By Art Gross – While the world is moving to electronic storage as a standard, there are still physical documents within healthcare that need to be protected and fall under HIPAA regulations. Let’s take a look at how that should be handled.
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By Matthew Rahn – Time flies! It has been over a year since ONC’s Cures Act Final Rule was first released and since then ONC has been busy advancing the USCDI and enabling the healthcare industry to voluntarily implement newer versions of adopted standards via the SVAP for the purposes of the ONC Health IT Certification.
By Gevik Nalbandian – Keeping physician credentials and affiliations up to date has been a long-standing source of angst for payers and providers. Research estimates that 2 to 2.5 percent of provider data changes each month, and an estimated 20 to 30 percent of physicians change affiliations each year.
Now on Demand – In the second episode of Tell Me Where IT Hurts, host Dr. Jay Anders and Dr. O’Connell explore how NLP is improving clinical documentation, driving actionable insights, and helping reduce clinician burnout.
By Ashok Gupta – The COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 presidential election dominated the public sphere throughout 2020 and 2021; justifiably so considering the impact each has had on our lifestyle, health, culture, and emotions.
By Steven Posnack MS MHS – One of the fun parts about working at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is that in addition to our impactful, near-term work, we also have the chance to point our eyes to the horizon and envision a better future.
By Dr. Robin Gaster – For 100 years, retailers have segmented the broad marketplace into groups – soccer moms, or Millennials, or New Yorkers, or readers… pretty much every retailer uses target segments like those. But Amazon has never been interested. Instead, it wants a segment of one: you.
By Colin Banas MD – A typical office visit with a primary care physician lasts only about 15 minutes. Within that limited face time, you need to build rapport with your patient, diagnose their condition, prescribe medications, perhaps order additional studies, and plan follow-up care. So how can technology help you better connect with your patients?
By Vaishali Patel & Jordan Everson – The information blocking regulations at 45 CFR Part 171 began to apply to health care providers, health IT developers of certified health IT, health information exchanges, and health information networks on April 5, 2021, per ONC’s recent interim final rule.