This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare
The following is a guest article by Sarah Bavar, RN, BSN, Director at ReMedi Health Solutions.
At ReMedi, we frequently support health systems going through transitions at various stages of the EHR life cycle. Along the way, we almost inevitably uncover challenges surrounding the quality of the patient data transferred to the new and existing EHR.
Eventually, that information must be reconciled in the new system with all of the disparate sources, including legacy system(s), scanned documents, continuum of care documents (CCDs), and various databases (archives, HIEs, pharmacy databases, state registries, etc.). It’s jus...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT HIM Hospital - Health System CCDs Clinical Data Abstraction EHR Consulting EHR Data EHR Data Quality EHR Switching Healthcare Scene Featured Source Type: blogs
Cybersecurity: Hoping for the Best, but Preparing for the Worst
In an ideal world we wouldn’t have to worry about cybersecurity for healthcare. But unfortunately that is just not the case. Instead with how deeply personal and important the information and data that we hold is in the world of healthcare, we need to be prepared for the absolute worst. All systems should have protections in place against even the worst of cyber threats.
But doing so is a very daunting task since technology is so deeply embedded into everything we do. So where do we start? What areas could your organization be overlooking? We reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for th...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Security and Privacy Ahsan Siddiqui Amazon Web Services Ameesh Divatia Arcserve Baffle Ben Herzberg Chandra Kalle Christopher Toth C Source Type: blogs
A 50-something with chest pain. what to do? And get the PM Cardio app for your own use here!
This was sent to me by a friend.It is from a 50-something with chest pain:What do you think?This was marked as " Not a STEMI " by the physicians. It is not a STEMI, but it isdiagnostic of an LAD OMI (Occlusion MI). There is subtle ST Elevation in V1-V4 and hyperacute T-waves in V2-V6.There is also subtle but diagnostic INFERIOR ST Elevation, with reciprocal ST Depression in aVL.I uploaded this to our new PM Cardio AI Bot app. We call the app the " Queen of Hearts "First, it transforms it to a digital file and standardizes the image. Here is the result:Next, it interprets the digital data:A...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 31, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: PACS Administrator at Natividad
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the PACS Administrator (Hospital Software Analyst II) at Natividad position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Natividad and is in Salinas, California.
Here’s a description of the position:
Inspiring Healthy Lives through Community
At Natividad, our dedication to the people of Monterey County is at the heart of everything we do – from the health care services we provide to the specialized programs we promote. This commitment to our community spans more ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 29, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Hospital Software Analyst II Job Seekers Natividad Jobs PACS Administrator PACS Jobs Source Type: blogs
AI: Not Ready, Not Set – Go!
By KIM BELLARD
I feel like I’ve written about AI a lot lately, but there’s so much happening in the field. I can’t keep up with the various leading entrants or their impressive successes, but three essays on the implications of what we’re seeing struck me: Bill Gates’ The Age of AI Has Begun, Thomas Friedman’s Our New Promethean Moment, and You Can Have the Blue Pill or the Red Pill, and We’re Out of Blue Pills by Yuval Harari, Tristan Harris, and Aza Raskin. All three essays speculate that we’re at one of the big technological turning points in human history.
We’re not ready.
The subtitle ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI Health care tech Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Friday Feature: eXtend Homeschool Tutorial
Colleen HroncichKym Kent is a busy homeschooling mom with six children who range in age from 13 to 24. But when she had a vision for a new program to help other homeschool families, she didn ’t shy away from stepping up and co‐founding Bridge Elementary Homeschool Tutorial Ministries in 2017. After adding middle and high school classes over the years, the program is now calledeXtend Homeschool Tutorial.While Kym earned an economics degree from the University of Maryland, she says her real education started when she became a homeschooler in 2004. For nine years, Kym and her children participated i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 24, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
The Ever Evolving World of Cybersecurity Threats
Technology and the way people are using it are evolving in an increasingly steady pace. Just 20 years ago cellphones were getting photo display functions for the first time and were primarily being used to talk to people. Now our phones have facial recognition software and people are using them to shoot and edit films for fun. And the world of healthcare is no different. The amount of technology used and how it is being used has skyrocketed and unfortunately, alongside it so has the amount and sophistication of cybersecurity threats.
To hear more about the current healthcare cyberattacks, we reached out to our lovely Healt...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Security and Privacy Adam Mahmud Amazon Web Services Britton Burton Bruce Johnston CloudWave ComplyAssistant CORL Technologies Gerry B Source Type: blogs
Throw Away That Phone
By KIM BELLARD
If I were a smarter person, I’d write something insightful about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. If I were a better person, I’d write about the dire new UN report on climate change. But, nope, I’m too intrigued about Google announcing it was (again) killing off Glass.
