Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

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.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2024

If something happens, we get the data immediately, and a nurse doesn’t need to check it," MED's technology head Ben Rhodes shared. NSW to trial body cameras in hospitals The state government of New South Wales is undertaking a 12-month trial of body-worn cameras in select public hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2024

"While we had invested in an app to deliver this information to patients in written form, most of the pre-surgical information was delivered verbally by doctors, nurses and staff, in addition to a paper packet," she continued. "The verbal repetition was incredibly time-consuming for our clinical staff. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2021

" In the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center expanded its platform and developed an integrated nurse triage telehealth solution pilot to prevent critical care patients from ending up in the ER. Healthcare IT News published a comprehensive listing of these vendors with detailed product descriptions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Healthcare IT News sat down with Shah to discuss health IT's role in aging in place. Healthcare is hard. But if you look at a hospital, it's the place with the best resources for clinical care in our country, for example, the staff, providers, equipment and technology. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This is at the core of population health.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2024

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2024

The Australian Private Hospitals Association (APHA) has recently shared that it was advised that the 2024-2025 Budget also introduces temporary Medicare Benefit Schedule (MBS) items for the admission and some subsequent teleconsultation of inpatients in private hospitals.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2025

Great Potential With SAP exiting the HIS market by 2030, hundreds of German and European hospitals must rethink their system landscape. This presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to overhaul hospital IT, elevating the quality of care, and boosting process efficiency.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. Far too often the primary care doctor never learns about these health issues that are addressed at hospitals. It’s beautiful that PCPs can be informed in order to coordinate the care for their patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. "We also had hired a nurse navigator to gather the patient's pre-operative information and make patient calls ahead of time." We've hired more nurse navigators to enable the greater volume.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Lastly, most healthcare IT expenditure over the last ten years has been focused on digitizing patient records, and investment in cybersecurity capability has lagged other industries. Threat actors know healthcare is a prime target for extortion and target them accordingly.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

To help shed a light on these topics, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to see what health IT trends they believe deserve more attention. One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies. So what trend isn’t being talked about enough?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Hospitals across the nation are using connected health and RPM to great effect during the pandemic. To help healthcare CIOs, CMOs and other leaders find connected health devices and RPM technologies, Healthcare IT News has compiled this comprehensive listing of vendors. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights into this matter. We asked them – with this ongoing era of increasing cyber threats, what measures are organizations implementing or should be implementing to strengthen the cybersecurity of healthcare systems and protect patient data ?

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Advocate Health Care, one of Chicagoland’s largest employers, has more than 35,000 associates, including 11,000 nurses and nearly 6,300 affiliated physicians. Advocate was also named a top 10 health system for diversity and recognized as a leader in LGBT healthcare equality. Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, Ill.).

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