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Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Enhance Data Integrity and Streamline Processes

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Today, we are going to focus on emerging technologies in regard to health information management. 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?

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What to expect in Asia-Pacific health IT in 2025?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

AI and virtual care models continued to be the craze in healthcare, owing to their clear support for improving clinician productivity and patient outcomes. How could digital health transformations proceed in the new year? Which trend in health technology in your country will you see continuing in 2025?

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Ransomware, Cloud, and Phishing: Decoding this Year’s Cybersecurity Landscape

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In the first half of the year alone, we saw major incidents like the Change Healthcare breach , which affected up to one-third of Americans , and the Ascension ransomware attack , which disrupted hospital operations across the U.S., impacting electronic health records and patient portals. Healthcare now accounts for 23% of all U.S.

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Ensuring the Security and Privacy of Patient Data while Managing Large Volumes of Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2024

How can healthcare organizations ensure the security and privacy of patient data while managing large volumes of electronic health records (EHRs) ? We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights into this question and the following is what they had to share.

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The Balance Between Promoting Data Sharing and Ensuring the Privacy and Security of Sensitive Health Information

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Most of the data that we are looking to share is highly sensitive health information, the kind of information that cybercriminals love to hold for ransom. Ryan Johnson, Chief Product Officer at CallRail All players in the healthcare space should expect the U.S. The following is what they had to share.

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One Way to Improve U.S. Healthcare, Lower Costs and Drive Outcomes? “Unvendor,” Asserts Dr. Harm Scherpbier in His New Book

Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2025

Health information technology professionals charged with selecting, implementing, updating, and paying for health IT in hospital and care delivery settings are essentially the first-line consumers of health IT specifically, electronic health records.

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A Look at Changes in the NEW HIPAA Security Rule

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 7, 2025

A risk analysis must include all systems, not only the systems that process health information, because other systems could be compromised to allow access to those containing health information.

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Making AI-Driven Healthcare Solutions Accessible and Equitable Across Diverse Populations

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2025

How can AI-driven healthcare solutions be made accessible and equitable across diverse populations , considering disparities in technology adoption? We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community for their answers to this question and the following is what they had to share.

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BluByrd and DrChrono Deliver Seamless Staff and Patient Experiences for Source Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Davis for an in-depth interview. For example, when a clinic or healthcare facility refers a patient to a surgery center for a procedure, the patients health information needs to be transferred. The company grew out of a gap that Dr. Davis saw in his own practice.

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The Path to Patient Empowerment: Hospitals are granting patients access to their health information, but is that enough?

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The 21 st Century Cures Act codifies immediate access to health information for patients. There is little value for patients to access health information they cannot understand. Radiology reports, for example, are particularly difficult for patients to understand. Access alone, however, is not sufficient.

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Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Or are there areas in healthcare where past regulations are now too restrictive and are holding us back? In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update regulations. The following is what they had to say.

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Healthcare Cybersecurity Gaps Remain Despite Massive Spending Increases

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2025

The Difficulty in Securing Health Data There are several reasons that healthcare organizations have found it particularly difficult to maintain security, despite the billions spent on cybersecurity. First, protected health information (PHI) is a valuable target for cybercriminals, more so than other types of data.

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Telehealth may worsen digital divide for people with disabilities

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

"Yet, if telehealth technologies are not designed, implemented, and contextualized within appropriate policies, these benefits cannot be realized, and instead could worsen health inequities within this population," they wrote. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. ON THE RECORD. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare Cybersecurity – 2025 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 26, 2024

As we wrap up another year and get ready for 2025 to begin, it is once again time for everyone’s favorite annual tradition of Health IT Predictions! 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.

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Patient Portals 4.0: Future of Patient Engagement

Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Data Privacy and Security: Robust security measures to protect sensitive health information. Nelson Advisors work with Healthcare Technology Founders, Owners and Investors to assess whether they should 'Build, Buy, Partner or Sell' in order to maximise shareholder value. What exactly is patient engagement?

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Digital Health Tools, Telemedicine, and Mobile Health Applications: How They’re Enhancing Population Health

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Today we are going to focus on these three technologies to look at their impact on population health management and the challenges that are in place of it being accessible. For example, Bioimpedance Spectroscopy (BIS) is being leveraged by health organizations to address challenges like lymphedema among cancer survivors.

