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Hyndman Area Health Center cuts IT bill in half with the cloud

January 24, 2023March 16, 2023Healthcare IT news

Hyndman Area Health Center – a holistic Pennsylvania-based health center providing family medicine, dental health, behavioral health and more – transitioned from client-hosted servers to eClinicalWorks cloud-based servers to expand its network capacity and meet a rising data demand.Since then, it has experienced a more than 150% increase in patients and has saved hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past few years since it no longer relies on physical servers.
Healthcare IT News sat down with Bill Kurtycz, CEO of Hyndman Area Health Center, to discuss cloud technology, cloud EHRs and telehealth, and how the technologies have benefitted the provider organization.
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What’s ahead for health IT policy and legislation in 2023

January 23, 2023March 16, 2023Healthcare IT news

With Congress providing telehealth waivers as part of its omnibus spending bill at the close of 2022, delaying the “telehealth cliff” for two years, HIMSS says it’s now ready to make the case for permanent reimbursement of virtual care.Also on its policy agenda for the year ahead: advocating for data standardization, offering input for interoperability rulemaking and engaging with agencies and states to increase telehealth access. We spoke with the HIMSS government relations team for their thoughts on those priorities and more in 2023 and beyond.
Making telehealth’s case for cost control
Telehealth has proven to reduce burdens on healthcare providers and improve…

Needle moving on drug monitoring program efficacy, ONC says

January 23, 2023March 16, 2023Healthcare IT news

A new brief from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology data says that one-third of prescribers now access prescription drug-monitoring programs through their electronic health records and 62% reported they used electronic prescribing of controlled substances technologies often – up from 37% in 2019.WHY IT MATTERS
“The use of (PDMPs) and electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) technology is critical to improving opioid prescribing practices, informing treatment decisions and supporting safe and effective patient care,” wrote Chelsea Richwine and Jordan Everson in a new HealthIT blog post.
They say the new data adds to previous analyses demonstrating the benefits of the systems by…

Farzad Mostashari, Aledade, on the power of primary care

January 9, 2023March 16, 2023The Pulse by Wharton Digital Health

Subscribe for your weekly fix of health tech stories, wherever you get your news: Substack, Twitter, Apple, or Spotify.Farzad Mostashari, co-founder & CEO of AledadeOur guest on this episode is Dr. Farzad Mostashari. Farzad is the…

What Is The Enterprise Master Patient Index?

January 7, 2023March 16, 2023Healthcare IT Skills

The enterprise master patient index is a database that maintains a definitive record of all patients within a healthcare organization. It is used within an overall process called patient identity management in healthcare. The EMPI is used to positively identify patients for the purpose of providing care, processing billing, and the exchange of data among other entities. Sometimes called the corporate ID, the purpose of the EMPI is to ensure that all patient data is accurately and consistently recorded and maintained, and to prevent duplicate records or errors in patient identification. It is also used to facilitate the exchange of patient…

The Transformative Power of Conversational Technologies — Part 3

January 5, 2023March 16, 2023Digital Health Frontier

By John Halamka and Paul Cerrato – There’s no shortage of startups with creative ways to use the technology to improve patient care and make clinicians’ lives less burdensome, and that includes digital assistants.
The post The Transformative Power of Conversational Technologies — Part 3 appeared first on Mayo Clinic Platform….

Transforming Medical Coding and Billing Processes with Artificial Intelligence

December 27, 2022March 16, 2023The Healthcare Guys

Providers and Payers would be familiar with a situation where their medical coders struggle to proceed when there is more than one way to code a particular medical diagnosis and treatment.
The latest revision of WHO’s International Classification of Diseases ICD-11 contains 17,000 unique codes and more than 120,0000 codable terms yielding +1.6 million clinical situations! Searching for the most appropriate ICD code and mapping the available medical data accurately is one of the biggest challenges the healthcare system faces today.
Unstructured medical data is another perennial challenge. About 80% of medical data remains unstructured according to an NCBI journal. Extracting…

Addressing Evolving Health Information Technology Needs in Pediatric Care: Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) Informational Resource (IR)

November 15, 2022March 16, 2023Health IT Buzz

Hot off the presses, the Pediatric Health Information Technology: Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Informational Resource (NAS IR) [PDF – 808 KB] is a new resource from ONC to support pediatric care and practice settings specific to neonatal abstinence syndrome. The NAS IR builds upon prior efforts included in the ONC Pediatric Health Information Technology Informational Resources (IR) for health IT developers and for health care providers, and includes information about the implementation of health IT and its use as part of delivering health care to infants experiencing withdrawal after maternal exposure to opioids and other substances during pregnancy. This is the third…

Diverging trajectories of trust in healthcare and on-line information seeking: what’s next with LLMs

Weekly Roundup – January 31, 2026

Embedding clinical intelligence to help close care gaps

Impact of Mobilization Facilitated by Wearable Device Enhanced Patient Monitoring/Electrophysiology Pod–Based Feedback on Postoperative Complications Following Colorectal Cancer Surgery: Randomized Controlled Trial

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What’s ahead for health IT policy and legislation in 2023

Needle moving on drug monitoring program efficacy, ONC says

Farzad Mostashari, Aledade, on the power of primary care

What Is The Enterprise Master Patient Index?

The Transformative Power of Conversational Technologies — Part 3

Transforming Medical Coding and Billing Processes with Artificial Intelligence

Addressing Evolving Health Information Technology Needs in Pediatric Care: Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) Informational Resource (IR)

Diverging trajectories of trust in healthcare and on-line information seeking: what’s next with LLMs

What impact has healow had on your organization and the patients’ experience?

Weekly Roundup – January 31, 2026

Embedding clinical intelligence to help close care gaps

Impact of Mobilization Facilitated by Wearable Device Enhanced Patient Monitoring/Electrophysiology Pod–Based Feedback on Postoperative Complications Following Colorectal Cancer Surgery: Randomized Controlled Trial

Meditech founder Neil Pappalardo dies at 83

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