Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2024

Interoperability is game-changing not just in a clinical setting, but it holds tremendous potential for healthcare’s financial stakeholders as well. A seamless transfer of data in the revenue cycle process results in optimal reimbursement, reduced administrative costs, and fewer surprises for patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2025

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, well be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why theyre important to the healthcare IT community. We have plenty more predictions from the Healthcare IT Today community. Read more… 2025 Predictions: Patient Experience. Happy 2025!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

Patient experience and access, along with provider efficiency, were areas Baptist wanted to improve – to ensure the virtual tools it had were helping to meet its overall goals around care delivery, and to ensure it was providing innovative quality care to meet community needs. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, well be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why theyre important to the healthcare IT community. Using AI to improve efficiency was a key theme, as was making imaging more mobile to improve the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2020

As part of our Healthcare IT 100 in 100, we asked a wide variety of healthcare interoperability experts to chime in on the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare interoperability. Plus, then we asked them how it will impact health data sharing going forward.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Ensure the best potential to address organizational workforce, clinical, business and IT needs while improving access to care, patient experience and quality outcomes. What kind of virtual care will you be discussing and how is it being used in healthcare in the context of your session's content? at HIMSS25 in Las Vegas.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. John connected with Angie Bass at Velatura to discuss why interoperability is about finding value in data and not just exchanging data.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 2, 2024

While many healthcare systems have moved away from mail, phone, and fax for medical records transfer, it’s clear that not enough have taken advantage of available technologies to maximize healthcare interoperability. A secure, streamlined process also builds all-important patient trust.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2025

When UC Health set out to address inefficiencies in imaging access, they conducted an extensive scan of the market and selected PocketHealth , a patient-centric imaging platform. Their collaboration has improved how UC Health engages with patients, manages imaging workflows, and supports referring physicians. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Network connectivity is essential to aggregating the data required to build a complete patient record while addressing often forgotten treatment areas, such as adverse medication interactions and provider event notifications. Ensuring the efficient flow of information is fundamental to advancing interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2024

At Healthcare IT Today we enjoy interesting stories and perspectives. Over the years we have learned this is the best place to find future trends and innovations in healthcare. Healthcare remains a mishmash of data formats. Sometimes those stories are big news that move the industry. The answer, sadly, is no.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2020

We may scoff at fax technology, but it remains one of the lowest-cost, lowest barrier ways to exchange patient records. Despite repeated attempts to axe-the-fax in healthcare, it continues to be relied upon by healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Envision Radiology wanted more control over how healthcare information was shared so they could focus on delivering outstanding patient experience and outcomes. Only with this level of control could Envision connect with their healthcare partners and share imaging information quickly. Here’s how.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2024

We have made a lot of strides in healthcare looking for ways to recenter the patient in our decisions, inventing technologies like AI to reduce the clinician burden on our staff, and so much more. In order to truly improve healthcare, we need to have seamless interoperability and data sharing between different healthcare providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2024

Rauland is an open and highly interoperable platform, using standard communication protocols and publishing APIs that any vendor can use to connect. Learn more about Rauland: [link] Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2021

After hearing about DirectTrust passing the 2 billion message mark, we thought it would be valuable for readers to learn more about DirectTrust and the healthcare interoperability work their non-profit is doing.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, well be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why theyre important to the healthcare IT community. Delivering Seamless Staff and Patient Experiences for Source Healthcare. We posed many questions to the Healthcare IT Today experts recently.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Many IT companies have tried to create solutions that advance interoperability in healthcare. While FHIR has made significant headway in creating common protocols and standards for data exchange, there is opportunity to create greater data fluidity among all healthcare stakeholders. These are just two of the many use cases.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Combined with the recent close of its acquisition of Nuance Communications, Microsoft seeks to amplify healthcare organizations' ability to help others by leveraging artificial intelligence to address the biggest challenges transforming the future of healthcare. Interoperability for better outcomes and clinical advances.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2025

We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on what will happen in the coming year and boy did they deliver. At the same time, interoperability and data analytics tools are maturing to the point where networks can access information about specialist performance. Let us know on social media.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We wrap up this interview series withBrendan Keeler, Interoperability Practice Lead at HTD Health , with a look at his time workin with Jonathan, Bush, a discussion of the EHR market including Epic’s rise to dominance, a discussion of whether Epic is a monopoly, and finally a look at patient access to health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2020

One of the big challenges healthcare faces is sharing data between healthcare organizations who need that data. Healthcare interoperability, as we call it, has been a challenge for a long time. To better understand where healthcare interoperability […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2024

Plus, they look at how interoperability can help address this problem and provide valuable analytics. ” Rauland took issue with the term because they saw nurse call data as a pathway to valuable insights into how a healthcare organization can address nurse burnout.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Traditionally, we think about interoperability as HIEs (health information exchanges), but in 2024 I expect to see new models emerge.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The healthcare industry is clamoring for AI and we are proud to offer a suite of full-featured solutions that seamlessly interoperate with existing tools. Organizations across the entire healthcare ecosystem have chosen to partner with Suki based on its award-winning solution and its commitment to deep collaboration.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2022

Semantic Interoperability Pioneer, CareCom, Improves Clinician Experience with Advanced Healthcare Terminology Mapping and NLP Conversion of Unstructured Data. CareCom solutions uniquely accommodate clinical expression by enabling the cross-mapping of all major healthcare vocabularies, including diagnostic and procedure codes.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The HealthEx solution is one of the first AI platforms that enables healthcare organizations to easily create, collect, and enforce patient consent and preferences, and allow health systems to fulfill their roles as trusted stewards of patient data.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The response to my article asking the question “Are we at the end of the healthcare interoperability tunnel?” I think some people thought that I was hammering on all the work that’s being done on healthcare interoperability. ” was quite interesting.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

A new health data interoperability survey by Healthcare IT Today with 82 responses suggests that when it comes to interoperability, healthcare organizations are struggling with many of the same challenges they faced five or even 10 years ago. Their objectives for doing so […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

For HHM Health , an FQHC serving the Dallas area, interoperability and access to medical records is vital for establishing trust with their patients and saving lives. Interoperability saves lives. He was ever so grateful and still comes to our clinic now for his follow-up appointments. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, well be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why theyre important to the healthcare IT community. Antoine Robiliard at Withings joined John to discuss the BPM Pro 2, which helps patients gather data and provide context to their clinical team.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Healthcare Workforce. Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. Healthcare Consumerism. John and Colin’s 2023 Healthcare IT Predictions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

Previously, Memorial's providers observed that relying on a third-party vendor solely for on-demand urgent care resulted in an inconsistent patient experience and raised concerns about quality due to limited data sharing. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Even when data is exchanged smoothly, the systems often lacks “semantic interoperability” and the clinicians have to re-enter the data manually into their system. He says approvingly that the ONC is “going beyond nudging” now toward greater interoperability. Both Cordovano and Banas are enthusiastic about AI.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2022

While the advent of modern interoperable approaches is gaining attention by reducing data entry burden – such as through pre-population of eCRFs using electronic health record data – the available data is still limited to a participating site’s point-in-time interactions with a given patient. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 25, 2021

In a recent message I got from EHNAC, they had this great image at the start of their email: Then, they had this line below it which really caught my attention: Interoperability has been an important topic in healthcare for over a decade. Are we there yet? Are we closer than we were? Absolutely. No […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2025

AI has made its way into nearly every corner of healthcare, but where it has been most successful is when it integrates well into existing workflows and makes the lives of clinicians as well as patients easier. Patient experience boost with AI. That is not an easy trick. It requires careful planning and dedication.

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