Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In today’s technologically advanced world, the healthcare system is also undergoing a rapid digital transformation, especially in regard to data storage and protection. Hospital records contain sensitive data, including diagnostic details and sensitive personal health information. healthcare legislation. What is HIPAA?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 29, 2023

The following is a guest article by Oliver Patterson, Director of Product Management, VIPRE Security Group In the digital era, email has become an indispensable communication tool for healthcare organizations. According to various studies, the healthcare industry experiences a high frequency of data breaches and cyberattacks.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Product Marketing Manager, Identity Security at WatchGuard The healthcare industry is increasingly in the crosshairs of cybercriminals. Yet, despite the stakes, many healthcare organizations aren’t as well-protected as they could be. The following is a guest article by Sam Manjarres, Sr.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere. On this note, Karsten Russell-Wood, portfolio leader for post-acute and home at Philips, shares his viewpoints with Healthcare IT News on the biggest priorities to ensure telehealth is sustained long term.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Patients, their care partners, caregivers, and advocates are already utilizing AI powered tools and creating their own LLMs in ways that the average physician, healthcare executive, and health IT vendors would not believe. ” Cordovano further explained to me. Move fast with AI and break things? Three in five U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has publicly released two reports that were submitted to Congress that provide insights into data breaches, HIPAA enforcement activity, and the state of HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule compliance for calendar year 2021. and large data breaches increased by 58.2%.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 13, 2023

Cyberattacks on the healthcare industry will continue to increase: The healthcare industry is most vulnerable to cyberattacks, which makes it a lucrative target for cybercriminals; attacks on the healthcare industry have grown significantly in 2022, and attacks will even go further in 2023. million per incident.

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Compliancy Group

MARCH 19, 2024

economy is subject to more regulation than healthcare. Regulatory compliance in healthcare ensures quality care for patients. It also reduces waste, fraud, and abuse that threaten the efficiency of healthcare delivery and services. What Does Regulatory Compliance in Healthcare Involve? healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 1, 2023

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 Today

MARCH 23, 2023

And the world of healthcare is no different. To hear more about the current healthcare cyberattacks , we reached out to our lovely Healthcare IT Today Community. web vulnerability scanners are another example of a solution that can help healthcare IT administrators best protect their critical assets. How did it start?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2020

The COVID-19 global crisis has undoubtedly brought about huge changes in healthcare systems all over the world. One of the major impacts which it had would be its role in serving as an impetus to accelerate the digital transformation of healthcare globally. Steps taken by the respective governments. Community Engagement. On the record.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2023

The following is a guest article by Steve Lazer, Global Healthcare and Life Sciences CTO at Dell Technologies Healthcare services play a vital role in enhancing human well-being, but it’s essential to recognize that they also leave an environmental footprint contributing to environment-related health threats.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 9, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to help healthcare organizations align their cybersecurity programs with the NIST Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. The NIST Cybersecurity Framework is one of the most widely adopted frameworks for identifying and managing cybersecurity risks.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 9, 2022

Smart phones, wearable devices, telemedicine platforms, artificial intelligence software, internet applications, and other digital health technologies are advancing and transforming disease diagnosis, therapy, and other medical practices by physicians, direct-to-consumer services for better health and well-being, and other healthcare services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The staffing shortage is a huge challenge in healthcare today. Healthcare IT News sat down with Franklin to discuss changes occurring in healthcare staffing, what he calls hybrid staffing strategies, and the results of a new LocumTenens.com survey. Overall, what changes are you seeing occurring in healthcare staffing?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

There are a lot of challenges that healthcare workers are currently facing, burnout from overworking being one of the most pressing. Through utilizing the technology that we currently have available, many areas of work healthcare professionals are doing can be automated and simplified. But that doesn’t have to be the case.

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Provider Trust

MAY 15, 2023

May 15, 2023 Contact: Jane Kimbrough , (615)-306-6384 CHICAGO, IL – ProviderTrust has been selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the 2023 Best Places to Work in Healthcare. Modern Healthcare will publish a special supplement featuring a ranked list of all the winners along with the October 2, 2023, issue of MH magazine.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Virgil Bretz, CEO of MacroHealth Anyone reading this article knows that the healthcare industry accounts for nearly a fifth of the U.S. Companies with deep technology capabilities, unmatched capital, and customer-friendly reputations are making renewed investments in the healthcare industry. Healthcare isn’t easy.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2023

The following is a guest article by Adonay Cervantes , Global Field CTO at CloudBlue Healthcare workers need to respond quickly to patient needs and having information at their fingertips is key. Edge computing can provide speed, scale, and reliable performance, which can help an overburdened global healthcare industry do more with less.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Not known for its salubrious qualities, Las Vegas will nonetheless be a locus for health, medical care, and well-being inspiration next week when the Consumer Technology Association convenes the annual CES featuring innovations in consumer technology. Smartwatches’ sensors now embed heart rate and increasingly other aspects of heart metrics.

