HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Chu Canh Chieu, Director of Global Healthcare Center, FPT Software One of the silver linings of the COVID-19 pandemic was the rise of telemedicine. The constraints imposed by the pandemic sparked a lasting trend of patients willing and able to seek healthcare solutions virtually.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2022

In addition to helping keep patients safer, the system has proven beneficial during the pandemic, helping reduce risk of COVID-19 exposure; one caregiver can monitor 12 patients at a time – reducing the number of people needed to enter or exit patient rooms each day. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The COVID-19 crisis has made it more clear than ever that a medical emergency can strike at any time – sometimes, with dire consequences.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 23, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services, said Bordenick, have allowed individuals suffering from COVID symptoms to get virtual treatment. But the waivers have fulfilled another important function: "It's allowed individuals to manage their non-COVID treatment," such as cancer treatment, mental health care and diabetes management.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2021

A recent Frost & Sullivan analysis entitled, Innovative Business Models Powering the Telehealth Market in Europe, has found that the impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare sector across Europe has significantly expanded the use of telehealth. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Recently commissioned research by Zoom found that patients who have used telehealth once prefer a hybrid mode of care post-COVID-19. They wanna use their sort of centralized platform if they have electronic medical records," he mentioned. "Healthcare professionals do not want any more platforms to manage.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Beyond COVID-19: Thriving in the Evolving Healthcare Technology Landscape. . Our “Beyond COVID-19” series discusses insights sparked by recent conversations with members of CHIME. Beyond COVID-19: Data considerations when switching your EMR. Beyond COVID-19: Forecast may call for a cloud.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

UPMC Central Pennsylvania, a hospital that in 2021 achieved Stage 7, the top of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, has been a leader in telemedicine, with more than two dozen robust virtual care programs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

In this 11th installment in Healthcare IT News ' Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era feature series, we speak with three health IT leaders from points across the map, including: Dr. Andrew W. Burchett, chief medical information officer at Avera Health, based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Stony Brook Medicine health system, which, before COVID-19, had already grown from a two-hospital system to a four-hospital system with the inclusion of Eastern Long Island Hospital and Southampton Hospital, reflects a diverse and geographically widespread patient population of more than 1.4

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

What You Should Know: – Real world evidence from electronic medical records (EHR) data reveals the COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing hospitalizations, emergency department visits and intensive care admissions due to the virus, according to a study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2022

What You Should Know: – The first large, real-world study of the effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy found these vaccines, especially two initial doses followed by a booster, are effective in protecting against serious disease in expectant mothers whether the shots are administered before or during pregnancy.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

This shortage is primarily driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has exacerbated pre-existing burnout among physicians and led to an unprecedented exodus from the clinical workforce. According to McKinsey & Company, by the end of 2024, the country faced a deficit of as many as 64,000 physicians.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In contrast to larger, well-funded hospital facilities, rural hospitals are experiencing a disproportionate dearth in personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly nurses. It is inarguable that we have witnessed the multifaceted and detrimental impacts that COVID-19 has had on healthcare delivery and patient outcomes in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 24, 2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic, this team utilized annotated electronic medical records (EMRs) to train their proprietary large language model (LLM), which now powers the Synapsis AI platform. Removing these bottlenecks will give patients easy access to clinical trials, as well as accelerate scientific progress.”

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Compliancy Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

According to the consulting firm McKinsey , in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth usage skyrocketed as patients and providers looked for ways to both safely access and provide healthcare. In April 2020, overall telehealth use for office visits and outpatient care was 78 times higher than it was in February 2020.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In March 2018, LifeBridge Health discovered a malware infection that provided unauthorized individuals with access to a server that hosted its electronic medical records, patient registration, and billing systems. The breach investigation determined the initial intrusion occurred 18 months previously in September 2016.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Electronic medical records (EMRs) , provider surveys or evaluations, and clinical examinations or assessments are all examples of this, and they are arguably homogenous in the sense that they only illuminate a sliver of the influences on health from a patient’s broader lived experience. From ‘Nice-to-Have to ‘Need-to-Have.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 23, 2022

HIPAA encourages the use of electronic medical records and includes standards for protecting PHI. Keeping up with the rising number of COVID-19 patients while continuing care for the public has left clinicians and IT leaders with a lot more to keep track of (not to mention some serious burnout.) In the U.S.,

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 23, 2022

They support rich question-answering to open-ended, natural language questions and, in healthcare, enable personalized interactions informed by patient information from systems of record, such as electronic medical records. Appointments Scheduling.

