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

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

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. For more information on how to prepare for the ONC HTI-1 rule , read the first article in our Regulatory Talk series.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

But the administrative costs for providers to share this information keep escalating. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. Here is one example of how payer exchange is being automated today.

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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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TheraNest

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Recent technology advancements, like EHRs, have produced numerous benefits for both providers and clients, including faster intake, accessing documents and bills through the client portal, and enhanced collaboration among healthcare professionals. If they dont know about it, they wont use it.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

When the sector is set to face shortages of between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034, generative AI could alleviate administrative work, such as summarizing patient calls and managing electronic health records (EHRs), to allow medical staff to focus on improving patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2024

But many providers just enter into the databases and EHRs whatever the patient put down on a form during intake. But each system also has its own fields for storing address information, and communication among them is complicated. It can improve patient engagement because everyone will know how to reach the patient.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

During the past year, PointClickCare certified their service as an EHR with the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), which allows the company to demonstrate compliance with laws and standards such as HIPAA. PointClickCare was founded more than 25 years ago in a simpler, more innocent era of health care data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 29, 2022

News Data is the new oil, but we need to know how to share and use it responsibly This HIMSS22 Asia-Pacific conference speaker believes a framework for responsible sharing of data. By Adam Ang | June 29, 2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Staff members, clinicians, and administrative staff can access patient health information and social circumstances while observing the patient from all angles to arrange appropriate treatment while empowering front-line support teams to communicate with and provide an excellent experience for patients. Virtual care.

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Redox

MARCH 7, 2024

TEFCA outlines a common set of principles, terms, and conditions to enable the nationwide exchange of health information across disparate health information networks (HINs). We applaud the hard work that the ONC, CMS, The Sequoia Project, and the Qualified Health Information Exchanges (QHINs) have done to bring it live.

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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 16, 2024

On the clinical side, this can include analyzing data from patients’ EHRs to provide decision support interventions , which is a term introduced by the U.S. Meanwhile, predictive AI can help providers predict costs and figure out how to deploy scarce resources. hours per day beyond work hours completing EHR documentation.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Most use of FHIR today is as an API to an organizations health information (EHR). However what is being asked latey is how does one scale FHIR to a nation. I have plenty of articles on how a Nationwide Health Information Exchange (HIE) could be built with the IHE XD* family of profiles.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2025

Rick Stevens, Chief Technology Officer at Vispa Healthcare providers must exercise extreme caution to avoid sending Protected Health Information (PHI) to public generative AI services, such as OpenAI’s API or the ChatGPT interface, as these platforms often retain and use submitted data to train models unless explicitly configured otherwise.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

The goal was – and still is – preventing costly duplicate healthcare expenses and taking better, more informed care of patients. “LANES’ data repository comprises lab results, radiology diagnostics, procedures, transcription notes, allergies, immunizations, vitals, prescriptions and ADT information.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Like most of us, Andy Oram has a health insurance card in his wallet. Here’s what he learned about SMART Health, FHIR, registries, EHR integrations, and other technology that could support digital insurance cards in the not-too-distant future. Read more… Why the Future is Bright for Health Information Management.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

The following is a guest article by Oakkar Oakkar, Co-Founder and CEO at Keona Health Imagine a tool that puts your health information right at your fingertips. In an age where data breaches are common, some patients are hesitant to put their health information online. Then there’s the worry about privacy.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Health Informatics (HI) is a relatively new, interdisciplinary field. HI (also called Health Information Systems) uses information technology to organize and analyze health records to improve healthcare outcomes. Tools include medical terminology, information and communication systems, and computer technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. Let’s discuss how to tackle them and explore the IT solutions essential for modern healthcare institutions. Unlike EMRs, requests for access to EHR records can be made by other medical centers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2024

Travis Bias, DO, MPH, DTM&H, FAAFP, Chief Medical Officer, Clinician Solutions & Family Physician at 3M Health Information Systems Ambient clinical documentation tools are being used by clinicians so they can focus on the patient in front of them, rather than on their computer screens. Healthcare professionals spend roughly 4.5

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Despite existing data standards, upstream adherence by EHR vendors and providers has been inconsistent, obscuring downstream insights. Providers are concerned about the siloed systems that they have within their own organizations and how to provide access.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2023

Mountain Park Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center serving the Phoenix Metro area, cleverly used a QR code to help staff and patients adopt a new technology. Internal champions collaborated with their EHR partner, eClinicalWorks, to double the use of their new patient portal in just twelve months.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Additionally, health information exchanges/networks have also helped in data sharing among chains of hospitals or partner payer/provider entities. 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

JULY 17, 2023

The following is a guest article by Travis Bias, DO, MPH, FAAFP, Family Medicine Physician and Chief Medical Officer of the Clinician Solutions Team at 3M ’s Health Information Systems Division The release of ChatGPT has ignited dueling flames of excitement and concern regarding the potential of artificial intelligence (AI).

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 2, 2024

The increasing adoption of electronic health records (EHRs): EHRs are becoming increasingly common in healthcare organizations. EHRs can provide a centralised repository for patient data, which can help to improve the efficiency of clinical workflows.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

John Lynn attended the CHIME Fall Forum and tuned in to the CIO panel, where longtime and interim CIOs shared their thoughts on how the CIO role has changed, how CIOs can help to address burnout, and how to guide their organizations into the future. Panelists also talked about the path forward for digital innovation.

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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. Greg Miller, Chief Growth Officer at Lumeon. Let’s talk about the problem first.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Traditionally, we think about interoperability as HIEs (health information exchanges), but in 2024 I expect to see new models emerge. Decision support based on a patient’s complete health profile will become instantly available. Healthcare is undergoing a digital transformation, and innovation is accelerating.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” "In the year ahead, the industry will work to determine which virtual visits make the most sense, and where and how they should take place." " Payers may wrestle with how to reimburse and, in some cases, provide virtual care. ” The FDA is hinting that some of these changes could be here to stay.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Read more… On Switching EHRs and Decommission Legacy Systems. In the latest CIO Podcast, Mark Weisman, MD of TidalHealth discussed how to successfully convert and decommission legacy data and systems as part of a move from Cerner to Epic. Read more… One HIE’s Approach to Identity Management.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Epic is creating a version of its EHR that will run better on Apple products, Anne Zieger reported. Read more… How to Improve Healthcare Billing for Patients and Practices. Billing is a necessary evil for most practices, according to Blake Walker at Inbox Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Technical literacy, such as knowing how to use devices and interact with electronic health record (EHR) portals and video interfaces. These three components are known as digital health readiness – and when it comes to underserved patients, much of their readiness is limited by social determinants of health.

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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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