Healthcare It News

MAY 2, 2024

UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty testified on May 1 before both the House and Senate about the seismic February 21 cyberattack of UHG subsidiary Change Healthcare, which was infiltrated by the ALPHV ransomware gang. His testimony offered a glimpse into the technical side of the attack and, and UHG's incident response.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Hospitals and health systems have been discussing digital-first patient engagement for a while now, but fewer organizations than you might think have made huge strides forward on that front. Digital-first patient engagement is poised to become a defining factor in healthcare delivery by 2025.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 13, 2022

Patients have significantly more power than they used to in their relationships with healthcare providers and payers. The last year or two have tested healthcare ecosystems across the globe in previously unimaginable ways. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2023

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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Sequence Health

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare environment, digital patient engagement has become a cornerstone for improving patient satisfaction, enhancing health outcomes, and streamlining communication between healthcare providers and patients.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2023

Rick Froehlich, President and Chief Executive Officer at ClearDATA It’s no secret that healthcare is a slow-moving industry. Once data is shifted, the real trick is keeping it all secure, especially for data that’s more sensitive, as is typically seen in the healthcare industry.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Justin Sirotin, Founder and CEO of OCTO Amidst the backdrop of the United States being the world’s highest spender on healthcare, a sober reality emerges: despite this immense investment, the nation faces many alarming statistics on the state of public health. is unsustainable. is unsustainable.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Srisawan Hospital, a private tertiary healthcare provider in Thailand, is stepping up on its digitalisation efforts to further raise its quality of care provision and hospital experience. WHY IT MATTERS. "For example, patients often request additional information from clinicians before signing a consent form.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

While most healthcare leaders in the Asia Pacific recognise the value of health data more than their global peers, they are still facing significant challenges in using data effectively, according to Royal Philips' Future Health Index 2022 report.

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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. While moving to the cloud is a big decision, it's the only way to stay relevant and competitive in today's healthcare market.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 12, 2023

Because mobile devices are generally security weak points for organizations, QR codes that are designed to ease processes such as image file transfers may leave protected health data vulnerable. Q: What are QR code exploits and how are healthcare IT systems vulnerable? Can healthcare organizations still use QR codes?

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2023

(doing business as Smile Digital Health) (“Smile”), a FHIR® health data fabric (HDF) and exchange solutions provider raises $30M in Series B growth capital led by existing investors including UPMC Enterprises.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 7, 2023

The partners announced that they are building an integration roadmap so Cognizant can run current and future healthcare platforms on Microsoft Azure – and migrate new and existing clients from on-premise environments to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. TriZetto's healthcare enterprise portfolio process 2.6B

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Dr. Tejaswi Kompala, head of cardiometabolic clinical strategy at Teladoc Health, says artificial intelligence is rethinking healthcare's approach to chronic conditions like diabetes. Working synergistically with healthcare providers and coaches to enhance patient experiences. Nonadherence affects 12% of the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 22, 2024

Cambron Carter, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Pearl The synergy of artificial intelligence (AI) and medical imaging has opened new horizons for healthcare. In healthcare, the stakes are high–higher, arguably, than in any other areas of AI deployment. In medicine – as opposed to, say, advertising – data is a public good.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

What You Should Know: – Health Commons Project , a non-profit dedicated to improving healthcare access and quality, has acquired OneHealthPort , Washington State’s Health Information Exchange (HIE). This commitment to innovation will further empower healthcare stakeholders across Washington State. ”

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, the sharing of health information is a delicate balance, especially when it comes to teenagers. THE PROBLEM Patient portals facilitate efficient sharing of health information between patients, their families and healthcare providers.

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p3care

JULY 2, 2023

Likewise, the healthcare sector is no exception to this trend. Healthcare practices find it difficult to handle significant PHI in their systems. Therefore, they need reliable and secure means to gather, store, and share this data. Through the Certification program, ONC has set forth the national standards for healthcare IT.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 30, 2022

Integrations with existing health information systems are also being planned as part of the two organisations' ongoing partnership. The healthcare provider is also eyeing to leverage The Clinician's cloud-based platform to support its ambulatory and other healthcare professional services across its network.

