Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2025

Healthcare systems implementing secure, user-friendly solutions report improvements in staff satisfaction, patient experience, and operational efficiency. Operations can measure time saved in patient registration and equipment tracking. Does the platform offer detailed analytics for compliance reporting?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Coming together under the Verisma brand, the combined company provides faster turnaround times through automation, expanded services to manage compliance requirements, and advanced tools to improve patient experience. ScanSTAT is a proud partner to some of the industry’s best electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2025

In 2024 according to the Identity Theft Resource Centers 2024 Data Breach Report a whopping 237 million victim notices were sent out to Americans notifying them that had their health data exposed in a breach (190 million in the Change Healthcare Breach alone). Patient health information remains highly valuable on the black market.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

(See the Hot Points , below, for how these patient life-flows are being met by innovative providers both inside and outside the healthcare system). I divulged that my favorite supermarket chain is Wegmans (who is not a client of THINK-Health). .”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

From here, telehealth will evolve to strengthen patient-provider engagement. As patient expectations grow, telehealth will aid providers in meeting those demands by being the primary tool for a modern patient experience. Telemedicine offers a future where patients and providers are empowered with health information.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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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. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare aims to enhance patient experiences and health team collaboration.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

"We invested in our telemedicine solution – integrated into our enterprise electronic health record – to offer a convenient and cost-effective complement to in-person visits and streamline patient care." There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

Verisma and ScanSTAT merge With automation, patient experience tools and expanded compliance management services, the combined Verisma aims to deliver a simplified, customizable release of information platform for healthcare. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

Hospitals are falling short of consumers’ experience-expectations, Kaufman Hall explained in their 2017 State of Consumerism in Healthcare Report with the apt sub-title, “Slow Progress in Fast Times.”. These benefits can’t be realized in healthcare without the enterprise health cloud ensuring privacy and security.

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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 25, 2023

The following is a guest article by Steven Dubner, Vice President of Product Management at Nordis Technologies No matter how exemplary the clinical care, overall patient experience and satisfaction often hinge on the last interactions with providers—billing and payments.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

But trust is a precursor to health engagement, so trust can be a barrier to patients and providers working together to improve healthcare. In addition to the EHR/screen-time challenge, there’s also a data/health information concern: patients expect health providers to be good data stewards, protecting personal health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

Capital raise comes amid rapidly growing demand for the company’s HIPAA compliant email and marketing solutions. Paubox , a leading provider of HIPAA compliant email and marketing solutions for healthcare organizations, today announced it has raised $10 million in funding from Arthur Ventures. Founded in 2015, Paubox is on the Inc.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

As I approach my 20-somethingth HIMSS, having been a member of the organization for most of my professional life, I’ll be focusing on the mainstreaming health IT Zeitgeist as I meet with innovators and experts this week in Orlando. I’ll give you four big reasons: The patient is expecting a consumer experience from health care.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But when dealing with all of the many things that providers do and the highly important health information about patients, something as simple as selecting a communication platform becomes a very tricky situation. Communication is the key to making anything work – including your organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 22, 2024

In adherence to healthcare regulations like Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, there is a clear mandate for a human component in machine-assisted translations to ensure accuracy mitigate risks associated with patient privacy, and HIPAA compliance.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

Developing a culture of cyber- and health privacy-awareness must be a priority for health providers, who as they look to patients for greater health engagement, must bake their trust into health information systems. Consider this a crucial node in patient and clinician experience.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

At least 150 Google employees already have access to much of the data on tens of millions of patients, according to a person familiar with the matter and the documents.” ” While Google is a well-known brand and customer experience for most people, Ascension Health may not be as familiar an organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2022

Acquisition pivots prescription management to patients, reduces administrative burden and offers connectivity at the point of prescribing. Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) today announced the acquisition of ScalaMed, a HIPAA-compliant, smart platform that transfers prescriptions directly to patients via a secure mobile app.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

A survey of healthcare leaders by patient engagement vendor pCare and research firm WBR Insights indicated that demand for technology to improve the patient experience is on the rise , with 65% of organizations saying more patients want a tech-enabled care experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2024

These formats include Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), used for the electronic exchange of clinical health information, and Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC), which provides a common language for laboratory tests and clinical measures.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • The bases of competition in healthcare are shifting to competing on quality, cost, and patient experience.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • The bases of competition in healthcare are shifting to competing on quality, cost, and patient experience.

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Xealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

Utilize Patient Portals Patient portals serve as a gateway for patients to access their health information conveniently. As mobile patient portals experience unprecedented use , it’s vital to ensure that the experience is secure and user-friendly.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The large insurance companies, hospitals, and healthcare systems have signed on to health information exchange and will mandate that any business conducted with them will require vendors to use the data exchanges they support. Making patients a catalyst can accelerate this movement multi-fold.

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Health Populi

JULY 11, 2018

In each connected health scenario, data (and a lot of it) are generated, moving into each app’s or system’s cloud. Who better than the physician to be the data steward for peoples’ personal health information? Well, how about the end-user consumer/patient/health citizen as the ultimate self-steward of their own data?

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 6, 2018

The Patient is NOT the center of existing Health Information Exchange. Yet, the Health Information Exchange exists for the sole purpose of treating that Patient. The patient does not feel like the center. It is all about Experience. In agile terms "User Experience".

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

This will allow the healthcare industry at large to use AI and Automation where it needs to be used, to provide a better patient experience and increase the quality of healthcare delivery, instead of used to increase or decrease profits. Interoperability will just happen as companies like Rhapsody offer integration as a service.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 7, 2024

Exec Summary: Medical Record Automation is the process of using technology to streamline and optimise the management of patient health information. Data Privacy and Security: With sensitive patient information at stake, robust data protection measures are essential.

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In Hand Health

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

But they want to make sure that an e-visit or other remote care is just as good as they’d get in person, and that their health information stays private.”. This optional eCommerce service enables your PT practice to provide its services to patients on a subscription basis. Extending Engagement.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 10, 2024

Engaged patients are more likely to follow medical advice, attend appointments, and actively participate in their care, leading to better outcomes and higher patient satisfaction. The system employs encryption, access controls, and audit trails to safeguard patient data and ensure compliance with legal requirements.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

Additionally, there is a focus on improving the work environment and well-being of health professionals to help reduce burnout and increase retention. To ensure quality care for patients, health systems are exploring new solutions and innovations, such as the use of digital health records and other health information technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Another product is called the eCareCompanion patient application. eCareCompanion is a telehealth application that patients access on a secure tablet at home and use to share health information with their care team. Providers need minimal training to efficiently use the clinical dashboard, the company contended.

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Hinduja Global Solutions

JULY 26, 2018

At the top of the list for healthcare is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which has undergone regulatory changes to accommodate the emergence of telemedicine and wearable devices that store protected health information (PHI). Source: Healthcare Analytics News. Diveya.Durai.

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American Well

APRIL 18, 2014

Estimates suggest that half to three-quarters of Americans are interested in online consults, and I’d expect this number to grow as more patients have access to telehealth services and as more doctors offer such services to patients. As with brick-and-mortar medicine, it is extremely important to protect patient health information.

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American Well

APRIL 18, 2014

Estimates suggest that half to three-quarters of Americans are interested in online consults, and I’d expect this number to grow as more patients have access to telehealth services and as more doctors offer such services to patients. As with brick-and-mortar medicine, it is extremely important to protect patient health information.

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