Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The following is a guest article by Jeff Lusby, General Manager, Healthcare IT at Quest Diagnostics As healthcare organizations come to terms with value-based care, many are hitting the wall of unstructured clinical and administrative data. What is Enterprise Content Management (ECM)? But why just manage it?

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 16, 2023

You’re considering a compliance learning management system (LMS) because you don’t have time to waste. You don’t have time to manually send emails, search YouTube for appropriate courses, and take time away from every employee to attend in-person training (that you’ve painstakingly organized). Patient Safety and Quality of Care.

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AIHC

APRIL 10, 2024

Checklist for Individual & Small Group Practices Written by: Nancie Lee Cummins, CFE, CHA, CIFHA, OHCC, CHCM, CHCO, CORCM This article provides an overview of Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and basic checklist of policies and procedures for compliance of smaller health care organizations.

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Medisys Compliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

We are here to answer your questions and assist you in determining what is best for your practice. Our billing managers are available to all of our clients around-the-clock, every day of the year. There won’t be a waiting period before you receive an answer to your query. When will you check up on our claims?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The longer you live somewhere the more stuff you have to pack up into boxes and then unpack in your new place. And you’ve kept this stuff for so long that you’re attached to it and don’t want to get rid of anything. Moving is a very daunting task.

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MedTrainer

JUNE 29, 2023

Thankfully, it’s a headache that credentialing software is specifically designed to remedy. Let’s explore what healthcare credentialing software can do for you. Let’s explore what healthcare credentialing software can do for you. What is Healthcare Credentialing Software?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2024

In a time where burnout is at an all-time high, any solution that can help lessen the workload burden of our clinicians is worth looking into. The following is what they had to share with us. With ambient clinical voice technology, clinicians have more time in their day to focus on patient care and charting efficiencies are improved.

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Dot Compliance

AUGUST 8, 2023

In the highly regulated life sciences industry, quality management is crucial for ensuring product safety, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence. Choosing and implementing the right quality management software is a strategic decision that can significantly impact your organization’s success. Let’s get started.

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Dot Compliance

AUGUST 8, 2023

In the highly regulated life sciences industry, quality management is crucial for ensuring product safety, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence. Choosing and implementing the right quality management software is a strategic decision that can significantly impact your organization’s success. Let’s get started.

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MedTrainer

MARCH 22, 2024

For the administrators, compliance officers, and HR professionals tasked with crafting such programs, the challenge is finding a balance between what is legally required and what is practical for their already stretched staff. At a minimum, you must include the training specified in all standards adhered to by your organization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2021

Many were discovered while managing unusual sets of circumstances, or from the plain and simple need to shift strategies on a dime. You can read the others here and here.). Randy Gaboriault, senior vice president and chief digital and information officer at Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

When we were children the toys were things like Barbies or Play-Doh. This is what they had to say on this topic. Matt Cohen, Director of AI at Loyal As the buzz continues around emerging technologies in healthcare IT, like generative AI, it’s paramount for health systems to practice a level of caution when adopting these tools.

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Health Law Advisor

JUNE 1, 2023

Would it surprise you if I told you that a popular and well-respected machine learning algorithm developed to predict the onset of sepsis has shown some evidence of racial bias? [1] 1] How can that be, you might ask, for an algorithm that is simply grounded in biology and medical data? Averages. This might blow your mind.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Their core technology was OpenTDF , a free software library that advances a crucial goal in health care: patient control over their own data, in tandem with the ability to share data with their doctors and other people through access policies and encryption. What’s special about OpenTDF?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2022

It’s like the old phrase says, in order to make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs. Practices will survive…but for them to thrive, the industry needs to shift how care is paid for. New technologies and integrated care teams will be essential for addressing issues like burnout, medication adherence and rising costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2022

Realtime location systems (RTLS) have long been known to help hospitals with medical device management, but there is a new use-case that is growing in popularity and importance: addressing staff safety and duress. Look for a solution that will not require extensive changes or additions to your existing infrastructure.

