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21 hours ago

DrFirst Reduces Physician Burden Through Well-Designed Medication Management | Healthcare IT Today Prescribing medication has become unfathomably complex these days, with rules interposed between the patient and physician by pharmacies, payers, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Drew Hunsinger, Executive VP, Corporate Strategy at DrFirst, points out that a single medication may have multiple indications (conditions for which it can be prescribed) and rules vary by indication. Colin Banas,

DrFirst Reduces Physician Burden Through Well-Designed Medication Management #HITsm
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533159

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

22 hours ago

Colin and John Answer the Questions We’re Asking at HIMSS – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 189 | Healthcare IT Today For the 189th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast, sponsored by Swaay.Health, Colin and I are answering the questions we're asking at HIMSS! The first question we answer is — what is a mistake that we keep making in healthcare, and how can it be addressed? Next, we take a look at AI to

Colin and John Answer the Questions We're Asking at HIMSS - Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 189 #HITsm #HIMSS26
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533419

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

23 hours ago

Products Address the Moment, Platforms are Hard-Earned Over Time | Healthcare IT Today The following is a guest article by Joe Chang, Chief Technology Officer at Suki Today, the AI world resembles a modern-day gold rush: experts are racing to unearth the next big product, investors are pouring billions into the latest teams, and founders are scrambling to stake their claim before the dust settles. Unfortunately, history shows

Products Address the Moment, Platforms are Hard-Earned Over Time #HITsm
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533477

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

1 day ago

Fiber as the Foundation for AI, Telemedicine, and Big Data in Healthcare #HITsm
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533497

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

1 day ago

Bonus Features – March 29, 2026 – 57% of execs say AI-based clinical tools are their top tech initiative, 57% of patients say AI isn’t mature enough for docs to trust it, plus 32 more stories | Healthcare IT Today Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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

Bonus Features – March 29, 2026 – 57% of execs say AI-based clinical tools are their top tech initiative, 57% of patients say AI isn't mature enough for docs to trust it, plus 32 more stories #HITsm
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533528

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

2 days ago

Weekly Roundup – March 28, 2026 | Healthcare IT Today 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 you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week. What GLP-1 Drug Coverage Reveals About

Weekly Roundup – March 28, 2026 #HITsm
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533448

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

3 days ago

What GLP-1 Drug Coverage Reveals About Our Health Care System | Healthcare IT Today Like the recent Alzheimer drugs that threaten to bust the Medicare budget, GLP-1 medications are a ray of hope for millions of people but a nightmare for payers. More and more insurers are limiting the use of GLP-1 drugs to their original purpose: diabetes treatment. This article explores the GLP-1 dilemma to ask what the

What GLP-1 Drug Coverage Reveals About Our Health Care System #HITsm
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533406

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

3 days ago

Virtual Labs with Josh Haimson – Life Sciences Today Podcast Episode 54 | Healthcare IT Today We're excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Josh Haimson, Co-Founder and CEO at Inductive Bio! Josh Haimson joins me to talk about how their virtual lab can run millions of in silico experiments to predict how molecules will behave in

Virtual Labs with Josh Haimson - Life Sciences Today Podcast Episode 54 #HITsm
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533410

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

3 days ago

From Programmer to Director: My 25-Year Journey into the Heart of Data at Dana-Farber | Healthcare IT Today The following is a guest article by Doug Buell, retired Technical Director, Research Computing Services at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute When I walked into Dana-Farber, nonprofit cancer treatment and research center based in Boston, 25 years ago, I didn’t think of myself as a “data person.” I was hired as a computer programmer - someone who

From Programmer to Director: My 25-Year Journey into the Heart of Data at Dana-Farber #HITsm
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533390

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

4 days ago

The Right Information at the Right Time for Post-Acute Care | Healthcare IT Today Discharges for acute care facilities involve multiple inputs from multiple departments and can be chaotic. After the patient reaches a rehab setting or other post-acute care facility, key data about medications, procedures performed, and necessary interventions is often missing. Plus, problems go beyond mere availability of health data. In our recent interview with Hamad Husainy,

The Right Information at the Right Time for Post-Acute Care #HITsm #HIMSS26
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533186

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

4 days ago

Value Based Care Benefits of Strong Acute and Post-Acute Care Collaboration | Healthcare IT Today If there's ever been a team sport in healthcare, it's value based care. As much as a healthcare organization thinks they can do it alone, value based care requires coordination across the entire care continuum. That's the reality that University of Maryland Medical System faced when they were working on their value based care efforts.

Value Based Care Benefits of Strong Acute and Post-Acute Care Collaboration #HITsm #HIMSS26
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533050

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

4 days ago

The Costs of Missing What We Could Never See | Healthcare IT Today The following is a guest article by Dr. David Kirk, Chief Medical Officer at Regard The great promise of healthcare technology, at least for clinicians, has always been a view of the “whole picture” of a patient’s health. If we could just collect everything in one place, then better diagnosis and treatment would surely follow.

