Dealing with the Elephant in the Waiting Room – Clipboards and Paper Forms
I recently had a visit to the doctor’s office for a routine procedure. I kid you not that I was asked to complete essentially the same forms 3 different times. Two times electronically and once on paper. The staff assured me that the forms were asking different questions. I frustratingly assured them that 95% of the questions were the same. It was an awful experience for me as a patient and no doubt for them to have to review 3 different sets of forms. While not every office is this disorganized, the patient experience when it comes to clipboards and patient forms has a lot to be desired at many healthcar...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 18, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Dessiree Paoli EHR Forms EHR Integrations Source Type: blogs
HIMSS 2024 Recap – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 138
For the 138th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are doing a recap of the recent HIMSS conference! First, we discuss the main takeaways for health IT we walked away with. Then, we talk about the companies we thought stood out at the conference. We also discuss what topics we think should have been talked about at HIMSS but weren’t. Lastly, we finish our recap by sharing all our favorites from the event – favorite booth, party, session, etc.
Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode:
What’s your main takeaway for health IT coming out of HIMSS 2024?
What companies sto...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn John Lynn and Colin Hung Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Podcasts Colin Hung Health IT Podcasts Healthcare Podcasts HIMSS HIMSS 2024 HIMSS Recap HIMSS24 John Lynn Source Type: blogs
Connecting Healthcare Clouds and Simplifying Solutions in a Secure Way
Healthcare cloud solutions have become much more sophisticated, reliable, and easier to connect. Gone are the days of a single cloud instance that can support all your needs. However, managing the various cloud options can be challenging if you don’t have a thoughtful approach to it and work with great partners.
At the HIMSS 2024 conference, we moderated a panel hosted by Rackspace Technology and Dell Technologies with healthcare multicloud experts and former CIOs who shared the benefits and challenges of implementing and integrating multicloud solutions in healthcare. Plus, they discussed how these models can evol...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 12, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Bluebird Leaders Dell Technologies Divurgent Epic Epic Cloud Epic Cloud Hosting Erik Pupo Guidehouse Healthcare C Source Type: blogs
Celebrating 500 Episodes: Reliving the Best Moments From the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast
Today marks a pretty significant milestone for our team: 500 episodes of the Healthcare IT Today Interview series! To celebrate we have a special treat for you, a chat with John Lynn, Colin Hung, and Brittany Quemby.
What started as a blog based largely around articles and our founder John Lynn’s experience in the healthcare IT industry, has grown into a vast array of knowledge provided by experts from across the industry and the world, as well as a few of our own experts using a variety of media to include articles, videos, and podcasts.
Like many things in this world, the Healthcare IT Today Interview podcast was...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: David Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Health IT Podcasts Healthcare IT Podcasts Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Podcasts Healthca Source Type: blogs
Advancing Healthcare with High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cybersecurity
Healthcare has become a data-driven industry as the volume of data continues to grow and organizations are able to use that data to provide more personalized care. However, data alone won’t advance healthcare. New systems and processing power that can turn data into insights is the key to accelerating discoveries and improving care.
At the HIMSS 2024 conference, we brought together an incredible panel hosted by AMD and Dell Technologies to discuss the ways high performance computing (HPC) is key to helping healthcare organizations solve the big challenges healthcare faces. Plus, we looked at how security has to be ba...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Security and Privacy AMD Dell Technologies Healthcare High Performance Computing Healthcare IT Video Intervie Source Type: blogs
Nabla Ambient Clinical Voice Demo at HIMSS
It’s no secret that ambient clinical voice is one of our favorite topics here at Healthcare IT Today. We clearly believe that it’s going to be one of the most impactful technologies to be implemented in healthcare. As a doctor friend recently told me, “It’s the most useful single piece of IT technology I’ve seen in a long time from the doctor’s perspective.”
That’s why at the HIMSS annual conference, I was excited to check out a demo of the Nabla ambient clinical voice solution which we captured on the video below for all to see their technology in action. Dr. Ed Lee, Chi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 3, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ambient Clinical Voice Automatic Note Creation Dot Phrases Ed Lee EHR AI Assistant Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Source Type: blogs
Ensuring Precision in Patient Identity: Modern Approaches to Master Data Management
The government and many healthcare leaders are pushing for more interoperability and data sharing in healthcare. While this is great and has the potential to make a really big impact for good on the lives of patients and potentially costs, one thing that is often missed in this discussion is high quality patient identification. This is a problem that’s made worse by not having a national patient identifier, but let’s set that topic aside for a moment and recognize that even with a national patient identifier, patient identification and patient matching is still going to be a massive challenge.
