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Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed
There are a lot of rules and regulations in place in the world of healthcare. These are put into place in order to protect patients and organizations. However, the world of healthcare is constantly changing and evolving as we come up with new ideas and solutions. Have the regulations done the same though? Or are there areas that are missing regulations? Or are there areas in healthcare where past regulations are now too restrictive and are holding us back? In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update re...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations 1upHealth 4medica Amanda Heidemann Andrea Mazzoccoli Andrew Norden MD Bill Charnetski Cheryl Cheng Commur Source Type: blogs

Unthinkable choices in childbirth emergencies
Firefighters and doctors stand beside you on your worst days. On our best days, we help you sidestep disaster. On our worst days, we make gruesome decisions, so you don’t have to. Andrea’s family barely survived the pandemic. Her husband lost his job and her beloved grandmother lost her life. But after years of setbacks, Read more… Unthinkable choices in childbirth emergencies originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 18, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – September 3, 2023 – 60% of cybersecurity incidents impact patient care, the average medical device has six or more security vulnerabilities, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News and Research ONC renewed its contract for The Sequoia Project to be the Recognized Coordinating Entity for TEFCA implementation. That process will involve working with seven current Qualified Health Information Network can...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT AION Biosystems Akshay Sharma Alexander Group American Telemedicine Association Asimily ATA Atropos Health BeMe Health Carenet Health Claroty Cognizant Craig Hovda Digital Medicine Society eClinicalWorks eCW E Source Type: blogs

Bridging the Representation Gap in Biomedical Research
“We hope that students come out of our program feeling like they’re part of a community. Many of us feel inadequate or struggle in some way during graduate school—it can be a challenging time. I want to build a community that our students can always come back to for support,” says Elana Ehrlich, Ph.D., the co-director of the Bridges to the Doctorate Research Training Program (B2D) at Towson University in Towson, Maryland, alongside Michelle Snyder, Ph.D.. The Towson B2D is one of several NIGMS-supported B2Ds, which are dedicated to developing a diverse pool of well-trained biomedical scientists who will transiti...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - August 30, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Training Source Type: blogs

Ming Lei Departs Division for Research Capacity Building
It’s with mixed emotions that I share that Ming Lei left our Division for Research Capacity Building (DRCB) earlier this month to become senior associate vice president for research and graduate education at West Virginia University (WVU) Health Sciences. Ming also joined the faculty in WVU’s School of Medicine as vice dean for research and a professor in the department of microbiology, immunology, and cell biology. Ming has been part of the NIH community since 2008, serving in key positions at the National Cancer Institute before joining NIGMS in 2018. During his tenure in DRCB, Ming led numerous initiatives to...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - August 24, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Director’s Messages NIGMS Staff News Source Type: blogs

The future of medicine: Advancements and greed collide
In the future, I foresee a world without pandemics, cancer becoming a thing of the past, and advancements that enable bionic adaptations to our bodies, leading to a life expectancy of easily over one hundred years. While some of these advancements may seem distant, we are on the cusp of making them a reality within Read more… The future of medicine: Advancements and greed collide originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 12, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs

Republican Misbehavior Promoted Health Professional Activism
By MIKE MAGEE If you wanted to create a motto for the summer of 2023 – one that would stand the test of time from the medical exam room of Ohio to the gilded bathroom of Mar-a-lago – it would have to be Jack Smith’s “Facts matter!” If that is true on a national scale, it is equally true in states across the nation where doctors increasingly are coming out from behind a self-imposed clinical curtain and going public. As reported in ProPublica last week, “Doctors who previously never mixed work with politics are jumping into the abortion debate by lobbying state lawmakers, campaigning, forming polit...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Abortion Activism health care providers Mike Magee Physicians Trump Source Type: blogs

The Top 10 Health Chatbots
This study from March 2023 reports how an app developed to help patients’ bowel preparation can increase compliance and thus, the number of successful colonoscopies. In some cases, health chatbots are also able to connect patients with clinicians for diagnosis or treatment, but that is one step further down the line. The general idea is that in the future, these talking or texting smart algorithms might become the first contact point for primary care. Patients will not get in touch with physicians or nurses or any medical professional with every one of their health questions but will turn to chatbots first. If th...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine Healthcare Design health chatbot Innovation List medical Personalized medicine AI technology digital health chatbots Source Type: blogs

