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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

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

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

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

Practicing patience with patients
Patience is a notoriously hard skill to master. When working in health care, your patience is constantly tested, a lesson I have repeatedly learned in my time as a medical assistant in a large orthopedic surgery practice. Whether it is taking the time to reexplain instructions to a patient when I know am running behind Read more… Practicing patience with patients originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 17, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Natalie Enyedi Tags: Education Primary Care 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

Science Snippet: Breaking Down Biodegradability
Have you ever noticed plastic utensils or paper plates labeled as “biodegradable” and wondered what that meant? Materials are biodegradable when microorganisms such as bacteria can break them down into their building blocks. Biodegradable Plastics Plastic is everywhere: Milk jugs, grocery bags, and takeout containers are just a few examples. There are many types of plastic, but they’re all made up of long chains of repeating subunits called polymers. These polymers are designed to be durable and resistant to factors like heat, sunlight, and water, which makes them useful in a variety of situations. Toget...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - April 17, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology STEM Education Bacteria Science Snippet 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

Post-delivery complications: a glimpse into obstetric care
The red climbs up. She just delivered, and the arm of my gown. It seeps under the glove, soaking the cuff. She’s still bleeding. No worries – I call for the postpartum hemorrhage meds in the order I’ve memorized and used successfully hundreds of times before. It’s always stopped before. I trust my training. She Read more… Post-delivery complications: a glimpse into obstetric care originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 16, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Christina Adams, MD Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs

Helping Clinicians Gain More Control Over Their Time
For Rishi Sarna, MD, Chief Clinical Officer at Backline, communication is central. He points out that communications have lagged behind everything else in medicine, and are holding back progress in patient care and the physician experience. In the video interview below, we sat down with Dr. Sarna and Jackie Rice, VP and CIO at Frederick Health, to discuss these challenges and Frederick Health’s work with the Backline team to address them. Dr. Sarna admitted that, traditionally, doctors have routinely sent photos over unprotected message channels to get consultations. This was a violation of HIPAA, but the doctors o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Regulations Security and Privacy Backline Care Coordination DrFirst Frederick H Source Type: blogs

Cybersecurity Investment in Fundamental Tools and Training Is Key to Securing Your Healthcare Organization
According to Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint, Inc., phishing emails are still the most prevalent and dangerous sources for security breaches. In this video, Witt and Joshua Roth, Chief Information Security Officer at Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), discuss how they protect against breaches through fundamental investments in tools and training. This interview with Healthcare IT Today took place in the shadow of the recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare, which is still preventing thousands of health care providers from receiving payments. Witt says that training, processes, and t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Security and Privacy Children's Hospital of Orange County CHOC Healthcare Breaches Healthcare Credentials Breach Healt Source Type: blogs

Frazier Healthcare Partners Announces Acquisition of RevSpring
Investment in Leading Communications and Payment Solutions Provider Frazier Healthcare Partners (Frazier), a Seattle-based, healthcare-focused investment firm, announced today that it has completed its acquisition of RevSpring (or the Company), a leading provider of end-to-end communication and payment solutions servicing healthcare and financial services companies, from leading private equity firm GTCR. Frazier is joined in the transaction by NEA, 22C Capital, and RevSpring’s senior leadership team. The partnership with Frazier will leverage Frazier’s investment, experience, and deep industry expertise to accelera...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 22C Capital Christina Reszka Frazier Frazier Healthcare Partners Goodwin Proctor LLP GTCR Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Kirkland & Ellis LLP Morgan Stanley NEA RevSpring Roger Davis Sco Source Type: blogs

From Patent To Product: The Speed Of The Digital Health Evolution
We’re bombarded with mindblowing headlines of new medical miracles every day. BCI helps paralysed patients talk again! Robots in the stomach! Micro-organs on organ-on-chip technologies! But it is almost impossible to see through the hype and know if and when these will yield actual, patient-ready solutions. So let’s get into this maze and decipher how a new, revolutionary medical technology develops from an ingenious idea to a market-ready product with two real-life examples: the artificial pancreas and wireless ECG. In early April, the UK’s NHS rolled out an artificial pancreas (APS) for Type 1 diabetes patients,...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF artificial intelligence digital health Innovation patent analysis Medicine Source Type: blogs