Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Challenge of Interoperability LaDuke is responsible for helping vendors integrate with provincial services and part of that integration requires health data to be interoperable. For example, OntarioMD manages OLIS , a central clearinghouse and repository for lab requests in the province.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 10, 2023

Here are some examples of open source software that are being used in healthcare today: EHRs: There are a number of open source EHRs available, such as OpenMRS, OpenEHR, and Elyra. These EHRs offer a number of benefits, including vendor independence, flexibility, and interoperability.

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Redox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Here are some specific reflections: FHIR adoption: We missed the mark on our HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) growth prediction. It certainly is growing, but FHIR has not picked up the steam we had hoped for in 2023. We reflected on that in our recap of 2023 FHIR DevDays. Sadly, he was wrong.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

New and niche, these applications decrease administrative burdens and reduce operational costs in departments such as health information, business office, and denial management. Here is one example of how payer exchange is being automated today. Connections are built with health plans to receive requests electronically.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Examples include using Teams for virtual care visits, Teams integration with Cerner electronic health record, and additional enhancements on the Azure Health Data Services using AI. Salesforce has announced that it will improve its Salesforce Customer 360 for Health product, adding new features.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Patients, regulators, and payers are insisting on data exchange in health care. But despite the availability of FHIR and of APIs from many vendors, interoperability is often described as “difficult and “not frictionless” according to Loyd Bittle, CEO and Founder at Innovar Healthcare.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 16, 2020

There is a fundamental difference between access requests for Personally Identifiable Health Data when a PHR requests access vs when a Clinical application or other EHR asks for access. For example a Health Information Exchange (HIE) that is designed for supporting Treatment. Let me explain.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

In addition to more robust clinical data-sharing, we will see early examples of how advanced automation and AI models can be leveraged to create efficiencies and a more coordinated, patient-centric model. This will further endeavor to cement FHIR as the data standard to support future information exchange.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Paths to Interoperability A recent article exposes the woeful silo-ing of public health: Data often has to be faxed and re-entered into new systems manually. Steven Lane, chief medical officer of Health Gorilla , believes in unified standards. Waste water testing is a well-known example. to make a recommendation.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

The health care section of Mary Meeker’s 334-page annual report, Internet Trends 2019 , comprises 24 of those pages (270 through 293). For health care, the application of FHIR standards helps mobilize data for better health, turbocharging this trend.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 6, 2018

In essence, blockchain could help reshape healthcare interoperability by serving as a next-generation middleware that couples health data with decentralized, distributed, and immutable qualities, according to a new report by IDC Health Insights. The VA was an early adopter of electronic health records or EHRs.)

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 23, 2018

FHIR is a standards framework featuring a RESTful API designed to enable the exchange of health care information between applications and systems. Argonaut Project participants are working together to modernize nationwide health care interoperability through the increased adoption and development of the HL7 FHIR framework and API.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 14, 2018

App Orchard, for its part, lets developers use a FHIR-based API to access an Epic development sandbox. 2018 Digital Health Prediction 2: Voice technology will be the first step to personalising pharma. Google Voice, Siri, Cortana and Alexa will finally have connectivity to raw and comprehensive up-to-date data.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 3, 2017

As proof, FHIR Documents will re-open this discussion. Especially with the CDA-on-FHIR efforts. Example using a Discharge Summary: As an example of a document that might need to be published in multiple formats is a Discharge Summary for an Episode of Care. For example, a patient view versus a clinical view.

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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

An obvious example of how such limited thinking comprises your ability to see the opportunity is demonstrated by how Dr Sim has presented the concept that mHealth is somehow limited by adoption of smartphones. Greater investment in the science of digital biomarkers is needed to evaluate the value of mobile health data for clinical use.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 12, 2018

Fundamental to FHIR core Provenance - unlikely to be used today, but would uniquely identify the source Elaboration of these points This is a complex problem, and many layers are used to solve various parts of that complex problem. The standards (CDA and FHIR) include the capability to uniquely identify data elements (resources).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Amwell offers a suite of APIs, web services and SDKs to seamlessly embed telehealth into an organization’s existing digital assets, such as Cerner, Epic and other EHRs, in order to enable providers to work directly in the EHR for a streamlined experience. Mend has customers across the spectrum of healthcare specialties.

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