Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

We reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them how can health information management professionals leverage emerging technologies, such as AI , to enhance data integrity and streamline processes? Today, we are going to focus on emerging technologies in regard to health information management.

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JUNE 6, 2018

Discussing the accessibility (or lack thereof) patients have to their electronic medical records (EMR), the report also reveals some important underlying factors that have left many facilities unable to deal with both the transition to EMR and compliance with HIPAA. EHR is a synonym for EMR.).

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As mentioned previously, we’re taking part on the Virtual AHIMA conference this week. Exploring how things work in the virtual world, we tried something new today and did a text based chat interview with Rita Bowen, VP of Privacy, Compliance and HIM Policy from MRO. In this wide ranging text interview, we talked with Rita […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

He has led digital transformations for healthcare and other industries by implementing a cloud-based, HIPAA-compliant platform that centralized business intelligence, streamlined billing, and automated FP&A processes.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2025

The software enables healthcare providers to capture and securely exchange medical data, documents, and images in real-time alongside high-quality video conferencing. Patient information is securely managed, encrypted, and integrated with hospital and clinical databases, aligning with industry-leading security practices and standards.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2024

We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on what will happen in the coming year and boy did they deliver. Pete Heydt, President at PatientPay In recent years, we’ve seen EMR vendors promote internal solutions for patient financial responsibility communications and payments.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2019

For the second time this month, the HHS Office for Civil Rights has fined a provider for failing to make a patient’s medical records available to them promptly and within fee guidelines as required by HIPAA.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to ask what are the potential benefits and challenges of integrating AI and machine learning into EHR systems? Today we are going to narrow our focus on these exciting and vast technologies down to their impact on EHR systems. Below are their answers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2020

A few months ago, we dipped into the various COVID-19 searches that were being done to find Healthcare IT Today and offered answers and commentary on what people were searching. We thought it would be fun to dip into the search engine traffic for another edition of Search Engine Q&A. Remember that these are searches […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon Web Services is rolling out a new tool designed to make it simpler for healthcare organizations to work with their data. Amazon HealthLake, which AWS describes as “HIPAA-eligible,” was launched during Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2024

Note: These jobs are listed by Healthcare IT Today as a free service to the community. Healthcare IT Today does not endorse or vouch for the company or the job posting. Contact us here with a link to the open position and we’ll be happy to feature it in next week’s article at no charge!

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The following is a guest article by Mitchell Perry, VP Compliance & Security at Access In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare IT in US healthcare frameworks, integrating electronic health records (EHRs) has become a cornerstone for providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Lead Data Architect – Healthcare position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Vytalize Health and is remote in the US.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Ensure PHI Compliance with VPN Tunnels The HIPAA Privacy Rule has strong requirements around Protected Health Information (PHI). Creating drag-and-drop virtual private networks (VPNs) encrypts and anonymizes data, which can be effective when sharing patient electronic medical records (EMR) or during telemedicine scenarios.

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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

APRIL 1, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to weigh in on how to protect against the most common cyber threats. Million Users.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Dan Kompare, Vice President of Information Systems at Harmony Healthcare IT. This is common in healthcare, especially with the merger and acquisition activity that occurs in our industry. A HIMSS statistic cited the average healthcare system as having 18 EMRs. The continuous addition of new rich data sources [e.g.,

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2019

Call it a HIPAA reboot for the wearables age. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 4, 2023

The platform is HIPAA compliant and does not require EMR integration to demonstrate results and return on investment.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 28, 2025

As you develop your strategy, prioritize EHR safety by choosing a HIPAA-, HITECH-, and FedRAMP-certified EHR. Put your foot down in the face of threats such as ransomware by implementing proven measures, such as zero-trust and updated systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The HHS Office for Civil Rights is investigating whether Google met HIPAA requirements when it pulled together millions of patient records when working with the Ascension health system.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

I started Actium Health with the belief that EMR data was being underutilized. This makes it possible for health systems to ensure access for all patients, but especially for those who need care the most, such as patients at highest-risk for chronic conditions such as breast cancer and heart disease. “I

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JULY 8, 2019

Healthcare IT News. Published by HIMSS Media, this is a reliable, daily updated source for all your healthcare IT news, whether you're looking for the most recent updates on meaningful use rules, tips for implementing your EMR successfully, or are wondering how to leverage patient data to provide better care. Healthcare IT Guy.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“Inpatient Virtual Nursing will allow us to leverage technology to implement flexible care delivery models, simultaneously enhancing quality and experience for patients while providing additional support for our bedside caregivers,” says Christopher Newman, MD, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Medical Officer at Mary Washington Healthcare. “It

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Today, advanced security measures like encryption and access controls help to protect data from unauthorized access, which is important for patient privacy and allows institutions to comply with regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Epic Application Analyst/Coordinator position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic and is remote.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

Sharing of Data in a Patient Portal Most patients are familiar with HIPAA and of course, expect data to be kept securely in accordance with HIPAA requirements. Now, there is a trend toward an expectation that patients are able to either download or share their data on demand.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Integrating diverse systems–BD analytics, predictive tools, medical devices, patient portals, EMRs, and more–facilitates real-time information flow, for real time decision making.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It’s basically HIPAA secure email for doctors. Patients love it and doctors are coming around on the idea that these messages can actually save them time since then they don’t have to play phone tag with the patients. All of these messages provide convenient access to the doctor.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

The US Senate heard the weak excuses of the United Healthcare CEO who admitted Change Healthcare had not secured its Citrix systems with multifactor authentication (MFA) even though they had a written policy to do so, and that they failed to notify data breach victims by the HIPAA and state data breach law deadlines.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2024

For healthcare providers, this also means that data tracking, logging, and sharing define the status quo of handling patient records. Moreover, patients expect providers’ platforms and electronic medical records (EMR) to seamlessly accommodate their hyper-personalized data whenever they choose to share it.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

While providers are bound by both HIPAA and state laws on how to handle medical record requests, as a patient I can tell you that many providers do at most the bare minimum to comply. As I’ve noted before, it’s harder for patients to access their medical records then you might think. In fact, as […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. Purging Guidelines & Criteria HIPAA privacy rules do not address medical record retention requirements, and the guidelines from several states and the federal government are ambiguous at best.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2022

For example, ophthalmologists don’t need to keep up with every aspect of the 21 st Century Cures ACT, HIPAA Final Rules, or new ICD-10 codes, but their EHR vendors should. A compliant EHR that incorporates changes for each specialty (and as the physician enters patient data into the system) helps practices limit regulatory shortfalls.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Finally, both litigants are sponsors of this publication, Healthcare IT Today. During the past year, PointClickCare certified their service as an EHR with the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), which allows the company to demonstrate compliance with laws and standards such as HIPAA.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

One of the key goals of health care reform, going back to HIPAA in 1996 and particularly the HITECH act of 2009, is to allow the free flow of patient data in a secure and privacy-preserving way. Now we’ll see how Real Time responded and look at the new burdens that AI is placing on health care as revealed by the case.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 30, 2021

Cerner has struck a deal in which it will let a life insurance industry data vendor access patient records. Under the terms of the deal, risk management and digital services vendor MIB will be able to offer life insurance industry players access to 54 million patient medical records, as well as 5,400 patient portals. The […].

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