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Data Readiness: The Key to Healthcare’s Digital Future

Healthcare IT Today

Heres how healthcare organizations are evolving their data strategies to meet the demands of a digital-first future: The Shift to Cloud-Based Ecosystems Cloud adoption is no longer a choiceits a necessity. However, unlocking the full potential of this data requires modern, connected systems built for speed, scalability, and interoperability.

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EHR Innovations That Should Be Happening But Aren’t

Healthcare IT Today

An EHR system needs to make a 360-degree view of patient data accessible in a secure manner that can be made available using standard interfaces like FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) APIs for structured data exchange and DICOM for imaging. And thank you to all of you for taking the time out of your day to read this article!

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Benefits and Challenges of Integrating AI and Machine Learning into EHR Systems

Healthcare IT Today

Dr. Michael Sherling, Cofounder and Chief Medical and Strategy Officer at ModMed AI integration is the key to unlocking a future with less administrative burden and more streamlined clinical workflows, particularly documentation. Ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations further slows adoption. So many great points to think about here!

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Policy Ingredients for Real-Time Improvements in Health Care, Prior Auth, and Claims

Healthcare IT Today

Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth , shows us in this video how current regulations and FHIR standards will actually make that happen. Watch the video for more details about pressures on Medicare Advantage plans, rules about prior authorization, FHIR APIs, and more.

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Healthcare Decisions at an Organizational Level – 2025 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Pete Heydt, President at PatientPay In recent years, we’ve seen EMR vendors promote internal solutions for patient financial responsibility communications and payments. Donald Rucker, MD, Chief Strategy Officer at 1upHealth Modern IT will come to healthcare in 2025.

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Innovating EHR Systems to Improve Interoperability and Seamless Data Sharing Between Different Healthcare Providers

Healthcare IT Today

Interoperability is a public good and the industry has made progress over the last 15 years only because of the federal certification program and related standards, specifically the combination of USCDI content transported in FHIR format. However, without a comprehensive data-sharing strategy, the benefits of these improvements are limited.

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The Tension in TEFCA

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Don Rucker, MD, Chief Strategy Officer at 1upHealth Patients want the same modern computing experience in healthcare that they enjoy the rest of their lives to extend to our health and medical care. They want a modern consumer experience with ease of access, speed, availability, accuracy, and affordability.

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