The BlueNovo Weekly 3 Things You Should Know are a collection of the relevant healthcare technology changes impacting the community healthcare market.
Breaking News: Funding Available Through FCC $200M Grant Fund
The FCC released a new funding opportunity available specifically for Telehealth Program funding. This Telehealth funding is part of the CARES Act and provides $200 million to help health care providers deliver connected care services to patients in their homes or...
NACHC Summary of CHC Provisions Included In New Stimulus Bill
Summary of Key CHC Provisions Included in Stimulus #3 NACHC has created a summary of major health center priorities and other provisions of interest to Community Health Centers in the third stimulus bill. Read the...
Telehealth Use Increases with COVID-19 Pandemic
Telehealth has become increasingly popular as the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread. Allowing for safety of staff in the treatment of patients, and adhering to social distancing suggestions, many states are increasing their telehealth & telemedicine usage...
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Payers and providers are investing in analytics tools focused on addressing social determinants of health to improve care for patients. “Our investment in Socially Determined will help advance our mission to improve healthcare quality and increase access to care for...
Health IT Briefing March 4-8
Misconfigured database leads to major data breach at UW Medicine Seattle-based UW Medicine is announcing close to 1 million patients of a database configuration error that has exposed their protected health information on the internet for several weeks. The files...
Health IT Briefing Feb.25-March 1
Data Points: Data exchange still a struggle 10 years after HITECH Act February marks the 10th anniversary of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act being signed into law. Although there has been much progress, the industry has yet to...
Health IT Briefing Feb.18-22
How IT Support Streamlines EHR Optimization, Boosts EHR Usability Enabling enhanced clinical efficiency and EHR usability typically means more work on the IT side. Investing in additional IT services can help shorten the adjustment period that follows EHR...
Health IT Briefing Feb.11-15
The Modern Healthcare Storage Environment: How To Balance Storage Capacity, Performance, And Cost The rapidly increasing need for efficient, reliable, and cost-effective storage is at a all time high. According to IDC Research, healthcare’s digital assets are growing...
Health IT Briefing Nov. 26-30
How IT Support Streamlines EHR Optimization, Boosts EHR Usability Enabling enhanced clinical efficiency and EHR usability typically means more work on the IT side. Investing in additional IT services can help shorten the adjustment period that follows EHR...
Health IT Briefing Oct. 8-12
Carequality Looking To Leverage FHIR The interoperability framework is seeking input from both Carequality members and non-members to inform the development of a new FHIR Implementation Guide. Carequality intends to identify broad, nationwide FHIR implementation...