The Federal Trade Commission Accuses GoodRx Of Multiple Data Sharing Fails, Demands It Pay $1.5 Million Fine and Make Reforms

The Federal Trade Commission Accuses GoodRx Of Multiple Data Sharing Fails, Demands It Pay $1.5 Million Fine and Make Reforms

The Federal Trade Commission has cited telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx for sharing sensitive consumer health data with several advertising platforms, in violation of its own privacy promises to consumers.
The agency has filed a proposed order demanding that GoodRx pay $1.5 million in civil penalties for failing to let consumers know about unauthorized disclosures of its data to a list of advertiser platforms. including Facebook and Google.
The company, which is based in California, operates a digital health platform offering prescription drug discounts, telehealth visits and other health services. It captures a wide range of data from consumers who use…

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3 Care Orgs Tap EHR Implementations for Clinical Workflow Optimization

3 Care Orgs Tap EHR Implementations for Clinical Workflow Optimization

– With high levels of clinician burnout across the care continuum, healthcare organizations are leveraging EHR implementations for clinical workflow optimization. FAMILY CLINIC MOVES TO ECLINICALWORKS SYSTEM FOR SCALABILITY Care Choice Family Clinic, PLLC in Plano, TX, will implement a health IT system from EHR vendor eClinicalWorks’ to customize workflows and improve operational efficiency. The implementation is set to allow the new family practice to deliver comprehensive patient care and scale as needed. Care Choice Family Clinic cares for patients two years old and up, focusing on primary care, sick visits, and minor urgent care. “I had experience with eClinicalWorks at…

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KLAS: What Impact Do Automated Prior Authorization Solutions Provide?

KLAS: What Impact Do Automated Prior Authorization Solutions Provide?

What You Should Know:– Prior authorization is mandated by payers to ensure that certain clinical procedures and medications being ordered are necessary. To alleviate the heavy administrative burden this requirement causes, healthcare organizations have adopted automated prior authorization solutions.– For this report, KLAS interviewed 30 respondents from 26 unique organizations to understand their experiences using these solutions and what outcomes they have seen.Understanding the Impact Automated Prior Authorization Solutions ProvideThis report is a perception study designed to help readers understand where the automated prior authorization market is and what outcomes organizations using automated prior authorization are seeing. To gather these perspectives, KLAS…

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How Technology Streamlines Referral Management, Specialty Care Access

How Technology Streamlines Referral Management, Specialty Care Access

– On paper, the patient referral process can sound almost like a prescription. One biopsy. One second opinion. One visit to a specialist. In reality, referral management is a logistical and patient experience challenge, one that requires streamlined care coordination from start to finish. Getting a referral isn’t uncommon. According to a 2018 report from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the National Patient Safety Foundation, there are nearly 100 million subspecialty referral requests made from ambulatory centers each year. Despite referrals being common, they can still be jarring for the patient. Patients receiving referrals for mammograms might not be focused…

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Epic remains Best in KLAS for overall software suite for 13th year

Epic remains Best in KLAS for overall software suite for 13th year

In addition to winning overall, Epic was named top Overall Physician Practice Vendor based on provider feedback in this year’s Best in KLAS awards. The health IT giant also earned plaudits in 13 other categories, the research firm announced Wednesday.Of note, Impact Advisors and Nordic are tied as co-winners of the Overall IT Services category. 
Impact Advisors also took top placements in ERP Implementation Leadership, Financial Improvement Consulting and Security & Privacy Consulting Services categories while Nordic won for HIT Core Clinical Implementation Leadership.
The KLAS announcement noted that Nordic also scored above 90 in four separate services segments, which is detailed in 2023…

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How clinicians can combat burnout by filtering through the “noise” of information overload

How clinicians can combat burnout by filtering through the “noise” of information overload

Dr. Robert L. Murry, the Chief Medical Officer at NextGen Healthcare, an award-winning provider of innovative cloud-based healthcare technology solutions for over 100,000 ambulatory providers joins eHealth Radio and the Health Care and Technology Channels. Dr. Murry is also a board-certified practicing family physician.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dr. Robert L. Murry discuss the following:
Describe what doctors are facing today in terms of information overload and this concept of “overtech.”
How did this come about and what approaches have been attempted to correct it?
What is your advice to those trying to combat this overload and ‘turn down the…

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Top EHR Vendors 2023 – Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts/Veradigm

Top EHR Vendors 2023 – Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts/Veradigm

Here is where we will explore the top EHR vendors, focusing on those who specialize in either enterprise wide systems, or electronic health records for physician practice offices. Since one of the goals of this site is to help people who are starting in healthcare IT, I’ve tried to find out if the vendors have intern or apprenticeship programs.There are many more vendors in specialty areas, such as lab, pharmacy, materials management, consulting, and medical devices that can be found on this resource of healthcare IT companies.
Allscripts (Veradigm)
Allscripts is a publicly traded provider of practice management, EHR and financial management systems…

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