🎤 This isn’t your typical conference…DirectTrust’s upcoming event is shaping up to be something special. In this quick video, John Lynn chats with Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, Chief Strategy Officer at DirectTrust, about how they’re…
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Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives…
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Happy Friday everyone! You made it through another extraordinary week. Hopefully you’re recovering from the Halloween candy hangover and your blood sugar is dropping to normal levels. I always charge a dad tax on…
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Full Disclosure: I’m not a doctor and I don’t play one on TV or this site. However, I am a patient that’s impacted by these options and so I’m writing from my informed patient…
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The pressures for data exchange and interoperability have converged on the concept of a health data utility. At the DirectTrust conference, Angie Bass, Chief Strategy Officer at Velatura, describes this as a “unifying force”…
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One of the scariest things in healthcare right now is having your organization breached. While systems are sometimes breached through more traditional approaches to hacking, the most common breaches today generally occur when hackers…
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As I said in my previous writeup at an EHR user conference, I believe there’s no way for the culture of a company not to appear at their user conference. This weekened at the…
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For the 152nd episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are analyzing the patient experience to decide if it is marketing or tech! We kick this episode off on the marketing side of…
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As regular readers know, I get the chance to attend a lot of healthcare conferences. This is particularly true during the busy Fall conference season. One of the most unique conferences I’ve attended this…
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The February cyberattack against the Change Healthcare clearinghouse not only compromised patient data but left health care providers in a financial crisis. Within 48 hours of the attack, another clearinghouse called Availity set up a…
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