Weekly Roundup – August 27, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week. Rusty Yeager on EHR Standardization and Rehabilitation Hospitals. In the latest CIO Podcast, Yeager, the Senior VP and CIO at Encompass Health, talked to John Lynn about the benefits of deploying a standardized EHR across an organization. The conversation also covered some of the unique IT needs of a rehabilitation hospital. Read more… What It Takes to Build Out Digital Fax. Like it or not, fax is still part of today’s solution to healthcare’s interoperability problem. John talked to Kno2 co-founder Theresa Bell and John Mannion of Consensus Cloud Solutions about the benefits of integrating fax into healthcare communication tools. Read more… Healthcare Web Site Accessibility and Disabilities. In the first of a three-part series, Andy Oram explained why it’s critical for healthcare web sites to take accessibility seriously from a legal and regulatory perspective – and why there are so many factors to consider when designing web sites with patients with disabilities in mind. Read more… Enabling Web Site Accessibility via Automation. In the second part of the series, Andy explored how automation can identify and address issues of web site accessibility. These tools can...
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