Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2020

As healthcare organizations ramp up efforts to treat COVID-19 patients, their health IT vendors are looking to provide them with tools to manage cases, analyze data and assess patients remotely. What follows are some of the tools and capabilities that EHR vendors have added to providers’ arsenals in dealing with the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Singh, VP Interoperability Solutions at ELLKAY. With innovations like AI, predictive analytics, and digital health solutions transforming patient care, success hinges on having a strong, interoperable data foundation. The following is a guest article by Gurpreet (G.P.)

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In order to truly improve healthcare, we need to have seamless interoperability and data sharing between different healthcare providers. Improving interoperability and seamless data sharing is vital as we work towards a better future and there are plenty of different methods to do this. The following are their answers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

We are also seeing more general practices using the Inca shared health record and care planning tool that connects patients and their care team, as well as GoShare technology for digital literacy, patient literacy, and enrolment into continuous quality improvement initiatives. Responses have been corrected and edited for accuracy and brevity.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

While significant progress has been made, the path to true interoperability remains complex but there are promising developments on the horizon. Legacy EHR systems, reliant on traditional HL7 interfaces, are struggling to meet modern interoperability demands. Legacy EHR systems, heavily reliant on the 36+ year-old HL7 2.x

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Its solutions include Suki Assistant, an AI assistant that streamlines administrative tasks for clinicians, and Suki Platform, a suite of developer tools for technology partners looking to build AI experiences in their solutions. We are in a new phase of growth,” said Punit Soni, Founder and CEO at Suki.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

"About three-and-a-half years ago, we were looking to further scale our business across myriad, diverse markets, and were searching for a cloud-based EHR for multiple reasons," said Scott Parks, president and co-founder of CareTeam. CareTeam used athenahealth's EHR technology to operate more clinics and scale its business.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2025

Many of the speakers at conferences last year pleaded with audiences to put more effort into adopting modern approaches to better solve healthcares challenges like patient experience, interoperability, administrative burden, and improved outcomes. At the 2024 RSNA annual conference (RSNA24), this message was loud and clear.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are the central technology pillar for healthcare organizations. EHRs are vital to both clinical and administrative operations. Because of that, we wanted to dedicate an entire article to where EHRs are headed in 2023. What is your prediction for the EHR market in 2023?

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

What a difference a pandemic can make in accelerating patients’ adoption of digital health tools. This survey was conducted in mid-September 2020, and so the results demonstrate U.S. health consumers’ growing digital health “muscles” in the form of demand and confidence in using virtual care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But a key limiting factor of these many sensors generating data has been inadequate backend algorithms that address signal noise and limited EHR integration, the authors observe. The proliferation of such wearable sensors and remote patient monitoring technologies helps set the technology stage for HaH.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

The journey to achieve interoperability in healthcare has been too long and too expensive. To address this, companies have put effort into creating interoperability tools and platforms designed to make it easier to exchange data. To accelerate interoperability efforts, however, creating more technology may not the answer.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Centura Health had been experiencing issues with its virtual care tool set before COVID-19 first hit in the U.S. "Virtual care required a recast in strategy to address interoperability, patient experience, provider experience and cost," said Gerard Frunzi, director of virtual care at Centura Health.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Eventually, these documents must make it into a system of record, often an EHR. Automate the delivery of documents into EHRs or other systems of record. Every patient encounter or care transition creates a series of documents which staff members manually review and route to the correct department for the next steps in processing.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

AI is becoming an essential tool in healthcare and is being leveraged to create new efficiencies this includes better documentation, streamlined data extraction, and predictive modeling that contribute to enhanced clinical efficiencies and higher-quality care.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Read more… An Interoperability and EHR API Deep Dive with Brendan Keeler. In part two of their conversation, John and Brendan touched on the challenges and opportunities of interoperability , particularly from the perspective of prior authorization, along with what to make of information blocking court cases.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2024

Plus, they look at how interoperability can help address this problem and provide valuable analytics. When working to solve interoperability in healthcare, being able to integrate data from these various sources such as patient beds, RTLS, and mobile devices is key to really paint a comprehensive picture of the patient and staff experience.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

"While technology provides the tools, it's methodology that empowers healthcare organisations to use those tools effectively to achieve their goals. Technology is King: The "what": Technology represents the innovative tools and solutions in HealthTech.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