It’s not that I’ve ever used them, or any AR (augmented reality) device for that matter. It’s just that I’m really interested in what comes after smartphones, and these seemed like a potential path. We all love our smartphones, but 16 years after Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone we should realize th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Cognitive AI: Empowering Clinical Teams with Data-Driven Insights
The following is a guest article by Steve Lazer, Global Healthcare & Life Sciences CTO at Dell Technologies.
The landscape of healthcare and biotechnology is changing at a rapid pace, with data taking center stage. As our ability to utilize data to demonstrate positive clinical outcomes continues to be enhanced through technology, healthcare and biotech companies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate positive clinical outcomes and patient benefits from these investments. With all the data available to us, clinicians need tools to help them wade through the river of inflowing information. This is driving dema...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Artificial Intelligence Bard Chat GPT Clinical Teams Cognitive AI CoPilot Data Silos Data Validation Dell Techno Source Type: blogs
Automating Cellular Image Analysis to Find Potential Medicines
Dr. Anne Carpenter. Credit: Juliana Sohn.
When she started college, Anne Carpenter, Ph.D., never guessed she’d one day create software for analyzing images of cells that would help identify potential medicines and that thousands of researchers would use. She wasn’t planning to become a computational biologist, or even to focus on science at all, but she’s now an institute scientist and the senior director of the Imaging Platform at the Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard in Cambridge.
Starting Out in Science
Before beginning her undergraduate studies at Purdue University...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 22, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Cells Tools and Techniques Bioinformatics Cellular Imaging Computational Biology Cool Tools/Techniques Profiles Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Director, Information Technology and Security
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director, Information Technology and Security position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by TransForm Shared Service Organization and is located in Windsor, Canada.
Here’s a description of the position:
Director, Information Technology & Security
Position Summary
The Director Information Technology & Security understands the business of healthcare, the importance of quality patient care, the utilization of technology in a health care setting and th...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Canadian Health IT Jobs Director Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Information Technology and Security Job Seekers TransForm Jobs Source Type: blogs
Supreme Court Treads Carefully in Gonzalez
Will DuffieldLast month the Supreme Court heard oralarguments inGonzalez v. Google, a case about whether Section 230 protects platforms from liability for algorithmically recommended speech. This is the first time the Court has heard a case involving Section 230, and a bad ruling wouldremake the internet for the worse. Although many had feared that justices would use the opportunity to get at Big Tech, the Court was skeptical of petitioners ' counsel Eric Schnapper ’s textual arguments and mindful of algorithms ' almost universal use in sorting information online.Going intoGonzalez,there wasn ’t a circuit split about a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 22, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Will Duffield Source Type: blogs
If They Care About Children ’s Online Safety, Why Are Policymakers Attacking App Stores?
Jennifer HuddlestonIn recent weeks, policymakers at both the state and federal level have expressed a growing amount of concern around children ’s online safety and privacy. However, lawmakers are now considering proposals that would order major app stores to adopt rules making it more difficult to provide parents with the tools to control both their children’s time and spending on these apps. Further, these new rules would increase chi ldren’s access to risky and malicious apps.Like a retail store that sells physical goods, app stores set the rules and terms for the products they carry. This can vary from ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 21, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jennifer Huddleston Source Type: blogs
The Fiscal Impact of Immigration in the United States
ConclusionThe United States faces a considerable fiscal challenge with the explosive growth in government spending, the escalation of entitlement payments, and slower demographic growth. How immigrants impact the fiscal state of the U.S. government is important for policymakers and the public to consider when evaluating different reforms to get the U.S. government onto a sounder fiscal footing. Our paper “The Fiscal Impact of Immigration in the United States ” is the first in a new series of Cato papers that analyze the fiscal impact of immigration. It ’s 248 pages of information, data, explanations, figures, and cha...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 21, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Beyond bulky VR headsets: Voice recognition, eye tracking, and natural gestures in the era of the metaverse and the “Medi-verse”
Imagine you have moved to a new city and bought a condo advertised as “metaverse enabled.” Upon closing, along with the physical keys to your condo, you receive a unique cryptographic key to the community. You move into your neighborhood both physically and digitally. With the crypto key, you link your own personal metaverse profile to the condo. This merges your personal metaverse, including a digital catalog of all the objects in your home, to a digital map of the new space integrating all the sensors and devices that control the objects through the metaverse.
As you move from your bedroom to the kitchen, the li...
Source: SharpBrains - March 21, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. Cori Lathan Tags: Technology & Innovation AnthroTronix AR display eye-tracking healthcare delivery Medi-verse metaverse personal metaverse spatial computing stress relief voice recognition wearables Source Type: blogs
