Emr And Hipaa
-
How Can a Digital Workforce Address Healthcare’s Challenges? – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 3/12 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be...
-
Telehealth Modernization Act Reintroduced in Senate and Companion Bill in House
As most of you know, I’ve argued that the future of telehealth is going to be determined by the laws and reimbursement that’s going to be made...
-
Epic’s Decision To Put Its Voice Assistant Front and Center Could Have A Big Impact
As some of you may know, voice assistant technology is becoming one of the hottest new applications to hit the healthcare IT world. To be sure,...
-
An Interview with Marc Probst on His Time at Intermountain and Move to ELLKAY
@If you’ve worked in health IT for any reasonable amount of time, you’ve no doubt heard of Marc Probst. Probst recently retired as CIO for...
-
Will There Be Competition for Doc Talent Because of Telehealth?
This began before COVID-19, but the explosion of telehealth has really raised a lot of questions for doctors when it comes to what the future of...
-
Health IT and Sustainability – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 8/14 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be...
-
It’s Time To Look At Contactless Care Delivery Options
By this point, most of us have become used to “contactless” delivery of products and services. Sure, we can still get our groceries or Chinese...
-
Inching Closer to a National Patient Identifier – House Passes Removal of Ban on National Patient ID
Little by little, we’re working towards a National Patient Identifier. For those not familiar with the topic, the US government in a section of...
-
Lifespan Health Hit With $1 Million HIPAA Fine
Usually, HIPAA violations are part of the background noise of the healthcare business, and few are so large that they prove catastrophic for the...
-
Cyberattackers Hit Hospitals Hard During Pandemic
Being a hospital CIO can be an unenviable – and sometimes nearly thankless – job even at the best of times. Things have arguably gotten even worse...
-
How AI Assistants Are Decreasing the Physician Documentation Burden
Coming into the year, one of the most exciting technologies I saw coming down the pipe was ambient clinical voice technologies and EHR AI...
-
Smart Glasses Make a Return to Health Care with the Vuzix M400
Although Google Glass, first released in 2012, offered many possibilities for use in surgery and other health care settings, it never became...
-
Medical Practices Expect To See Telehealth Volume Plummet Over Next 12 Months
All of the data I’ve seen so far suggest that while doctors may have been leery of getting involved in telehealth services, COVID-19 forced the...
-
Planning and Optimizing Your MEDITECH Expanse Data Conversion
Whenever you change EHR software, one of the biggest pieces of the project is to figure out how to handle the data that resides in the system (or...
-
What’s Being Missed in Healthcare IT?
Understatement of the Day: COVID-19 has overwhelmed healthcare. Turns out that this is a reality regardless of whether your healthcare organization...
-
Epic Heading Back to the Office, Eschewing Remote Work
An article published a few weeks ago is still buzzing around Health IT circles about Epic’s choice to have their 9000 employees return to the...