Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

The pandemic ushered in millions of peoples’ first digital health experiences, many of which will persist according to the 23rd Annual U.S. CTA conducted an online survey among 2,409 U.S. Consumer Technology Ownership & Market Potential Study , published by the Consumer Technology Association.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2025

EHRs are starting to offer fields for the data. The outreach can be done by health care providers, but often involves other organizations and uses care coordinators. His recommendations to clinicians: Start by finding out what their EHRs provide, and what surveys are available. Heard describes the process as like CRM.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

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. More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people.

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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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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. Interestingly, 70% of patients also viewed their clinical notes in 2022, newly-measured by the ONC survey.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In April 2020, the National Council for Behavioral Health discovered through its survey of 880 U.S. First, HiMS’s AXiOM EHR software needed to be updated with the latest HCPCS codes for certain COVID-19 diagnostic tests, as well as CPT codes for testing purposes. To read this special report, click here.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. adults were online health information hunters. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S.

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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

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. More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Studies Hospitals ended 2024 with operating margins of 6%, and health systems with margins of 2.1% , according to the latest data from Strata Decision. Only 14% of Americans are confident in their health plan choices, according to a survey from Softheon. Real-time location services vendor Kontakt.io hired three executives.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 3, 2023

News and Studies The 2023 Fierce Healthcare Innovation Awards have been announced, and the winners are GoodRx, Hinge Health, ISeeYouCare, PointClickCare, and Ventric Health. Only 40% of healthcare organizations said their EHRs are good at managing clinical burnout , according to a recent report from MGMA and Laserfiche.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 30, 2024

In pursuit of a better patient experience, most healthcare organizations have invested heavily in digital transformation, including the widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Limiting the amount of information collected has the side benefit of improving data security. Only 12% of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2025

The EHR Association responded to OCR’s proposed rule to strengthen security for electronic PHI, generally agreeing with the specificity of requirements while worrying about “the substantial time and cost required for EHR developers.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Why is this so important? That was tweeted ten years ago.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Digital health funding has dropped to levels not seen since 2016 , with just $3 billion in global funding announced in Q3, according to the latest report from CB Insights. Studies and Surveys Nearly 80% of patients say the billing experience is important when choosing a provider , according to a report from Salucro Healthcare Solutions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?” “Some specialties, such as mental health, may find stronger footing via virtual visits. That may be changing in 2021, it predicted.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Fourteen professional healthcare, life science, and consumer organizations formed the Digital Health Collaborative to advance evidence and value in digital health technology. A survey published in JAMIA found 73% of digital health vendors are using standards-based FHIR APIs when integrating with EHR systems.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The Digital Health Evidence Review, released by the Australian Digital Health Agency, has found that Australia is one of the few countries that is leading the way in giving people personal control of their own electronic health records (EHR).

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Exec Summary The athenahealth Patient Digital Engagement Index (PDEI) is a metric that tracks patient use of digital tools that interact with electronic health records (EHRs). The index measures three core digital activity categories: access to care, financial activity, and healthcare information.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

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. East Tennessee Health Information Network chose 4medica to manage duplicate patient records.

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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. There are many different perspectives on digital tools.

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

Digital health is unquestionably becoming part of healthcare lexicon and fabric. Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 2, 2025

A survey from emtelligent found less than 40% of healthcare organizations have a “perfect” solution in place for working with unstructured data to gain insights, reduce operating costs, or develop new products. Rural hospital financial optimization company Cibolo Health selected TruBridge as its preferred RCM partner.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 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. California-based San Mateo County Health selected Innovaccer for AI and population health management.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The EHR Association supports the extension , noting that the majority of hospitals have been struggling to meet these requirements. Studies A survey from Arcadia found 96% of healthcare technology leaders believe effectively leveraging AI provides a competitive edge , and 73% said AI will be essential technology within the next five years.

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The Digital Health Corner

MARCH 26, 2018

now that it has entered the digital world (albeit tepidly) via EHRs and IT support. Interestingly, an IBM survey of 200 healthcare executives in 16 countries focused on interest in adopting blockchain technology revealed that this is a very rapidly evolving area.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

More than one-third (36%) of organizations have at least partly implemented AI solutions , according to a survey from Healthcare IT Leaders, and another 25% have started AI pilots. More than half (56%) of American adults are worried about getting sick when they go to the hospital or a medical clinic, according to a Kinnos survey.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This data segmentation hampers the holistic understanding of patient health and impedes timely and coordinated care delivery. The siloed nature of such data repositories can be attributed to various factors, including using different EHR systems, varying data capture standards, and a historical lack of emphasis on system interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

If you’re familiar with the 21st Century Cures Act, then you know that October 6th is a major deadline that requires healthcare providers, health IT developers, HIEs, HINs, and others to share all ePHI (electronic protected health information) in the DRS (Designated Record Set). And the next chapter begins!

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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 22, 2023

News and Studies Amid the push for interoperability, data gaps persist, according to the inaugural State of Interoperability report from Health Gorilla , a health information network. This is despite the fact that 65% of survey respondents saying they believe patients should own their data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

They handle data like protected health information (PHI), intellectual property (IP), clinical trial data and payment card data, giving attackers many options to cash in, and healthcare is a critical infrastructure industry that can be hardest hit by ransomware attacks. Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint, Inc.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2023

AWS announced the AWS HealthScribe service for building clinical applications that use generative AI and integrating them with EHRs and other systems. The announced noted that M*Modal parent company 3M Health Information Systems, virtual primary care provider Babylon, and ScribeEMR are early adopters of HealthScribe.

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Xealth

AUGUST 22, 2023

Still salient (if not more now than ever) – Accenture’s COVID-19 Healthcare Provider Survey in 2020 revealed : 60% of patients were willing to use technology for communication and disease management With employers offering more digital healthcare solutions to their employees, the adoption of digital health is poised to increase even further.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Harnessing the power of human data, Myia equips clinicians with the precise information they need to both prioritize critical patients and prevent unplanned medical events. Myia provides clinical teams with contextualized proactive information targeted directly into their EHR and workflow.

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