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Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress, says HIMSS GR director
Healthcare organizations must urge the Senate to pass critical telehealth legislation, and enact at least a two-year extension of the important PHE-era policies while working toward a permanent solution. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - September 27, 2022 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – September 18, 2022 – HIMSS and WHO to collaborate on digital health, inpatient admissions for pediatric mental health up 60% since 2016, 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 WHO/Europe and HIMSS have signed an agreement to collaborate on digital health, with the entities saying the partnership will allow for a more aligned approach to digital transformation in Europe. Under the agre...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 18, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Amanda Bury American Telemedicine Association Arcadia ATA BridgeHead Software BrithInsihgt CereCore Clarify Health Dartmouth Health Dash Chat Edifecs ePrescribing First Health Advisory Forescou Source Type: blogs

IT Infrastructure Needs in Healthcare
Yesterday, we shared a number of the insights into the health data and interoperability needs in healthcare. Today, we’re going to share insights from our expert community for some of the more classic IT infrastructure needs in healthcare. Charlie Clarke, Senior Vice President of Technology at hc1 In its simplest form, treat infrastructure as cattle, not as a pet. Staying on top of equipment retirement, utilizing virtual infrastructure that is easy to upgrade and maintain, and not allowing endpoint devices to become obsolete. Dan Kompare, Vice President of Information Systems at Harmony Healthcare IT With 15+ years...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 2, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Security and Privacy Charlie Clarke Chris Larkin CloudWave Concord Technologies Dan Kompare Dr. Tamir Wolf eClinicalWorks eCW Harmony Healthca Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – August 21, 2022 – DirectTrust sending 75 Million messages per month, HIMSS23 submission deadline is September 12, 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 DirectTrust, the industry alliance enabling secure PHI exchange among providers and between providers and patients, announced that the Direct Exchange has sent and received nearly 3.3 billion messages since 2014. This amoun...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 21, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability Alyssa Lin Authenticx Bamboo Health CHRISTUS Health CRISP direct exchange Direct Messaging directtrust Duke Health EchoNous eHealth Exchange Everest Home Care Healthcare IT Tod Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – August 21, 2022 – DirectTrust sending 75 Million messages per month, HIMSS23 submission deadline is Sep 12, 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 DirectTrust, the industry alliance enabling secure PHI exchange among providers and between providers and patients, announced that the Direct Exchange has sent and received nearly 3.3 billion messages since 2014. This amoun...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 21, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability Alyssa Lin Authenticx Bamboo Health CHRISTUS Health CRISP direct exchange Direct Messaging directtrust Duke Health EchoNous eHealth Exchange Everest Home Care Healthcare IT Tod Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – August 14, 2022 – Payers and providers look at Big Tech differently, half of physicians and nurses don ’ t think their orgs are headed in the right direction, 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 HIMSS has released its 2022 Future of Healthcare Report, and survey results suggest that payers and providers look at big technology companies differently. While 40% of health system leaders report “high c...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 14, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System 4medica Advata Amazon Healthcare AVIA Brian Marsella CCS Ceras Health Corrine Stroum COVID-19 Dayor Belizaire DeliverHealth Ellipsis Health Fathom Source Type: blogs

Unlock Efficiency by Integrating Disparate Systems into One Comprehensive ERP Solution
Conclusion Healthcare organizations operate on razor-thin margins. A unified, cloud-based ERP solution that unlocks efficiencies, increases employee retention, and strengthens the supply chain can make a healthcare organization financially stronger. Think of what good can come from those savings – they could mean the purchase of a new ambulance or a new MRI machine – money that otherwise would be eaten up by the process inefficiencies inherent in environments with multiple business systems. Just as modern consumers no longer have to cart around five or six digital devices when they only need a smartphone, healthcare ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 5, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Cloud-Based ERP Employee Retention Great Resignation Healthcare Burnout Healthcare CRM Healthcare Efficiency Healthcare ERP Healthcare Supp Source Type: blogs

