Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2024

The following is a guest article by Herat Joshi, Business Intelligence Architect – Lead at Great River Health In the vast landscape of healthcare, where every piece of data could be crucial, a significant transformation is underway. EHR systems are often seen as cumbersome and unintuitive.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

. “Open APIs will make it easy for consumers — acting through authorized third parties — to gain direct access to their EHRs and their personal clinical data. Think of APIs as tunnels into the clinical data warehouses that have been created by EHRs. Enhanced data privacy and data protection.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

The team points to the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, which maintains a list of organizations providing such training and acts as a clearinghouse for such resources.

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Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2020

Increasing computerization of practice, especially due to EHR implementation. More doctors are employed, working as employees in hospital/healthcare systems where clinical autonomy is eroding and, at the same time, protocols and EHR-driven rules change workflows. There are several factors contributing to the un-wellness of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Health Policy and Medicine Dr. Ateev Mehrota proposed a more measured approach. Although the need for telehealth is unmistakable, said Mehrota, policies should encourage "higher-value" applications for care and discourage "lower-value" ones.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

"The requirement from every state department of health is to report which employees are vaccinated. "To do this accurately on a daily basis, the payroll system – containing active employee status – and the employee EHR – containing vaccination status – must have a bidirectional interface," he added.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

High administrative spending relative to the other countries, as fragmented insurance systems and payors generate too much paperwork (real “paper” and wasted digital work-flows), along with too-much-time spent by clinicians with poorly-designed EHR and other digital tech.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Their home is the site for most of their health care, with sensors in the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and in the car all informing Quincy’s digital phenotype that further populates data into their EHR which they control and audit. Federal investment in climate and environmental health are part of holistic health policy.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people. Still, over 50% of consumers ages 56 to 74 would like to download their EHR data.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The health consumer conundrum on trust and “my” health/care data in our current world is that so much health-related data isn’t covered by HIPAA or in the medical claim or EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

It is imperative to implement the following key policies: Standardizing Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Collection: Mandate standardized SDOH data collection in electronic health records (EHRs) to tackle underlying inequities directly.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

We’ll be brainstorming the current state of SDoH adoption in health care delivery, what’s preventing further adoption, and what we would do with a magic wand to promote a full health care ecosystem embrace of SDoH.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

Experience for clinicians, that fourth crucial leg of the Quadruple Aim (addressing reported ease of using tech like EHRs, percent of visits conducted virtually vs in-person, or percent of physician turnover year-on-year), and. throughput rates).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

As EY’s framework illustrates here in the Venn diagram, these many health and wellbeing touch-points leverage various technologies and services: maturing EHRs and acute care, as well as emerging tech like AI, blockchain, and biometrics.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Requests are then electronically communicated directly to the provider organization’s EHRs and other systems. The specific, requested data is intelligently pulled from the provider organization’s systems to fulfill the request—including over 200+ EHRs using MRO’s proprietary technology.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We can find academic research recommending that major health policies should emphasize reducing unhealthy lifestyles, dating three decades ago 3. One of the most significant trends in healthcare is that patients are increasingly willing to share their health data if in return they see a benefit to themselves and to the community 6.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Her work has included operationalizing strategies to address clinician burnout, rapidly standing up digital health solutions for clinicians during the pandemic, and shaping U.S. federal health policy. Abridge seamlessly integrates with leading EHRs to streamline documentation, billing, and coding.

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The Digital Health Corner

APRIL 28, 2017

In his testimony on healthcare market’s consolidation effects on quality, cost and access, Paul Ginsberg, Director of Public Policy at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics cites some key drivers of consolidation. There are many considerations when EHRs collide. Other non-clinical considerations.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2021

You’ll want to understand how your telehealth program will interface with your existing communication networks, discuss how virtual encounters will be captured and stored, and decide how the solution will integrate with EHR and PAC systems. Blazing the Virtual Health Trail. Evaluate telemedicine solutions.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

The field encompasses a wide range of technologies, such as electronic health records (EHRs) , clinical decision support systems (CDSS), telemedicine, and health data analytics. Health informatics research contributes to advancements in healthcare practices, treatment modalities, and public health policies.

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LinkousThink

JUNE 14, 2013

The ATA Federal Telemedicine Policy Summit explores solutions to this issue with a presentation by a leading Congressional voice for licensure reform—and the lead author of both the 2011 STEP Act and 2013 VETS Act. For a full list of confirmed speakers, please visit [link].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Experience or familiarity with Clinical Quality reporting, Medicare and Medicaid claims data, ICD, CDA, web- scraping, Electronic Health Record/Electronic Medical Record (EHR/EMR) Systems, Health Information Exchange (HIE)/Health Data Exchange standards, clinical data sets, health policy issues including public health, health care delivery systems, (..)

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Whether you’re interested in learning more about state-by-state policies, the latest on healthcare cybersecurity, or how to attain financial independence working in this alternate career path, these telemedicine newsletters can keep you wired in.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Data buyers range from health policy researchers to pharmaceutical companies and marketing corporations. It is very expensive to store digital data: The costs of implementing an EHR system at a hospital network can exceed 1 billion dollars. Patients’ medical data constitute a cornerstone of the big data economy.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 30, 2019

Living with EHR choices. Despite the hype and hopes surrounding EHRs, many organizations have found that they are failing to deliver on their expectations. The survey of 100 executives also found that less than 25% believe their EHRs can deliver on core KLAS criteria for value.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2020

You’ll want to understand how your telemedicine program will interface with your existing communication networks, discuss how telemedicine encounters will be captured and stored, and decide how the solution will integrate with EHR and PAC systems. Evaluate telemedicine solutions. Blazing the Telemedicine Trail.

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E-CareManagement

APRIL 12, 2015

Place Less Weight on the Interests of EHR vendors. The post ONC Report on Health Information Blocking: A Solid Double, But NOT a Home Run appeared first on e-CareManagement blog. Broaden the Scope of Tactics for Addressing Information Blocking. Name Names, Shine the Light. more…).

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

From misplaced faxes and handwritten notes to EHR systems requiring more than a dozen documentation steps, patients often fall through the cracks – or wait so many months for a specialist appointment that they forget about it. Check a resource like Center for Connected Health Policy to find out the specific rules in your state.

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Docnotes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

One day I posted an essay about EHR usability that (I thought) nobody read. Three months later, my boss called me and told me that the EHR company whose software I critiqued was unhappy with the post and asked me to take it down. I declined. The next day, the President of that company called me.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It’s been an underlying aspect of my career ever since I got into health policy over two decades ago. Health Hats: What have you disrupted recently? There’s not a lot of it in the EHR data either. I’m a bit of a troublemaker, pushing boundaries. The disrupter.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

. “Today, anyone can access care by walking into an emergency room,” they observed, “but when it comes to telehealth, patients have to use a number of proprietary portals and platforms that are health system specific.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 10, 2021

Healthcare executives say current AI investments at their organizations have focused on electronic health record (EHR) management and diagnosis. To date, the technology has proved its value in reducing errors and improving medical outcomes for patients, according to executives.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. my alma mater) and colleagues track the growth of consumer-facing digital health tools and initiatives leading to consumers’ engagement with websites and apps.

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