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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2024

Interoperability is game-changing not just in a clinical setting, but it holds tremendous potential for healthcare’s financial stakeholders as well. For example, prior authorization and patient eligibility are now key steps to ensuring price transparency and fewer financial surprises for patients. “So

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Patient education is just one example of many where pharmacists could take a more active role in the healthcare system and we could all benefit from pharmacists’ expertise. Another area where we haven’t enabled pharmacists has to do with pharmacy interoperability.

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

For example, with Virtual Sitter with AI assistance, a single, remote staff member now can monitor significantly more patients than an in-person sitter, helping to increase the capacity of healthcare inpatient teams and significantly reduce costs. at HIMSS25 in Las Vegas. at HIMSS25 in Las Vegas.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 2, 2024

While many healthcare systems have moved away from mail, phone, and fax for medical records transfer, it’s clear that not enough have taken advantage of available technologies to maximize healthcare interoperability. A secure, streamlined process also builds all-important patient trust.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 2, 2025

Now the hospital can connect the physician in the ED or any location to help, for example, EMS staff interpret an EKG or authorize them to initiate certain medications. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access Population and Public Health Interoperability Care Data and Information Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Davis for an in-depth interview. The refinements to their DrChrono system have allowed the team at Source Healthcare to spend less time on administrative tasks and more time on improving patient experience. The company grew out of a gap that Dr. Davis saw in his own practice.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

For a better understanding of how exactly EHR systems need to be tailored, we reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them how can user experience and interface design be improved in EHR systems to reduce clinician burnout and enhance workflow efficiency ? The following are their answers.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2024

We have made a lot of strides in healthcare looking for ways to recenter the patient in our decisions, inventing technologies like AI to reduce the clinician burden on our staff, and so much more. In order to truly improve healthcare, we need to have seamless interoperability and data sharing between different healthcare providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

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. A Look at Epic Culture and Interoperability with Brendan Keeler. Read more… How Healthcare AI Automation Improves Accuracy and Trust.

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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? Publics trust in the healthcare ecosystem may take irreparable damage if AI models are not fair and unbiased.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

For more than a decade, healthcare has struggled with sharing data. We have not achieved data interoperability despite an abundance of technology, standards, and legislation. Healthcare Data Interoperability. Data in healthcare is siloed. Inspiration From Outside of Healthcare.

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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. 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

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 IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Many smart, dedicated people have relentlessly pursued nationwide healthcare interoperability, and the arrival of TEFCA represents both a major milestone and a significant opportunity for the industry to pause and carefully consider our next steps based on past attempts and current endeavors. About Zach Finn.

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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. The inventive ideas and possibilities of where it can go and what it could do, the rules and regulations surrounding this area of healthcare, the privacy and concerns, etc. The following are their answers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

For HHM Health , an FQHC serving the Dallas area, interoperability and access to medical records is vital for establishing trust with their patients and saving lives. Brown illustrated the importance of Prisma to their community with the following example: We had a brand new patient come in. Interoperability saves lives.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 28, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services aims to protect the integrity of federal healthcare programs, in addition to the health of beneficiaries. As one example, he pointed to telehealth, which has enormous potential to increase access to service and decrease burdens. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Combined with the recent close of its acquisition of Nuance Communications, Microsoft seeks to amplify healthcare organizations' ability to help others by leveraging artificial intelligence to address the biggest challenges transforming the future of healthcare. Interoperability for better outcomes and clinical advances.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But despite the availability of FHIR and of APIs from many vendors, interoperability is often described as “difficult and “not frictionless” according to Loyd Bittle, CEO and Founder at Innovar Healthcare. Most IT organizations have the tech chops to be interoperable. They don’t want to buy another tool.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 5, 2024

While many in the Healthcare IT Today community likely know Altera, Sunrise, and dbMotion from their work in the US, it’s great to learn the work they’re doing to address the health IT issues in Canada. For example, how are they addressing interoperability of health data across the provinces in Canada.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Insurers both large and small , for example, are partnering or even acquiring organizations that specialize in VBP; the same goes for physicians groups and groups that provide home care. With proper privacy and security policies and protocols, EHR interoperability will help expand the implementation of VBP in several ways.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Other times patients and sections of healthcare can be overlooked or forgotten, which can result in outdated or missing policies. We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to ask What role do policy changes play in advancing health equity and how can healthcare providers advocate for such changes effectively?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

John Blair, III, MD, CEO at MedAllies It’s been well-documented for years that the healthcare industry has an interoperability problem. The commercial efforts to date to push interoperability forward have made true advances. The commercial efforts to date to push interoperability forward have made true advances.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2022

For the 87th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about The Business of Giving Patients Control of Their Health Data. While that’s clear, the business […] For the 87th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about The Business of Giving Patients Control of Their Health Data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

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. Healthcare Workforce. Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. Healthcare Consumerism. John and Colin’s 2023 Healthcare IT Predictions.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 31, 2023

According to Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture , even if we solve the interoperability challenge in healthcare, we will still have to work to refine the data to make it useful. The latter is a hidden challenge that healthcare organizations are not paying enough attention to. We are making progress.”

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 26, 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. For example, masking passwords from users significantly reduces cyber risks and improves clinical workflows today, getting rid of the password entirely only improves that benefit.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2024

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. Interoperability In addition to his Greenway duties, Cohen also serves on the board of Commonwell Health Alliance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 27, 2022

CVS Health Virtual Primary Care will feature a member-selected physician-led Care Team – comprising, for example, nurse practitioners, RNs or licensed vocational nurses – who can be accessed through the platform. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2022

While the advent of modern interoperable approaches is gaining attention by reducing data entry burden – such as through pre-population of eCRFs using electronic health record data – the available data is still limited to a participating site’s point-in-time interactions with a given patient. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2025

For example, a critical, and largely underutilized, resource is leveraging the set of income-based programs available to more than half of Medicare members including both the HEI qualifying programs Medicaid, Medicare Savings Program, and Low-Income Subsidy as well as those that support paying for utilities, prescriptions, and food.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2020

The company is encouraging organizations to share COVID-19 information through Epic’s interoperability network, saying providers can share travel-screening documentation and infection-status information with both Epic and non-Epic organizations through Care Everywhere, Epic’s interoperability network. Twitter: @fbazzoli.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

Also on its policy agenda for the year ahead: advocating for data standardization, offering input for interoperability rulemaking and engaging with agencies and states to increase telehealth access. "How do you leverage it for healthcare, and how does healthcare get involved in those discussions?" " Leary said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2024

For example, MDRX, ATHN and CERN are history. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts , Spotify or Google Play ! Talking points: His thoughts on the fact that there aren't as many health IT stocks as there used to be? Epic, of course, has always been private. So are eClinicalWorks and Meditech. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

For example, the third-party virtual providers did not have full access to patients' medical records, creating a disconnected patient experience and annoyances for patients who must submit their medical histories and medication lists as if they were obtaining care at an entirely separate health system. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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