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What will be the impact of COVID-19 on the next wave of health IT innovation?

Healthcare It News

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of all kinds of healthcare information technology, from telehealth to artificial intelligence. Crunchbase estimates that healthcare technology companies have raised a record-breaking $36.6 billion globally from 2020 through October 2021.

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Navigating the intersections of population health and precision medicine

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In this article I will look at some of these connections, and some solutions we already have in healthcare IT to take advantage of the opportunities in them. Please stay tuned… Sam Hanna is executive-in-residence and associate dean of healthcare management, technology and innovation at American University. health system.

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How to Address Security Issues in IoT Devices – Cybersecurity

Healthcare IT Today

Cyber resiliency is an important aspect of healthcare information technology and focuses on the ability of systems to withstand, recover and adapt to different types of failures, threats, and attacks. To address the growing cybersecurity risks in IoT devices, governments around the world have introduced several legislations.

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For 2023, patient experience, 'smarter' analytics and data-driven medicine

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Matthew Gitelis, CEO of PatientIQ, a health IT company deriving insights from patient-reported outcomes data, has some thoughts about healthcare information technology in 2023. For one, that patient experience will be king in the year ahead.

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Know When to Hold ’em: The Legal Considerations for Healthcare Information Technology Data Retention and Purging

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. Purging Guidelines & Criteria HIPAA privacy rules do not address medical record retention requirements, and the guidelines from several states and the federal government are ambiguous at best.

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Medical Informatics Engineering Secures Growth Investment to Bolster Enterprise Health Platform

HIT Consultant

MIE Background Founded in 1995, MIE boasts a rich history in healthcare information technology. They were instrumental in launching one of the nation’s first health information exchanges and were an early leader in electronic health records (EHR) with their WebChart product.

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Move Beyond Just Managing Content – Activate It!

Healthcare IT Today

Well-informed health information management (HIM) and healthcare information technology (HCIT) professionals are recognizing enterprise content management (ECM) as an opportunity to re-energize and move forward with improved performance. What is Enterprise Content Management (ECM)? But why just manage it?