Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Elaborate’s technology offers doctors a way to contextualize health data and deliver clear, action-oriented communications to their patients Elaborate , the tool that doctors and their staff use to deliver contextualized, action-oriented lab results to patients, announced today it has raised $10 million in Seed funding.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Interoperability is enabled through standard data and information representation. It reduces administrative costs and clinical costs to drive costs down and create a new model of innovative health data delivery for better outcomes. To achieve this, we need specialized interfaces tailored for each member of the care team.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2020

CMS has released a proposed rule that will require Medicaid managed care plans and other insurers offering products on the ACA Exchanges to support the sharing of patient data amongst themselves.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In a recent interview with Healthcare IT Today , Aidan Lee, Director of the Certification Program at OntarioMD , and Matt LaDuke, Director of Products, Integrations, and Service Management, shed light on the evolving landscape of electronic medical records (EMRs) and the state of interoperability in the healthcare sector.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JUNE 6, 2023

This drove me to address these challenges and fulfill my purpose: advocating for a more equitable, transparent and patient-centered solution for health data exchange. The thinking is that by making the patient an active recipient in their health data, they will feel like an active participant in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2019

A pair of senators have filed a bill which would impose new regulations on how companies manage data generated by consumer technologies such as health apps, wearables and direct-to-consumer genetic tests. The Protecting Personal Health Data Act, which was filed by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Queensland University subbing health clinics' legacy systems Queensland University is set to replace the legacy and mixed systems across its network of outpatient clinics and teaching clinic settings. The data will then be used to identify trends and improve research and education about women’s health, according to a media release.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2020

As health clinics, dentists, and specialists gradually reopen during what we hope is a reprieve from the first COVID-19 wave, lapses in effective data sharing come into glaring view. For instance, some friends told me that when they arrived at a clinic, the receptionist handed them paper forms and pens.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2020

Note: While this article addresses specifically converting data to MEDITECH Expanse, most of these principles apply to any EHR data conversion. With Expanse, MEDITECH has delivered a single EMR platform that gathers all the health data needed for treatment […].

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

A new health data interoperability survey by Healthcare IT Today with 82 responses suggests that when it comes to interoperability, healthcare organizations are struggling with many of the same challenges they faced five or even 10 years ago. Without a doubt, respondents are still interested in fostering health data sharing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

It will also look at developing a business model for other regions to use routine Medicare item numbers for primary care and a framework for scaling into routine care, including refining the interfaces with EMRs and clinics. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Population and Public Health Patient Access Care

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Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2025

I followed up my question about what behavior changes Harm would like to see when his health IT buyer colleagues might lean into Unvendor. He responded, If I am a CIO or CMIO and I have annual meeting with my big EMR vendor, they will use the word roadmap that is, were thinking about this, but we cant yet offer this to you.

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NiftyHMS

JANUARY 29, 2025

Efficient management of patient data is essential for healthcare providers, and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems are the perfect solution. Pediatric Clinics : Childrens Health Records : Track growth, vaccinations, and development milestones. Explore the benefits of NiftyHMS EMR software today!

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2020

A new report from Stanford Medicine suggests that after years of holding it at arms’ length, physicians are becoming more comfortable with the use of patient-generated health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

New research suggests that while consumers are continuing to expand their use of digital health technologies, they’re still careful about with whom they share their health data. The survey, which was backed by Rock Health and […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2024

The following is a guest article by Shannon West, Chief Product Officer at Datavant Since the dawn of electronic medical records, American healthcare delivery systems have traced a winding path toward the dream of seamless and timely health data interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Each day in healthcare, data becomes more valuable, more useful, and more important to a healthcare organization. It’s easy to see that the future of healthcare rests on the back of data. The problem is that data in and of itself isn’t useful.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2020

This is the tale of a quiet effort by Facebook to take over (more of) our lives, in this case by sliding laterally into the healthcare business and collecting data on our medical habits. What I’m about to share draws on a story appearing in The Atlantic laying out how Facebook might be able to […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2025

When health data can be freely and easily exchanged between providers, doctors can make more informed care decisions, care is faster, waste is reduced, and patient experience is improved. We use data in MEDITECH to ensure that our workflows are as smooth as possible. Interoperable data also benefits researchers at Valley Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2022

