Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

One of hospital IT’s traditional concerns – hospital data stored in a vendor’s data center – can be a source of relief in a ransomware attack. Vendors should be ready to assist with data extracts when a hospital comes calling and hospital IT should leverage these relationships.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2021

"First, while we had in place technology to enable telemedicine – in particular virtual visits – it had not been optimized for use nor integrated within our clinical workflows or our EHR," said CIO Thomas Furlani. This integration let virtual visit workflows blend seamlessly with an in-person clinic day. " RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2022

Rural hospitals often lag in integrating financial information and electronic health records (EHRs) because of staffing shortfalls and the perceived cost of doing so. Even if a single process saves a small amount of time, coupled with the automation of multiple elements, it represents a significant, measurable amount.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This is at the core of population health.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 8, 2023

In addition to these general business models, clinical messaging apps may also generate revenue from other sources, such as: Integration fees: Some apps charge healthcare providers a fee to integrate with their electronic health records (EHRs) systems. Zinc: Zinc is a clinical messaging app that is specifically designed for use in hospitals.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies. Kem Graham, VP of Sales at CliniComp In 2024, an exciting alternative for independent, community, and cost-conscious healthcare entities is a System as a Service (SYaaS) EHR model.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic intensifies, hospitals are struggling valiantly to keep up with the influx of infected patients. Hospital IT departments, meanwhile, are undergoing stresses of their own as they work to support the rapidly escalating needs of clinicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Telemedicine is not only cost-effective for both the patient and the hospital, it also can reduce the risk of exposure to disease for all parties, especially during a pandemic. The organization has offered services such as virtual urgent care, telepsychiatry and virtual post-op appointments for several years to meet the needs of patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates. However, EHR macros must accurately capture the patient’s condition on the day of the encounter.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Many hospital appointments across the country were cancelled, EHRs became inaccessible, radiology systems went down, and the COVID-19 testing referral system rendered unavailable for a number of days. In the already overstretched world of hospitals, it is no wonder that cyber security is not top of mind for most workers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2024

News and Studies The National Institutes of Health’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) launched the Universal Patching and Remediation for Autonomous Defense (UPGRADE) program with $50 million in funding to develop tools for hospital IT teams to enhance cybersecurity measures and combat ransomware.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 21, 2023

Care Studio is designed to be easy to use and can be customized to meet the specific needs of each clinic or hospital. Some of the key features of Care Studio include: Data harmonization: Care Studio brings together data from different sources, such as electronic health records (EHRs), laboratory systems, and imaging systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Myia provides clinical teams with contextualized proactive information targeted directly into their EHR and workflow. The company’s RPM efforts include device connectivity, RPM data dashboards and alerts, patient care plans, and full integration with multiple physician practice EHR systems.

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American Well

MARCH 7, 2017

The hospital of the future won’t be the hospital you grew up going to, but with all the promise technology can bring – improving the patient experience and driving down costs – that might be a good thing. Hospital IT: Driving change. Clinicians: Becoming the advocate for change.

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American Well

MARCH 7, 2017

The hospital of the future won’t be the hospital you grew up going to, but with all the promise technology can bring – improving the patient experience and driving down costs – that might be a good thing. Hospital IT: Driving change. Clinicians: Becoming the advocate for change.

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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. Of course he doesn’t want people to be unhealthy so that they go to the hospital. I declined.

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Health System CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

When Sheri Rawlings started as CIO at San Juan Regional more than 4 years ago, the EHR picture in the physician community was dire. But for the majority of us who are community type hospitals, it really didn’t do anything except give us some extra funding and get our paper records electronic.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 3, 2019

Coming back full circle, there is still going to be a market for community hospital IT software but it will be one that is in long-term decline and largely a maintenance market that lives of the 16-20% annual software and maintenance feeds vendors charge (more if they host it). Vaporware? ). SelfInfllictedWound ).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

To accomplish this, it takes a complete team effort, from device manufacturers to software developers and hospital IT security teams. Cumbersome processes, such as document authentication, can limit or deter individuals from using digital health tools or messaging their provider through their EHR portal.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Kyle Samani, CEO of Pristine But the ability to access patient data from an EHR (electronic health record) is useful for any healthcare professional, not just surgeons who need to sustain a high level of concentration. Chances are your iPhone is filthier than the average public toilet seat.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Kyle Samani, CEO of Pristine But the ability to access patient data from an EHR (electronic health record) is useful for any healthcare professional, not just surgeons who need to sustain a high level of concentration. Chances are your iPhone is filthier than the average public toilet seat.

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Digital Health

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Inspired by health technology from the age of five, Griffin Weber has pursued this passion both doggedly and joyfully. Now an associate professor of medicine and bioinformaticist at Harvard, Griffin spends his days doing what he loves, leveraging technology to pragmatically improve the health and the care of patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Just like the EHR is a tool. " Halamka agrees, and sees a future of "virtualist centers in what were formerly known as hospitals. " More than just virtualizing an old model. But much more than mere terminology, "what's more interesting is how we're applying it," said Berkowitz. "It's a tool.

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HIStalk Interviews

MAY 20, 2019

The concept of social determinants of health is suddenly popular, but for hospitals, it often just means having a place to record the patient’s self-reported information. They either turn on assessments in their EHR or they use our assessments. Some people call them referrals. We have 73 employees.

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Louis, nestled among locust, elm and sweetgum trees, the Mercy Virtual Care Center has a lot in common with other hospitals. Electronic health records, which most hospitals started using over the past decade, “inundated us with data,” says Chris Veremakis, who runs Mercy’s TeleICU program.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

These exceptional benefits landed the hospital on Best Companies AZ ‘s 100 Best Arizona Companies list for healthcare, and Phoenix Business Journal gave the hospital its HealthCare Leadership Award in 2017. Pinehurst (N.C.) Nordic (Madison, Wis.). Willis Towers Watson (Chicago).

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