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Pushing Forward Healthcare Interoperability Efforts by The Sequoia Project in 2025

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2025

Beyond TEFCA: Knocking Down Remaining Barriers To Exchange Beyond their TEFCA leadership, The Sequoia Project is uniquely positioned to tackle the remaining challenges to seamless and secure health information sharing. And for an exclusive look at our top stories, subscribe to our newsletter and YouTube. Tell us what you think.

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Telehealth's uncertain future raises alarm bells for cancer patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And despite advancement in treatments, said Ahlstrom in an interview with Healthcare IT News, "we still have 50% of patients dying after five years." She started HealthTree.org, which allows patients to aggregate their health information and connect with each other, and to find clinical trials that may be a good fit.

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Surescripts Makes Interoperability Official

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

Vaccination status, demographic information and notes are increasingly shared. Exchanging health information is everything we do.” Confirmation of Vaccination The pandemic accelerated the use of Surescripts’ platform as an information exchange. “We Why would they do this? With more than 21.7 Tell us what you think.

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FDA releases medical device cybersecurity draft guidance

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2022

Just this week, UCLA Biodesign executive director Dr. Jennifer McCaney told Healthcare IT News that the majority of executives in a recent study believe the FDA has responded more effectively to the evolving needs of medical innovation when compared to its global counterparts. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Mount Sinai-linked computer pads keep patients at home during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

They come preloaded with telehealth applications, as well as links to educational materials that are specific to the patient group – for example, our transplant program.” It chose PadInMotion devices because they are familiar to the health system, having been used successfully in the past. We have prior experience with it.

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Designing and Evaluating Interventions that have a Measurable Impact on Population Health through Evidence-Based Practices and Research

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In search of this inside look, we reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community with the question – as public health initiatives evolve, how are organizations incorporating evidence-based practices and research to design and evaluate interventions that have a measurable impact on population health?

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Most Koreans want to continue using telemedicine in the future - survey

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Regarding their level of digital health competency, many are found to be capable of searching for health information and using it to practice a healthy lifestyle while there is low competency in using health information for disease and health management. WHY IT MATTERS.

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HIMSS22 in Riyadh: Exploring cross-border collaboration in the Middle East

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In this session "Cross-Border Collaborations: Improving Digital Health" (20 November, 13:00 - 13:50), speakers from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and beyond will share concrete examples of how governments and healthcare organisations are successfully collaborating across borders to implement various digital health initiatives.

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AI innovator talks personalized treatment, telehealth enhancement and ethics

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2024

She also feels AI can encourage telemedicine innovation and holds strong opinions on the ethics of AI in healthcare. Healthcare IT News spoke with Dua to discuss these subjects and get her to offer a detailed look into the AI-powered Together by Renee app. This app is an example of how AI can simplify and enhance healthcare delivery.

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CyncHealth Optimizes Health Data Sharing to Enhance the Patient Experience

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In our conversation, Alderman sheds light on their recent decision to partner with Secure Exchange Solutions (SES) for Direct messaging and Health Information Service Provider (HISP) services. He shares why they chose SES and some of the business impacts resulting from the change. Tell us what you think.

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How CMS is boosting telehealth and RPM with new CPT codes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The new RTM codes resemble those for remote physiological monitoring, which reimburses providers for the review of physiological data that is automatically transmitted from a device (for example, heart rate). Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org.

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How Healthcare Organizations can Minimize the Impact of Ransomware in the Cloud

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Although the healthcare industry has been slower to move to the cloud due to the sensitive nature of its data, adoption has been on the rise in recent years (in part spurred by the pandemic), and today 47 percent of health organizations store protected health information (PHI) in the cloud , which increases their level of risk.

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Patient Privacy at Risk: The Hidden Flaws in Healthcare Data De-Identification (And How to Fix Them)

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

To avoid negatively impacting biomedical research, the Privacy Rule carved out exceptions for the use of protected health information (PHI) in research , as well as the use of limited data sets , and determined that de-identified data was not considered PHI.

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The future of telehealth: informatics, scalability and interoperability

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Even while the pandemic continues, healthcare provider organizations have begun to stabilize these infrastructures and revisit the technologies and workflows deployed earlier in the crisis and turn them into standard practices. Providers need to rely on a longitudinal health record to activate the right care anytime and anywhere.