A Look Back at 12 Years of #HITsm Chats – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/29 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) on the topic “A Look Back at 12 Years of #HITsm Chats.” Hard to believe it’s been nearly 12 years since the #HITsm Twitter chats were started. Almost 6 years ago, we took over the #HITsm chat from the Health Standards blog (which ironically is now gone) and Corepoint (which was acquired by Lyniate). This will be our 272nd #HITsm chat that we’ve hosted of about 552 #HITsm Twitter chats that have been held since the start ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 26, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Healthcare IT #HITsm Chat #HITsm Topics Health IT Source Type: blogs

Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 23rd July2022.
In this study, researchers sought to determine whether differences in occult hypoxemia treatment existed between people of different races.Occult hypoxemia was defined as arterial blood oxygen saturation of less than 88 percent despite a pulse oximetry reading of 92 percent or more.-----https://healthitsecurity.com/news/security-awareness-and-training-crucial-to-preventing-healthcare-phishing-attacksSecurity Awareness and Training Crucial to Preventing Healthcare Phishing AttacksSecurity awareness and training greatly decreased the likelihood of an employee falling for a healthcare phishing attack, KnowBe4 researchers foun...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 23, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Multi-stakeholder Data-led Collaboration Helps Drive Health Equity Progress
The following is a guest article by Lisa Bari, MBA, MPH, Chief Executive Officer at Civitas Networks for Health. Health equity was a central theme at this year’s ViVE and HIMSS conferences, and it is gaining interest and attention as many in the health IT community ask ourselves what we can do to improve the […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 31, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability AcademyHealth Cara James CIvitas Civitas Networks for Health directtrust DirectTrust Summit Dora Hughes Health Equity Health IT Conferences HealthBegins Healthcare Conferences He Source Type: blogs

CIO Podcast – Episode 32: Clinical Informatics Success with Tom Selva
For the 32nd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Tom Selva, MD, CMIO at University of Missouri Health Care. In this discussion, we talk about Dr. Selva and his team winning the 2021 HIMSS Davies Award and what it meant to him and his organization. Plus, he […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 24, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare CIO Podcasts Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System CIO Leadership CMIO Healthcare CMIO healthcare informatics Healthcare Leadership HIMSS HIMSS Davies A Source Type: blogs

RPM Platform Learnings from UK Being Brought to the US
One of the most interesting people I met at the HIMSS 2022 conference this year was João Bocas. If you’re on Twitter, then you’ve probably seen him tweeting from his account @WearablesExpert where he shares great digital health content. One thing I love about Bocas is that he brings a great international perspective to the […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 23, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Digital Health Digital Salutem Healthcare Wearables HIMSS HIMSS 2022 HIMSS22 João Bocas Re Source Type: blogs

Interesting Insights into Healthcare Security and Ransomware
We’re a little late posting this, but at the HIMSS 2022 conference, I had a chance to learn and share some really great insights into healthcare security and ransomware from the team at Fortinet. We live tweeted many of them, but thought an article round up would be great for those that missed the tweets. […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy Fortinet Healthcare Asset Management Healthcare Scene Featured HIMSS HIMSS 2022 HIMSS22 Medical Device Security NIST NIST Security Source Type: blogs

You Have To Really Wonder Whether This Will Really Work Long Term.
This appeared last week: Leidos-led consortium wins $329.6 million Australian Defence Force digital health platform contract Telehealth company Coviu and clinical and practice management software provider MediRecords join Leidos in the ambitious project. By Lynne Minion May 05, 2022 09:24 PM A consortium led by systems integrator Leidos has secured a $329.65 million contract to roll out a comprehensive new digital health capability for the Australian Defence Force by July 2028. Leidos and Australian companies MediRecords, Coviu and Nous Group joined in the consortium bid to deliver the ambitious technologies, includi...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

OCR + NLP + Fax = A Winning Combination for Consensus
Consensus Cloud Solutions has added Natural Language Processing capability to its offerings which will make it much easier for healthcare organizations to turn unstructured documents into a rich source of information. Their added capability means that clinicians will now have additional context when providing care to patients, which can lead to better outcomes and reduced […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 27, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Consensus Cloud Solutions efax technology Healthcare Fax Healthcare NLP Healthcare Scene Featured HIMSS HIMSS 2022 HIMSS22 John Nebergall Source Type: blogs