Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Today, we are going to focus on emerging technologies in regard to health information management. We reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them how can health information management professionals leverage emerging technologies, such as AI , to enhance data integrity and streamline processes?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

ECRI's Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety is working with the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association chart some of the common challenges involved in integrating behavioral health systems with primary care EHRs. Optimize clinical documentation for behavioral health and primary care integration.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 19, 2019

The project will combine participants' Apple Watch data with genetic tests, survey responses, EHR data and other health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, Founder and CEO of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS) EHRs are ubiquitous because they’re useful – but how useful are they really, and to whom? The truth is that an EHR by definition serves multiple masters, satisfying some more than others. The upshot?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

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. TEFCA like health information networks (HINs) bring non-HIPAA entities (no direct/indirect healthcare service operations) but at a large scale and with broader coverage.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: Privacy Consultant – Health Care Service Corporation Clinical Informatics Specialist – Insight Global Chief Medical Officer – Clinicas del Camino Real, Inc.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

"About three-and-a-half years ago, we were looking to further scale our business across myriad, diverse markets, and were searching for a cloud-based EHR for multiple reasons," said Scott Parks, president and co-founder of CareTeam. " Additionally, CareTeam places a heavy focus on addressing patients' whole health.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The evolution of Health Information Management (HIM) professionals has been remarkable. Jennifer Mueller, President of the American Health Information Management Association ( AHIMA ), sees a bright future for the HIM industry. When I started my career in health information, I worked in the medical records department.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 8, 2024

By Stephanie Jamison, Executive Committee Chair and Public Policy Leadership Workgroup Vice Chair, EHR Association. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2024

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were designed to streamline operations and improve coordination across healthcare systems. And while EHRs have largely benefited the organizations that have adopted them, data accuracy is still a point of concern. Data entry is still fraught with human error.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009. GDP, in 2018.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

And most patients would also want access to information on their mental, behavioral, and substance use history. A newer category of personal health information, social determinants of health, garners well over one-half of Americans’ interest in access that data. As with other aspects of U.S. Patients in the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022. physicians and nurses as the pandemic emerged in early 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 11, 2024

This video interviews leaders from a health information technology services firm, HCTec , and a front-line safety-net health care system, St. In this extensive discussion, these leaders explain the elements of a successful partnership that implemented a new EHR, ERP system, and patient portal in about nine months.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

Easier access to electronic prescriptions will increase the use of the app, providing a much-needed boost to the popularity of My Health Record with consumers and providers. A new consumer campaign driven by the Department of Health and Aged Care will encourage greater uptake by consumers and providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

To keep staff operational, meet remotely with patients and maintain the functionality of the organization, COPE turned to Health Information Management Systems (HiMS, no relation to HIMSS, parent company of Healthcare IT News ) for a rapid-response solution that included both hardware and software implementation. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

This week, Ken Mandl and Eric Perakslis co-wrote an essay in The New England Journal of Medicine on HIPAA and the “leak of ‘deidentified’ EHR data.” Eleven years later, Steve Jobs launched the first iPhone. If it’s harnessed and kept under tight control, it has potential for good.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 14, 2019

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) filed its annual year-end report to Congress at the start of 2019. The 22-page report summarized nationwide trends in health information exchange in 2018, including the adoption of EHRs and other technologies that support electronic access to patient information.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But a key limiting factor of these many sensors generating data has been inadequate backend algorithms that address signal noise and limited EHR integration, the authors observe. Privacy and scalability, where assuring the security of health citizens’ protected health information (PHI) must be designed into HaH programs.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2024

First up was a look at how AI, NLP, LLMs, and automation improve health information management. Read more… Integrating AI and Machine Learning into EHR Systems. Read more… Is Your EHR Improving Patient Access to Technology Equitably ? We posed many questions to the Healthcare IT Today experts recently.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

I have also seen HIPAA training courses that don’t educate staff that HIPAA lives on and protects health information for 50 years after a patient dies. While there is no mention of criminal charges in the DCH Health Systems notice, this incident might be being investigated for criminal intent. retained for 6 years.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Oracle Health News Plenty of headlines from Nashville and the Oracle Health Summit.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

adults 18 and over to determine peoples’ perspectives on personal health information in light of their pandemic era experiences. This study re-confirms the current state of the health consumer who has a “concerned embrace” of technology. Still, over 50% of consumers ages 56 to 74 would like to download their EHR data.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The latest read from ONC, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, tells a story about patients’ growing use of online portals, medical records, and smartphone apps to access personal health information. So what are patients most keen to access online in their medical records or portal?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The 21 st Century Cures Act codifies immediate access to health information for patients. There is little value for patients to access health information they cannot understand. The Act paves the way for patients to become more pro-active partners in their care. Access alone, however, is not sufficient.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: OCHIN and Epic Ambulatory Analyst – Stoltenberg Consulting Chief Medical Officer (CMO) & Co-Founder – Fractional – Sybil Health Director Health Information Management – Riverside Healthcare Privacy Consultant – Health Care Service Corporation Consulting (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In today’s technology-driven world, patients now expect a seamless healthcare experience, which translates to a digital “one-stop shop” for managing their personal health information. . However, today patients are increasingly utilizing existing technology to participate in their own health journey more actively. .

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Before I dive into the specifics of these new requirements from CMS, let’s consider what this means for EHR vendors: more work and increased investment on top of what’s waiting when the next regulatory shoe drops. Both will require EHRs to redevelop different aspects of their roadmap simultaneously. And then what?

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FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 17, 2024

. | Navinas AI-driven platform helps providers get a complete picture of their patients health by pulling on structured and unstructured patient data from places like the EHR, health information exchanges and claims data. It will now support Agilons network of physician partners, made up of more than 2,800 PCPs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 28, 2025

The following is a guest article by Andrea Hopkins , Chief Information Security Officer at Juno Health Think about whats in your own health records for a moment: your name, address, Social Security number, insurance informationnot to mention diagnoses. Training Help staff learn by doing.

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Digital Health Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Big changes need big titles, and the HIPAA Security Rule Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Strengthen Cybersecurity for Electronic Protected Health Information packs 393 pages of them.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

The supply side of digital health tools and tech is growing at a hockey-stick pace. There are mobile apps and remote health monitors, digital therapeutics and wearable tech from head-to-toe. Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

adults 18 and over to determine peoples’ perspectives on personal health information in light of their pandemic era experiences. This study re-confirms the current state of the health consumer who has a “concerned embrace” of technology. That brings us to another of the four health citizenship pillars: trust.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

For some historical context, the authors (all affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania [medical school or Wharton (business school)] start with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which served up privacy protections based on the health information technology of the time.

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This integration is designed to optimize workflows for healthcare providers and provide a more seamless user experience.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2024

Before the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONCs) newly proposed HTI-2 rule, announced on July 10, becomes a primary focus for health IT developers, let’s explore what EHRs need to understand and implement to comply with CMS’ final rule for e-prescribing.

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