What is Your Perspective on TEFCA and QHINs?
Building a system that would allow us to simplify the exchange of information across the nation would a huge achievement. However, we have been operating without one for so long that we already have several different solutions in place to work around it. At the Civitas Conference, there was a lot of talk about TEFCA and QHINs and what their impact will be on healthcare and interoperability. What do they mean for healthcare organizations and how will they be participating in them? When will they be implemented? Are they replacing current interoperability efforts? Are they real?
We asked a number of experts at the co...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability Allen Abshire CIvitas Civitas 2023 Deven McGraw directtrust Grayson Miller HealtHIE Nevada HI-BRIDGE HIE Invitae Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser LHCQF Michael Gag Source Type: blogs
Five Things Hospitals Should Do Immediately to Improve their Cybersecurity Posture
The following is a guest article by Jonathan Goldberger, Senior Vice President, Security Practices & Strategic Sales at TPx
Hospitals face the threat of cyberattacks daily and each attack threatens the hospital’s public brand and, worst of all, public health.
Because nearly every function at hospitals today is electronic, a cyberattack is crippling to the point where a provider can’t do anything. Even tasks such as sending a prescription to the pharmacy and ordering or reviewing X-rays are challenging amid a cyberattack.
It’s no secret that threat actors are targeting companies and organizations regardless of the...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Security and Privacy Cyberattacks Cybersecurity Cybersecurity Training Healthcare Cybersecurity Healthcare R Source Type: blogs
ShowdMe Announces Partnership with Spring Mountain Capital and Blue Heron Capital for Series A Funding Round and Expansion
ShowdMe, the premier compliance training partner for home care agencies and skilled nursing facilities, announces today a Series A investment led by Spring Mountain Capital and Blue Heron Capital. The funding will drive expansion for the Company, allowing for the hiring of new employees and continued growth of its products and services. ShowdMe chose to engage with the two firms after growing 90% year over year in 2022, obtaining over 100 new clients in the past 12 months, and achieving 98% logo retention.
Healthcare professionals are required to complete compliance training on an annual basis, as well as during the hiring...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Avi Singer Blue Heron Capital Gordon Crenshaw Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Kenny Soll ShowdMe Spring Mountain Capital Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – October 8, 2023 – 67% of Women are Having Issues with Getting a Clear Diagnosis – of which 25% are Still Waiting for Diagnosis or Gave up Entirely, Health Gorilla has 17 Healthcare Organizations Commit to Joining their QHIN, and More!
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. 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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This year’s Customer Forum and Innovation Summit from Avel eCare will double as a celebration of their 30th anniversary!
PEP Health’s AI-powered Patient Experience Platform releases its first report offering qua...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Healthcare IT 9amHealth Accelecom Amazon Web Services Artisight athenahealth Atropos Health Avel eCare AVIA Banner Health BJC Healthcare Boston Children's Hospital Children's Mercy Kansas City Cottage Health DrFirst Emma Smit Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – October 7, 2023
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.
How Technology can Address Clinician Shortage and Burnout. We are facing an estimated 900K deficit of registered nurses by the end of this decade. This problem is only made worse by the silver tsunami of 10K baby boomers aging into Medicare coverage every day. Technology can be a great solution to help ease that burden off of your staff so they aren̵...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
What are the Cost Implications of Implementing Cloud Technology in Healthcare?
We have talked about implementing cloud technology in healthcare a lot, but there are still a lot of gray areas, such as the cost implications. Will it increase or reduce healthcare costs? More importantly, if we are looking to switch from the traditional on-premises infrastructure, how do the costs compare? Both in where we are today and in the long run?
In search of some answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community. The following are their thoughts on this pressing topic.
Zach Evans, Chief Technology Officer at XSOLIS
The largest change for organizations implementing...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Security and Privacy 4medica Annmarie Ison AT&T Cybersecurity Charlie Clarke Chris Lance Cloud Cloud in Source Type: blogs
How Will the Current Macroeconomic Environment Impact Digital Health and Healthcare IT Decision-Making?
As health systems grapple with market uncertainty, how will the current macroeconomic environment impact digital health and healthcare IT decision-making? How are AI and automation addressing healthcare labor shortage challenges? Capital One Healthcare analyst Don Hooker shared his perspective with Healthcare IT Today in the following interview.
From your work with stakeholders, are you seeing any concerns regarding digital health point solutions?
To set the stage, overall “healthcare IT” budgets appear to be stable at many healthcare provider organizations, but there are still a lot of concerns about how an uncertain...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management Healthcare Labor Shortage Healthcare Leadership Healthcare M&A Healthcare ROI Healthcare Trends RCM Source Type: blogs
Atropos Health Announces Strategic Financing to Fund International Expansion and Support Key Channel Partnerships
Leader in Unlocking Real-World Data for Healthcare Moves to Address the Global Evidence Gap in Markets Plagued by Tight Data Restrictions and a Lack of Clinical Trial Diversity
Atropos Health, a pioneer in evidence-based healthcare known for its Green Button Clinical Informatics Consult Service, today announced that it has completed a strategic financing from Presidio Ventures, the venture arm of Sumitomo Corporation Venture Group, Samsung Next, a venture arm of Samsung Electronics, Gaingels, Audere Capital, and others. The funding enables Atropos Health to accelerate commercial and development opportunities outside the U....