Gratitude: The Art of Savoring.
I was stressed this past past few weeks I finally figured in a sports injury which was supposed to be a way to de-stress my body. The many roles I acquired during the pandemic finally took its toll after almost all required physical presence and face to face activities. Face to face tasks demand full attention and physical presence. You cannot attend two conferences at the same time anymore or listen to two lectures on two different gadgets. It seems that, the technology enabled “always present, always available” does not hold true anymore post pandemic. It came to a frustrating point that I decided to give...
Source: The Orthopedic Logbook - July 1, 2023 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Remo Aguilar Tags: Habits Productivity doctors gratitude healthcare providers Medicine physicians savoring thankful tweetchat Source Type: blogs

Gratitude: The Art of Savoring Wins.
I was stressed this past past few weeks I finally figured in a sports injury which was supposed to be a way to de-stress my body. The many roles I acquired during the pandemic finally took its toll after almost all required physical presence and face to face activities. Face to face tasks demand full attention and physical presence. You cannot attend two conferences at the same time anymore or listen to two lectures on two different gadgets. It seems that, the technology enabled “always present, always available” does not hold true anymore post pandemic. It came to a frustrating point that I decided to give...
Source: The Orthopedic Logbook - July 1, 2023 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Remo Aguilar Tags: doctors gratitude healthcare providers Medicine physicians savoring thankful tweetchat Source Type: blogs

How Automation Can Help Ease Healthcare Worker Burnout
The following is a guest article by Anna Twomey, Senior Director, Healthcare Providers – Americas at SS&C Blue Prism   With rising staffing shortages and burnout among healthcare workers, digital transformation will be key to overcoming these challenges and protecting patient care. It’s estimated that the U.S. could see a shortage of up to 124,000 physicians by 2033 and will need to hire at least 200,000 nurses per year to meet increased demand and to replace retiring nurses. The healthcare worker burnout crisis in this country began before the COVID-19 pandemic, but the public health emergency m...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Anna Twomey BPM Business Process Management Digital Transformation EHR Healthcare Automation Healthcare Burnout IA Intelligent Automa Source Type: blogs

Better Health Care Tests, Faster
This article looks at some specific problems and solutions. Speeding up Test Development We’ve seen with COVID-19 how quickly a virus can evolve and how hard it is to design both tests and vaccinations that accommodate different variants. Virax Biolabs uses data from the World Health Organization and others to develop tests quickly. For instance, new viral variants tend to spread in the southern hemisphere before hitting the northern hemisphere in our Winter, so Virax can check existing data to prepare better tests for the North. The company is developing a T-cell diagnostics and profiling platform called Virax Immu...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability CLIA COVID-19 Hydreight Immunexpress ixlayer Laboratories Labs Rolland Carlson Sepsis Sepsis Lab Tests Septicyte Shane Madden testing Tomasz George Source Type: blogs

MA for Tomorrow: Moving Beyond the Status Quo to Advance Concrete Policy Changes for the Future of Medicare Advantage
BY CECI CONNOLLY AND MICHAEL BAGEL Medicare Advantage (MA) has passed the tipping point, delivering coverage and care to more than half of the senior population in the US. The Congressional Budget Office projects more than 60 percent of people 65 years and older will be in the program by 2030. As enrollment soars and interest in value-based health care grows, it is imperative policymakers modernize the program that is expected to cost $7.5 trillion over the next decade. Rather than taking the standard Washington posture of declaring victory or defending the status quo, our provider-aligned, nonprofit member pla...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Ceci Connolly MA for Tomorrow Medicare Advantage Michael Bagel Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – May 28, 2023 – 20+ health systems pledge to use Epic to share info under TEFCA, 84x increase in telehealth for mental health from 2019 to 2022, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News and Studies Nearly two dozen health systems have pledged to use Epic to share health information through the TEFCA framework, the EHR vendor announced, adding, “Our plan is to deliver software this year that will help...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT 4medica AliveCor Applied Robotics Association of Community Cancer Centers Avalon Healthcare Solutions AvaSure AVIAwards Clarify Health CliniComp CompuGroup Medical Conifer Consensus Consensus Cloud Solutions Conte Source Type: blogs