EMR, FHIR, Healthcare IT and Interoperability

I Helped Accelerate FHIR, It’s Time to Scale

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2024

The following is a guest article by Shannon West, Chief Product Officer at Datavant Since the dawn of electronic medical records, American healthcare delivery systems have traced a winding path toward the dream of seamless and timely health data interoperability. Rate limiting is not inherent to the FHIR standards.

FHIR

FHIR EMR Interoperability Medicare

OntarioMD is Making Interoperability a Priority for Ontario

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In a recent interview with Healthcare IT Today , Aidan Lee, Director of the Certification Program at OntarioMD , and Matt LaDuke, Director of Products, Integrations, and Service Management, shed light on the evolving landscape of electronic medical records (EMRs) and the state of interoperability in the healthcare sector.

Interoperability

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Te Toka Tumai Auckland rolling out FHIR-ed-up PAS and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Te Toka Tumai Auckland launching FHIR-driven PAS Te Toka Tumai Auckland, formerly Auckland District Health Board, will be launching a new patient administration system that runs on the new FHIR-based National Health Index API. The CARe-MED study, which has received A$1.4 The CARe-MED study, which has received A$1.4

FHIR

FHIR EMR Life Science Interoperability

Policy Ingredients for Real-Time Improvements in Health Care, Prior Auth, and Claims

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth , shows us in this video how current regulations and FHIR standards will actually make that happen. In a fast-paced exchanged with John Lynn of Healthcare IT Today, Rucker covers regulations and evolving data exchange standards that foster interoperability and data analytics.

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FHIR Interoperability Healthcare IT Medicare

Innovar Healthcare Knows How to Make Last Mile Interoperability a Reality

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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. Most IT organizations have the tech chops to be interoperable. Tell us what you think.

Interoperability

Interoperability HIE EMR Health Data

The Evolution of How Provider Organizations Share Data with Payers

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2024

It’s reasonable for a company like MRO to have a chief interoperability officer. According to their chief interoperability officer, Anthony Murray, the company has spent 22 years building tools to “exchange data seamlessly” in healthcare. Plus, he shares how healthcare standards are impacting these efforts.

Interoperability

Interoperability FHIR Healthcare IT EMR

Roundup: Telehealth providers needed in rural New Zealand and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2023

University of Adelaide uses Sunrise EMR for practical exams The University of Adelaide has started adopting the Sunrise EMR system for practical examinations of fifth-year medical students. Sunrise EMR is the primary medical record system in all major public hospitals in metropolitan SA.

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Telehealth EMR FHIR EHR

Just Get Connected Already

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

Buckle also shares her experience at the Interop Showcase and details of the recent CommonWell FHIR Connectathon where CommonWell members leveraged FHIR to improve interoperability. FHIR, the API for automated data sharing, is mature and being adopted. This more recent standard makes trust automatable as well.

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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

by Healthcare IT News November 22, 2019. This month, Healthcare IT News, MobiHealthNews and Healthcare Finance News take a look at what all of this means and how technology, as always, is spurring innovative solutions. -- Susan Morse, senior editor, Healthcare Finance News. Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters.

Healthcare IT

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CMS Releases Proposed Rule Expanding Health Data Interoperability Requirements For Payers

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The announcement follows the release of the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule in July, which requires all health plans doing business with the […].

Interoperability

Interoperability Health Data FHIR Medicare

A Look At DirectTrust’s Work in Healthcare Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2021

After hearing about DirectTrust passing the 2 billion message mark, we thought it would be valuable for readers to learn more about DirectTrust and the healthcare interoperability work their non-profit is doing.

Interoperability

Interoperability FHIR Patient Experience EMR

These Three Things Can Bring EHRs to the Next Level

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

Drawing from this experience on both sides of the equation, I believe the next generation of EHRs can better meet the needs of all involved with better usability, interoperability, and flexibility. Enhancing Interoperability In addition to greater usability, EHRs need better data-sharing capabilities to bring real value to the clinical space.

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EHR Interoperability FHIR Digital Health

Bonus Features – December 17, 2023 – 97% of hospitals now capable of enabling electronic access to patient records, 70% of hospitals face hidden business continuity challenge, plus 31 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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 make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Leadership HIE Nursing Life Science

The Tension in TEFCA

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

There have been public statements from ONC and to extent from the Sequoia Project that TEFCA will be modernized to computable data – i.e. FHIR data. FHIR has been around for over 10 years so it is worth pondering why it was not incorporated into TEFCA from the start.