The depth of ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops EMPI Health Data Sharing Health Information Exchange Healthcare Scene Featured Healthix HIE HIEs HIMSS HIMSS 2024 HIMSS24 National Patient Identifie Source Type: blogs
Breaking News: Judy Faulkner from Epic Sneezed
We just got a special report coming out of Verona, WI that Judy Faulkner sneezed. Our source which wanted to remain confidential for fear of retribution said that they were walking down the hall of Emerald City office and as they passed a conference room, they heard someone sneeze. Once they heard the startling noise, they looked up and saw Judy Faulkner with her hand to her mouth.
Those at Epic said that Judy’s sneeze was spreading like wildfire on the internal Epic Teams channel. Employees weren’t sure what the sneeze meant and they were trying to help each other process such a reaction from the visiona...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: EMR-EHR Health IT Company April Fool's Day Fun Friday Personal Musings Source Type: blogs
The Long and Tortured History of Alpha-Synuclein and Parkinson ’s Disease
This study tracks the decades-long journey to harness alpha-synuclein as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Steven Zecola an activist who tracks Parkinson’s research and was on THCB last month discussing it, offers three key changes needed to overcome the underlying challenges.
A Quick Start for Alpha-Synuclein R&D
In the mid-1990’s, Parkinson’s patient advocacy groups had become impatient by the absence of any major therapeutic advances in the 25 years since L-dopa had been approved for Parkinson’s disease (PD).
The Director of National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) se...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Medical Practice Parkinson's Disease Steven Zecola Source Type: blogs
VBA Provides A Suite of Tools for Payers and TPAs Including a New Generative AI Product
VBA offers numerous portals to payers and their clients (which include doctors, patients, brokers, and more)—”one-stop shopping” for a large range of services. To ease the user experience with these services, the company has started using generative AI for training on their platform through a tool called VBA Assist.
At the HCAA conference, President and CEO Mike Clayton cites their mission to “make the health care experience better for everyone” and explains some of their services: 24/7 self-service for patients, real-time chat, notifications for picking up meds or scheduling visits, risk modeling...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 26, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Regulations HCAA HCAA 2024 Healthcare AI Healthcare Generative AI Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Payers Healthcare TPAs Source Type: blogs
A Look at a Number of Innovations at HIMSS 2024
At HIMSS 2024, we got a chance to sit down with a number of amazing individuals and companies who were doing great things. I think we did close to 90 videos at the conference, so be sure to subscribe to Healthcare IT Today, follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, or TikTok, and Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube to get all the latest information. We wanted to highlight a number of the short videos we recorded that talked about some of the great innovations that were happening at HIMSS 2024.
First up is Ginny Torno, Executive Director, Innovation and IT Clinical Systems at Houston Methodist who shared with...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Agamon Health Care Coordination care gaps CitiusTech Di Source Type: blogs
The Latest AI Craze: Ambient Scribing
By MATTHEW HOLT
Okay, I can’t do it any longer. As much as I tried to resist, it is time to write about ambient scribing. But I’m going to do it in a slightly odd way
If you have met me, you know that I have a strange English-American accent, and I speak in a garbled manner. Yet I’m using the inbuilt voice recognition that Google supplies to write this story now.
Side note: I dictated this whole thing on my phone while watching my kids water polo game, which has a fair amount of background noise. And I think you’ll be modestly amused about how terrible the original transcript was. But then...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Matthew Holt abridge AI Ambient Scribing Anthropic clinical care Coding Google Microsoft Nabla Nuance OpenAI Suki Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – March 16, 2024
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.
HIMSS 2024: Bold Statements from Hal Wolf. Colin Hung attended a media briefing with the HIMSS CEO and learned about HIMSS’ international expansion plans, its role as a tight-knit society and not a loose association, and its desire to promote scalable software, perhaps even at the expense of startups. Read more…
HIMSS 2024: A Closer Look at S...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
How to face our mistakes: Using the military ’s after-action review to improve morbidity and mortality conferences
Nearly three decades ago, David Hilfiker, a family medicine physician in rural Minnesota, authored an essay in the New England Journal of Medicine titled “Facing our mistakes.” In the piece, he chronicles three major medical mistakes he made during his long career practicing medicine. Some of the mistakes are horrifying and others simply tragic, but
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How to face our mistakes: Using the military’s after-action review to improve morbidity and mortality conferences originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 16, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Neel Vahil, MD Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
Price Transparency: Shifting Responsibility to Employers
In this intriguing video, important advances in transparency of health care prices are explained by Mark Galvin, Founder, President and CEO at TALON at the HCAA conference in Las Vegas.
Two “watershed moments” have been overlooked by most people, while media coverage focuses on other things such as the No Surprises Act.
The first change came when a recent “transparency in coverage” law leverages fines on sponsors (normally employers), who the government hopes will then put pressure on health care providers to be more transparent.
The second came with a class action lawsuit against Johnson & John...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management Employer Healthcare Employer Insurance HCAA Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Payers Healthcare Price Transpa Source Type: blogs