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EHI is Not What it Used to be, but Don’t Panic

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. . The expanded definition of EHI now includes virtually any health information tied to an individual that is used in decision making.

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Greenway Uses AI Internally to Accelerate Development

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2024

The development team at Greenway Health is using AI internally to accelerate their work and deliver quicker for their clients. Healthcare IT Today sat down with David Cohen, Greenway’s Chief Product & Technology Officer to learn more. For example, GitHub Copilot is helping Greenway developers quickly refactor legacy code.

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Telemedicine triage kiosks reduce ER visits by 11% for ACO

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

There are a great many telemedicine technology and services vendors on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News has published a comprehensive listing of these vendors, which can be accessed by clicking here. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Population health management enters an uncharted new era.

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The prominent issues telehealth must tackle when the pandemic passes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2021

Healthcare IT News interviewed Mulcare to dig into the reversion to pre-pandemic regulations, the ethics of telemedicine across state lines, what telehealth technologies can do to increase access, and more. To take this a step further, physicians are different from lawyers, for example. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Why telemedicine must play a central role in solving the specialist shortage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2023

Flannery also describes an actual example of specialty care his company has delivered via an employer, and the outcomes. Please describe an actual example of specialty care your company has delivered via an employer and the outcomes. What is the state of specialty care in the United States today? What challenges does it pose?

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At HIMSS22, Microsoft and Salesforce expand their healthcare offerings

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Microsoft took a step to address health data interoperability with Azure API for FHIR in 2019. The company's next evolution of that journey is Azure Health Data Services. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. More holistic view of the patient. " Salesforce is at HIMSS22 in Booth 4559. HIMSS22 Coverage.

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What's ahead for health IT policy and legislation in 2023

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

One example is audio calls and how to establish reimbursement rates based on the care needed and the appropriateness of care delivery through that channel. The universal need for healthcare can make ACP coupled with telehealth a win-win for everyone," says Settles, a telehealth and broadband advocate. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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IHE IT-Infrastructure Spring 2023

Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

The first is the ability to exchange a list of health data locations, which enables Record Locator Services to interoperate with consumers wishing to discover the location of patient records within a health information exchange. This Provenance definition is now in mXDE along with examples and requirements CapabilityStatement.

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How to switch from phone to video telehealth on a limited budget

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

“In mid-March, as soon as New York’s Governor issued the stay-at-home order, the institute’s leadership, clinicians, health information technology staff, clinical operations staff and communications staff worked to rapidly develop and deploy basic telehealth functionality across our organization,” Lever recalled.

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To Drive Value, EHRs Need to Actually be Usable

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, Founder and CEO of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS) EHRs are ubiquitous because they’re useful – but how useful are they really, and to whom? For example, a physician should be able to see all of her appointments for the day at a glance in one panel.

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Digital front doors' advantages when meeting population health needs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Advanced healthcare platforms, such as digital front doors, are emerging as an answer to some of these challenges. Digital front doors can help process large amounts of demographic data related to community health and population wellness. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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HHS, DOD and vendors partner for critical care via telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

For example, in Florida, Avel eCARE partnered with EMS workers to help get Regeneron delivered to homebound patients. Healthcare IT News sat down with Lisa Lindgren, vice president of clinical operations at Avel eCARE, to learn more about NETCNN and telemedicine in the age of COVID-19. Survey and consent tools.

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How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Jim Jirjis, Chief Health Information Officer at HCA to discuss the value of data quality in healthcare and find out more about the link between their sepsis project and better emergency preparedness. For example, they think that the potassium value in the lab result is not correct.

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Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

However, the deployment of AI in health care necessitates vigilant oversight to prevent biases and ensure data integrity. Civitas suggests that by leveraging the established infrastructure of Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Health Data Utility (HDU) models, we can develop a robust framework for AI governance in health data management.

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Telehealth may worsen digital divide for people with disabilities

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Digital Health Tools, Telemedicine, and Mobile Health Applications: How They’re Enhancing Population Health

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Telehealth's uncertain future raises alarm bells for cancer patients

Surescripts Makes Interoperability Official

FDA releases medical device cybersecurity draft guidance

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Designing and Evaluating Interventions that have a Measurable Impact on Population Health through Evidence-Based Practices and Research

Most Koreans want to continue using telemedicine in the future - survey

HIMSS22 in Riyadh: Exploring cross-border collaboration in the Middle East

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