Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having a career in Health IT requires a lot of skills and qualifications, even more so if you want that career to be successful – but what are those skills and qualifications? Familiarity with interoperability standards is also essential, as is the need to stay abreast of evolving compliance requirements.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

We have not achieved data interoperability despite an abundance of technology, standards, and legislation. Healthcare Data Interoperability. The Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) that have been deployed over the past 15 years do a good job at capturing health data but are terrible at sharing it.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The following is a guest article by Nick Barger, PharmD, Vice President, Product at DrFirst. This article kicks off the Healthcare Regulatory Talk series. With compliance the immediate concern for many EHR vendors, when and where is the industry prepared to lead?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The response to my article asking the question “Are we at the end of the healthcare interoperability tunnel?” I think some people thought that I was hammering on all the work that’s being done on healthcare interoperability. ” was quite interesting.

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Health Intersections

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The subject of EHR safety is back in the news – probably driven by the AMIA meeting last week: “I remember internal conversations where we talked about ‘What is the equivalent of a plane crash that is going to get the attention of people?’” said Reider, who now practices family medicine in upstate New York. “‘Is from [link].

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

I recently came across an article by Verto which identified 3 fundamental problems with interoperability and care coordination in healthcare as follows: Data Integration and Aggregation Sub-Set of the Data Relevant to a Particular Care Step Data Governance and Patient Transitions The article was spot on in identifying these problems.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Here’s what I wrote. That was tweeted ten years ago.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2020

The following is a guest article by Emily Burch Harris, Freelance Health Writer. DirectTrust recently hosted their second annual Summit (recordings still available), an event focused on connecting DirectTrust members and non-members with some of the nation’s greatest healthcare and interoperability experts.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2024

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… The Benefits of an Open, Interoperable Communication Platform. Read more… CIO Podcast : South Shore Hospital Chicago’s Interoperability Journey.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Fourteen professional healthcare, life science, and consumer organizations formed the Digital Health Collaborative to advance evidence and value in digital health technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2020

The following is a guest article by Vatsala Kapur Pathy, Vice President of Policy for Collective Medical.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2024

The following is a guest article by Kaeli Tully, Healthcare Systems and Solutions Engineer at Intel In the quiet hours of the night, hospital executives toss and turn, grappling with the daunting reality of staffing shortages that plague their institutions. ER, OR, and ICU).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Among the top obstacles are lack of access to data-sharing systems coupled with lack of interoperability between health IT investments, preference for paper and phone, and data privacy and security concerns. Think of APIs as tunnels into the clinical data warehouses that have been created by EHRs.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The following is a guest article by Nathan Shepard, SVP of Product at Azalea Health As rural providers look to replace legacy solutions, they’re confronted with several critical decision points. But just like comparing different types of aircraft, the options for EHR solutions are widely separated in terms of complexity.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. That’s the value of platforms that connect to otherwise disparate EHRs and other FHIR data sources. Part of the solution is more seamless integration with EHRs and a better user experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2024

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. NextGen’s Investments in Mobile, Cybersecurity, and Interoperability. Read more… CIO Podcast : Health IT Project Management. Read more… This Week’s Health IT Jobs for April 24, 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. Instead, we anticipate a more mix and match, custom approach to EHRs. Wayne Johnson, Vice President of Special Operations at Sunwave Health. Susan Taylor, VP, HCLS Core Administration at Pegasystems.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

The following is a guest article by Don Rucker, MD, Chief Strategy Officer at 1upHealth Patients want the same modern computing experience in healthcare that they enjoy the rest of their lives to extend to our health and medical care. The Sequoia Project, a spinoff of a prior EHR network, was chosen as the governing body for TEFCA.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Most EHR vendors I’ve talked to have planned to be part of the network through someone like CommonWell (see MEDITECH’s QHIN and TEFCA approach here ), but I’ll be watching to see if that changes as QHINs develop. It’s reasonable to expect that there will be more QHINs in the future.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Colin Hung spoke to Marcus Perez at Altera Digital Health about helping providers solve cash flow and throughput challenges today while planning for care-at-home and other initiatives to support future business growth.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Interoperability vendor Innovar Healthcare released an OSS Mirth Connect plugin that’s now available on AWS Marketplace.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2020

I’m convinced that health IT can solve many of health care’s problems–but only when it is designed and rolled out with the greatest sensitivity to the needs of the users. The Rolodex of failed health start-ups confirm this principle through negative examples.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The following is a guest article by Ravi Pratap, Co-Founder and CTO at Beaconstac Technology provides the foundation of modern healthcare, with the potential to generate $410 billion in annual revenue by 2025. The following article shows four practical use cases for QR codes within the healthcare IT landscape.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

The following is a guest article by Dr. Guillermo Diaz, Chief Medical Information Officer at Los Angeles Department of Health Services – Ambulatory Care Network , and Ali Modaressi, CEO at Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services (LANES) When Alex was brought into L.A. Prior to LANES, Modaressi was a health IT leader at L.A.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

The following is a guest article by Mike Noshay , MSE, Founder and Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at Verinovum. Little attention has been given to the faulty data foundations underpinning advanced health IT applications like risk modeling, care intervention, and machine learning.

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Chilmark Research

APRIL 3, 2013

As we’ve reported in a previous post , HIMSS13 afforded enormous buzz and less enlightenment regarding the state of health IT, particularly the four key areas we see as essential to this industry making a true difference in patient care. The group’s stated purpose is to enable interoperability across the five founding members’ EHRs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Surveying Lab Tests From a Health IT Perspective. Read more… Gaining More Control With a Cloud-Based EHR. Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 5, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… 3 Things That Can Bring EHRs to the Next Level. It’s no secret that traditional EHRs are burdensome to clinicians and patients alike.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 25, 2022

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Is Larry Ellison’s Vision of a National EHR Database Even Possible? Welcome to the first edition of the Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Read more… Where Are We At With FHIR?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Healthcare isn’t getting away from paper any time soon , between fax machines and backups when the EHR system goes down. Funding and M&A Activity: VillageMD acquired Summit Health-CityMD for $8.9

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2023

Interoperability is Key For Hill Physicians, signing the Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) was an easy first step in its commitment to industry compliance with the Data Exchange Framework (DxF) — the first-ever data sharing agreement in California. A lot of work remains to make data sharing a reality.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Avaneer Health’s Vision for Simplified Data-Sharing. Interoperability only gets more complicated when companies layer more technology on top of antiquated legacy systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. The cloud-based EHR vendor’s v12 release is coming soon, and at this year’s user conference CEO Girish Navani announced multiple new eCW features that had the audience gasping with excitement.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Colin Hung attended the vendor’s User Group Meeting and provided a recap of the event, where NextGen discussed an AI-powered ambient voice assistant and a Luma Health partnership to power patient self-scheduling.

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