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Compliancy Group

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In late February of 2019, Gulf Coast discovered that between early September of 2018 and early February of 2019 (after the contractor stopped providing services), the contractor had impermissibly accessed Gulf Coasts electronic medical record (EMR) system and accessed the ePHI of approximately 34,310 individuals.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

A newer category of personal health information, social determinants of health, garners well over one-half of Americans’ interest in access that data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

Together with the innovation in reimbursement models for remote patient monitoring, a path to adoption of RPM as a core component of medical management of health conditions emerged. Perhaps the biggest driver in recent RPM adoption was the COVID-19 pandemic. RPM enabled providers to continue to support patient care from afar.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Covid-19 radically stretched healthcare providers in countless ways, including accelerating digitization and changing patient expectations about care delivery. Covid-19–era staffing shortfalls and burnout among physicians, nurses, and other clinicians, as well as IT and office personnel, continue to plague providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2024

The Affordable Care Act provided significant incentives to improve electronic medical records. The COVID-19 pandemic pushed digital transformation even further. Lessons for Healthcare Healthcare has undergone enormous digital transformation in the past few years.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 3, 2025

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 13, 2022

With billions of dollars in government investment and incentives in nearly two years’ time, over 77 percent of hospitals had reached Stage 3 of the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) , or gone even further, pulling millions of data points into newly-established EMRs.

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MedTrainer

APRIL 14, 2022

Burnout in healthcare industries has always existed, and following the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s grown worse than ever. Another answer to how technology can help in the medical profession is the existence of personalization options that let each facility find a style to suit its unique needs. Easy to Use.

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Healthcare Law Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Similarly, automating patient data directly into electronic medical records can allow physicians, nurses, and other staff to spend less time updating information into computers, reducing administrative burdens. Leveraging AI can enable faster scans and shorter wait times while eliminating unnecessary manual work.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2025

For instance, patient and family engagement was one of five policy priorities in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive program under the HITECH Act (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act).

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

In the five years since Dr. Topol looked for AI to bolster the human-touch in health care, we’ve lived, worked, and muddled our way through the COVID-19 pandemic and witnessed the growing epidemic of burnout among clinicians, the front-line of medical care.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

The following three years saw similar numbers of financial penalties; however, there was another major increase in HIPAA fines in 2020 when 19 HIPAA violation cases were settled with OCR. OCR investigated and determined that a HIPAA-compliant risk analysis was not completed until January 19, 2024.

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Total HIPAA

APRIL 20, 2020

Users may utilize this HIPAA compliant email encryption service through Microsoft Outlook or their company’s electronic medical record (EMR) system. Protected Trust uses end-to-end AES-256 bit encryption and two-factor authentication for encrypted messages. It stores and encrypts messages at rest.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 3, 2020

By Jeff Fallon, chairman & CEO, eVideon “Innovate or die” has taken on a whole new meaning in the last month thanks to COVID-19. The article The Patient Will See You Now: A Rebirth of Healthcare Post-COVID-19 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Total HIPAA

MARCH 29, 2023

Users may utilize this HIPAA compliant email encryption service through Microsoft Outlook or their company’s electronic medical record (EMR) system. Protected Trust: Encryption and Security Protected Trust uses end-to-end AES-256 bit encryption and two-factor authentication for encrypted messages.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2020

"Not only have patients been affected by their lack of internet or devices to support virtual visits, but also by their providers’ lack of broadband connectivity, equipment, and electronic medical record and electronic health record system capacity limitations," they continued. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Where we physically lived in 2020 transformed into sites for the many daily verbs in our lives: working, learning, praying, cooking/baking/dining, exercising, and indeed, self-caring for wellness and medical care. This can result in lower costs and, to be sure, lowering our risks to exposure to COVID-19.

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