IT community woke to a new reality – one in which electronic health information (EHI) included far more than it did the day before. . Equally important is the tremendous potential for innovation that comes with greater access to health data. Why was that so important?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2023

We’ve only seen a few times where something has dramatically changed the EHR product roadmap. The first time this happened was when the HITECH act and associated $36 billion of stimulus money was included to stimulate adoption of EHR software. In order to get access to that stimulus money, you had to use a certified EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

" Elizabeth Lever, Institute for Family Health. Configure additional server and data storage capabilities. Configure the EHR system to assure seamless access to telehealth capabilities so that providers can readily switch between in-person and telehealth visits. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The agreement positions it to become the top vendor in the maturing market for patient-generated health data. In early November, news broke that Google parent Alphabet had agreed to acquire wearables maker Fitbit for about $2.1 billion in cash.

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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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Digital Health Global

MARCH 20, 2025

Bloomfield was the director of Mobile Technology Strategy at Duke University Health System, where he explored the world of clinical informatics, the intersection of technology and healthcare. There, he discovered a problem worth solving: health data interoperability.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

"We have just officially recovered from the ransomware attack and we are now meeting with each department's leadership and frontline staff to capture, document and then categorize the information in a playbook should something like this ever happen again," he explained. " Beth Lindsay-Wood, Moffitt Cancer Center.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2025

Beyond TEFCA: Knocking Down Remaining Barriers To Exchange Beyond their TEFCA leadership, The Sequoia Project is uniquely positioned to tackle the remaining challenges to seamless and secure health information sharing.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 8, 2022

We couldn’t be more excited to partner with Josh, Aaron, and the incredible team at Health Note,” said Wayne Hu, Partner at SignalFire. Health Note will use the funds to accelerate market expansion, expand EHR integrations and invest in further R&D to build additional offerings for clinical support. About Health Note.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 12, 2020

Despite the endless efforts healthcare organizations have made to support health data interoperability, the path still remains rocky. However, the pandemic has offered a sharp reminder that problems with patient data sharing can undercut treatment, particularly with the COVID-19 pandemic underway, a new study suggests.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2020

Plus, then we asked them how it will impact health data sharing going forward. As part of our Healthcare IT 100 in 100, we asked a wide variety of healthcare interoperability experts to chime in on the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2024

News ONC released HTI-2 , the second proposed rule for Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability. Products Greenway Health launched Greenway Health Pay , a payment tool powered by InstaMed. It’s integrated with Surescripts.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Plus, we can’t talk interoperability without some discussion of government regulation and agencies like ASTP (Formerly known as ONC) and CMS as we continue to digitize the sharing of health data. Switching back to Epic, Brendan shares some of what it was like to work for a leader like Judy Faulkner, Founder and CEO of Epic.

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