Recently, we shared news about the growing feature set under development as part of Google Health’s Care Studio, most recently its “Conditions” feature which summarizes patient conditions and uses NLP to link related information like labs or medications to those condition listings.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

AI-powered tools like ambient clinical listening can convert provider-patient conversations into clinical notes to add to electronic health records. AI can help reconcile health data to prevent the creation of duplicate patient records, improving data integrity, and AI-enhanced scribing allows for more precise medical recording documentation.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Brendan highlights some of the key elements that build trust in networks including symmetry when it comes to sharing health data. We discuss the treatment use case and the various use cases that go beyond treatment.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The agreement positions it to become the top vendor in the maturing market for patient-generated health data. In early November, news broke that Google parent Alphabet had agreed to acquire wearables maker Fitbit for about $2.1 billion in cash.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 15, 2023

In 2023 the company received high ‘Best in KLAS’ honors in several categories: 2023 Overall Physician Practice Vendor Small Practice Ambulatory EMR/PM: Independent (2-10 Physicians) Practice Management: Independent (11-75 Physicians) Ambulatory EMR: Independent (11-75 Physicians) Value-Based Care: Patient Portals EMR-Centric Virtual Care: Telehealth (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In recent times, Apple has been making a number of public moves focused on getting its customers to pull their health data onto their iPhone. Using Apple’s Health app, consumers can have their health data downloaded automatically from any institution with which it has partnered.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2019

While we’ve been writing about EMR data archiving since back in 2009 and then again in 2013 and 2014 to name a few, the topic has never been more important than it is today. With many healthcare organizations literally supporting 100s and even 1000s of health IT software, how you handle legacy systems including data […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2025

Quest Diagnostics is collaborating with Google Cloud to streamline data management and data analytics. Products EMR vendor Canvas Medical launched Hyperscribe , an open source AI copilot that uses ambient audio to write clinical documentation and orders.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 12, 2020

Despite the endless efforts healthcare organizations have made to support health data interoperability, the path still remains rocky. However, the pandemic has offered a sharp reminder that problems with patient data sharing can undercut treatment, particularly with the COVID-19 pandemic underway, a new study suggests.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2020

Plus, then we asked them how it will impact health data sharing going forward. As part of our Healthcare IT 100 in 100, we asked a wide variety of healthcare interoperability experts to chime in on the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Plus, we can’t talk interoperability without some discussion of government regulation and agencies like ASTP (Formerly known as ONC) and CMS as we continue to digitize the sharing of health data. Switching back to Epic, Brendan shares some of what it was like to work for a leader like Judy Faulkner, Founder and CEO of Epic.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

Zus Health , (pronounced “Zoose”), a next-generation shared health data platform bringing distributed patient data directly to the point of care, announced today that the company has closed a $40 million financing.

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David Chou

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Most of Cerner's EMR is based on outdated development and proprietary code that does not work well in today's cloud systems. Putting the Cerner EMR systems into the Oracle cloud may require a software redesign. This is also a data play for Oracle by accumulating a massive amount of healthcare data from Cerner.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Louis EPIC Analyst- HIM – Christus Health Healthcare Technical Director, Digital Healthcare – Cerner/Oracle – Huron Patient Access Rep II – CommonSpirit Health Director of Chronic Care Management – US – Theoria Medical Senior Audiovisual Support Analyst – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Health (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Being a patient, especially one with complex health issues, can be overwhelming enough. Access to critical health data shouldnt be an additional stress. Any of us could have a similar need when a health condition comes out of nowhere and disrupts our lives and families.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Innovar Healthcare also branched out to help labs with data sharing when COVID-19 hit, and now is working more and more with digital health companies who have similar data sharing problems. The problem most organizations face with health data interoperability is that it is not just about the data or the formats.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A new survey concludes that many health IT executives are not too familiar with new federal regulations which, among other things, require that patients have more access to their health records and forbid providers from hampering health data sharing across networks.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

On October 6, 2022, the healthcare and health IT community woke to a new reality – one in which electronic health information (EHI) included far more than it did the day before. . Equally important is the tremendous potential for innovation that comes with greater access to health data. Why was that so important?

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