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Cloud Blogs

MARCH 15, 2022

There’s not a single part of healthcare that hasn’t been impacted by COVID-19. Reshaping the future of healthcare will take continued agility to respond rapidly and predict what's next, and that requires a new approach to healthcare solutionsone that harnesses data as a resource and turns its potential into power.

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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. Senator Mark R. Warner, D-Virginia.,

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

On Monday, Amazon Web Services announced the launch of a new initiative to help organizations worldwide build IT-powered social and healthcare programs to help patients in underserved communities. AWS is also seeking to fill "gaps in health data [that] contribute to inequities," he said. WHY IT MATTERS.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 11, 2024

What You Should Know: – The healthcare industry is poised for a seismic shift, powered by a disruptive technology: blockchain, according to the market.us, the Blockchain Technology in Healthcare Market report. This translates to enhanced security and peace of mind for both patients and healthcare providers.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Here, healthcare is evolving toward a Single Market in the EU. When I’m in the UK later this week, I’ll address the challenge for the UK, Brexit and the National Health Service. Over one-half of EU health citizens are concerned about the risks of health data privacy breaches and cybersecurity.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Yet, healthcare organizations face workforce and security challenges – ones that must be met while also appeasing the growing demands from patients. Digital health medtech presents an opportunity for executives to improve care levels and efficiency, simultaneously improving experiences and lowering costs.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

What You Should Know: – b.well Connected Health , a leading platform provider for connected healthcare ecosystems raises $40M in Series C funding led by Leavitt Equity Partners. Expansion Plans This Series C funding round further fuels b.well’s mission to address the long-standing issue of healthcare fragmentation.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 10, 2024

Ohioans are experiencing a historic shortage of behavioral healthcare resources. But population health management tools from Alera Health will help the Ohio Behavioral Health Providers Network better integrate mental health care. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

ONC published the Cures Act Final Rule to broaden patient and provider access to health-related data, specifically through health IT developer adoption of secure standardized APIs. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 9, 2023

Driven in part by the growth of Medicare Advantage and oncology, both of which require the data within medical notes rather than just claims and labs data, organizations will start to use their unstructured EMR data in entirely new ways. Rob Cohen, CEO at Bamboo Health. Tim O’Connell, MD, founder and CEO of emtelligent.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Sharing initial findings from their latest region-wide survey on healthcare providers' experiences in using EMR systems, HIMSS's APAC managing editor Thiru Gunasegaran, who also served as panel moderator, noted that clinicians spend between five and six hours on average on the EMR system.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 18, 2024

Using AI for a new decision support service that empowers PCPs to get their patients with cancer into treatment faster is a budding area in healthcare AI where automating physician note-taking and reducing clinical administrative burden have been the majority of mainstream LLM use cases. Learn more and register. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

"Congress should urge OCR to withdraw the rule immediately," AHA said in its response to a request for information on data privacy and HIPAA. The association said the rule has resulted in consequences that contravene OCR's efforts to encourage hospitals to share non-private healthcare information with the public.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2024

OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care. THE PROBLEM This issue stemmed largely from gaps in continuous care during transitions between these settings.

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Cloud Blogs

APRIL 7, 2022

The 2022 HIMSS conference wrapped up in Orlando and experts from around the world attended to share their perspectives and key learnings from the last two years of the pandemic, which have transformed healthcare and made a lasting impact.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 2, 2023

Additionally, the app seamlessly connects with the MHR, leveraging ADHA's new Health API Gateway ; this allows new health data on the MHR to be automatically downloaded onto the my health app. It is also fully integrated with end-to-end encryption with the MHR platform.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 29, 2024

Chris Bowen, Founder and CISO, ClearDATA The recent $50 million initiative announced by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) can’t hurt in the ongoing battle against ransomware in the healthcare sector.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Anand Naik- CEO & Co-Founder at Sequretek The healthcare industry has long been built on the promise of providing uninterrupted care across a vast and interconnected ecosystem. In 2023, more than 133 million healthcare records were exposed or stolen due to data breaches. million records. million records.

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