HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Not all devices are created equal, and medical organizations can prevent many risks by only issuing those with stronger security features. That may mean letting patient-end devices transmit health data but not retrieve anything from the provider’s side.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2023

. – Health Action Plan is a helpful first step when it comes to prevention and early risk detection. It offers customers specific actions and next steps on their health journey. – 23andMe reminds customers that they should not use Health Action Plan to replace a visit to their primary healthcare provider.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2024

Patients discharged from hospitals often were readmitted due to complications that could have been prevented with better monitoring and more proactive management, said Matt Nieukirk, director of the SNF practice at OSF HealthCare. "All interventions and patient outcomes are thoroughly tracked and analyzed," he added.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 24, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new final rule today aimed at preventing information blocking in healthcare. – The final rule establishes disincentives for healthcare providers who engage in practices that interfere with a patient’s access to their electronic health information (EHI).

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

” 1 Improvements stem from how medtech connects patients to their data and healthcare providers. It plays a key role in shifting from disease treatment to health management and also works to alleviate operational inefficiencies and deliver actionable insights. It can assist with many preventive-care measures.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

By focusing on person-centered, inclusive design as the first of its federal health information technology principles, ASTP says the plan seeks to "strengthen individual's ability to securely access and use their own health information to take greater control over their own health.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 10, 2024

The self-governed ONEcare networks will have access to clinical and operational process improvements and remote patient engagement tools that will enhance value-based care agreements that recognize and incentivize increasing access to care, patient outreach and satisfaction, preventative care and avoidance of unnecessary health costs, Alera said.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 4, 2022

Whether they are about mental health, COVID, general health concerns or any number of other issues, healthcare provider organizations constantly are managing droves of calls from patients.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Earlier this year, Change Healthcare suffered a major cyberattack which led to one of the largest medical data breaches of all time. The company is responsible for between one-third and a half of all healthcare transactions in the United States, which means millions of Americans’ sensitive health data was stolen.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

From finding the appropriate and accessible provider to forging a trusting and attentive personal relationship with patients during and after their clinical encounter, healthcare providers make it difficult for the patient to know when and where it’s appropriate to reach out.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2023

To ensure data privacy and security are maintained, companies can enforce different layers of protections including identity access management, security monitoring for anomalies and regular compliance audits. This is because IaC allows security best practices to be written into the infrastructure code.

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Triage Health Law

DECEMBER 13, 2023

On December 4, 2023, Singapore’s Ministry of Health (Ministry) announced that the nation’s first ever comprehensive health data law, the Health Information Bill (Bill), will be introduced in mid-2024. A set of Cyber & Data Security Guidelines for Healthcare Providers (Guidelines) was also published.

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Etactics

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

It connects healthcare providers, banks, and patients to process transactions quickly. Many platforms also include billing automation and payment tracking to help providers manage finances. This system is very convenient for streamlining the payment process for both the patients and the providers.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Last month, a document synthesized a vision for transforming health and care in a digital single market , adopted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). Over one-half of EU health citizens are concerned about the risks of health data privacy breaches and cybersecurity.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

COVID-19 turned telehealth into a household term, transforming the services that healthcare providers can offer patients. Telehealth is still viable and very important to connect patients to healthcare providers, even as the world returns to a semblance of normalcy. Mattias Fridström, Chief Evangelist at Arelion.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 17, 2024

What You Should Know: – Fitbit , the leader in wearable technology, and Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), a provider of diagnostic information services, announced the launch of the Wearables for Metabolic Health (WEAR-ME) pilot study.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This disconnect leaves members without the personalized healthcare necessary for improved clinical outcomes. RadiantGraph addresses this challenge with its built-in health data engine, which efficiently manages and translates vast amounts of data across healthcare systems.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 8, 2024

Given these figures, it is unsurprising that healthcare providers are actively seeking solutions, particularly through existing and emerging technologies, to overcome their most significant cultural challenges in patient treatment. Have there always been cultural challenges in healthcare? Undoubtedly.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 29, 2024

