QliqSOFT: Addressing the Challenge of Collecting SDOH Information
Collecting social determinants of health (SDOH) information from patients is challenging. It is not easy to ask if a person is experience food insecurity or is currently unhoused. QliqSOFT is making it easier to get this important information while maintaining dignity.
Healthcare IT Today caught up with Bobbi Weber, VP of Product Marketing & Customer Success at QliqSOFT, a company that provides HIPAA-compliant, real-time communication between doctors, nurses, caregivers and patients. We wanted to find out more about how the company is helping healthcare organization collect SDOH information.
SDOH Data is Vital for ACO ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 19, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Accountable Care Organization ACO REACH Bobbi Weber Healthcare Chatbots HIMSS HIMSS 2024 HIMSS24 QliqSOFT SDOH Social Dete Source Type: blogs
The Evolution of Healthcare at Home, the Technology Driving this Change, and It ’ s Impact on the World of Healthcare
The world of healthcare is ever-evolving, especially when new technology is being adopted. One such new area is healthcare at home. Although we were forced into fully remote operations with COVID-19, we have been making modifications along the way and have discovered how beneficial it can be to our organizations and our patients. To make further strides though, we have to understand where we’ve come from, where we are now, and how it is making an impact. So let’s take a deeper look into healthcare at home to see how it has evolved over time, the technology that is driving this change, and how it is impacting ou...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 19, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Academy Medtech Ventures Alaina Victoria Brenden Hayden Cara Lunsford Carrie Nelson Cindy Gaines Digital Communication Discern He Source Type: blogs
Trinity Hunt Partners Establishes Healthcare Advisory Platform with Investment in Coker
Trinity Hunt Partners, a growth-oriented private equity firm focused on services businesses, is pleased to announce a majority investment in Coker Group (Coker), a leading healthcare advisory firm serving hospitals, private and health system-affiliated physician groups, private equity-backed platforms, and ancillary healthcare entities.
Coker represents the foundational investment of Trinity Hunt’s healthcare advisory services platform. Trinity Hunt’s investment and strategic expertise will support the platform’s growth initiatives, including execution of acquisitions, expansion of strategic service capabilities, inv...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 19, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP Coker Coker Group Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A John Oakes Kirkland & Ellis LLP KPMG Corporate Finance LLC Max Reiboldt Trinity Hunt Trinity Hunt Partners Source Type: blogs
Venture-backed telemental health care companies are creating a new opioid epidemic
More Americans are seeking mental health care than ever before, but many people receiving treatment have never met their psychiatrist in person—or even at all. Telemedicine has been growing in popularity for years, but the COVID-19 pandemic sent tele-health care utilization rates through the roof. Now, after sharp increases brought by COVID-19 lockdowns, American telehealth utilization
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Venture-backed telemental health care companies are creating a new opioid epidemic originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 19, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tamir Aldad, MD, MBA Tags: Meds Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Harnessing Digital Innovation to Unlock Cancer Discoveries
By DOUG MIRSKY & BRIAN GONZALEZ
What if digital innovations could be the key to reducing the burden of cancer? CancerX was founded in 2023 as part of the Cancer Moonshot to achieve this goal. By uniting leading minds across industries such as technology, healthcare, science, and government, we are breaking down silos and leveraging digital innovation in the fight against cancer. With ambitious goals to cut the death rate from cancer by at least 50% and to improve the experience of people who are affected by cancer, digital innovation is critical.
As a public-private partnership co-hosted by Moffitt Cancer Center ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health Tech Brian Gonzalez CancerX Digital Medicine Society Doug Mirsky Moffitt Cancer Center Source Type: blogs
This Is Really Not Good Enough I Believe! We Have Regulatory Blindness In Full Flight I Fear.
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - April 19, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
A Look at the Hospital Room of the Future at Tampa General Hospital
When healthcare staff approach a hospital room, it’s important to know basic things about the patient like their preferred language, whether they’re in isolation, or whether they’re not supposed to eat (an NPO order). Traditionally, these facts are handled through physical markers or even buried in the patient record. The “digital white board” and “digital door sign” technologies from eVideon display the necessary information automatically where it’s clearly visible and provide a look into what the hospital room of the future looks like powered by technology.
