Wide Complex Tachycardia -- VT, SVT, or A Fib with RVR? If SVT, is it AVNRT or AVRT?
A 69 y.o. male with pertinent past medical history including Atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, cardiomyopathy, Pulmonary Embolism, and hypertension presented to the Emergency Department via ambulance for respiratory distress and tachycardia. Per EMS report, patient believes he has been in atrial fibrillation for 5 days, since coming down with flu-like illness with rhinorrhea, productive cough, SOB. Patient is on rivaroxaben, carvedilol, and dofetilide (to suppress atrial fib -- rhythm control). He states that he maybe missed a dose or two during recent illness. On EMS arrival, patient ' s oxygen sat...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 28, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
This Week ’ s Health IT Jobs
As most of you know, we’ve had a healthcare IT job board called Healthcare IT Central for a long time. In fact, it was integral to the growth of Healthcare IT Today. While we happily helped many health IT professionals find jobs and healthcare organizations fill their health IT positions, our focus has definitely moved from growing the job board to the content, podcasts, and videos we have been doing on Healthcare IT Today. With that change of focus, I’m sad to say that shortly we’ll be shutting down the Healthcare IT Central job board.
As part of that change, we still want to share health IT jobs w...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 27, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Career and Jobs EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Cerner Jobs Epic Jobs Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Careers Healthcare IT Jobs Meditech Jobs Source Type: blogs
Featured Collaboration at HIMSS24 Between MEDITECH, Google, and Mile Bluff Medical Center
I’ve always said that some of the most interesting things in health IT are when someone brings together the right mix of technology, partners, and users to do something that they couldn’t possibly do alone. I sometimes refer to this as health IT needing to put together the right packaging. The best example of this in our personal lives was when the iPhone was launched. There wasn’t much that Apple invented itself in the original iPhone, but what they did amazingly well was to package all of the various technologies such that the iPhone has transformed the world.
The same is true in health IT. We h...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 26, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Aashima Gupta Dara Bartels EHR Burnout EHR Search Google Google Cloud Healthcare A Source Type: blogs
WebMD Health Corp. Acquires Healthwise, Incorporated ’ s Operating Assets, Building on Leadership in Member and Patient Engagement Solutions
Healthwise’s Current Operating Assets will become part of WebMD Ignite, Creating an Industry-Leading Healthcare Growth and Engagement Platform Serving 650+ Healthcare Organizations
WebMD Health Corp., an Internet Brands company and a leader in health information services for consumers, physicians and other healthcare professionals, today announced it has joined forces with Healthwise, Incorporated, the patient and member health education and engagement company, through the acquisition of Healthwise’s current operating assets.
Healthwise delivers a powerful offering of consumer health content to help healthcare ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 26, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ann Bilyew Canaccord Genuity LLC Dr. Adam Husney Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Healthwise Internet Brands WebMD Health Corp. WebMD Ignite Source Type: blogs
CIO Podcast – Episode 71: Data, Analytics, and AI with Richard Clark, PhD
For the 71st episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Richard Clark, PhD, Senior Vice President and Chief Analytics Officer at Highmark Health to discuss data, analytics, and AI! To kick off this episode, we discuss Clark’s double role working for a payer and provider and how that has allowed him to do things that would otherwise be difficult if he wasn’t. Then we take a look at the use of AI and GenAI and talk about where it is making the most impact in healthcare today and where we think it will make the most impact 3 years from now. Next, Clark shares some tips for what peop...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 25, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Healthcare CIO Podcasts Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops AI Solutions CIO Leadership GenAI Google Cloud Healthcare Analytics Healthcare D Source Type: blogs
Why Managing Mobile Devices at Scale Matters in Healthcare
Healthcare organizations are increasingly reliant on mobile devices for daily operations, enabling tasks that range from clinical communications to electronic record access. The proliferation of devices brings new challenges including loss, security risks, and a strain on IT resources. Managing those devices effectively not only reduces risk, but also improves workflow efficiency says Daniel Siegal, MD, CEO of Navv Systems, a company that offers a mobile device management platform.
Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Siegal to discuss the challenges of managing mobile devices in healthcare.