"Selection of information and technology tools, video platform enhancements, and process improvement initiatives are keys to growing and sustaining quality telehealth programs. " To make progress, healthcare provider organizations will need telehealth data-driven and EHR-based clinical research, databases and tools, she contended.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2021

Although EHRs have almost eliminated the use of paper charts, the same cannot be said for faxes. Thankfully there are tools and technologies that can unlock […]. There is a lot of valuable information lying dormant in paper and electronic documents in healthcare.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Enhanced Data Insights: By analysing large amounts of data, Care Studio can identify patterns and trends that may not be apparent in traditional EHRs. AI-Powered Tools: AI-powered features can automate routine tasks, such as data entry and documentation, freeing up clinicians' time to focus on patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2025

The company offers payers, providers, and pharmaceutical companies the ability to transform claims and EHR datasets into analytics-ready data tables via an open-source data model with built-in normalization, data quality testing, and enrichment. Traditional black box solutions often hinder transparency, accessibility, and control over data.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Being Philips, what underpins that quality and experience is technology; Philips explored telehealth, AI, digital health records (DHRs), and other digital health tools that can engage patients. Older people, in particular, would be more likely to use digital health tools if their clinicians recommend these technologies.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 8, 2019

The FDA released guidance last year noting that electronic health records (EHRs) have the potential to improve clinical trials, leading to greater safety and efficacy. But tapping that potential, according to the agency, requires interoperability — the ability of two or more products, technologies or systems to […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As the next phase in the evolution of interoperability, SDC allows for the secure and near real-time sharing of health data between devices at the point of care, regardless of the manufacturer. Traditionally, we think about interoperability as HIEs (health information exchanges), but in 2024 I expect to see new models emerge.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Most data about patients exists in EHRs or other repositories in a variety of legacy formats. Plus, once collected, that data can easily leverage the full suite of SAS analytics tools. Plus, once collected, that data can easily leverage the full suite of SAS analytics tools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The current state of health data interoperability. More about this episode: ' The health system of the future will be consumer-centric, wellness-oriented and digitally connected ' Pandemic-era burnout: How EHR vendors are redesigning UI and UX to battle stress. Cerner expands tools available for rural hospital clinical trials.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2025

News ASTP released a draft of United States Core Data for Interoperability v6 , with six new data elements. VC firm General Catalyst and Amazon Web Services announced a partnership to develop AI tools. Veradigm added SDoH and mortality data to its ambulatory EHR database. Idaho-based St.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

There are a lot of components to consider and talk about in regards to interoperability and data sharing. Today we are going to focus on the innovative technologies and standards that are currently being employed to make our dreams of a better system of interoperability and data sharing a reality. The following are their answers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2025

Imaging must connect seamlessly with EHRs and other clinical systems, making CIOs key players in ensuring smooth interoperability. But they arent looking for standalone AI tools. Thats because imaging is not an isolated function and medical images need to be accessible across multiple clinical applications, including EHRs.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Exec Summary: Trust Integration Engines (TIEs) are essential tools in modern healthcare systems. Key Roles of TIEs in Healthcare AI: Data Aggregation: TIEs collect data from various sources, including electronic health records (EHRs), medical devices, and research databases. TIEs must support a variety of standards and formats.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Interoperability for better outcomes and clinical advances. The goal of Azure Health Data Services is interoperability that drives better patient outcomes and clinical advances. The key to unlocking the data is interoperability across the entire health ecosystem.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

If you are unfamiliar with HIMSS, Hal explains in the discussion that HIMSS’s four focuses are digital health transformation, the deployment and utilization of AI as a tool, cybersecurity to protect peoples’ personal information and its use, and, workforce development.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Medically aligned AI and AI-driven automation won’t just be tools, they’ll be the backbone of efficient, quality-driven care, transforming data into actionable insights that impact patient outcomes in real time. We need to not lose sight of all the opportunities to save time, reduce costs, and improve patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

With technology advances, healthcare organizations gain access to improved tools and better information. While progress offers clear advantages for providers, many still suffer from archaic, interoperable electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 3, 2020

It would be nice if the analytics packages included with EHRs did exactly what you hoped they would do. After all, you want the various capabilities you manage to play nicely with one another. However, for many health IT leaders these analytics platforms just aren’t cutting it, if the results of a recent survey are […].

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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 athenahealth Patient Digital Engagement Index is a valuable tool for practices to track patient engagement and identify areas for improvement.

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