Amy Bender, Info...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 18, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Digital Door Signs eVideon Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured HIMSS HIMSS 2024 Source Type: blogs
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
Anatomy IT Expands Healthcare Specialties Expertise with Acquisition of Managed IT Services Leader
Anatomy IT, the leading platform for healthcare IT and cybersecurity solutions, and a portfolio company of Atlantic Street Capital (ASC) today announced the acquisition of Manta HealthTech, a healthcare-focused managed IT services firm, to expand its footprint in healthcare subverticals, including dental and optometry.
“We recognized Manta HealthTech’s depth and experience serving various healthcare subspecialties with intelligent digital transformation, cybersecurity, value-based care delivery, and payment models, as well as other evolving areas within healthcare,” said Frank Forte, CEO at Anatomy IT. &#...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 18, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Anatomy IT ASC Atlantic Street Capital Clint Delander Frank Forte Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Manta HealthTech Peter Shabecoff Source Type: blogs
Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Trigger Universal Health Care in America? What do expert Academics say?
By MIKE MAGEE
In his book, “The Age of Diminished Expectations” (MIT Press/1994), Nobel Prize winner, Paul Krugman, famously wrote, “Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything.”
A year earlier, psychologist Karl E. Weich from the University of Michigan penned the term “sensemaking” based on his belief that the human mind was in fact the engine of productivity, and functioned like a biological computer which “receives input, processes the information, and delivers an output.”
But comparing the human brain to a computer was not exactly a complemen...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Bob Wachter Erik Brynjolfsson Karl E. Weich Medical AI Mike Magee Paul Krugman productivity Source Type: blogs
The Pace Of Change In The AI Space Is Really Becoming Dizzying!
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - April 18, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Is OMI an ECG Diagnosis?
Written by Jesse McLaren A 70 year old with prior MIs and stents to LAD and RCA presented to the emergency
department with 2 weeks of increasing exertional chest pain radiating to the
left arm, associated with nausea. The pain recurred at rest 90 minutes prior to
presentation, felt like the patient ’s prior MIs, and was not relieved by 6
sprays of nitro. Paramedics provided another 3 sprays of nitro, and 6mg of
morphine, which reduced but did not resolve the pain. What do you think of the ECG, and does it
matter?There ’s normal sinus rhythm, LAFB, old anterior Q waves,
and no diagnostic sign of OMI. I sent th...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 18, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Jesse McLaren Source Type: blogs
QHINs, Health Data Exchange, FHIR, AI and More with CommonWell Health Alliance
At HIMSS, we sat down to talk with CommonWell Health Alliance to learn about their passion for interoperability and some of the latest happenings with the CommonWell community. This included an update on CommonWell’s new technical service provider, ELLKAY and their recent designation by the federal government as a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN).
CommonWell was formed 11 years ago from a consortium of major EHR vendors to carry out the mandate for interoperable data exchange in the HITECH and Affordable Care Acts. As Executive Director Paul L Wilder points out, they are a “switchboard” throu...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 17, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability LTPAC Change Healthcare CommonWell CommonWell Health Alliance ELLKAY FHIR Health Data Exchange Health Information Exchange Healthcare AI Healt Source Type: blogs
Walking the TikTok Tightrope: Social Media Use by Healthcare Professionals
The following is a guest article by Alexandra V. Aglieco, APRN, FNP-BC
What compels established, well-respected healthcare professionals to post insensitive, ridiculing content on social media with no regard for the patient or family? Do they see a unique opportunity for exponential TikTok views, and subsequently disregarded professional standards?
Social media has successfully infiltrated nearly every industry, and healthcare is no exception. New forms of social media, such as TikTok, have opened the floodgates to an entirely new manner of healthcare professional conduct online, with an attitude that is much more open to ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 17, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Accessibility Alexandra V. Aglieco Healthcare Social Media Healthcare TikTok HIPAA professionalism Source Type: blogs
This Week ’ s Health IT Jobs – April 17, 2024
It can be very overwhelming scrolling though job board after job board in search of a position that fits your wants and needs. Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week.
Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found:
Oracle Health Analysts – Ellit Groups
Patient Access Manager – Generis Tek Inc
EPIC Ambulatory Analyst – Odyssey Information Services
Quality Improvement Director – Saint Vincent Hospital
Application Developer (Oracle...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 17, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Career and Jobs Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System AG Globe Services Cardiovascular Institute of the South Catawba Valley Health System Catholic Relief Services CIOX Health Community Health Systems ECU Health El Source Type: blogs
