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In a nutshell: technology and progress in health IT

KevinMD

We have a new electronic medical health record system at our hospital. It is frankly a pain in the neck to access the computer from outside the hospital due to the multiple layers of.

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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" Clinical informaticists "are being overwhelmed" Health IT vendors face their own challenges in supplying personnel to support implementations, with some of them making corporate decisions to have their employees work from home, or facing state governments' stay-at-home orders.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Eric Jimenez, CIO at Artesia General Hospital in Artesia, New Mexico. Dr. Paul Testa, chief medical information officer at NYU Langone Health in New York City. The greatest health IT learning of 2020 in the face of COVID-19 has been the profound want of patients and clinicians to connect digitally, said Testa of NYU Langone Health.

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HIMSS Analytics looks at top health IT priorities in Europe

Mobi Health News

Hospital IT executives in Europe share many of the same priorities and face many similar challenges as CIOs in other regions of the globe, including the United States, according to the HIMSS Analytics Annual European eHealth Survey 2018 released on Wednesday.

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HIMSSCast: A pro checks in on the status of the health IT stock market

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Fortunately, there are pros who specialize in the health IT market. Vagefi offers his views on why there don't seem to be as many health IT stocks as there used to be. He discusses private health IT companies, and if HIT is more of a private company industry. Those are three huge electronic health records companies.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

But in a time when our industry is facing high staff overtime and burnout, there’s simply no way that we can be aware of everything happening in health IT. What should be trending right now in health IT? One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies.

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Automation In Rural Health: It Should No Longer Be An Afterthought

Healthcare IT Today

Providers need a health IT platform that supports needed customizations and telehealth integrations. Improving patient care and maximizing profitability requires visibility into the day-to-day management and actionable insights to inform decisions and improve daily operations.

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