Bonus Features – November 13, 2022 – HCA extends 30-year relationship with MEDITECH, cost of care replaces pandemic as top reason to defer care, 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
HCA Healthcare signed a new agreement for a large-scale deployment of MEDITECH Expanse, continuing a relationship with the EHR vendor that has spanned three decades and been recognized with the 2021 CHIME Colla...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: EMR-EHR Healthcare IT AbsoluteCare Atropos Health BARDA Bioverge Cerner CharmHealth directtrust HCA Healthcare HCTec Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital Julie McCorkle Lifehouse MDaudit Meditec Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – November 12, 2022
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.
CIO Insights from CHIME’s Fall Forum. John Lynn attended the CHIME Fall Forum and tuned in to the CIO panel, where longtime and interim CIOs shared their thoughts on how the CIO role has changed, how CIOs can help to address burnout, and how to guide their organizations into the future. Panelists also talked about the path forward for digital innovatio...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 12, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Hint Health Acquires AeroDPC to Offer End-To-End Platform for Direct Primary Care Providers
The company also welcomes Dr. Brad Brown from AeroDPC as the new Medical Director
Hint Health, the company powering the direct primary care (DPC) movement, today announced the acquisition of AeroDPC, a practice management and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) designed for DPC clinics. This elevates Hint from being a trusted enrollment, membership management, and billing platform, to a comprehensive solution that provides everything a DPC doctor needs in one innovative platform.
The existing U.S. healthcare system, which operates on a fee-for-service insurance infrastructure, is leading to increased provider burnout, patient...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT AeroDPC Direct Primary Care Dr. Brad Brown Electronic Medical Records Equal Health Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Hint Connect Hint Health Hint S Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – November 6, 2022 – More than 90% of patients interested in telehealth, half of payers have had a data breach in the last five years, 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
A survey from virtual care platform KeyCare concluded that 92% of patients would be somewhat or very likely to use telehealth within the next year for routine medical care such as urgent care, chronic condition...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 6, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Ami Knecht Behavioral Health EHR Cassie Nix Cedar Check Your Fit CipherHealth DexCare HCAHPS Health Gorilla Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features HealthCues Hugh C Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – October 30, 2022 – 46% of Americans have gone into debt paying medical bills, 41% say retail and virtual care experiences are disjointed, 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
A survey from digital health platform Babylon found that 46% of Americans have gone into debt from their medical bills, while 34% are currently struggling to pay their medical and insurance bills. In addition, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 30, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Revenue Cycle Management Altus Amazon Amazon Healthcare Aspen RxHealth athenahealth AtlantiCare B Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – October 29, 2022
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.
Doctors Love Alerts – Until They Don’t. The idea behind the alerts to help doctors get the information they need quickly to improve patient care. The problem is that EHR alerts are great until doctors stop looking at them – and with hundreds of alerts streaming into the average EHR every day, John Lynn said he’s worried the EHR may so...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Nextech Announces Acquisition of TouchMD, Enhancing Specialty Practice Patient Experience
Nextech, the market leader providing a single, comprehensive specialty practice solution including Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) functionality, is pleased to announce its acquisition of TouchMD, a visual consultation, marketing, and imaging software platform for plastic surgery, medspa, dermatology, and ophthalmology practices. With this acquisition, TouchMD combined with Nextech’s platform enhances both the digital and in-person patient experience and clinical experience for specialty practices.
“Acquiring TouchMD was an easy decision,” said Bill Lucchini, CEO at Nextech. “Our cus...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bill Lucchini EHR Electronic Health Record Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Kary Smith Nextech Patient Journey pm Practice Management TouchMD Visual Consultation Source Type: blogs
WELL Health to Acquire EMR, Billing and Clinical Assets from CloudMD
WELL Health is acquiring CloudMD’s Cloud Practice entity which includes OSCAR based Juno EMR or “Electronic Medical Record” and ClinicAid billing Software applications as well as three primary care clinics located in the province of British Columbia.
The combined entities serve more than 2,500 healthcare practitioners across Canada and represent WELL’s entrance in the Alberta and Saskatchewan markets for its EMR and billing products.
Post transaction WELL expects the assets to operate profitably while contributing more than $9M in topline revenues.
WELL will pay approximately $5.75 milli...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 24, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Amir Javidan Apps.Health ClinicAid Cloud Practice Cloud Practice Inc. CloudMD CloudMD Software & Services Inc. Electronic Medical Record Hamed Shahbazi Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Source Type: blogs
NEW Today! Health System Patient Comms Startup Well Health Becomes Artera
BY JESSICA DaMASSA
Gotta love a new name! Well Health, arguably one of the best-funded digital front door and patient communications startups you’ve never heard of (they’ve raised just under $100 million with little to no fanfare) is today announcing their new moniker, Artera.
Founder & CEO Guillaume de Zwirek breaks the news with us and talks about the strategy behind the name change from both a brand and a business standpoint. Artera is in the (still) hot health tech infrastructure space, selling a platform that health systems can easily integrate into their EMR systems, patient portals or other practice m...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech WTF Health health system Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Patient Comms Startup Well Health Source Type: blogs
How to Automate the Patient-Provider Working Relationship
The following is a guest article by Stephen Dean, Healthcare CRM Expert and Co-Founder of Keona Health.
Many health care professionals think the strength of the patient-provider relationship is determined solely by the face-to-face interactions between patients and physicians, and that all problems begin and end there. But in-person interactions are often not the root cause of patient dissatisfaction. Splinters in the relationship can also begin remotely, brought about by frustrating telehealth systems.
Today’s patients want seamless, holistic, and reliable health care access, self-service, and communication. They want t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring AI Artificial Intelligence Automation Electronic Health Record Keona Health Patient Satisfaction Patient-Provider Relationship Patient-Staf Source Type: blogs
Burnout and the Staffing Crisis – How Do They Impact the Healthcare Workforce and What are Some Possible Solutions?
During the pandemic, so much was asked of our healthcare workers that they began to get burnt-out and started to quit. With people leaving, the remaining staff began to be stretched to make up for this loss. Stretched out led to stretched thin, meaning that more healthcare workers got burnt-out and quit as well. Leaving us stuck in a vicious cycle of not enough workers and burning out quickly as a result. So how do we get out of this cycle?
We reached out to our Healthcare IT Today community to hear their thoughts on physician burnout and the healthcare staffing crisis and see what solutions they had. Take a look and see i...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 6, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Bryan Dickerson burnout Dr. Kikelomo (Dayo) Belizaire Dr. Ujjwal Ramtekkar Healthcare Automation Healthcare Burn Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –17th September, 2022.
This study adds to the evidence showing that expanded access to these services could have a longer-term positive impact if continued.”Roughly 1 in 8 beneficiaries in the pandemic group received OUD-related telehealth services compared with 1 in 800 in the prepandemic group, the research revealed. Access to telehealth services was associated with better treatment retention and lower risk of medically treated overdose in the pandemic group compared to those not receiving telehealth services.-----https://healthimaging.com/topics/management/education-training/ai-deterring-students-pursuing-radiologyConcerns about the future ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 17, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - September 13, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and any related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon, a...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – September 10, 2022
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.
Perspectives from the DirectTrust and Civitas Conference. You may recall from our August 27 roundup that John Lynn was busy at The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit. This week, he shared insights from the best and brightest minds in healthcare interoperability, including a chat with new Civita...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup 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
