Healthcare Information and Management Systems Soci Blogs This is an RSS file. You can use it to subscribe to this data in your favourite RSS reader or to display this data on your own website or blog.

Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA
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. News The Sequoia Project and AHIMA are co-sponsoring the Data Usability Taking Root initiative, which will aim to implement data usability guidance published by a Sequoia Project workgroup with input form more than 260 organizat...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Accelecom Arcadia AT&T Availity Brightside Health Cerner Christine Swisher ClearDATA CMS CommonWell Health Alliance Cotiviti CVS CareMark Dave Wichmann Dr. Amy Compton-Philips eClinicalWorks eCW eLovu Health Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – July 9, 2023 – Providers spend 11% less time writing clinical notes than they did three years ago, 54% of surgeons unsure about first-to-market products, 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. News and Research The Connected Health Initiative released recommendations for state-level policymakers to strike a balance between protecting personal health information and supporting the use of digital health tools. Overall, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Carenet Health Clarify Health Connected Health Initiative EHR Association Epic Epic Research Ethicon Harvard Medical School Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features HIMSS Inovalon Laudio Lauren Struck Loyal MCG Health Source Type: blogs

Seen at HIMSS: the latest innovations in artificial intelligence, mixed reality, robotics, and interoperability
ChatGPT and Epic Systems This year’s buzzword in academic and now business technology is ChatGPT. Epic Systems, Microsoft, and OpenAI (the owners of ChatGPT) have announced the release of the next evolution in artificial intelligence (AI) called GPT-4. This new system integrates AI with electronic health records with the hopes of advancing medical care and Read more… Seen at HIMSS: the latest innovations in artificial intelligence, mixed reality, robotics, and interoperability originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 30, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Afua Aning, MD Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs

Connected Medical Devices —the Next Target for Ransomware Attacks
The following is a guest article by Ryan Witt, Healthcare Cybersecurity Leader at Proofpoint The Internet of Medical Things, or IoMT, is a deep web of interconnected devices that increasingly plays a vital role in care delivery. Unfortunately, these devices have also significantly enhanced healthcare’s cyber risk, and security researchers have raised alarms about the vulnerabilities of these devices for more than a decade. While we haven’t seen threat actors widely exploiting the vulnerabilities in the wild, it is only a matter of time—and the results of an event like an IoMT ransomware attack will be devastating to ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 27, 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 Consolidated Appropriations Act Cyber Risk Cybersecurity ECRI FDA Internet of Medical Source Type: blogs

Weekly Roundup – June 17, 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 Interoperability Saves Lives – and Builds Trust. For FQHCs such as Dallas-area HHM Health, maintaining trust is critical because many patients are new users of the healthcare system. The organization’s Geli Brown sat down with Colin Hung to explain interoperability’s role in building trust: When clinicians know more about a patient&...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs

A Demo of How to Make Healthcare Kiosks More Accessible for All
One of the most interesting opportunities at the HIMSS annual conference is the chance to see demos of a wide variety of health IT solutions. At this year’s event, we decided to film a number of demos of interesting health IT products that we thought readers of Healthcare IT Today would find useful. If you want to see all of these demos as we share them, be sure to subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today YouTube channel. The first demo I’m excited to share is by Nicky Shaw, US Operations Manager at Storm Interface. Shaw demonstrates how you can take a healthcare kiosk and make it accessible for those who ma...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Regulations Ada Healthcare ADA Healthcare IT Demos Healthcare IT Video Source Type: blogs

TEFCA Real Talk
As someone who has covered the health IT industry for 17 years, I’m always fascinated when I see something really grab the attention of the health IT community. That’s a hard thing to do when there are so many people pining for attention. Certainly AI us currently doing that in health IT, but in the world of interoperability TEFCA and QHINs are grabbing all of the attention. There are a lot of views on TEFCA, but the one thing that’s certain is that it’s grabbing a lot of the interoperability focus from government regulators and the industry. ONC recently released some stats that 51% of health...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Regulations CommonWell CommonWell Health Alliance Dr. Jim Jirjis Epic HCA Helathcare He Source Type: blogs

Why We Need to Think Differently About Storage in Healthcare
Managing health data is no longer as simple as archiving it for the odd retrieval by a clinician down the road. Today, health data is a strategic asset. Mining that data can lead to critical operational and clinical insights. Plus the data itself is critical to the creation of AI engines and machine learning algorithms. To manage health data properly, healthcare organizations need to think differently about data storage. Passive Data Archives It wasn’t that long ago that the most complex questions regarding health data storage were: Is there enough hard drive space to archive the data? and Is that archive secure? There w...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Cloud Storage data archive Epic Health Data Healthcare Cloud Healthcare Legacy Systems HIMSS HIMSS 2023 Source Type: blogs

