HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2023

These safeguards become even more demanding as consumers and government agencies call for increased transparency and access to personal data. Our industry has undergone several iterations of consumer data protection rules — starting in 1996 with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA ).

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Bill of Health

MARCH 18, 2022

Here, I discuss a mental health advocacy and inclusivity initiative built around a theatrical production, The Manic Monologues , with a particular focus on pandemic-era efforts to foster awareness, empathy, and connection around mental health challenges. Examples of Pandemic-Era Productions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The practice aims to improve access for necessary in-person care and procedures while offering patients complementary proven interventions ideally suited for telemedicine. "These are cyclical issues caused by atypical functioning of the digestive tract rather than a structural problem or infection.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 18, 2024

In doing so, we encouraged contributors to comment on the Principles’ potential usefulness as guidance in addressing real emergency situations, as well as any possible gaps and weaknesses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. And if more consumers embrace preventative care that can easily be done in the home. Home-based health technologies are any preventive care technology tool that elevates health.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

So let’s take a moment to step away from our problems and stress to focus on the health IT trends that we are excited about! We reached out to our wonderful Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: which health IT trend has you most excited and why is it exciting? While burnout is hard to recover from, it is possible.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2023

How we shape healthcare’s workforce, peer networks, and processes comes down to how we use data to surface meaningful information. How we shape healthcare’s workforce, peer networks, and processes comes down to how we use data to surface meaningful information. Workforce Shortages Are the New Normal According to the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 22, 2024

Brian Montgomery, Senior Security Engineer, Altera Digital Health Research reveals that the total number of data breaches in healthcare has doubled over the last three years. Apply least privilege access The more privileges users have on a system, the more opportunities there are to damage the system.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Akshay Sharma, Chief AI Officer, Lyric The integration of AI into healthcare workflows presents a tremendous opportunity for transformation –– and for new levels of productivity in a time when administrative functions surrounding claims adjudication, provider reimbursement, and related functions are complicating operations and affecting efficiency.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

For Raleigh Radiology it means providing patients with the convenience, control, and access they are expecting. Patient Centered Care The traditional doctor-knows-best model of care has not been viable for more than a decade. Their team chose PocketHealth to accelerate their patient-centricity efforts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2022

To put the extent of the issues in perspective, some hardware was more than a decade old; it could easily take clinicians five minutes just to reach the login screen. "Overall, our clinicians' ability to help, as well as our patients' treatment and overall experiences, were negatively impacted," she added.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Mike Frane, VP of Product Management at Windstream Enterprise. For more than a decade, a cybercrime syndicate known as Evil Corp has tormented organizations around the world with malware and ransomware attacks. health sector,” the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HSCCC), an arm of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Hims & Hers has grown rapidly across both of its lines – for men and for women – supporting care for many conditions that patients often feel uncomfortable talking about, including sexual health, mental health, contraception and hair loss. One of the big keys to the company's success has been telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having a career in Health IT requires a lot of skills and qualifications, even more so if you want that career to be successful – but what are those skills and qualifications? The ability to translate complex technical information into understandable terms for diverse stakeholders is critical.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2023

But in repeating the simple message that data is important, we tend to leave out that even more important is the ability to properly manage it to make it accessible, especially with the sheer amount of data that healthcare organizations need to run properly. Healthcare runs on data, all good decisions are backed by data, etc.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The round will fuel product and growth initiatives to further Bonfire’s mission of accelerating healthtech adoption such that life-saving digital tools, devices, and therapeutics get into the hands of patients faster than ever before. physicians, physician groups, hospitals, health systems, etc).

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The survey notes that long-term planning changes are necessary within health facilities, especially with the use of emerging technologies and actionable analytics to extend the reach of limited healthcare staff. According to a recent University of Chicago Medicine study , caregivers would need to work 26.7

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

billion and is expected to grow to more than USD 190 billion by 2028. billion and is expected to grow to more than USD 190 billion by 2028. IoT devices may be housed at a patient’s home rather than a hospital’s network, which adds to the confusion.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

With technology becoming more accessible and more and more digital natives entering the work force, there’s an abundance of innovation. We have so many more people that are coming up with creative digital solutions to the challenges that we are currently facing. Here is what they had to say.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2022

