Weekly Roundup – October 8, 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. Burnout’s Effect on Healthcare Staffing. As burned-out healthcare workers leave their roles, the workers who remain must do more with less. John Lynn asked members of the Healthcare IT Today community if technology can help health systems facing a staffing crisis. A range of solutions – from automation of repetitive tasks to more flexible schedules enabled by virtual care – are positioned to help. Read more… DirectTrust’s Ongoing Effort to Improve the Provider Directory. DirectTrust is adopting a FHIR-based approach to making updates to its provider directory, which contains more than 1 million addresses. DirectTrust President and CEO Scott Stuewe talked to John about what this project entails and how it will make a difference for information sharing. Read more… One RHIO’s Path to Interop With Direct Secure Messaging. Sara Abrams of the Rochester (New York) RHIO spoke to John about the organization’s recent Health Information Service Provider migration process and how Direct Secure Messaging has benefitted patients and enabled more payer-provider collaboration. Read more… How to Address Healthcare’s Inflection Point. In the latest Healthcare IT Pod...
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