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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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Healthcare IT Departments Need to Plan for Explosive IoMT Growth

Healthcare IT Today

The expected explosion in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) represents both an opportunity and a challenge for healthcare IT departments. Watch the interview with Sameer Khanna to learn: How hospital IT leaders can prepare for the 4x increase in the number of connected medical devices that is expected over the next 5 years.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The digital transformation in healthcare was elevated to a new level in 2020 as the industry had to rapidly roll out digital technologies like telehealth and help move the workforce to remote work, said Jimenez of Artesia General Hospital. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. " Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The coronavirus pandemic is throwing a new factor into hospitals' calculations about how to proceed with current and future healthcare IT implementations. " Fred Bazzoli is a contributing writer to Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @fbazzoli.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Hospital IT was big 15 years ago around HITECH, of course. Those are three huge electronic health records companies. Is there something about health IT that lends itself to companies being private? Has momentum shifted to companies more on the digital health front vs. EHRs? What is the market looking at now? Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Bonus Features – May 26, 2024 – Only 43% of hospitals routinely exchange data, about 70% of organizations want to change archiving vendors, plus 24 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Jim Jirjis, Chief Health Information Officer at HCA to discuss the value of data quality in healthcare and find out more about the link between their sepsis project and better emergency preparedness. That is a much more complex data quality challenge.” Tell us what you think.

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