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Analitica Atropos Health Audere Capital Dr. Brigham Hyde DVX Gaingels Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Presidio Ventures Project 360 LTD Rameen Rana Samsung Electronics Source Type: blogs
A Look at Nabla Copilot ’ s Automatic Clinical Documentation
Regular readers know that I think ambient clinical voice is one of the most exciting things to happen in health IT since the $36 billion in EHR stimulus money. The promise of automatic note generation is so beautiful and would solve so many of the pains associated with EHR software and more generally clinical documentation. Of course, there are plenty of skeptics that say that the technology won’t get there or will be too expensive. Time will tell on both of those, but when you look how quickly technology and AI are moving, my bet’s that ambient clinical voice will be a huge success.
As such, that’s...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Alex Lebrun Ambient Clinical Voice Clinical Documentation EHR Copilot EHR Documentation EHR Integration Source Type: blogs
The New Pandemic: Burnout Threatens to Wipe Out a Generation of Providers
The following is a guest article by Amanda Ford, Executive Vice President of Operations at ScribeAmerica
For care teams across the nation, provider burnout isn’t a buzzword, it’s a reality. And while some by-products of the pandemic are expected to disappear with time, burnout seems to be staying. If anything, the issue is getting worse. Increased workloads, difficult-to-navigate EHRs, documentation processes, administrative tasks, and more challenging work-life balance. Doctors are stuck spending more time working, but less time with patients.
The issue plagues every specialty in every state. And as providers grap...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Administrative Burden AI Scribes Amanda Ford Medical Scribes Patient Documentation Physician Burnout Provider Burnout ScribeAmerica Source Type: blogs
Briya Raises $11.5M Series A, Accelerates U.S. Rollout of Blockchain-Secured Data Exchange Platform to Enhance Collaboration Between Hospitals and Life Sciences
Briya Enables Hospitals to Increase Revenue While Research Organizations Capitalize on Most Comprehensive Anonymized Data to Develop and Implement Patient Treatments
Briya, an end-to-end healthcare data exchange platform, today announced the completion of an $11.5 million Series A round of financing, bringing the company’s total funding to $17 million. The round was led by Team8, includes existing investors Insight Partners and Amiti Ventures, and is joined by the George Kaiser Family Foundation.
The funding will support Briya’s mission to transform how data is exchanged between healthcare organizations and life sc...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Amiti Ventures Berlin Institute of Health BIH Briya Charité Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin David Lazerson Dr. Jawed Nawabi George Kaiser Family Foundation Health IT Funding Health IT Fundi Source Type: blogs
AI Will Help Bridge Gaps in Canadian Healthcare
This study will look for practical ways that AI can be deployed in various healthcare settings and may include pilot implementations that will put AI theory into action.
Robert Fox, Chief Executive Officer of OntarioMD, shared details of this study in an interview with Healthcare IT Today (interview coming!)
AI Prominently on Display at OntarioMD Conference
The exhibit hall at the OntarioMD Conference featured many interesting startups alongside digital health veterans. Most of the exhibitors were touting their use of AI technology.
AI powered chatbots and patient automation was on display by Phelix
Ambient voice for cli...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 4, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System #OMDDHC23 Ambient Clinical Voice Andre Picard DoctorCare Healthcare AI Healthcare Billing OntarioMD patient communications Source Type: blogs
Key Cybersecurity Defenses for the Healthcare Sector
The following is a guest article by Sam Manjarres, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Identity Security at WatchGuard
The healthcare industry is increasingly in the crosshairs of cybercriminals. In 2022, as cyberattacks globally rose by 38% year-on-year, healthcare became the third-most-attacked industry (behind government and education), recording an increase of 74% and reporting up to 1,463 incidents per week. Unsurprisingly, a recent Gartner Peer Insights survey – Cybersecurity in the Healthcare Industry – also showed that nearly half of participating healthcare organizations have experienced a data breach in th...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 4, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Security and Privacy Advanced Persistent Threat APT Cyberattacks Cybersecurity Data Breaches Healthcare Ph Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Chief Health Information Officer
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Chief Health Information Officer position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Hennepin Healthcare and is located in Minneapolis, MN.
Here’s a description of the position:
Hennepin Healthcare System (HHS) operates as an integrated care system which includes HCMC, a nationally recognized Level I Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center along with a high-quality acute care hospital. This comprehensive healthcare network includes a 473-bed academic medical center, a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 4, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Chief Health Information Officer CHIO Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Hennepin Healthcare Job Seekers Source Type: blogs
What Healthcare Interoperability Topic Are Not Enough People Talking About?
So many topics to cover in healthcare but tragically so little time! We don’t even have the time or word count to cover it all in this article, so instead we will be focusing on healthcare interoperability. What isn’t being talked about enough when it comes to sharing health data? At the recent Civitas Conference, we took the time to ask various members of our talented Healthcare IT Today Community to see where their thoughts were on this subject. The video below is a compilation of their answers.
Here’s a quick summary of what everyone is saying in the video:
Laura Young, Executive Director at San Diego...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability 4medica Briljent CIvitas Civitas 2023 Data Quality directtrust eHealthExchange Grayson Miller Gregg Church Health Data Utility Healt Source Type: blogs
