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
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
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
Claira Sohn Cultivates Neurons and Diversity in the STEM Community
Credit: Courtesy of Claira Sohn.
Claira Sohn credits her grandfather with sparking her interest in science. Although he never studied science at a 4-year university due to financial limitations, he took many community college classes and worked in chemistry labs developing products such as hair dyes and dissolvable stitches. “Every morning, my grandfather would take me to school, and we’d stop to get orange juice and a cookie and talk about science. When I was in elementary school, he bought me a book about quantum mechanics written for kids,” she says. “He inspired me to ask questions and encouraged me to go to ...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - October 4, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Cells Diseases Profiles Training 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
Health IT Potpourri – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 124
For the 124th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we are mixing together some of the recent health IT news with previews of some upcoming conferences to make our own little health IT potpourri! The first big news item we are discussing is UPMC and Intermountain moving to Epic. Then we discuss the acquisition of NextGen by Thoma Bravo. Lastly, we take a look forward and give a little preview of the upcoming HLTH and AHIMA conferences!
Here’s a preview of the topics we discuss in this episode:
UPMC and Intermountain Moving to Epic
NextGen Acquired by Thoma Bravo
HLTH Preview
AHIMA Preview
If you’re a vendor plann...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn John Lynn and Colin Hung Tags: C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Podcasts HIM Hospital - Health System AHIMA AHIMA 2023 AHIMA2023 Colin Hung Epic Health IT Podcasts Healthcare Podcasts Hlth HLTH 2023 HLTH2023 Source Type: blogs
Shhhhh! The secret we don ’ t talk about …
For all my writing about ACT, there are some things that ACT doesn’t directly deal with: what do people use to help them do what matters in their life? OK we do discuss actions, values, perspective-taking, mindfulness, willingness and defusion, but we don’t talk about the specifics of what people living with pain might do to live well. The skills or ways of going about daily life, using things that help people with pain do things. *Scroll to the bottom to see my totally unscientific survey for people with pain*
So for a few weeks I’m exploring self-management: this is one of those poorly-defined terms ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - October 1, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Back pain Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Coping Skills Coping strategies Low back pain Occupational therapy Research Science in practice biopsychosocial Health pain management self-management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Model Legal Processes for Court Ordered Mental Health Treatment - A Modern Approach
Brian D. Shannon (Texas Tech University), Model Legal Processes for Court Ordered Mental Health Treatment - A Modern Approach, 18 FIU L. Rev. (2023): The United States Conference of Chief Justices and Conference of State Court Administrators established the National... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - September 29, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Two Weeks of Purging, Releasing, and Opening
Integration of my recent MDMA journey has been going well and keeping me busier than I expected. It actually feels like I’m still going through that journey. I sense that the energies involved knew that I’d have two weeks to myself with Rachelle out of town (she’s visiting family in Canada and returns tonight), so they invited me to have an extended solo experience. I’d kept my schedule very open during those two weeks, so I feel that on some level I said yes to that invitation.
I haven’t taken any substances since a microdose of mushrooms on the 16th, opting for a longer break, but that ha...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - September 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Emotions Source Type: blogs
Language Barriers: Protecting Your Organization From A Hidden HIPAA Threat
The following is a guest article by Bill Young, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at SYSTRAN
Keeping patient data confidential and secure remains a major healthcare challenge today, more than 25 years after the introduction of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act or HIPAA.
HIPAA is regulatory guidance to ensure Patient Health Information (PHI) is protected in specific entities, mainly healthcare facilities, and healthcare admin support institutions, for the transfer and flow of health information.
How has the HIPPA management challenge increased? To review, in 2021, the US Department of H...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations Security and Privacy Bill Young Data Breaches Health Data Translation Healthcare Translation HIPAA HIPAA B Source Type: blogs
Not All Prescription Management and Clinical Decision Support Are Created Equal
When I first discovered Synapse Medicine, I was fascinated by the depth of work they had done to handle prescriptions and clinical decision support in their system. Since their system was and is being broadly used in France, they were able to see and work on all the problems associated with medication management and discover the solutions that worked across a wide swath of patients and environments. Needless to say, there’s more to prescription management and medication decision support than you would expect at first glance.
This is why I was excited to sit down with Clement Goehrs, MD-PhD, CEO & Co-Founder ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 26, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System CDS Clement Goehrs Clinical Decision Support Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featur Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 25th 2023
In conclusion, this individual patient data meta-analysis of longitudinal cohort studies found that antihypertensive use was associated with decreased dementia risk compared with individuals with untreated hypertension through all ages in late life. Individuals with treated hypertension had no increased risk of dementia compared with healthy controls.
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Results from Human Clinical Trials Do Not Support Metformin as a Longevity Drug
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/09/results-from-human-clinical-trials-do-not-support-metformin-as-a-longevity-drug/
The SENS Research Fou...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 24, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – September 23, 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.
ELLKAY Selected as CommonWell’s New Technical Service Provider. John sat down with leaders at ELLKAY and CommonWell to discuss how the organizations will be working together – primarily at the moment to support CommonWell’s QHIN efforts – and learn why data sharing entities are actually designed for seamless transitions to new service...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
A Call for Matching Donors for the LEV Foundation " Robust Mouse Rejuvenation 2 " Fundraiser
The Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) Foundation was founded by Aubrey de Grey to address an important missing aspect of the ongoing work to produce treatments that target the underlying mechanisms of aging. While the research and development community has made sizable strides in the past decade, and the first rejuvenation therapies now exist in at least prototype form, it remains the case that next to no-one is conducting combination studies that use two or more of these interventions. When considering therapies that can repair forms of the cell and tissue damage that cause aging, it seems plausible that two different thera...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 22, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
TEFCA, QHINs, HDUs, and Interoperability with Civitas CEO Lisa Bari
Civitas Networks for Health is a non-profit consortium that brings together a broad community of organizations interested in health data exchange. Many members are HIEs, but a number of other organizations in health care including community organizations are members as well. Civitas started only two and half years ago, but already have 165 members spread across the country.
In this short video, CEO Lisa Bari describes the most interesting aspects of Civitas’s recent conference. She said that people coming out of COVID-related isolation were eager to join workshops so that organizations such as HIEs, quality improveme...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability CIvitas Civitas 2023 Civitas Networks for Health Health Data Sharing Healthcare Interoperability Healthcare IT Video Interviews HIEs Lisa Bari QHINS TEFCA Source Type: blogs
