Expanding Real World Datasets
How are you working to advance research and improve patient outcomes? Are you precisely matching records across disparate datasets? Find out at a Webinar TODAY Feb 1st 1pm ET Sponsored by LexisNexis Risk Solutions Health Care
Healthcare’s fragmented data silos and strict but necessary privacy restrictions make it difficult to link real-world datasets. Legacy tokenization technology has helped link records across disparate data sources, but it lacks the accuracy required to uncover actionable insights that can truly improve patient outcomes. Next-generation tokenization technology leveraging a Referential Data Layer is...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Camille Cook Chirag Parghi DataSets Lexis Nexis Token Matching Source Type: blogs
Expanding Real World Datasets
How are you working to advance research and improve patient outcomes? Are you precisely matching records across disparate datasets? Find out at a Webinar on Feb 1st 1pm ET Sponsored by LexisNexis Risk Solutions Health Care
Healthcare’s fragmented data silos and strict but necessary privacy restrictions make it difficult to link real-world datasets. Legacy tokenization technology has helped link records across disparate data sources, but it lacks the accuracy required to uncover actionable insights that can truly improve patient outcomes. Next-generation tokenization technology leveraging a Referential Data Layer is ne...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Camille Cook Chirag Parghi DataSets Lexis Nexis Token Matching Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Healthcare Data Analyst
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York.
Here’s a description of the position:
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.
Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders,...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Health Data Jobs Health IT Jobs Healthcare Data Analyst Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers New York eHealth Collaborative New York Health IT Jobs NYeC Source Type: blogs
What Duplicate Patient Notes Reveal About Health Care and Its Records
Bloat in patient notes has been alarming doctors for some time. The American Medical Informatics Association began a project to reduce patient documentation to 25% of its current volume by 2025. This task won’t be solved by any single organizer or sector; the AMIA calls on providers and health systems, Health IT vendors, and policy and advocacy groups to join the effort.
A recent study in a JAMA publication, “Prevalence and Sources of Duplicate Information in the Electronic Medical Record,” helps drive discussion of bloat forward by focusing on one manifestation: the duplication of text from one patient n...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT AdvancedMD Amazon Comprehend Medical AMIA billing CipherHealth Cloudticity Cumberland Heights Foundation Donna Pritchard Doug McGill EHR Document Source Type: blogs
Modernizing Medicine To Pay $45 Million To Settle False Claims, Kickback Allegations
EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine has agreed to pay $45 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower suit alleging that the vendor engaged in varied kickback schemes as well as causing its provider customers to submit false claims.
The lawsuit was filed in 2017 by law firms Phillips and Cohen LLP and Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC. The US Department of Justice joined the case in March 2022, which now targeted founders and executives Dan Cane and Dr. Michael Sherling as well as ModMed, after conducting its own investigation.
The whistleblower in the case is Amanda Long, who joined the company in 2014 and exited her ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 4, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Amanda Long Dan Cane Dr. Michael Sherling EHR Whistleblower False Claims Healthcare Kickbacks Inform Diagnostics meaningful use Miraca Life Science Modernizi Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 8th October, 2022.
This report aligns with the reality that healthcare organizations are facing in terms of the effects to patient safety, " said Anahi Santiago, chief information security officer at Delaware-based ChristianaCare.She and other healthcare cybersecurity leaders spoke withHealthcare IT News about the connection between cyber hygiene and patient safety and how to prepare for healthcare cyber attacks. -----https://ehrintelligence.com/news/meaningful-use-ehrs-may-be-key-to-improved-quality-of-care‘Meaningful Use’ EHRs May Be Key to Improved Quality of CareHospitals that meet the “Meaningful Use” EHR requirements were ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Rochester RHIO Advances Interoperability Using Best-in-Class Direct Secure Messaging
Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information.
Thanks to the regulations included as part of meaningful use, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), every healthcare provider using certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT) has access to Direct Secure Messaging. These regulations have made Direct Secure Messaging the most widely adopted transport method for securely sharing health data between tru...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 4, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability Direct Messaging Direct Secure Messaging directtrust Event Notifications Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured HISP Rochester RHIO Sara Abrams Secure Exchange Solu Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –1st October, 2022.
