Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In an industry where patient data and critical medical and technology systems are increasingly interconnected, improving cyber resilience is no longer optional—it’s essential for protecting sensitive information and maintaining operational continuity.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The first chart illustrates consumers’ use of digital health tools, showing that online health information and online provider reviews. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

“HIPAA, as passed in 1996 and amended in 2009 through the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, defines privacy through a sectoral lens. Under the current privacy regime of HIPAA for healthcare, indeed, we are.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2019

Today, the voice of the patient is magnified one-to-many, omnichannel and multi-platform — via video, blogs, podcasts, social networks, listservs… and, yes, still in live forums like AA meetings, church basements, Y-spaces, and the Frazzled Cafe meet-ups in Marks & Spencer retail cafes across the UK.

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

Patients’ willingness to share their personal health information is eroding, varying by age group and race/ethnicity along with the kind of organizations folks would share with. We first note overall that fewer patients, year on year 2021-2023, seem willing to share data with ANY entity.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2025

Reframing Interoperability Benefits Interoperability has long been known as a way to improve patient care. 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.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2024

adult consumers’ perspectives defined “patient experience” (PX) as, “The sum of all interactions, shaped by an organization’s culture, that influence patient perceptions across the continuum of care.” The study into U.S. ” The survey was fielded by Ipsos among 1,018 U.S.

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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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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

In addition, with the advances in telemedicine, many services that would have been previously impossible are now available to patients in remote locations. Where does the healthcare industry go from here with telehealth? Patients today are demanding more of the providers that serve them.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As patients returned to in-person, brick-and-mortar health care settings after the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, they re-enter the health care system with heightened consumer expectations, according to the Beryl Institute – Ipsos Px Pulse report, Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience in the U.S.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

MARCH 28, 2025

Digital health interventions help patients manage their health via computers, smartphones, and even virtual reality , and can be used, for instance, to facilitate targeted communications to individuals through reminders and health promotion messaging in order to stimulate demand for services and broaden access to health information.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

The goal of Azure Health Data Services is interoperability that drives better patient outcomes and clinical advances. The health industry generates an overwhelming amount of data, much of which is unstructured and inaccessible. Microsoft took a step to address health data interoperability with Azure API for FHIR in 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2025

By encrypting payment or sensitive data at each point of its journey and ensuring strict compliance with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS), P2PE offers a higher level of protection. Patient health information remains highly valuable on the black market.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2025

This reduces the risk of data breaches, improves workflow efficiency, and allows healthcare providers to focus more on patient care. This perspective is essential in delivering coordinated and personalized care, making interoperability an even more crucial element in enhancing patient outcomes. Raul Cepeda Jr.,

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Patient engagement is the next frontier in healthcare and single-platform patient portals created the digital foundation for this ongoing transformation. Many patients already use patient portals for tasks such as scheduling appointments and requesting prescription refills. Remote Patient Monitoring .

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Focus on Patient Experience and Outcomes: HealthTech companies that prioritise patient experience, improve outcomes, and reduce healthcare costs are likely to be highly valued. However, based on current trends and industry insights, several areas are poised for significant growth and increased valuations: 1.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

This strategic acquisition aims to improve the patient experience and expedite access to vital specialty medications, such as infusions and in-office injectables primarily covered by medical benefits. These challenges lead to avoidable resubmissions and delays, frustrating healthcare providers and patients alike.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Data Privacy and Security: Robust security measures to protect sensitive health information. Transparent data privacy policies and patient control over data sharing. Compliance with industry standards and regulations. Data Privacy and Security: Implementing robust security measures to protect sensitive health information.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

Forrester also found that while healthcare organizations have experienced some of the most egregious cyberattacks, the industry allocates a smaller proportion of IT budgets to security compared with than other organizational types at a rate of 22% versus 28%. Consider this a crucial node in patient and clinician experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2023

The following is a guest article by Roni Jamesmeyer, Senior Healthcare Manager at Five9 The healthcare crisis is dominating headlines, with the industry dealing with complicated challenges across multiple areas. The average number of patients per primary care doctor is at an all-time high of 20 per day.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Through carefully designed workflows, Vital Interaction automates sending these patient touchpoints, introducing new ways for care providers to share critical health information with patients. We are thrilled to see what is next for Ben Chapman and Vital Interaction’s impressive team.” Learn more at nextcoastventures.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2025

QR codes can transform traditionally vulnerable touchpoints, such as medication tracking and streamlined patient identification, into secure digital workflows. In an industry facing a projected shortage of 86,000 physicians by 2036 , any technology that reduces administrative burden becomes strategic.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

Mark McClellan, former FDA Commissioner, and colleagues at Duke’s Margolis Center for Health Policy, on how the U.S. be enabled by designating COVID-19 as reportable to state and local health officials, and as a nationally notifiable condition that must be reported.” This process can.

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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2023

As such, every company is a health/care company, regardless of industry. We learned this in the early iterations of the Edelman Health Engagement Barometer over ten years ago, but the public health crisis solidified this in the minds of Everyday People.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2018

Together, these factors can bolster personalization and improve consumers’ experience in healthcare, but also have the power to invade, disrupt, and encroach on peoples’ physical and intimate lives in unwelcome ways. Artificial intelligence, AI, is fast becoming part of the workflow across all industries.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond. There’s also a trust deficit between some patients and providers.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

These four pillars Susannah, Lisa and I addressed in the context of PLM+UHG are also raised in today’s deal…with some nuances intriguing me around the public’s trust in the tech industry, as well as the nature and mission of a faith-based healthcare organization. health care. We are beyond a crossroads now in U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2023

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Harmony Healthcare IT (HHIT) , a leading health data management and platform solution provider, today announced a significant investment from Novacap , one of North America’s premier private equity firms. This strategic partnership will accelerate HHIT’s technological contribution and expansion in health information technology.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Verato and CLEAR believe that digital identity has the potential to transform healthcare data management, enabling healthcare organizations to overcome longstanding system interoperability challenges, vastly improve patient experiences, and reduce healthcare operating costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2024

Travis Bias, DO, MPH, DTM&H, FAAFP, Chief Medical Officer, Clinician Solutions & Family Physician at 3M Health Information Systems Ambient clinical documentation tools are being used by clinicians so they can focus on the patient in front of them, rather than on their computer screens.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 22, 2024

The following is a guest article by Adam Rademacher, Director of Operations at AMN Healthcare Language Services AI’s transformative impact spans across industries– including healthcare. This requirement underscores the importance of maintaining industry standards while embracing technological advancements.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer. Why is this so important?

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

This translates to consumers’ growing expectations of the healthcare industry…including hospitals. 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.”.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

All well and sound good…but where HealthXL lands is that, “Big Tech’s bold ambitions make for flashy headlines,” with the tech giants facing difficult headwinds trying to disrupt and re-organized the highly-regulated healthcare industry.

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