The Costs of Missing What We Could Never See #HITsm
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2532266

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

5 days ago

Healthcare Workplace Violence Is a Billion-Dollar Crisis; Integrating Scalable IT Security Solutions Should Be Industry Leaders’ Top Priority | Healthcare IT Today The following is a guest article by Chad Salahshour, President & CEO at 911Cellular Violence against healthcare workers is a national crisis. It’s not only costing the industry billions of dollars each year, but it’s putting immense strain on the essential workers who are the backbone of hospitals and health facilities. As the annual costs

Healthcare Workplace Violence Is a Billion-Dollar Crisis; Integrating Scalable IT Security Solutions Should Be Industry Leaders’ Top Priority #HITsm
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533107

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

5 days ago

Heidi Uses AI to Shift Health Care to an Abundance Mentality | Healthcare IT Today Heidi was around for years before LLMs and modern generative AI were developed. According to Chief Medical Officer Simon Kos, Heidi is the world's most used scribe, appearing in 190 countries and 110 languages. Their basic ambient scribe is free of cost, supporting remote and poorly served areas. With generative AI, Heidi now offers an

Heidi Uses AI to Shift Health Care to an Abundance Mentality #HITsm #HIMSS26
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533155

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

5 days ago

Stop Wishing Fax Away. Embed Agentic AI and Fix the Outcome. | Healthcare IT Today Let’s be real. Talking about fax in 2026 feels a bit like discussing dial-up internet at a broadband convention. But the reality? Fax is still the number one most common communication channel in healthcare. Instead of wasting energy talking about how to move away from it, we can deploy new AI technologies to make it

Stop Wishing Fax Away. Embed Agentic AI and Fix the Outcome. #HITsm
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533220

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

6 days ago

Harmony Healthcare IT Focuses on Maintaining Data Across Mergers | Healthcare IT Today One-fifth of all the health care institutions in the U.S. were involved in mergers and acquisitions between 2015 and 2020. Harmony Healthcare IT helps firms through the data management aspect of a merger, especially with data conversion and archiving. In a a recent interview with Healthcare IT Today, Chief Revenue Officer Sharon Cook points out

Harmony Healthcare IT Focuses on Maintaining Data Across Mergers #HITsm
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2532609

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

6 days ago

Keys to Success with Virtual Nursing | Healthcare IT Today Everyone knows we can never get enough nurses. While we'd love to have more and should make more efforts to have and retain more nurses, I think that most organizations also realize that they're going to have to be creative and leverage technology to be able to better utilize the nurses they have in their

Keys to Success with Virtual Nursing #HITsm
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533045

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

6 days ago

It’s Time for “Actioning Information” to Move Past Interoperability’s Endless Data #HITsm
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533102

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

1 week ago

A Future Ready Platform for Innovation with MEDITECH and HCA Healthcare UK | Healthcare IT Today I don't think I've ever seen the pace of change and innovation in healthcare happening quicker than it is today. More data is available. More technology is available. More opportunity is available. Amidst all of this innovation, hospital and health systems need to find a sustainable approach to innovation that will serve their healthcare organization's

A Future Ready Platform for Innovation with MEDITECH and HCA Healthcare UK #HITsm
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533052

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

1 week ago

CIO Podcast – Episode 111: Navigating the Changing World of Healthcare with Rusty Yeager | Healthcare IT Today For the 111th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Rusty Yeager, Senior VP and CIO at Encompass Health to talk about navigating the changing world of healthcare as a CIO! We kick this episode off by discussing what we think the greatest leadership challenge healthcare CIOs are

CIO Podcast - Episode 111: Navigating the Changing World of Healthcare with Rusty Yeager #HITsm
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533336

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

1 week ago

Discipline Over Speed: Personal reflections after HIMSS | Healthcare IT Today For the past several years, the prevailing tone in healthcare has been: “The future is here—and you’re already behind.” That urgency has pushed many leaders into acting quickly, sometimes before they’ve clearly defined what success with AI should look like. What Adam Cherrington found refreshing at HIMSS this year is that the conversation is changing.

Discipline Over Speed: Personal reflections after HIMSS #HITsm
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533329

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

1 week ago

Bonus Features – March 22, 2026 – 54% of providers have used non-clinical resources to learn about preventive care, 47% of orgs report low perceptions of safety culture, plus 20 more stories | Healthcare IT Today Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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

Bonus Features – March 22, 2026 – 54% of providers have used non-clinical resources to learn about preventive care, 47% of orgs report low perceptions of safety culture, plus 20 more stories #HITsm
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533325

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

1 week ago

Weekly Roundup – March 21, 2026 | Healthcare IT Today 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 you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week. Stop Waiting on Mandates: CMS Challenges

Weekly Roundup – March 21, 2026 #HITsm
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/?p=2533315

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John Lynn

@techguy.healthcareittoday.com

1 week ago