Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Healthcare organizations are increasingly pressured to innovate and adapt, all while still managing IT costs. As cloud costs increase and AI’s implementation becomes increasingly complex, succeeding with this technology requires having a dynamic, flexible IT strategy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Scott Wilson, senior director, HHS enterprise growth strategy, at Teladoc Health, will address this subject along with two co-speakers from Valley Health System at a HIMSS25 educational session entitled "Unlocking Virtual Care: A Collaborative Approach to Expansion and Success." at HIMSS25 in Las Vegas.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

From the Change Healthcare ransomware attack that exposed the personal and health information of over 100 million individuals to even one of the more recent attacks on Texas Tech University that leaked 2.1 million files of stolen data – both of which underscore the urgency to intensify cyber defense strategies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2025

"Their innovative use of our generative AI technologies is pushing the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare," Aashima Gupta, Google Cloud's global director of healthcare strategy and solutions, said in that announcement. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jason Griffin, MBA, CISM, Managing Director of Digital Health Strategy and Cyber Security Practice Leader at Nordic Consulting Over my 25-plus years working in healthcare information technology, I’ve witnessed firsthand the exponential growth of the threat landscape.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Heres how healthcare organizations are evolving their data strategies to meet the demands of a digital-first future: The Shift to Cloud-Based Ecosystems Cloud adoption is no longer a choiceits a necessity. It requires meticulous planning to minimize downtime, prevent data loss, and avoid disruptions to daily operations.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2025

This week, Healthcare IT Today is attending HIMSS25 in Las Vegas! For those not familiar, HIMSS is one of the biggest events in health IT, bringing together global healthcare leaders, CIOs, executives, and innovators to discuss the future of healthcare technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

So when MNGHA started developing a new virtual reality-enabled application – designed in alignment with Saudi Arabia's Digital Government Strategy (2023-2030) – that sought to help connect hospitalized inpatients with their distanced loved ones, "Bynahm" felt like the right name to choose for the app.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 11, 2025

To help you sift through this sea of AI, we reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to help us assemble a list of the most promising AI applications for improving patient outcomes and streamlining healthcare operations. The following is what they had to share with us. So many good insights here!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Follow Bill's HIT coverage on LinkedIn: Bill Siwicki Email him: bsiwicki@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Expanding the care continuum to integrate care at home will improve patient care outcomes, clinician satisfaction and financial performance. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2024

At the DirectTrust conference, Angie Bass, Chief Strategy Officer at Velatura , describes this as a “unifying force” that is “supported like a public utility” to exchange data among health care facilities. The pressures for data exchange and interoperability have converged on the concept of a health data utility.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2024

That’s significant in terms of how organizations position their digital strategies. Especially in healthcare, mobile should be viewed as a new problem-solver for a host of patient engagement and experience challenges. Mobile is the future of patient engagement in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 26, 2024

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. By adopting passwordless authentication tailored to diverse healthcare workflows, organizations can protect sensitive data, boost operational efficiency, and enhance patient care.

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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. Centralizing control over data can improve security, reduce costs, and maximize the value of data , Harmony Healthcare IT CEO Tom Liddell told John.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2025

The length and severity of the incident not only had the healthcare industry talking about cybersecurity, but it also remained a topic of discussion in the broader tech media It was understandable that much of that discussion focused on how and where healthcare was falling short on cybersecurity. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Be sure to check out all of our HLTH coverage.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

AI and automation are all the buzz in healthcare technology right now. The challenge for healthcare IT leaders is that they aren’t sure the best ways to leverage AI and automation. Plus, they’re asking which are real and which aren’t truly tested on healthcare problems. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This structured approach ensures sustainable growth, builds resilience against emerging risks, and lays the foundation for a future-proof AI strategy. Deciding on a cloud strategy, whether private, public, or hybrid, will have a significant impact on the cost, scalability, and security of those programs.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The following is a guest article by David Sampson, VP of Cyber Risk and Strategy at Thrive It’s time for healthcare organizations to reevaluate their cybersecurity posture and cyber resilience.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Chief Medical and Strategy Officer at Discern Health The U.S. healthcare system is largely a sickness model of reactive care delivery. In our current healthcare delivery model, interventions are triggered by patients becoming unwell; we don’t invest enough in prevention and when we do, prevention strategies are often misdirected.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2025

Steve Heard, Chief Innovation Officer at J2 Interactive , presents a strategy in this interview for dealing with new forms of data known as Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) and how traditional HIEs can evolve to help organizations utilize this data. And for an exclusive look at our top stories, subscribe to our newsletter and YouTube.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This has led to improved communication between different healthcare providers involved in a patient's care, resulting in more coordinated and effective treatment strategies. This suggests that RPM is not only improving patient care but also potentially reducing healthcare costs associated with frequent hospitalizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2025

The urgency to translate this guidance into actionable strategies has never been higher. While progress has been made, many healthcare organizations remain vulnerable to critical threats.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community with the question – how is the integration of digital health tools, telemedicine, and mobile health applications contributing to the enhancement of population health management, and what challenges exist in ensuring equitable access to these technologies across diverse communities?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2025

When a lot of people are all focused on one aspect of healthcare it can be really easy to get pulled into that same point of view and forget about other factors and angles. Looking for our answers, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community to ask them what EHR innovation should be happening that isn’t?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Aligning with its digital strategy, this transfer to the Microsoft Azure region allows Whakarongorau to focus on its next modernisation phase : to adopt advanced analytics and AI tools that enhance operational efficiency and help deliver service "at a greater scale.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 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

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Two years later, it became a national strategy to establish the GP system. THE LARGER CONTEXT The family doctor system was introduced as part of health reforms establishing primary health centres in China in 2019. In 2013, family doctor contract services were piloted in rural areas before its nationwide implementation in 2016.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2025

How can AI-driven healthcare solutions be made accessible and equitable across diverse populations , considering disparities in technology adoption? We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community for their answers to this question and the following is what they had to share.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2025

While many companies rush headlong into AI, NextGen Healthcare (NextGen) has taken a more thoughtful approachfocusing on practical tools like Ambient Assist that are already saving clinicians hours each day. NextGen CEO David Sides, recently sat down for an exclusive interview with Healthcare IT Today. Here’s how.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 23, 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. Read more… How Healthcare AI Automation Improves Accuracy and Trust. Read more… Implementing Healthcare AI Responsibly.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The mass swaths of health-related data enable healthcare entities to better manage the health of entire populations by helping identify trends and develop strategies based on vast evidence. Data sharing also has more big-picture benefits.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2025

This week, Healthcare IT Today is attending HIMSS25 in Las Vegas! For those not familiar, HIMSS is one of the biggest events in health IT, bringing together global healthcare leaders, CIOs, executives, and innovators to discuss the future of healthcare technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 13, 2025

In this interview, we hear about the far-reaching consequences of poor transportation coordination and the benefits of modern RCM in transportation from Elizabeth Jepsen, Chief of Staff at Kinetik, and Denise Kajanoff, Senior Vice President of Payer Strategy and Growth. NEMT can help with this problem. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Jim Mooney, Senior Director of Strategic Enterprise Marketing at Ricoh North America Laura Cave, Chief Marketing Officer at Paytient Diana Welch Howell, Head of Healthcare Partnerships & Strategy at Laurel Road Prem Batchu-Green, Vice President, Clinical at Viz.ai Be sure to check out all of our HLTH coverage.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2025

Nathan Eddy is a healthcare and technology freelancer based in Berlin. Email the writer: nathaneddy@gmail.com Twitter: @dropdeaded209 Enterprise Taxonomy:

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