FHIR

FHIR EHR Interoperability Health Information

Google’s Effort To Help Healthcare Organizations Meet Interoperability Standards

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Healthcare providers are well aware that the interoperability demands imposed by the 21st Century Cures Act are barreling down the pike rapidly and will soon slam their organizations.

Interoperability

Interoperability FHIR EMR Health Data

Canvas Medical Achieves ONC Certification, Raises $24MM to Power Clinicians and Developers Building and Scaling Digital Health Companies

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Canvas Medical, the EMR that enables clinicians and developers to power the future of care delivery, has raised $24MM in Series B funding led by M13 with participation from Haystack and previous investors Inspired Capital, IA Ventures, Upfront Ventures, and Irongrey. Founded in 2015, Canvas is reimagining the EMR for the future of healthcare.

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EMR Digital Health Primary Care RCM

Bonus Features – August 20, 2023 – Healthcare orgs only use 57% of their data to drive decision-making, digital health is well represented on the Inc. 5000 list, and more

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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 make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

Digital Health

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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Storage of Information in Various Systems While serving diverse medical institution needs, Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) parallel existence complicates information access and exchange between doctors, patients, and different medical centers.

HIPAA

HIPAA EMR FHIR EHR

Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Healthcare Workforce. Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. Healthcare Consumerism. John and Colin’s 2023 Healthcare IT Predictions.

Interoperability

Interoperability Health IT FHIR EMR

Group Brings SDOH Coding Effort To HL7 FHIR Program

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

For the last few years, a growing number of healthcare organizations have been integrating information on social determinants of health into their population health management efforts. In fact, survey results published in early 2018 concluded that 80% of the organizations they surveyed had begun to track and use SDOH data.

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FHIR Interoperability EMR Health Data

Where are EHRs headed in 2023?

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

The healthcare industry has an incredible amount of data at its disposal, so the next step is distilling every bit of information into something digestible for providers at the point of care. Automation and intelligence of systems for better healthcare experiences for all involved. ModMed – Dr. Michael Rivers, Sr.

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EHR Primary Care Interoperability Life Science

Making Standards Work in Health Care: Interoperability, Open Source, and Other Impacts

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 29, 2019

Standards are both critical and frustrating. Health care standards may be where Web browsers were around 1995, as Internet access was growing explosively and new extensions to Web standards were being proposed right and left. In those years, getting your Web page to show up in readable form on every browser was a challenge that […].

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Interoperability FHIR EMR EHR

Top Healthcare IT Today Resources, Articles, Videos, and Podcasts

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

Most Visited Healthcare IT Resource Pages. Healthcare IT and EHR Conferences and Events. Healthcare GIS. Most Visited Healthcare IT Today Articles Published in 2022. 2022 Predictions for Healthcare Interoperability – A third predictions post doing so well. Top Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcasts.

Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Interoperability FHIR EHR

Milliman IntelliScript Acquires OneRecord

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Milliman helps clients around the world as they take on some of the world’s most critical and complex issues, including retirement funding and healthcare financing, risk management and regulatory compliance, data analytics and business transformation. Its data network powers healthcare tools that people and developers rely on.

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EHR FHIR Health Data Interoperability

Healthcare CIOs Speeding Up Social Determinants Of Health Efforts

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2020

New research has concluded that healthcare CIOs see analyzing social determinants of health data as a top priority going forward, along with tackling data interoperability and cybersecurity. The focus group study, which was conducted by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, involved bringing together a group of CIOs who were members of CHIME.

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Interoperability Health Data Healthcare Cybersecurity FHIR

HIStalk Interviews David Wenger, CEO, Bridge Connector

HIStalk Interviews

APRIL 24, 2019

It is focused on solving the business workflow aspect of healthcare and creating interoperability between systems and ease of communication without the need for code. It is a truly scalable platform that provides an affordable solution to any sized healthcare organization so that they can streamline their business use case workflows.

EHR

EHR Interoperability FHIR EMR

CMS To Run Pilot Giving Providers Access To Medicare Claims Data

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2019

In another step in fleshing out its interoperability efforts, CMS has announced plans to launch a pilot program giving clinicians access to claims data. During the pilot, which is called “Data at the Point of Care” or DPC, clinicians will be able to access the claims data from CMS’s Blue Button 2.0 functionality. The idea […].

