Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 23, 2020

Hal Wolf, president and CEO of HIMSS ( Healthcare IT News ' parent organization) agreed that access to care is both a "rural and urban challenge." Wolf also pointed out that the recent bloom in telehealth is rooted, in part, in the government's electronic health record incentive program and meaningful use.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

For the 26th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, and we’re taking a look back at the last decade of Health IT. Hard to believe that it’s almost 2020, but as we enter the new decade join us as we look back. Join us as we discuss the biggest topics of the last decade and also the hot topics for 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2020

Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based EHR vendor with a controversy-rich history, has agreed to pay $145 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme designed to increase opioid prescriptions and issues with their meaningful use EHR certification. This had been […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Since its founding in 2005, MAeHC has worked to improve the safety, efficiency and quality of healthcare delivery in the state by guiding organizations in the implementation and meaningful use of health IT. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 7, 2022

For all its good and ill, meaningful use drove action and adoption of EHR in healthcare. However, the key to change was healthcare organizations having a common goal. What made the difference? Ok, $36 billion in stimulus money helped.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

While virtual care doesn’t have quite the same funding that EMR had with meaningful use, there are a lot of similarities to where we’re at today with virtual care as compared to where we were with EMR back when the government poured down $36 billion of stimulus money on EMR. Thanks to COVID and new […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

They are no longer paper pushers (literally) and are now stewards of healthcare data. Healthcare IT Today sat down with Jennifer Mueller, AHIMA President and the Vice President & Privacy Officer at the Wisconsin Hospital Association Information Center ( WHAIC ) to the explore the past, present, and bright future of HIM professionals.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 15, 2023

Healthcare IT Today recently caught up with Dr. Michael Blackman, Chief Medical Officer at Greenway Health to learn more about the company’s EHR optimization activities. And it should be easy to use too. Tell us what you think. Contact us here or on Twitter at @hcitoday. It’s just that simple.”

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In an insightful conversation with Healthcare IT Today, Rob Fox, the Chief Executive Officer of OntarioMD , shared the organization’s pivotal role in advancing healthcare in Ontario. Tell us what you think. Contact us here or on Twitter at @hcitoday. OntarioMD is embarking on two ambitious initiatives.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2019

It seems like an eternity that we’ve been writing about government regulations like Meaningful Use, HITECH, MIPS, MACRA, and a bunch of other abbreviations that many would like to forget, but can’t because they’re still a part of many organizations’ daily lives.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Rapid EMR adoption and implementation fueled by the generous government incentive program (Meaningful Use) EMR Consolidation. If I were to map out the phases of EMR, it would look like this: EMR Adoption.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

HIMSS23 #HITsm #healthit @CommonWell pic.twitter.com/yLIq8NBs9m — Healthcare IT Today (@hcittoday) April 18, 2023 FHIR APIs are wonderful, but they’re not sufficient on their own. Maybe we should call it meaningful data sharing? (Is Is that too soon or are we recovered from the scars of meaningful use?)

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information. 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

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

These financial arrangements caused healthcare providers to submit false reimbursement claims for pathology services, along with false claims for Meaningful Use incentives arising from the use of ModMed’s technology. For example, in 2021 CareCloud Health agreed to pay $3.8

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2019

In retrospect, we probably should have predicted that once Meaningful Use was put into place, some physicians would be better situated than others to take advantage of the program.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2024

While it is generally accepted that AI is beneficial in healthcare, there are valid reasons why some clinicians are skeptical of the technology – especially ambient clinical voice solutions. Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down for a casual conversation with Dr. Michael Blackman, Chief Medical Officer at Greenway Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

They should 1) empower proactive health and wellbeing management; 2) foster a sense of community and wellbeing; 3) be enabled by digital technology and behavioral science; 4) meaningfully use data to improve outcomes; 5) enable new, innovative ecosystems. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York.

