TEFCA Real Talk | Healthcare IT Today
As someone who has covered the health IT industry for 17 years, I’m always fascinated when I see something really grab the attention of the health IT community. That’s a hard thing to do…
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Category: HIMSS
Why We Need to Think Differently About Storage in Healthcare | Healthcare IT Today
Managing health data is no longer as simple as archiving it for the odd retrieval by a clinician down the road. Today, health data is a strategic asset. Mining that data can lead to…
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What Trend Are People in Health IT Keeping an Eye On? | Healthcare IT Today
At the HIMSS annual conference, we were blessed to be able to talk to a wide variety of leaders in health IT to hear their thoughts related to what’s happening in healthcare IT for…
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Belong.Life Provides Holistic Online Patient Communities | Healthcare IT Today
Patients throng to communities where they can get practical life advice in a depth that only fellow patients can offer. Belong.Life is an online community and app designed to combine many forms of support…
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New HIMSS Study: Hospitals should avoid DIY software testing solutions | The Healthcare Guys
The Vital Signs Report, a new HIMSS survey of QA and IT leaders at major US providers sports a striking topline result: the healthcare industry lags in deploying test automation practices to ensure the…
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ONC’s HTI-1 Places Undue Burdens on Healthcare Providers, Health IT Developers | Healthcare IT Today
The following is a guest article by David Bucciferro, Chair of the EHR Association
In April 2023, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released its much-anticipated proposed rule to advance…
From Healthcare Dashboards to Valuable Action | Healthcare IT Today
When Randolph Health upgraded to what they call “data-driven operations,” they thought their staff would be excited to pull up dashboards with information. According to Angela Burgess, VP of operations and CIO, the reality…
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Surescripts Makes Interoperability Official | Healthcare IT Today
Surecripts is a company that is synonymous with e-prescribing. Increasingly, healthcare organizations are using the company’s platform to exchange more than prescription information. Vaccination status, demographic information and notes are increasingly shared. Surescripts recently…
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A Data Network to Tackle Real-Time Eligibility and Claims Along with Many Other Health Data Problems | Healthcare IT Today
Two of the biggest billing problems in U.S. healthcare involve coverage, eligibility and claims. First of all, will the insurer pay for the treatment the doctor requests? Second, how much is covered and how…
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Do You Understand the Quality of Your Data and the Value Clean Data Can Provide? | Healthcare IT Today
We live in a messy world (and a biased one), so hardly any organization can claim to have data as accurate as they want. According to Mike Noshay, Founder and Chief Strategy and Marketing…
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