Medicare

Medicare Interoperability FHIR EMR

MEDITECH To Integrate Google Health Data Tools Into Its EHR

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2022

Recently, we shared news about the growing feature set under development as part of Google Health’s Care Studio, most recently its “Conditions” feature which summarizes patient conditions and uses NLP to link related information like labs or medications to those condition listings.

Health Data

Health Data EHR FHIR Interoperability

Zus Health Closes Financing, Signs Partnership with Elation Health, to Accelerate Growth of its Data Service to Provide Connective Tissue for Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

” Healthcare data today remains highly fragmented, with providers frequently spending more time gathering patient data and entering it into their EMR than with their patients delivering care.

Primary Care

Primary Care EHR FHIR EMR

What Does Remote Patient Monitoring and Chronic Care Management Really Take to Be Successful?

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

This month we’ve had an added focus on Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and all it’s nuances and features. No doubt a month still isn’t enough to fully understand this quickly changing area of health IT.

Health IT

Health IT FHIR Interoperability EMR

On the 9th Day of #HITChristmas … Keith Boone from Audacious Inquiry

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Note: In case you missed the other 12 Days of #HITChristmas, you can start with the first day here along with the story behind #HITChristmas or read all 12 days here as they are published. On the 9th Day of #HITChristmas we’re excited to feature, Keith Boone, Enterprise Architect at Audacious Inquiry.

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HIE Public Health FHIR Health Information

Emerging Technologies in Healthcare IT and Their Regulatory Considerations

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

To talk more about the regulatory considerations for implementing these emerging technologies, we reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights. For example, the CMS-0057-P proposed rule requires the use of FHIR APIs and essentially builds upon previous regulations.

Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Interoperability HIPAA EMR

Larry Ellison’s Vision of a National EHR Database as Part of Cerner Acquisition

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

I think we all know the answer to that and FHIR and all these other standards won’t get us there either. Can Oracle really create a full longitudinal record of all patients? To simplify the question, is Epic going to give Oracle Cerner access to all their health records?

EHR

EHR Life Science Public Health FHIR

Connected Health Pulse

I Helped Accelerate FHIR, It’s Time to Scale

OntarioMD is Making Interoperability a Priority for Ontario

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Te Toka Tumai Auckland rolling out FHIR-ed-up PAS and more briefs

Policy Ingredients for Real-Time Improvements in Health Care, Prior Auth, and Claims

Innovar Healthcare Knows How to Make Last Mile Interoperability a Reality

The Evolution of How Provider Organizations Share Data with Payers

Roundup: Telehealth providers needed in rural New Zealand and more briefs

Just Get Connected Already

2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

CMS Releases Proposed Rule Expanding Health Data Interoperability Requirements For Payers

A Look At DirectTrust’s Work in Healthcare Interoperability

These Three Things Can Bring EHRs to the Next Level

Bonus Features – December 17, 2023 – 97% of hospitals now capable of enabling electronic access to patient records, 70% of hospitals face hidden business continuity challenge, plus 31 more stories

The Tension in TEFCA

Google’s Effort To Help Healthcare Organizations Meet Interoperability Standards

Canvas Medical Achieves ONC Certification, Raises $24MM to Power Clinicians and Developers Building and Scaling Digital Health Companies

Bonus Features – August 20, 2023 – Healthcare orgs only use 57% of their data to drive decision-making, digital health is well represented on the Inc. 5000 list, and more

Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Group Brings SDOH Coding Effort To HL7 FHIR Program

Where are EHRs headed in 2023?

Making Standards Work in Health Care: Interoperability, Open Source, and Other Impacts

Top Healthcare IT Today Resources, Articles, Videos, and Podcasts

Milliman IntelliScript Acquires OneRecord

Healthcare CIOs Speeding Up Social Determinants Of Health Efforts

HIStalk Interviews David Wenger, CEO, Bridge Connector

CMS To Run Pilot Giving Providers Access To Medicare Claims Data

MEDITECH To Integrate Google Health Data Tools Into Its EHR

Zus Health Closes Financing, Signs Partnership with Elation Health, to Accelerate Growth of its Data Service to Provide Connective Tissue for Healthcare

What Does Remote Patient Monitoring and Chronic Care Management Really Take to Be Successful?

On the 9th Day of #HITChristmas … Keith Boone from Audacious Inquiry

Emerging Technologies in Healthcare IT and Their Regulatory Considerations

Larry Ellison’s Vision of a National EHR Database as Part of Cerner Acquisition

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