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 2, 2023

When someone is hired for a job, there are a variety of steps included in the onboarding process. The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has established a set of standards that currently act as a guideline on how to credential health care providers. What’s Involved in the Credentialing Process?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

"But when we were able to move our technology to the point of advancing home health initiatives, we've actually seen it take off. "He took a look at my hand to see how well the progression was going. He could see my movements and everything, and at that point he was able to say, 'Okay, you're good.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2023

To respond to financial and operational challenges, more organizations are looking to smart automation to help drive efficiency in providing high-quality, coordinated, cost-effective care. Vijay Kedar, Co-Founder and CEO at Tomorrow Health. Mudit Garg, CEO and Co-founder of Qventus. Florian Otto, CEO at Cedar.

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Dot Compliance

DECEMBER 7, 2022

What is Quality Management System (QMS)? How Do Quality Management Systems Help Businesses Increase Profitability? Quality Management System Examples 4. Quality Management System Development 7. What is Quality Management System (QMS)? What is Quality Management System (QMS)?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

In this seventh installment in Healthcare IT News ' feature series, Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era, four top IT executives from provider organizations nationwide share what they've learned during the past year and discuss how they're applying these lessons to improve their organizations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2019

And they offer advice on a comprehensive array of topics health IT workers face when working in the field of telehealth. “So, the first critical best practice when implementing telemedicine technology is to have a clinical leader with long-term vision, one who can rally true support from the broader team,” he advised.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media. Hospitals initially will focus on improved identity management, authentication, continuous verification, and fine-grained access controls.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Amongst mostly bustling halls, vendors reported very positive feedback on the volume and quality of customer meetings, with one prominent global imaging vendor citing “We’re signing deals here at the show again – things are looking up”. . These boil down to three substantial issues: . – Inefficient and siloed informatics systems .

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media. Expansion of the use of robots in telemedicine and remote patient monitoring will enable health care providers to reach patients in underserved areas.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires access controls and password management, which requires a top-down approach within your organization. Whether you are a Covered Entity or Business Associate, handle it like a boss! Think of your house for a minute. Think of your house for a minute.

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YouCompli

OCTOBER 26, 2022

They’re busy seeing patients and doing the best they can to deliver care the best way they know how. Sometimes payers have specific requirements for care, though. The results were similar, and when we extrapolated the error rate to our population, we arrived at a payback in excess of $1 million. Million-Dollar Payback.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2023

We have typically thought of it as algorithms and software programs based upon learned information and review of historical studies or collections of information to help develop and train a model. AI” is not just the AI you hear and read about in the media and in online articles.

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Verisys

DECEMBER 23, 2021

By Tracey Tokheim, Senior Director of Product Management at Verisys Corporation. Provider credentialing is a separate process of obtaining, verifying, and assessing the qualifications of a healthcare practitioner to provide patient care services in or for a healthcare entity. Steps to successful enrollment. New regulatory requirements.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media. ML has unlocked the capability to streamline the management and analysis of large, complex datasets produced by these new technologies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies. It is being updated regularly with more vendors.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 4, 2023

sues UnitedHealth over ‘thousands’ of denied claims What’s a fair price for a prescription drug? sues UnitedHealth over ‘thousands’ of denied claims What’s a fair price for a prescription drug? 1 CMS final rule boosts Medicare hospice payments by 3.1% To Address SDOH Needs U.S.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 19, 2023

EHR and customer relationship management platforms – like Salesforce, which announced its Einstein GPT for CRM in early March – are integrating generative AI into their software to allow provider organizations to search and summarize contextual information with natural language searches powered by cloud computing.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 12, 2024

NATIONAL 60% of health systems considering ASC joint ventures 9% of hospitals had ‘vulnerable’ cash on hand levels in 2022 $3.7B

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Hall Render

JULY 1, 2022

How hospitals should prepare for the end of the public health emergency. How hospitals should prepare for the end of the public health emergency. To Boost Cancer Care, CMS Plans New ‘Enhancing Oncology’ Payment Model. Alaska health care professionals work to address residents’ behavioral health needs. CALIFORNIA.

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Hall Render

APRIL 7, 2023

What’s next for company after Signify acquisition Is CMS pushing procedures away from ASCs? Some companies claim AI can help States warn of health care worker shortage as they prep for next pandemic How Do Rural Hospitals Survive When Facing Financial Instability?

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Hall Render

AUGUST 19, 2022

AHA, AAMC: Idaho statute will chill the provision of emergency medical care. House approves sweeping climate, tax, health care package. Nursing homes and long-term care facilities face increased turnover, look to new solution to attract workers. Maternal health care is disappearing in rural communities.

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