Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2024

They do ask callers to distinguish between regular service and the “clinical service desk,” which mostly helps people use the EPIC EHR. UI Health switched its EHR to EPIC in 2020, planning to do intensive training for service desk workers after the switch. It can better scale up and down to handle 24/7 services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. Documentation and billing still were to be completed within the EHR.” THE PROBLEM.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2021

One of the most exciting areas of healthcare IT is the automation of so many of the mundane tasks that exist in healthcare. In many cases, our first efforts in this regard were to outsource these mundane tasks, but now healthcare AI and other things like robotic process automation (RPA) have come along to help […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2022

As a centralized service, it was possible to engage with a broad consortium of departments such as legal, finance, marketing, compliance and physician affairs to develop models, learn about the nuances of implementing telehealth as an embedded service and engage with clinical leadership on the opportunities. Secured and protected.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

Analytics Cloud Computing Population Health Telehealth Workforce One CIO names the technologies and leadership strategies he'll be focused on this year: platform design, 'Virtual Care 3.0' Here are some priorities for technology and leadership focus for CIOs in 2022. ' and more. Develop the perfect platform.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

How to take a “patient-first” approach with GenAI – learning from the World Economic Forum At the annual conference of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2024, WEF heavily focused in on AI and its implications and prospects for society and many vertical markets, including health care. But how to bake in “patient-first-ness?”

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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

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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

"There was a complete lack of integration with existing clinical workflows and the EHR, which meant that these visits were disconnected from the established health IT environment," he said. For an integrated solution, we were looking for a browser-based solution with APIs to integrate with our EHR system.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2025

Diana Van Blaricom, SVP, ERP Strategy at ROI Healthcare Solutions , says that the surge of EHR adoption in the wake of the 2009 HITECH Act has played itself out, and many organizations are turning to ERP systems to improve operations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2020

Whenever you change EHR software, one of the biggest pieces of the project is to figure out how to handle the data that resides in the system (or more often systems) that you’re replacing. Needless to say, there’s a lot that goes into this part of the project. In fact, it really is almost a […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2025

The only way around this is more meticulous planning, so you can foresee the challenges before they happen and plan out how to mitigate the effects. Integrating AI platforms with large systems like EHRs can also expose vulnerabilities and lead to compliance issues with regulations such as HIPAA.

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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. Key requirements include: 1.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2025

By integrating AI, real-time location systems (RTLS), and electronic health records (EHRs), hospitals can eliminate inefficiencies and improve patient outcomes. Integrating advanced AI tools with EHR systems can ensure health data is accurate, timely, and easily accessible. Philipp von Gilsa, CEO at Kontakt.io Raul Cepeda Jr.,

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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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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2024

Heidi is integrated with the most popular EHRs. It can extract information from previous notes to inform the current note-taking session, then upload the final note into the proper fields of the EHR. Watch the video for more discussions about how to get started, how Heidi can handle multiple speakers, and more.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2023

EHR data is a prime target for cyber attackers, as it includes personal data and medical data that can be resold and used to perpetrate financial fraud, extortion, medical billing fraud, and illicit access to medication. 1 This is a good step forward in protecting these devices and the patients they serve.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2023

They also serve on the CORE Leadership team and aligns project strategic and operational planning with CORE-wide strategies and business plan. If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience as a project director!

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

This interrupted electronic health records (EHR) and other systems so severely that staff had to switch to “manual and paper-based” processes, while emergency room patients had to be sent to other hospitals, and non-emergency appointments were rescheduled.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 8, 2024

Read more… AI and EHR in the Cloud at United Digestive. Patrick Toner at LG Electronics showed Healthcare IT Today how, through the company’s partnership with Imprivata, swiping a badge can launch a full virtual desktop on a thin client. This workflow should make both clinical and security leadership happy.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2025

Dashboards will evolve into real-time KPI analytics giving leadership deeper insights into claims, denials, and reimbursements. The use of nascent technology in the revenue cycle will also provide better visibility into an organization’s financial metrics and performance. administrative waste in healthcare tell the tale.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

At Healthcare IT Today we’ve often talked about the international opportunity that’s available to EHR vendors and that Oracle will bring a lot of resources internationally. The US EHR market is quite saturated, but the same isn’t true internationally. That’s still true with many EHR vendors unfortunately.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

However, given that the facilities are already stretched to the breaking point in staffing and funding, they need outside incentives to install EHRs and other digital technologies. The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal.

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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 Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

There are an endless amount of problems that you are being tasked to find solutions for, endless amounts of technology to look into and consider for your organization, and endless considerations on how to make your organization better for both your employees and your consumers. Number two I think that is the people.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

"It was pretty apparent that we needed to come to the table together to talk about how to solve our workforce shortages, and so that is what we did," she reportedly said. Furukawa explained how informaticists involved bedside and other nurses to create the scoring tool and guide how it works.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2024

To learn more about the ACP and how to improve collection of them, we sat down with Dr. Brian Yeaman, MD, Primary Care Physician and Healthcare Technologist, and Aaron Bull, VP Strategic Programs at Backline by DrFirst. And yet, far too many patients do not have one.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 27, 2023

Part of achieving stage 7 was an EHR consolidation project, so we discuss what the impact of that has been and lessons she has learned along the way. And to finish the whole episode off, Townsend shares her advice for all of the aspiring healthcare CIOs out there on how to make it in this industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

One of those core causes of burnout is the documentation burden and poorly created EHR interfaces which are built around billing rather than the physician or nurse workflow. This includes resistance from the end users and how to get buy-in from others like the CFO.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Similarly, clinicians have traditionally balked at patient self-scheduling because the patient doesn’t know what types of appointments are offered and how to choose the right one. So Yosi Health works with each care center to replicate its business and workflow needs. Staff are usually required to ask the right questions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2022

"We had multiple platforms in place so it was important that we could find a solution that worked within our EHR, to make the process simpler for our care team members and would be sustainable for the long term. Finally, make sure to get leadership buy-in from the start." Luke's University Health Network.

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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. Overall, the future of clinical workflow automation is very promising.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2024

Europe also has a “resiliency program” to help sites adopt EHRs and digital infrastructure generally. HIMSS measures hospitals in many countries through the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) and advise the hospitals on how to improve. .” These initiatives have impacts on the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

” The EHR also provided useful statistics, because the organization could track how much time doctors logged into it. Analysis showed that physicians who used the AI note generator spent less time in the EHR, especially between 7:00 PM and 7:00 AM.

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