Historically, the OCR has imposed fines on healthcare providers following data breaches, a strategy that often feels punitive rather than supportive. In 2022, the OCR imposed a total of $15 million in fines on healthcare entities for non-compliance with HIPAA, leading to data breaches.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Unsurprisingly, healthcare providers are turning to new technologies like AI in search of solutions. Considering this, it is safe to say that, for now, chatbots cannot provide medical advice regarding such complex conditions as cancer. So, I recommend sticking to platforms leveraging pre-trained models.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 10, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has taken a significant step towards improving healthcare information exchange with the release of the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability (HTI-2) proposed rule.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 11, 2024

It’s no secret the healthcare industry amasses a fortune of personally identifiable information (PII) and health data. Manual Radio Interference Many manufacturers publish manuals containing information on which radio frequencies their medical device implants use to transmit data.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

As part of the athenahealth® Marketplace, 100Plus RPM services are now available to athenahealth’s growing network of healthcare providers, empowering them to seamlessly set up and manage RPM programs for their patients in need of this service and drive revenue for their practices.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2019

AI is indeed on-the-rise in healthcare : as I have begun planning my agenda for #HIMSS19 convening next month in Orlando, I’m struck by the number of surveys already released on the adoption of AI among healthcare providers, payors and suppliers.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Electronic health data exchanges speed up this process, but it’s not a catch-all solution. A lot of healthcare providers and insurance companies operate off of legacy systems and use a wide range of devices. – Technical: Data access must be restricted to appropriate parties.

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Healthcare Leadership Council

JUNE 2, 2023

Our members are each committed to ensuring that the healthcare system works for all citizens and they are devoting energies and resources to initiatives aimed at making this happen. These collaborations include partnerships with federally-qualified health centers, houses of worship, and local nonprofit organizations.

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Cloud Blogs

APRIL 26, 2021

Instead of focusing improvement resources on limited populations and acute care, effective PHM strategies drive transformation that addresses all levels of healthcare delivery, including prevention and care management. In Finland, patients who need secondary, or specialist, care must be referred by a primary healthcare provider.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 24, 2022

But to realize the dream of mainstream precision medicine, the healthcare industry must first reckon with the intensive compute requirements it entails. A DNA test at the doctor’s office screening for those variants, performed before your prescription is ever written, could prevent one of the yearly 1.3 About Adam Marko.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 9, 2022

Healthcare tech companies can finally more easily share data with others in the healthcare ecosystem and create tools that are interoperable with healthcare systems. Grealy alludes to the data flow barriers that still exist today even while some important federal interoperability standards have been passed.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 6, 2025

Through video calls, phone consultations, and even chat-based platforms, telemedicine has made healthcare more accessible and convenient. Many healthcare providers adopted telemedicine solutions to continue offering care while minimizing the risk of infection.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 18, 2024

Benefits for Patients and Providers: Early identification: NeuroFlow’s platform will help healthcare providers identify behavioral health needs early, allowing for timely interventions and improved patient outcomes.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 3, 2023

Having spent sixteen years perfecting the ability to capture health data from multiple areas of the body and developing solutions for third parties, I am excited for Valencell to embark on a new chapter. Meeting Demands Under Pressure.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Recovering patients usually demonstrate poor levels of adherence, as many people – already weakened by the operation and the medication – forget to enter their health data or struggle to read basic equipment, like a thermometer, correctly.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 28, 2022

When you’re waiting for an answer to cure or prevent a disease, that difference can feel like forever. Computers create synthetic data to mimic real-world data and, as accurate as the numbers may appear, they are still fabricated. . Another major concern with medical data is security. Pam Holt, U.S.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

To address this industry crisis, the new collaboration will offer healthcare teams: Easier care coordination : Holon and HealtHIE Nevada’s technology assists in the exchange of health information among disparate healthcare providers.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Virtual care and RPM can bridge the gaps for seniors while controlling costs through more proactive, preventive care – but aren’t they too technologically averse to participate? Broadband remains extremely important for supporting audio-visual telehealth interactions, access to personal health data, and many remote monitoring devices.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2022

Veterans who opt to participate in the program, which was co-developed with the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and is run through Evidation’s app , will be able to track relevant heart health data over time, like activity, mood, symptom, and weight data, and have that data shared back with them weekly.

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