HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 6, 2023

What You Should Know: – Fountain Life, a leader in advanced diagnostics and preventative healthcare, has acquired LifeOmic , a health data technology company specializing in precision medicine. This acquisition underscores the growing importance of proactive healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Alok Mandal, Head of Healthcare Consulting, Virtusa Massive disparities continue to plague healthcare in the United States. Health equity means ensuring that health resources and services are accessible and affordable for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, geography, ethnicity, or financial circumstances.

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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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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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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Data needs to be captured from every possible location—at the edge, at the core, in the cloud, on premises, or on mobile devices. Images cannot be locked in silos, because silos prevent real-time AI access. Data scientists should not be spending most of their time creating datasets manually and enhancing data quality.

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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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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. Consider the role of medtech in healthcare and learn how your organization can lead by example. It can assist with many preventive-care measures.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 8, 2023

Despite success in rapidly developing vaccines, the unprecedented public health emergency also exposed significant gaps in U.S. public health infectious disease data collection and analysis methods which are critical for identifying behavioral risk factors and preventive actions.

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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. Like many in the U.S.,

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

What makes this situation especially complex and troubling is that the healthcare organizations themselves may not have been aware that the Meta Pixel Tool had been embedded in its website and/or that it was tracking, comparing, and receiving data about patients, including PHI.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center patients are receiving extortion emails stemming from a reported data breach that occurred late last month. WHY IT MATTERS Nick Quinlan, a Fred Hutch patient, was asked to pay 50 bitcoin to prevent his data from being leaked, according to the NBC15 Seattle report. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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HIT Consultant

JULY 15, 2024

What You Should Know: – The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) is taking a leap forward in digital health transformation by partnering with Guidehouse and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) to assess the current state of its public health data infrastructure.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Wednesday, September 14, 2022, the GAO posted its review (same title as this blog) of infection prevention and control in nursing homes. The document is 61 pages in length. A corresponding 7- minute podcast is found here. IPC is a matter of life and death!

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 9, 2023

Rajesh Sharma, Vice President and General Manager of Systems Integration, Data Analytics and Interoperability Product Offerings, Gainwell Technologies The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has laid the critical groundwork to create a connected healthcare system in which patients, providers, and payers can easily exchange information.

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GoMoHealth

JANUARY 12, 2024

By Cassandra Cousineau Manager, Strategic Content and Engagement , GoMo Health The healthcare industry is constantly evolving. These significant changes are propelling innovation and setting new healthcare industry trends in 2024.  Virtual technologies are set to revolutionize healthcare delivery. that doesn’t include AI.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 18, 2024

. – The strategic collaboration aims to proactively identify and address behavioral health needs within Intermountain’s primary care patient population in Colorado. Behavioral Health Integration in Primary Care People with combined physical and behavioral health conditions often experience higher healthcare costs.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center patients are receiving extortion emails stemming from a reported data breach that occurred late last month. WHY IT MATTERS Nick Quinlan, a Fred Hutch patient, was asked to pay 50 bitcoin to prevent his data from being leaked, according to the NBC15 Seattle report. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

HIMSS is calling on healthcare stakeholders to get involved in two initiatives to help expand access to quality care for underserved and at-risk populations. As part of its Global Health Equity Week, HIMSS (parent organization of Healthcare IT News), is promoting two policy campaigns, at the federal and state level, respectively.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The recent enforcement of new rules to encourage the freer flow of healthcare data mainly through application programming interfaces (APIs) has jolted providers and payers into action to meet interoperability standards. To contribute to and benefit from the healthcare API market—which is globally estimated to be worth $277.4

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The mobile and web application that digitally shares breast images sought a managed cloud services provider to operationalize compliance and ensure patients’ private health data remains safe and secure. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 9, 2022

Shawna Koch Mishael, Head of Healthcare and Biomedical, RN, MBA, SenecaGlobal. This year’s HIMSS Conference offered some exciting insights and a renewed focus on data-sharing and interoperability. – Take note of how organizations like Health Level Seven (HL7) are approaching and helping to launch interoperable solutions.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 24, 2022

The healthcare industry is experiencing a data deluge, and it shows no sign of slowing down. In 2020, estimates reported that healthcare data comprised a staggering 30% of the world’s total data volume ; projections for 2025 bump that number up to 36%, a growth rate outpacing every other industry.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 17, 2022

“Could nations build a healthcare environment where health comes by default?” ” He gave an example of the citizen-centric date platform, We Are , which is about to be launched in Flanders in Belgium, to give patients control over their health data. ” asked Kas.

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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 5, 2023

. – The United States faces rising maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity rates, and research indicates that many of these issues are preventable. Additionally, the inquiry will examine the use of broadband-enabled health technologies in maternal care and identify barriers preventing their access and utilization.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 9, 2023

8, seeking clarity into the technology developer's Med-PaLM 2, an artificial intelligence chatbot, and how it's being deployed and trained in healthcare settings. What license terms exist in any product license to use Med-PaLM 2 to protect patients, ensure ethical guardrails, and prevent misuse or inappropriate use of Med-PaLM 2?

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 7, 2021

We are in a potential Health Renaissance and innovating at break-neck speed. We have to be careful with our data. That’s why the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard was established. The Three S’s of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. Standardization.

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Health Business Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Two years into COVID-19, I’m ready to hazard a few guesses about what lies ahead for healthcare. Cybersecurity threats in healthcare get bigger and scarier. Consumers stake a claim to their own health data. Consumers stake a claim to their own health data. Climate change becomes a major healthcare issue.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 22, 2024

Brian Montgomery, Senior Security Engineer, Altera Digital Health Research reveals that the total number of data breaches in healthcare has doubled over the last three years. Despite these alarming trends, most data breaches can still be prevented by implementing the foundational principles of strong cybersecurity.

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Lexis Nexis

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Better Healthcare Digital Experience Good for Members and Payers As healthcare evolves toward more digital tools and offerings, consumer expectations about the online experiences their providers and plans offer have never been higher. Benefits of a Strong Healthcare Digital Experience?

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 7, 2022

With all of these goals in mind, in early 2020, ThedaCare turned to digital health, rolling out to its team members, patients and the community at large a digital "front end" to healthcare, with the help of vendor b.well Connected Health. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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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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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the early chaos of the coronavirus pandemic, the healthcare industry struggled to keep up with an influx of patients amidst a shortage of necessary resources. Cybercriminals took advantage of the opportunity, and since the start of the pandemic to late 2020, cyberattacks on healthcare firms in the U.S.

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Healthcare Leadership

MAY 10, 2022

In healthcare, the last mile is the link between you and the healthcare network touch point – where care is delivered – the entire healthcare system of people, services, goods, and organizations. What types of last-mile access do we all need to the healthcare network? Blog by Joe Babaian. Financial access.

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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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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

JULY 11, 2024

The uptick in data breaches and cyberattacks targeting the healthcare industry correlates to the number of internet-connected and insecure technology facilities are adopting. Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center and the Office of Information Security, the frequency of healthcare data breaches has trended upward since 2012.

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