Digital Health Global

AUGUST 9, 2023

These summaries can then be seamlessly integrated into electronic health record (EHR) systems, streamlining the documentation process. As a result of this transparency, physicians are able to review clinical notes meticulously before they are entered into the EHR, minimizing the risk of errors.

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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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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

APRIL 27, 2023

About Verisma With Verisma® services and technology, health information managers elevate their organization’s method of securely disclosing confidential information to patients, attorneys, and other third parties. ScanSTAT is a proud partner to some of the industry’s best electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

By contrast, there are HIPAA-compliant ways to use texting to convey information to patients. "There are many use cases that don't include [protected health information] that will get way higher compliance." "If there is an opportunity to eliminate friction, take it," he said.

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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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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

MARCH 14, 2023

Furthermore, the transition to electronic health records (EHRs) has reinforced the need for tightened identity and access management processes. By creating a security awareness program, IT administrators can prioritize continued education and training on the importance of information security and handling patient data.

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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 Today

MAY 13, 2024

Director at NTT DATA On February 8, 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1) Final Rule in the Federal Register, which took effect on March 11, 2024. The following is a guest article by Nitin Kunte, Sr.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sriram Rajagopalan , Enterprise Agile Evangelist at Inflectra Today’s most significant risk regarding security and privacy issues in health services is consumers’ need for more awareness of personal health information. What do I mean? So, I recommend the steps below, urging all patients to practice extreme care.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 25, 2017

I spoke recently with Dr. Rob Lamberts – @doc_rob on Twitter – about EHRs and direct primary care. Rob was an early adopter of electronic health records in his practice, after having been exposed to EHRs during his training.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

NETCCN is a virtual health project designed to address the shortage of critical care trained clinicians. Where there are no ICU beds, there are no critical care trained clinicians. And even where there are ICUs, especially during surge situations, there are not enough of the right kinds of trained clinicians.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 14, 2023

The underlying theme of AHIMA’s annual conference was that health information management professionals are both encouraged and frustrated at the state of the industry , Colin Hung reported from Baltimore. Read more… To Drive Value, EHRs Need to Be Usable, Not Just Useful.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Providers need access to EHR data, electronic prescribing for both regular and controlled substances, and other supporting services like imaging and lab work. They also process copayments and electronic payments, exposing protected health information and payment card industry information in a single cybersecurity incident.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

For healthcare organizations, such as hospitals or local doctor’s offices, this means not only protecting electronic health records (EHRs) and sensitive patient data but also ensuring that critical systems, such as diagnostic tools and patient care platforms, remain operational during a cyber attack.

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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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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. hours per day beyond work hours completing EHR documentation. On average, physicians spent 1.84 That adds up to 9.2 hours spent each week on work outside of the workday.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The following is a guest article by Pukar Hamal, Founder and CEO at SecurityPal While Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have made managing data easier, they’ve also become a prime target for cybercriminals. million, almost double the average across other sectors.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

Detlef Koll, Vice President Global R&D at 3M Health Information Systems Individual users will need to be diligent in reviewing draft notes to avoid incorrect or incomplete capture of information. Without proper oversight and reviews, overreliance on this technology could lead to incorrect prescriptions and treatments.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

However, adopting and implementing poorly designed electronic health records (EHRs) has diminished the time available to clinicians to lay hands and eyes on patients – essentially, limiting their ability to do the jobs they were trained, hired and personally driven to do.

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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. Conduct cybersecurity training for employees.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2019

There is also a big push for increasing a patient’s autonomy around their personal health information and the access they have to it, especially via personal devices which are likely to be used in the future to communicate directly with providers, if they aren’t already. FHIR and APIs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

“In mid-March, as soon as New York’s Governor issued the stay-at-home order, the institute’s leadership, clinicians, health information technology staff, clinical operations staff and communications staff worked to rapidly develop and deploy basic telehealth functionality across our organization,” Lever recalled.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2022

Epic has plans to join TEFCA as an inaugural Qualified Health Information Network. Read more… Virtual Reality as a Tool in Medical Training. John talked to Osso VR co-founder Justin Barad and orthopedic surgeon Cory Calendine, MD about the key role of VR in training surgeons.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But when dealing with all of the many things that providers do and the highly important health information about patients, something as simple as selecting a communication platform becomes a very tricky situation. How do you maintain the security and privacy of your patient’s health information as cyberattacks continue to climb?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Unite can access patient records from over 12,000 health systems, thanks to the 21st Century Cures Act and its mandate that healthcare providers provide patients with access to their records. The platform can import more than 1500+ EHR data elements, according to Unite's website.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2023

The group also launched a health equity survey , with the results to be announced at ViVE in Nashville in March. ONC’s latest data brief indicated that, as of the end of 2021, more than 60% of hospitals are actively engaged in sharing health information.

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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. These solutions can plug into EHR and care management systems to provide proactive and real-time patient insights, delivering care teams the information they need when they need it.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Some of these vendors include Telemetrix for remote patient monitoring, Apple for technology used during COVID, Epic's EHR for a fully integrated virtual care system, and Tyto for the health system's "doc-in-a-box" program.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Prolog from Dr. Sands: I trained in clinical informatics because of my belief that we needed to better empower healthcare professionals with information technology so they could take better care of patients, and spent many years creating and implementing these tools. Health Informatics (HI) is a relatively new, interdisciplinary field.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Storage of Information in Various Systems While serving diverse medical institution needs, Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) parallel existence complicates information access and exchange between doctors, patients, and different medical centers.

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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 News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

"Working with psychologists and therapists who are specially trained in GI conditions and gut-brain interventions is critical, but access to these specialists locally is rare – and usually comes with a high out-of-pocket burden for patients," Pavlou said.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Mark Dill, Chief Information Security Officer at MedAllies Having good policies and procedures in place is important – and having a yearly role-based training plan is even better. Employee training, data backup, and access control are prioritized, along with network segmentation and vendor risk management.

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