Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2024

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Providers must partner with vendors demonstrating an established compliance record, said Michelle Berryman at Hero Digital. Read more… Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 17, 2023

The CDC reported 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the US in the 12 months ending in April 2021, the highest number ever recorded in 12 months and a staggering 28.5% And the PHE provided additional State-level incentives to open Medicaid enrollment, which has led to record-high participation. And recent statistics bolster this worry.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2024

News The biggest story of the week was that Epic turned off access to certain medical record requests from Particle Health users on the Carequality exchange. Studies The latest ONC data brief indicated 58% of PCPs are satisfied with their ability to access external immunization information via their EHR and/or portal.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 28, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Lessons Learned From a Health System’s Internal Data Breach. An Alabama health system recently fired an employee who accessed 2,500 patient records without authorization.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Kate Behan, MD, FACP, Chief Medical Officer, Arcadia A so-called “tripledemic” — the convergence of flu, RSV and COVID-19 — led to significant morbidity and mortality, and it also forced the cancellation or delay of numerous medical procedures at overwhelmed health systems. There’s increasing importance and urgency with this work, too.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

There is widespread use of biased utilization data in the U.S. There is widespread use of biased utilization data in the U.S. Utilization data are employed for a wide variety of purposes in the healthcare system, including establishing provider networks, setting negotiated reimbursement rates and calculating risk adjustment scores.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. They also discussed the all-important topic of EHR integration. There are many ties between mental health and SDoH such as food insecurity, unemployment, and access to transportation.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The Healthcare IT Today site has been promoting the use of powerful new capabilities in generative AI for clinical applications , notably the automatic generation of doctors’ notes after a patient visit. But there may be even more valuable uses of generative AI in administrative tasks such as billing, resource management, and contract writing.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

Non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) plays a crucial role in helping patients get to where care is delivered. NEMT helps close the health equity gap by ensuring all patients can access care, regardless of their location, medical needs or transportation options.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2023

As of 2021, nine in ten (88%) of US physicians had adopted electronic health records (EHRs), up from only 57% a decade prior. Below, I’ll discuss the importance of VBC in this relationship and the downstream impact on patients when there is a digital bridge between payers and providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 15, 2023

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… Bringing Secondary Uses for Data to the Forefront. Few organizations are making use of the valuable data in legacy applications, and too many are simply converting records to PDFs.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Other issues play starring roles in overall well-being, including environmental factors, health care services, and social determinants of health (SDOH). Our theme is Embracing Social Determinants (SDoH) for Highly-Integrated, Coordinated Care.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

It is not about remote patient monitoring or adopting electronic health records or tools to help patients view their charts. It is not about remote patient monitoring or adopting electronic health records or tools to help patients view their charts. The following is a guest article by Ashish V. Now, a fresh approach is warranted.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Two important ways to ensure that tech helps are to choose the right technology and to implement it the right way. 6 deadline for sharing all electronic PHI in the Designated Record Set.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2024

Alice Wei, Officer of the Chief Medical Office at Strive Health 2024 is the year to advance health equity – In 2023, important progress was made in recognizing and addressing health equity, particularly through increased dialogue within the medical community about social drivers of health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Personalized healthcare meets people where they are as an individual with unique behaviors, medical histories and life circumstances. The ability to seek treatment from a doctor specializing in your specific medical need is beneficial and improves health outcomes. And consumers have come to expect and demand this personalization.

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MedTrainer

JULY 13, 2023

Common Uses of AI in Healthcare AI has enabled the integration of big data to identify disease risk, changes in physical/cognitive conditions, and provide decision support for healthcare providers, clinical team members, billing specialists, and leadership. These are some of the most common concerns around AI and healthcare compliance.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The healthcare industry has widely acknowledged the importance of enabling patient-centered care. Real-word data (RWD) can provide this insight, but today’s RWD is incomplete, often restricted to only a fraction of a patient’s story. Data for Good is in our DNA.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2023

This includes dealing with disparate IT and health records systems, outdated workflows, and lack of internal resources which is a consequence of patients seeing multiple physicians, specialists, etc. who are using different data handling platforms throughout the course of treatment.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Joe Nicholson, Chief Medical Officer at CareAllies. – Evusheld is a preventive medication meant to be given before exposure to COVID-19. The general consensus is that COVID-19 in some form is here to stay. Should I get another booster? Is it OK to go to a wedding next weekend? How cautious do I need to be in social settings?

