Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We talk a lot about sharing data and how it will improve patient outcomes and interoperability, but do we talk enough about how to do it safely? 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

As part of their intake process, the team checked Alex’s (a pseudonym) medical history through the hospital’s health information organization and discovered the patient had recently undergone a cardiac surgery at a different hospital; their post-surgical issues had merely mimicked a neurological challenge.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As health data sharing continues to evolve, the mere collection of patient data is no longer sufficient; it’s imperative that the data collected have tangible value for overburdened clinicians increasingly being requested to gather more data. Alderman also talked about several prominent use cases.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This is why ETHERFAX has joined with a variety of other cloud fax providers and health data exchange vendors as part of the DirectTrust Interoperable Secure Cloud Fax standards body. Watch the video for details, including regulatory and technical advances that will drive adoption of the secure exchange of health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

At HIMSS, we sat down to talk with CommonWell Health Alliance to learn about their passion for interoperability and some of the latest happenings with the CommonWell community. Their membership and clientele have expanded in variety as well as numbers. And for an exclusive look at our top stories, subscribe to our newsletter and YouTube.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Senators Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, and Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, introduced the Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act this week, aimed at starting the process of modernizing health data use and privacy policies. "As a doctor, the potential of new technology to improve patient care seems limitless.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2024

We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. 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

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Health data utility is still a fairly new concept in the world of healthcare. We gathered up some of our brilliant members of the Healthcare IT Today Community to get their perspective. We gathered up some of our brilliant members of the Healthcare IT Today Community to get their perspective.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

We reached out to the Healthcare IT Today community to get their thoughts on the IT infrastructure needs in healthcare. However, amidst the IT infrastructure responses we received a number of health IT experts talking about the importance of health data and interoperability infrastructure. What do you think?

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Membership will drive continued innovation in interoperability, foster collaboration with industry leaders and ensure understanding of current regulations and standards for clients leveraging the dbMotion Solution , Altera’s data platform that aggregates and harmonizes data from multiple systems to improve patient outcomes.

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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. This analysis is possible because the data inside MEDITECH is interoperable and therefore easily retrievable and standardized.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2025

Hark and Todd Goughnour, VP, Health Information Management, discuss the value of data quality in this video. Even more important than correct billing, Goughnour says, is making informed decisions for patients. Watch the video for more insights into data quality. Cost is the biggest barrier to migration, she says.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Davis is also the founder of BluByrd , a software company that automates surgical case data and provides a better way to schedule surgical cases. Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Davis for an in-depth interview. Davis has come to realize that when patient data is made more portable and sharable, patient experience improves.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2025

Currently, all notifiable conditions (an instance of a communicable illnesses) go through eHealth Exchange electronically, but we are working to further role out case investigations to allow public health agencies to query for additional information when they receive a notification rather that using old-fashioned phone calls or faxes.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2021

Rapid exchange of patient data is crucial not only for coordinating care, but for research and public health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2023

Crescendo Health , an innovative health data company powering the next generation of clinical research, today announced its official launch with a mission to revolutionize how patients contribute real-world data to clinical studies.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2025

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. Let us know on social media.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

There has been tremendous progress in healthcare IT interoperability, but this video is a stark reminder of how much more we need to do to better support patients, caregivers, and their providers. Being a patient, especially one with complex health issues, can be overwhelming enough. Tell us what you think.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

– Microsoft has announced advancements in cloud technologies for healthcare and life sciences with the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. The health industry generates an overwhelming amount of data, much of which is unstructured and inaccessible.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Two health systems have become the latest healthcare organizations to name a web tracking tool created by Meta (formerly Facebook) as responsible for their data breach. Both of the recent incidents, which were announced in mid-October, involved a Meta tracking tool known as Meta Pixel.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Before dissolving , MAeHC had assigned its contract with the New England Healthcare Exchange Network to the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. Massachusetts Health Data Consortium , which will design, test and complete a documented prototype for Electronic Prior Authorization integrated with the EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

1upHealth will use this latest investment to expand product development and customer growth teams and accelerate efforts to lead the digital transformation of the healthcare industry in the cloud. About 1upHealth 1upHealth provides a modern data platform that’s cloud-based, API-enabled, and FHIR-native.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In other words, that information was also potentially being shared via the URL with third parties. No patient health data was exposed. Data sent to those third-parties were basic browser details (version, operating system, etc.) representatives in a statement to Healthcare IT News. "Doxy.me THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2020

Amazon has quietly struck a data-sharing deal with England’s National Health Service giving it free access to a range of health data from British consumers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2023

The North Carolina Health Information Exchange Authority, housed within the state's Department of Information Technology, announced this week that it's working North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services to launch the N.C. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Stroke Registry.

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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. . 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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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The content of this article is taken from a panel Kno2 hosted as part of the recent Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference , in collaboration with DirectTrust™ within a track dedicated to the sharing of health data to advance health equity. Post-Acute Providers for the Win!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2020

Microsoft is previewing its new Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, an API feature that enables healthcare organizations to scale secure connectivity for an array of devices streaming protected health information. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. WHY IT MATTERS. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2021

Health plan management company Anthem has struck a deal with Epic rolling out data sharing technology to health systems and providers who use the EHR vendor’s technology. The Payer Platform allows the providers to exchange various types of data with […].

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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. They won’t have the bandwidth to review every data element and they don’t need somebody sitting in front of a computer looking at a bunch of normal numbers.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We don’t even have the time or word count to cover it all in this article, so instead we will be focusing on healthcare interoperability. What isn’t being talked about enough when it comes to sharing health data? The video below is a compilation of their answers.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) Health Data Locator and Revoke Option - Rev. The Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) Health Data Locator and Revoke Option Supplement enhances the existing IHE XCPD Integration Profile by adding two new capabilities.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This video contains a wide-ranging discussion between Rubel and interviewer John Lynn about the current applications and future possibilities of synthetic data, LLMs, and generative AI. Thus, you can use the synthetic data to compare characteristics that matter to you. ” The FDA, VA, and others are using synthetic data.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

HCA Healthcare , one of the leading providers of care in 20 states and in the United Kingdom, has smartly been investing to improve the quality of the health data they collect. But poor quality data also happens when every facility uses a different term for a social security number. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2023

One of the biggest pieces of legislation to hit healthcare IT since the HITECH Act is the 21st Century Cures Act. While it doesn’t have the same stimulus money as the HITECH Act, it’s possible that it will have even more impact on healthcare organizations and patients. Tell us what you think.

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