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Medical Informatics Engineering Secures Growth Investment to Bolster Enterprise Health Platform

HIT Consultant

MIE Background Founded in 1995, MIE boasts a rich history in healthcare information technology. They were instrumental in launching one of the nation’s first health information exchanges and were an early leader in electronic health records (EHR) with their WebChart product.

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Know When to Hold ’em: The Legal Considerations for Healthcare Information Technology Data Retention and Purging

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. Purging Guidelines & Criteria HIPAA privacy rules do not address medical record retention requirements, and the guidelines from several states and the federal government are ambiguous at best.

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How to Address Security Issues in IoT Devices – Cybersecurity

Healthcare IT Today

However, with billions of connected devices, the security of IoT devices in the healthcare industry has become a major concern, as cyber threats like data breaches and ransomware attacks can compromise sensitive medical information.

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Move Beyond Just Managing Content – Activate It!

Healthcare IT Today

Well-informed health information management (HIM) and healthcare information technology (HCIT) professionals are recognizing enterprise content management (ECM) as an opportunity to re-energize and move forward with improved performance. What is Enterprise Content Management (ECM)? But why just manage it?

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3 Compelling Reasons — Beyond the Law — to Expand Consumer Access to Personal Records

HIT Consultant

These safeguards become even more demanding as consumers and government agencies call for increased transparency and access to personal data. Healthcare is no exception. In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act , HITECH for short, became law, setting standards for electronic health records.

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For 2023, patient experience, 'smarter' analytics and data-driven medicine

Healthcare It News

Matthew Gitelis, CEO of PatientIQ, a health IT company deriving insights from patient-reported outcomes data, has some thoughts about healthcare information technology in 2023. We must go beyond combing through all available information to the point where we recognize best practices aligned with clinical success.

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What will be the impact of COVID-19 on the next wave of health IT innovation?

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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of all kinds of healthcare information technology, from telehealth to artificial intelligence. Crunchbase estimates that healthcare technology companies have raised a record-breaking $36.6 billion globally from 2020 through October 2021.

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