– Lee Shapiro, Managing Partner of 7wireVentures and former Chief Financial Officer of Livongo Health, will join FOLX Health’s Board of Directors. . – Lee Shapiro, Managing Partner of 7wireVentures and former Chief Financial Officer of Livongo Health, will join FOLX Health’s Board of Directors.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It completed the transition in just four days – no small feat considering it served more than 5,000 members across six states at the time. Will members have sufficient technology or broadband access? ? "We now know that 2020 was the worst year ever recorded by the CDC for drug overdoses. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The New Funding Enables the LGBTQIA+ Digital Healthcare Provider to Launch Mental and Behavioral Health Products and Further Invest in Direct-to Employer Offering. Lee Shapiro, Managing Partner at 7wireVentures and former Chief Financial Officer at Livongo Health, will join FOLX Health’s Board of Directors.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 9, 2023

Kevin Agatstein, CEO at Kaid Health. Driven in part by the growth of Medicare Advantage and oncology, both of which require the data within medical notes rather than just claims and labs data, organizations will start to use their unstructured EMR data in entirely new ways. Rob Cohen, CEO at Bamboo Health.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 28, 2023

Erica Jain, CEO and co-founder of Healthie Healthcare providers depend on comprehensive patient data to make fast, informed decisions. Over the years, these silos have grown in size and volume, due in large part to the rising use of traditional electronic health records (EHRs) and concerns over data security, further isolating patient data.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. It is likely that behind growing health data hacks is the marginally greater financial incentive to mine it compared with other consumer data.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2024

John Blair, MD, CEO of MedAlllies Like tales of Bigfoot and UFO sightings, talk of Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs) has been met around the health industry with some skepticism, with some in health IT asking, “ Are QHINs real? What are QHINs? QHINs are a centerpiece of TEFCA.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

However, with healthcare being ever-evolving our regulations are also ever evolving. Price transparency is vital for making informed healthcare decisions, so enforcement of transparency-related policies will continue to increase. The following is what they had to say.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 10, 2023

Why is an attack on a healthcare organization so much more costly? Devices may be taken offline and productivity may slow temporarily, but ransomware is a temporary setback- organizations may even take their time coming up with a way to circumvent payment. In the healthcare sector, however, that number skyrocketed to $10.1

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Group President at Conifer Health Solutions. On the positive side, net patient revenue and provider productivity have started to increase. The same report highlights the challenges around staffing as well, stating, “When adjusted for productivity, staffing levels continue to decline QOQ, with Support Staff FTEs per 10,000 wRVUs down 4.8%

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 3, 2022

However, when procedures were canceled and demand for supplies soared, the experience became more personal. Many physicians experienced steep revenue decline as well as the challenges of securing the right medical supplies when they were needed. John Cherf, MD, MPH, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, Lumere, a GHX company.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 3, 2022

However, when procedures were canceled and demand for supplies soared, the experience became more personal. Many physicians experienced steep revenue decline as well as the challenges of securing the right medical supplies when they were needed. They just weren’t necessarily living those challenges firsthand. .

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 13, 2023

Each year, the event is attended by architects, designers, engineers, contractors, healthcare providers, and government agencies who share their research and ideas and provide fresh perspectives on the ever-changing healthcare industry. CEUs from the AIA, IDCEC and EDAC.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 29, 2021

Startups face both of these challenges when trying to break into existing industries dominated by well-established players. Startups can capitalize on the gaps in the market, and become experts at doing that one thing well. Consumers want to have more agency in their medical decisions. Challenging the status quo is never easy.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 21, 2023

Shameem Hameed, CEO of blueBriX Now more than ever, the healthcare sector is under pressure to curb rising costs, increase accessibility, alleviate issues caused by worker shortages, and improve both clinician and patient outcomes. This is projected to reach 16%, or 1.5 billion, by 2050. from 2023 to 2030.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2023

To hear more about the current healthcare cyberattacks , we reached out to our lovely Healthcare IT Today Community. Matthew Sciberras, CISO and VP of Information Security at Invicti Before the pandemic, the most exploitable security vulnerabilities were built into on-premises systems. And the world of healthcare is no different.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Chief Strategy & Product Officer, InformedDNA. Although pharmacogenomics has been around for a while, providers, health plans, pharmacists and legislators are developing a greater appreciation for its potential benefits and applications. There are many advantages to using genomics to inform therapeutic decisions.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

"It's no wonder the research shows healthcare workers are more burned out than ever. When it came to most improved products, Infor won for software and Greenway Health led for physician practice. Zynx Health. EBSCO Information Services. Home Health (Large: >200 ADC). InterSystems.

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