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Mobile Health Matters

APRIL 26, 2018

As the industry experiences increasing merger and acquisition activity and more hospitals become part of ACOs or integrated delivery networks (IDNs), establishing a framework built on interoperable and scalable technology will ensure our healthcare assembly line operates seamlessly within a single warehouse. Scott received his B.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

One of the most interesting evolutions in healthcare IT has been the evolution of healthcare IT staffing and consulting companies. During the boom that was meaningful use and adoption of EHR software, consulting companies played an integral role in almost every large healthcare organization when it came to rolling out EHR software.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2023

Cybersecurity is a Patient Safety Issue – Imprivata According to Wes Wright, Chief Technology Officer at Imprivata , cybersecurity in healthcare should be considered a patient safety issue since it impacts patient data and patient outcomes when that data is rendered inaccessible.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2023

As such, the EHR product roadmap changed to ensure that you could meet the EHR certification and meaningful use requirements. Plus, many of us have things like Roomba robots cleaning our houses which is part of the evolution of these models and we all remember how well Watson did on Jeopardy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2020

And so that's why we started interoperability years before meaningful use required it. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. And over and over again, he kept saying if they just had a record, she would have lived. And when we started interoperability, it was really interesting: No one would take it. They were afraid to.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For many clinicians, EHRs have actually been a disservice, a major factor in burnout. That’s because they weren’t invented to help clinicians in the first place.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

To get a better idea on what policies and regulations you need to be aware of and just how to get access to innovation funding, we reached out to our ever so talented Healthcare IT Today community for their insights and knowledge. Here is what they had to say. Since the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

HealthPolicyValentines [link] — Jared Jeffery (@Jk_Jeffery) February 12, 2024 One more…I promise: Roses are red, data is blue, Computers are fun, But Meaningful Use sucks without you. #HealthPolicyValentines — Heather K (@korb_heather) February 12, 2024 Resurrecting this zinger from a couple years back.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Further, the right interoperable healthcare solutions and revenue cycle performance services can reduce the risk of Medicare Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Meaningful Use Stage 3 (MU3) penalties. It can also reduce the number of days in accounts receivable for health systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2022

I was recently able to attend a press briefing with LeanTaaS and a couple CIO and Chief Transformation officers. During the event, Aaron Miri, SVP & Chief Digital and Information Officer at Baptist Health, said something quite powerful “It’s hard to argue with hard ROI and that’s what we got with LeanTaaS.

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eVisit

JULY 8, 2019

Healthcare IT News. Published by HIMSS Media, this is a reliable, daily updated source for all your healthcare IT news, whether you're looking for the most recent updates on meaningful use rules, tips for implementing your EMR successfully, or are wondering how to leverage patient data to provide better care.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Michael shared these pictures along with the news that his hospital had achieved HIMSS Analytics Stage 6, Meaningful Use Stage 3, and received the 2019 Most Wired Hospital award that is now being […]. I was really impressed recently by a couple pictures my friend, Michael Archuleta, CIO at Mt San Rafael Hospital shared with me.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

The following is a guest article by Liza Dzhezhora, Healthcare IT Analyst at Itransition. However, this titanic effort in patient portal development alone seems to be insufficient for portal adoption: the same poll reports that barely 30% of patients use these solutions, year after year. In fact, it was. Stage 2 requirements.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2021

In its complaint, the US Justice Department claimed that athenahealth violated the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute by running questionable marketing programs. EHR developer athenahealth has agreed to pay $18.25

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Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Lieber reiterated HIMSS’ position that the federal government should extend the attestation period for Meaningful Use Stage 2 by one year. 3:10 New ONC EHR certification proposal and continued questions about Meaningful Use Stage 2. 9:05 Remember “macro objective” of Meaningful Use.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

Insights Condition (EHR Reporting Program) In addition to a timeframe that is too short to adequately prepare, recruit clients, execute, and submit reports, the proposed Insights measures harken back to the early days of the meaningful use program but without incentives for providers to cooperate.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Several respondents say that government regulations from the Meaningful Use era, starting in 2009, make it hard to comply without loading each note down with duplicate information. Follow the money. A related motivation was suggested by to two administrators with nursing backgrounds: Joy Avery and Donna Pritchard from CipherHealth.

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