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Medisys Compliance

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Today, it has evolved into a workflow and system that calls for subject matter experts in a wide range of areas, including CPT coding, holding payers accountable, ICD-10 coding, claim filing, technology, payer contracting, managing denied claims, responsiveness to patients, and compliance.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) is like a one of those huge Lego sculptures. To better understand ways that RCM can be optimized and how to best prepare for any needed adjustments, we reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights. So how do we improve? The key lies in optimization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Partners HealthCare on Thursday announced a new five-year technology initiative designed to drive digital innovation, improve clinical care and enhance the patient experience. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. It also comprises an insurance plan, physician network, community health centers and long-term care services. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Mergers & Acquisitions Network Infrastructure Telehealth Health system CIOs are reducing their tech footprint and consolidating their IT systems for agility and efficiency. The 'problem of plenty' for healthcare organizations.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

“The COVID-19 pandemic…has highlighted like never before the pitfalls of paying for healthcare based on the number of patients seen and services rendered,” a Modern Healthcare article asserted in mid-June 2020. Capturing and sharing interoperable and transparent data. In other words, the U.S. Crowe LLC estimated that U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2022

iMeddy, a startup nurtured by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, is providing free video medical consultations via its online healthcare platform for COVID-19 patients. Novo Nordisk General Manager Rashed Rafique Butt noted that Pakistan now has the world's third-largest population with diabetes.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2023

While some have called 2022 an ‘unprecedented year’ for healthcare, the reality is that many of the pressures that challenge health systems’ budgets and margins will continue into 2023 and beyond. Providers Will Fight Revenue Challenges With Admin Efficiencies: Revenue challenges will persist in 2023 for healthcare providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Julian Robinson, Chairman of Biorithm Medical Advisory Board, highlighted the significance of this technology, which will offer enhanced accessibility and improved healthcare outcomes. New Funds to Fortify US Market Entry and Growth Strategy, as well as Advance Breakthrough Research Biorithm , a global women’s health medtech, has closed $3.5

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

Health information exchanges (HIEs) are well-situated to help healthcare organizations achieve three core goals of value-based care: providing better care for individuals, reducing healthcare costs, and improving population health management strategies. Resources for All States.

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Medisys Compliance

DECEMBER 1, 2022

However, no industry is immune to the changes brought about by the new economy, which is fueled by rising technologies. Healthcare firms still need to manage a lot of monotonous and continuous administrative responsibilities like medical billing in addition to offering their patients high-quality medical care. Well, it is!

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

As these latter technologies developed and generated lots of digital data, researchers, clinicians, and third parties have mashed up the information for wellness and medical and other reasons that have had nothing to do with the context of health/care. Remember that in 1996, there were no smartphones, mobile apps, or Internet clouds.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 1, 2022

The United States spends about $1 trillion per year on healthcare administration. 95% of healthcare workforce growth since 1990 has been administrative. So when asked if automation can drive better health system outcomes, through my work in healthcare technology, I know for a fact that it already is.

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Redox

APRIL 28, 2023

Last week was the biggest event/spectacle in health IT, the “World’s Fair of Healthcare”, also known as HIMSS. The opening keynote was focused on the responsible use of AI in healthcare, and by my count there were more than a dozen other sessions on the agenda that broached AI-related topics.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 24, 2022

acquisition of Cerner and shortly after Oracle founder and CTO, Larry Ellison, outlined Oracle’s vision for Healthcare IT post-acquisition. – Expansion of Millennium functionality in telemedicine, disease-specific management tools, RCM , HCM and diagnostics. . Earlier this month Oracle closed its $28.3B still resonates.

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McGuire Wood

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

At McGuireWoods’ 16th annual Healthcare Finance & Growth (HCFG) Conference, a panel of dental industry leaders shared insights with attendees about the market. That said, buyers have to consider the current economy and weigh the risk of investment against the increasing cost of capital.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2020

On the “pro” side of the equation are, Immediate access to real-time health data. On the “cons” side, consider, Varying data accuracy and potential for false readings. Lack of data interoperability between consumer/patient-generated data and a clinician’s EHR. Unproven benefits.

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AIHC

JUNE 6, 2023

A subset of artificial intelligence is machine learning (ML), which refers to the concept that computer programs can automatically learn from and adapt to new data without being assisted by humans. In some cases, AI may do things more efficiently or methodically than humans.

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