Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2024

Dan O’Connor, Vice President, Service Desk Delivery at HCTec , says that resolving a customer service call involves a lot more than fixing the problem that the customer bought. Furthermore, every call is about patient care, even if it’s helping a staff person use their computer.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

" CMH, which serves more than 400,000 people in the state, saw a significant decline in in-office visit numbers, said Martel, as well as a drop in the number of those seeking care through the emergency department and hospital admissions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 2, 2024

And, though the company's forensic investigation will continue for the foreseeable future, Witty admitted that personally identifiable information and protected health information for, in his estimation, about one-third of Americans was stolen. UHG has provided $6.5 billion in accelerated payments as of April 26, the company reported.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2019

At least one in three people who have tried out virtual health care have done so because they use technology in all aspects of life and want to do the same with their healthcare. A common theme at health care meetings these days is how and when health care will meet its Amazon, Apple, or Uber moment? ” .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2021

Prior to 2020, Colorado's Boulder Community Health had put the infrastructure in place to support telehealth, but struggled to gain adoption because of limited provider and patient demand. Telehealth was critical to connecting with our patients to continue their health maintenance safely in their own home.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2019

If you don’t know the work of Dr. Verghese, and since you’re reading the Health Populi blog, you must get to know Dr. V now. We want our physicians to know us, deeply indeed, through all of our “omes:” genome, proteome, metabolome, transcriptome, and so on, Dr. V observes. million views. ” The U.S.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 11, 2024

Touted as the product of 10 years of work, the most recent proposed rule issued July 10 by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will usher in an age of automation for healthcare interoperability through application programming interface-based exchange capabilities, officials said on Wednesday.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 9, 2023

By Zainab Ahmed Psychiatric care in the Emergency Department is all-or-nothing and never enough. The ED acts as a safety-net for a failing health system, one that places little value on mental health services, either preventative or follow-up. Upon discharge, our patients are, once again, on their own.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2020

"Much of this transformation is dependent on temporary flexibilities extended to health systems and providers that are limited to the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration," the letter read.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services' final rules regarding the Physician Self-Referral Law (also known as the Stark Law) and the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute. The American Telemedicine Association this week issued a statement in response to the U.S. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

Lord knows that through the bedlam of the past year-plus, there have been countless lessons to be learned in healthcare and health IT. They are: Andrew Buscemi, director of information technology at Holyoke Health Center in Holyoke, Massachusetts. ( @HolyokeHealth ). But they've also been dreaming up creative solutions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Harbor is a nonprofit mental health and substance use disorder treatment provider based in Toledo, Ohio, that has been addressing community needs for more than 100 years. Clearly, psychiatric care is a much needed service, and access to this care is an issue. It serves more than 23,000 individuals annually. ” PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2024

We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them how AI-driven predictive analytics and machine learning algorithms are being employed to streamline hospital operations, optimize resource allocations, and improve overall healthcare system efficiency.

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The Digital Health Corner

JULY 17, 2017

Perhaps the best definition of patient safety is that of the World Health Organization. Simply put, it is “…the prevention of errors and adverse effects to patients associated with health care.” Improving health literacy. In fact, low health literacy is related to higher mortality rates. I would like to highlight a few.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Virtua Health's successful "get human fast" online engagement platform propelled patients to interact with staff and clinicians expanded to virtual consultations, chatbots and RPM. The enterprise health system created six distinct service lines supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 12, 2024

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. Do you have an open health IT position that you are looking to fill?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

According to a study published last week in the Journal of the American Informatics Association, virtual urgent care visits at NYU Langone Health grew by 683%, and non-urgent virtual-care visits grew by a staggering 4,345% percent between March 2 and April 14. As COVID-19 continues to hammer the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2022

The state is 24,320 square miles and is the only state located entirely in the area known as Appalachia, which faces gaps in educational achievement, employment and income as well as a variety of negative health consequences compared with the rest of the country. These services also are limited in scope. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For many of us, change is hard. In cybersecurity, change is essential to defeat two of the most common causes of data breaches: the ever-evolving attack styles of hackers and human error. New products and features designed to protect data from the latest attack vectors and human errors are released regularly.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. achieved within days of the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic," said Dr. Tarun Kapoor, the health system's chief digital transformation officer.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2024

In a statement sent to Healthcare IT Today, the EHR Association said the disincentives are “too narrowly focused and will do little to support broader interoperability and greater health information access,” as they focus solely on certified health IT users. The public comment period runs through the end of August.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Mike Semel, President and Chief Security Officer of Semel Consulting The Ascension health system data breach can’t be easily separated from the United Healthcare Change Health breach that recently caused a huge financial and medical impact across the healthcare sector and may have breached the personal information for a third of Americans.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The Telehealth Improvement for Kids’ Essential Services, or TIKES, Act of 2020 would require the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to issue guidance to states about how to increase access to telehealth under Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Use of mobile apps to track personal health activity fell from nearly 1 in 2 consumers to 1 in 3. Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 2, 2024

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. If none of these jobs fit your needs, be sure to check out our previous health IT job listings.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 19, 2023

John Showalter, MD, Chief Product Officer at Linus Health The FDA’s recent accelerated approval of Leqembi was welcome news across the Alzheimer’s community. It is expected to be more than six times the size of the public health campaign for COVID-19. billion marketing the medication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The healthcare industry has a golden opportunity to consolidate the advances achieved in digital health and virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Future Health Index insights report captures feedback from 500 doctors under the age of 40 in five countries: the United States of America, China, Singapore, France and Germany.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services once again (for the ninth time) extended the public health emergency this past month , stretching it beyond mid-July. But sooner or later, that provision of the Public Health Service Act will draw to a close. We spoke recently with Allison M.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2021

Micky Tripathi, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the US Department of Health and Human Services shared his interoperability wish list during his opening keynote at the 2021 Direct Trust Summit. Topping his list was richer information exchange to support advanced payment models.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

An expert panel will gather during the first day of the event to discuss how digital health can be improved via cross-border collaborations. Speakers will also be touching upon cross-border health policy implementation, and the challenges and facilitators that have contributed to successful collaboration between territories.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the nonmedical factors that contribute to the health of an individual – where you are born, where you work, your income, your age, your race, your religion, etc. And by nature, humans are social creatures. This means there is a pretty good overlap of SDOH with population health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Partners officials say the program – as part of its five-year systemwide strategy and rebranding designed to position it as "health care system of the future" – will focus on digital innovations for diagnostics, therapeutics, medical devices, analytics and population health. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

In this video, two leaders in the field discuss two recent initiatives: The Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study , co-led by Censinet, KLAS Research, and the American Hospital Association, and the Hospital Cyber Resiliency Initiative Landscape Analysis , a recently published report by the U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 21, 2023

A study published in Health Affairs suggests 98.6% A study published in Health Affairs suggests 98.6% Following these discoveries, several hospitals and health systems reported breaches of protected health information, some of which involved impermissible disclosures of millions of patient records.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 26, 2024

Becky Kahn, Chief Client Officer at Works & Trusted Health It’s no secret that health systems across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services projected that the demand for registered nurses would hit more than 3.6 Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s always been pretty obvious that factors such as wealth, race, education, and the quality of food and water have enormous impacts on health. Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH).

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