Healthcare Has Embraced Mobile...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 25, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Security and Privacy device tracking Dr. Daniel Siegal healthcare mobile devices Healthcare Scene Featu Source Type: blogs
Medicine as a public good
Medicine is unlike most other goods and services in the extent to which it has important positive externalities – that is, benefits for people outside of the transaction, who are not the providers or consumers. (Of course it has negative externalities as well, including carbon emissions and notably, a huge quantity of plastic waste.) A straightforward positive externality is infectious disease control. Prev enting or curing infectious diseases prevents them from being transmitted to others. This is an immense benefit to society that goes far beyond the direct value to people who are vaccinated or treated.Another positive...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 25, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Palpitations and presyncope in a 40-something
Discussion: Putting all of the information together this patient is most likely suffering from arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (AC) better known as ARVC. The medical hx is typical, with sudden onset tachydysrhythmia during physical exertion. It is not uncommon for the initial presentation to be sudden cardiac death (SCD). In fact it is one of the leading causes of SCD in people age less than 40 years. Thus it is very important to identify this disorder. AC is a disease in which myocardium is replaced by fibrofatty tissue. This usually and predominantly affects the RV free wall and apical regions, but it can affect the left v...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 24, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Magnus Nossen Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – March 23, 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.
Addressing the Billing Cycle With Ambient Clinical Voice. John Lynn talked to Gautamdev Chowdary and Sean Ross at Medvise.AI, which has trained voice-to-text transcription to assign the best ICD or CPT codes and aims to provide fully automated and accurate billing. Read more…
A Look at Interesting Innovations at HIMSS 2024. Healthcare IT Today reco...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Voice-to-Billing Ambient Clinical Voice at Medvise.AI
The ambient voice solution at Medvise.AI focuses on the revenue cycle. According to CEO Gautamdev Chowdary, they have trained their voice-to-text transcription on medical input and made it extremely accurate with full automation. They have also achieved 100% accuracy in billing through a few extra features.
If the conversation did not provide enough information to assign the best ICD or CPT codes, the service asks a few simple questions of the doctor after the visit. The codes can then be assigned and stored in the medical record within 30 seconds.
COO Sean Ross says that a doctor who does not want to take time to review t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 22, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management Ambient Clinical Voice Automated EHR Documentation CAC Computer Assisted Coding Guatamdev Chowdary Health Source Type: blogs
Transforming Clinical Quality & Value in Rehabilitation with Neurocognitive Technology
The following is a guest article by Jared Gillespie, Senior Director of Clinical Solutions at Academy Medtech Ventures (AMV)
In the landscape of rehabilitative care, the integration of neurocognitive technology stands as a beacon of innovation, charting a course toward improved clinical quality and patient outcomes. This journey into the brain’s potential within rehabilitation not only elevates the standard of care but also underscores the role of advanced technologies in shaping the future of healthcare.
Traditional rehabilitative care has predominantly focused on physical recovery, often overlooking the brain’...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 22, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Academy Medtech Ventures AMV Clinical Quality Healthcare Transformation Jared Gillespie Neurocognitive Technology rehabilitative c Source Type: blogs
The Evolution of How Provider Organizations Share Data with Payers
It’s reasonable for a company like MRO to have a chief interoperability officer. According to their chief interoperability officer, Anthony Murray, the company has spent 22 years building tools to “exchange data seamlessly” in healthcare. This includes much of the healthcare data that’s been locked up in free text data in many healthcare systems.
In our interview with Murray below, he shares some of the main challenges that healthcare has with achieving interoperability in today’s environment. This includes an important focus area of MRO to be able to share data between providers and payers....
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Analytics/Big Data EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT HIM Hospital - Health System Interoperability Anthony Murray FHIR Healthcare Data Exchange Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Payers Healthcare ROI Healthcare Scen 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
Excimer Laser Coronary Angioplasty
Transcript of the video: Conventional balloon angioplasty enlarges the vessel a bit as well as plasters the plaque on to the vessel wall, while laser angioplasty is a new technique, also known as laser atherectomy, in which excimer laser, which is a monochromatic source of light, is used to vaporize the plaque or thrombus by producing heat and shock waves. The most important advantage of laser angioplasty or excimer laser angioplasty, is that you need only a standard guidwire, 0.014 inch standard guide wire, unlike the other atherectomy devices which require a bulkier guidewire.
Diagrammatic representation of laser angiopl...
Source: Cardiophile MD - March 21, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Discern Health Ties Interventions to Patient Improvements
Paulo Pinho, MD, Chief Medical and Strategy Officer at Discern Health, highlighted to us that analytics have to be explainable to be trusted. It’s not enough to show a correlation, but to demonstrate that the clinical intervention was responsible for the improved patient outcome. Patients as well as clinicians demand explainability (also known as transparency and accountability).
Ben Hsieh, Vice President of Product, says that Discern Health works with payers, providers, and Health Information Exchanges (HIE). Their service concentrates currently on care management for value-based care.
Pinho would also like Discern ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 20, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Ben Hsieh Discern Health Health Information Exchanges Source Type: blogs