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Joe Nicholson, Chief Medical Officer at CareAllies. – Evusheld is a preventive medication meant to be given before exposure to COVID-19. The general consensus is that COVID-19 in some form is here to stay. Should I get another booster? Is it OK to go to a wedding next weekend? How cautious do I need to be in social settings?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Why is this so important? The patient is worried about privacy and data security. The patient is worried about privacy and data security. The patient is growing aware of her personal “data space.” On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. Of course, that's been the case every year over the past decade since the first meaningful use checks were mailed out, kickstarting the digital healthcare age as we know it. Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters. Enhancing the patient experience with technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But only in the past few years have the medical professions tried to quantify and capture these factors. Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH). Data can both call out SDoH and help to address its effects.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 21, 2023

Today the company is a major health IT player, offering cloud-based electronic health record and practice management systems for practices of all types and sizes. Today the company is a major health IT player, offering cloud-based electronic health record and practice management systems for practices of all types and sizes.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 13, 2023

Arti Masturzo, Chief Medical Officer at CCS Today, food insecurity affects more than 41 million Americans and is prevalent among children and the elderly population. As a result, food insecurity can exacerbate medical conditions driving up hospital/health systems patient care costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The previous article in this series gave some history of social determinants of health (SDoH) and the importance of addressing them in medicine. This article delves deeper into various aspects of data handling, and who is working in these fields. The report also includes a listing of organizations working in this area.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 22, 2022

Today’s youth understand the role SDoH plays in their health outcomes. Fast-forward 41 years, and there’s a new mantra coming from today’s youth: “I want my SDoH!” Fast-forward 41 years, and there’s a new mantra coming from today’s youth: “I want my SDoH!” But it’s not just Gen-Z that wants their SDoH.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2023

But just as important as finding solutions are, we need to be sure that we do it right. In healthcare, the place to start is with data. In healthcare, the place to start is with data. All of the decisions made in healthcare are based on the data we gather, so we need to make sure it’s sound.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Health Equity and SDoH. Big data platforms go mainstream. This will usher a move away from site-based systems of record (e.g., Epic) to real-time patient journey optimization systems that are EMR-agnostic and fueled by far more comprehensive data than what sits in EMRs today. Healthcare AI. Healthcare Workforce.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

A strong business case exists for addressing the financial impacts of social determinants of health (SDoH) and new reimbursement models designed to emphasize health equity. Involving revenue cycle management (RCM) is necessary for any comprehensive SDoH/health equity strategy. SDoH Factors Impacting Patients and Revenue.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Importance of Cybersecurity in Protecting Patient Safety – Ryan Witt from Proofpoint is one of my favorite people to talk cybersecurity in healthcare, so I’m happy to see this article and video did so well. I find it fascinating to see what resonated with people. Most Visited Healthcare IT Resource Pages.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2023

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… Exploring All-in-One Medical Graphic Stations and Tablets. Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Helping Children With Gamified Interactive Physiotherapy.

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AIHC

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Learn more about 2023 and Capturing & Coding Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) for Physicians and Hospitals – a short online course. Observation codes are now reported according to Medical Decision-Making (MDM) or total time. More than 30 minutes on the date of the encounter. More than 30 minutes on the date of the encounter.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 14, 2022

a globally recognized association that develops unique resources to help medically integrated oncology teams deliver top-tier care. The partnership will enable NCODA members to integrate and curate siloed patient-centric data from disparate systems into a single unified view for their practice. VisualStrata Platform.

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Hall Render

JUNE 9, 2023

Here’s why ARKANSAS Arkansas Children’s Hospital raises $5.9

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Hall Render

JANUARY 19, 2024

NATIONAL 13 major health systems partner with high schools in $250M Bloomberg initiative Acute Hospital Care at Home data released AI can help identify social determinants of health American Hospital Association Sues Over Updated HIPAA Guidance Bill aims to push price transparency to ASCs Billing for patient messages to clinicians is increasing, study (..)

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