What Trend Are People in Health IT Keeping an Eye On?
At the HIMSS annual conference, we were blessed to be able to talk to a wide variety of leaders in health IT to hear their thoughts related to what’s happening in healthcare IT for the Healthcare IT Today YouTube channel. One of the questions we asked these health IT experts was “What is a trend that you are keeping an eye on?” Check out all the answers we got to this question and see if maybe you should be paying attention to one of these topics a little more than you are now. Thanks to Tegria, Clearwater, Cox Communications, Honeywell, Lightbeam Health Solutions, Citiustech, Emtelligent, Karlsgate,...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Amwell Automation Anywhere Avel eCare Bandwidth CenTrak CitiusTech Clearwater Concord Technologies Connxall Cox Communications emt Source Type: blogs

Belong.Life Provides Holistic Online Patient Communities
Patients throng to communities where they can get practical life advice in a depth that only fellow patients can offer. Belong.Life is an online community and app designed to combine many forms of support patients benefit from. According to Irad Deutsch, co-founder and CTO, the average patient engages on the platform 15 times per month, demonstrating its value. The condition for which Belong.Life was created was cancer, but they have branched out into many other conditions. They now allow other organizations, such as pharmaceutical companies and hospitals, create communities there. A patient who receives a diagnosis is oft...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Belong.life Cancer Apps Healthcare AI Healthcare Generative AI Healthcare IT Video Interviews HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS23 Patient Source Type: blogs

ONC ’s HTI-1 Places Undue Burdens on Healthcare Providers, Health IT Developers
The following is a guest article by David Bucciferro, Chair of the EHR Association In April 2023, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released its much-anticipated proposed rule to advance interoperability, improve transparency, and support further access, exchange, and use of electronic health information (EHI). While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Advanced Interoperability CDI Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Clinical Decision Support CMS David Bucciferro Decision Support Interventions DSI eHI EHR Ass Source Type: blogs

Surescripts Makes Interoperability Official
Surecripts is a company that is synonymous with e-prescribing. Increasingly, healthcare organizations are using the company’s platform to exchange more than prescription information. Vaccination status, demographic information and notes are increasingly shared. Surescripts recently announced its intention to become a QHIN, firmly positioning the company a player in the interoperability space. Why would they do this? Healthcare IT Today sat down with Justin McMartin, Product Manager at Surescripts to get an answer to that question…and to learn more about the company’s interoperability efforts, their QHIN plans, and th...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability 2022 National Progress Report e-prescribing EHR Healthcare Information Exchange HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS23 Justin McMartin Medication History QHIN SureScripts Tara Dragert TEFCA Source Type: blogs

Do You Understand the Quality of Your Data and the Value Clean Data Can Provide?
We live in a messy world (and a biased one), so hardly any organization can claim to have data as accurate as they want. According to Mike Noshay, Founder and Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Verinovum, provenance is “supreme.” In other words, the way to good data is to know how it was collected, who collected it, when events happened and were recorded, and so on. Health care organizations need to know their data, but they also need to know their objectives. The types and amount of data cleansing they need depends on how they’ll use the data: to track high-risk patients, measure quality, etc. Nosha...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Health Data Health Data Costs Health Data Quality Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured HIMSS HIMSS Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – May 28, 2023 – 20+ health systems pledge to use Epic to share info under TEFCA, 84x increase in telehealth for mental health from 2019 to 2022, 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. News and Studies Nearly two dozen health systems have pledged to use Epic to share health information through the TEFCA framework, the EHR vendor announced, adding, “Our plan is to deliver software this year that will help...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT 4medica AliveCor Applied Robotics Association of Community Cancer Centers Avalon Healthcare Solutions AvaSure AVIAwards Clarify Health CliniComp CompuGroup Medical Conifer Consensus Consensus Cloud Solutions Conte Source Type: blogs

Fax As An On-Ramp for Interoperability
The journey to achieve interoperability in healthcare has been too long and too expensive. To address this, companies have put effort into creating interoperability tools and platforms designed to make it easier to exchange data. To accelerate interoperability efforts, however, creating more technology may not the answer. Perhaps interoperability can gain more traction by putting a focus on getting more organizations on board the interoperability train. Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to discuss this topic with Scott Turicchi, CEO at Consensus Cloud Solutions, the world’s largest digital fax provider. Consensus h...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops CHIR cloud fax solutions Consensus Cloud Solutions FHIR Healthcare Fax Healthcare Interoperability Healthcare Scene Featured HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS23 Source Type: blogs