This article details information required for integration into EHRs to build personalized treatment plans and develop successful SDOH programs that provide resources and support for patients in need. In addition, successful SDOH programs implemented by Kaiser Permanente and Boston Medical Center showcase how supporting clinicians with real-time SDOH data can lead to patient-centric care. Create a 360-Degree Patient View Through TechnologyThe Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)indicatesthat the “collection, documentation, reporting, access, and use of SDOH data … can be used t...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 1, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Healthcare Data Analyst
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York.
Here’s a description of the position:
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.
Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 28, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Health Data Jobs Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers New York eHealth Collaborative New York Health IT Jobs NYeC Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –10th September, 2022.
This article is adapted fromVoices in the Code: A Story About People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made,out Sept. 8 from Russell Sage Foundation Press.In May 2021, I got a call I never expected. I was working on abook about A.I. ethics, focused on the algorithm that gives out kidneys to transplant patients in the United States. Darren Stewart —a data scientist from UNOS, the nonprofit that runs the kidney allocation process—was calling to get my take: How many decimal places should they include when calculating each patient’s allocation score? The score is an incredibly important number, given it determines w...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
What ’ s Next? The Future of Healthcare IT Social Media – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 8/5 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Erica Olenski Johansen (@thegr8chalupa) on the topic “What’s Next? The Future of Healthcare IT Social Media.”
Friends, we have so much to talk about! The last twelve years have been some of the most formative and important of our careers – and in some cases, our lives.
Looking back to 2010, the health IT initiatives of that time consisted of getting up-to-speed as quickly as possible about Meaningful Use and helping to move health systems and clin...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 2, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Erica Olenski Johansen Tags: #HITsm Healthcare IT #HITsm Chat #HITsm Topics Erica Olenski Johansen Health IT Social Media Source Type: blogs
Is Patient Portal a Thing of the Past?
The following is a guest article by Liza Dzhezhora, Healthcare IT Analyst at Itransition.
For years, patient portals have been considered the most efficient tool for patient engagement. According to the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) Stat poll, by 2018 patient portals were employed by about 90% of the surveyed providers.
However, this titanic effort in patient portal development alone seems to be insufficient for portal adoption: the same poll reports that barely 30% of patients use these solutions, year after year. So are portals a thing of the past or is it still possible to revive them? We’ll look int...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 6, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System health management Itransition Liza Dzhezhora MFMA MGMA Stat Novant Health Patient Portal Source Type: blogs
Cash is Queen Says RCM Experts
Revenue provides stability and flexibility to healthcare organizations. Both are extremely valuable as patient volumes remain below pre-pandemic levels. The healthcare staffing crisis is also putting severe margin pressure on organizations. To address this challenge, organizations are turning to technology and partnering with specialized vendors to improve their revenue cycle processes.
Healthcare IT Today recently sat down with two experts in revenue cycle management (RCM) to discuss how adopting technology and properly motivating people can make a big difference:
Jess Stover, Senior Vice President of Revenue Cycle Manag...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 30, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Healthcare IT HIM Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management Derek Shaw gamification Healthcare Revenue Healthcare Scene Featured Inovalon Invicta Health Solutions Jess Stover Michael Quinn RCM SimiTree Workflow Automati Source Type: blogs
The “wonder years” of health care
In the wake of medical home certification, meaningful use, the Cures Act, and the pandemic, it ’s clear that virtually all health care is now built on a digital foundation. EHRs are pervasive in the delivery system and are increasingly connected to practice management software, virtual visit, mobile capabilities, health information exchanges, and population health platforms.Read more …The“wonder years” of health care originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 28, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/martin-lustick" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Martin Lustick, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Health IT Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
EHR Optimization – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 88
For the 88th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about EHR Optimization. Many people are tired of hearing about EMR and EHR. That feels like something we talked about a decade ago when meaningful use was hot and now we’re ready to move on. While I can understand this feeling, the reality is […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 16, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn John Lynn and Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Podcasts Hospital - Health System EHR Consulting EHR Optimization EMR Consulting EMR Optimization Health IT Health IT Companies Health IT Podcasts Healthcare Source Type: blogs
