Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2020

As part of our Healthcare IT 100 in 100, we asked a wide variety of healthcare interoperability experts to chime in on the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare interoperability. Plus, then we asked them how it will impact health data sharing going forward.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2020

Healthcare interoperability has always been a hot topic, but it’s become even more interesting amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. In many ways, the pandemic has highlighted some of the challenges healthcare faces in sharing health data between providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) is a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of all health IT vendors. They are a trusted resource and voice for our industry so that policymakers at federal, state, and local levels can be better informed about emerging digital health technology.

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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.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It’s not a huge surprise that the week of the ONC Meeting, they would make a number of big announcements for those of us in health IT. I expect we’ll see many more health IT companies become QHINs. This is a big step forward for QHINs who can now start sharing health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Patches Seely, Executive Vice President of Clinical Solutions at Carenet Health Clinicians’ burnout is in both a state of prevention and cure.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

Director at NTT DATA On February 8, 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1) Final Rule in the Federal Register, which took effect on March 11, 2024. The following is a guest article by Nitin Kunte, Sr.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The topic of healthcare interoperability is one that it feels like we’ve been talking about ad nauseam for nearly the entire 15 years I’ve been writing about healthcare IT. In fact, I’m sure the discussion started well before I started in health IT.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 19, 2021

New research data from KLAS suggests that while providers generally feel comfortable with their preparations for complying with new information blocking rules, they’re not sure their efforts will be much help in winning their ongoing interoperability battles.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

On October 6, 2022, the healthcare and health IT community woke to a new reality – one in which electronic health information (EHI) included far more than it did the day before. . Actors include healthcare providers, developers of certified health IT, health information exchanges (HIEs), and health information networks (HINs).

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

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. “The real point of interoperability is continuous, real-time computing,” according to Rucker.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Yesterday, we shared a number of the insights into the health data and interoperability needs in healthcare. A HIMSS statistic cited the average healthcare system as having 18 EMRs. Until that data is more centralized and secure, it can create challenges for HIM teams, clinicians, and patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2023

As with many things, there are degrees – and when it comes to health data, you can never be too private or too secure. By creating an on-ramp for the superhighway of nationwide health data exchange, TEFCA makes sure patient records follow the patient wherever they go. million in 2019 to 28.5

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 15, 2020

For Health IT companies, it’s so tempting to just dive in and build the point-to-point data integration that you need to get the job done. If you do that too many times, however, you’ll suddenly realize you have a mess of spaghetti on your hands that will hamper future development. The co-founders of Datica believe […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Putting patients first means that health systems, their government partners, and regulators need to look at companies’ security and interoperability track records to ensure the technologies being adopted keep patients’ private records safe and usable across providers. million patients’ data.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

If you’re running an HIE, you’re always hoping to see your participants step up their interoperability game. The thing is, few HIEs go the extra mile to make it happen, in many cases because they just don’t have the resources to tackle the problem. Given this fact, I was interested to see the recent announcement […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

clinicians, as estimated by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance. The alliance was a bold gesture made ten years ago by leading EHR vendors to demonstrate their commitment to data sharing. Many other health IT firms have joined CommonWell since then.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

One of the biggest networks for sharing health data in the country is CommonWell Health Alliance. After some changes in the industry and some acquisitions, CommonWell was in need of a new technical service provider to continue their interoperability work and to finish their work to become a QHIN under TEFCA.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

AVIA added RUSH, MUSC Health, and United Regional Health Care System to its network. Health Plan Alliance selected 1upHealth as its preferred health data interoperability vendor. Products Consensus Cloud Solutions launched Clarity Clinical Documentation , which routes unstructured data into patient records.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As mentioned previously, we’re taking part on the Virtual AHIMA conference this week. Exploring how things work in the virtual world, we tried something new today and did a text based chat interview with Rita Bowen, VP of Privacy, Compliance and HIM Policy from MRO. In this wide ranging text interview, we talked with Rita […].

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Each day in healthcare, data becomes more valuable, more useful, and more important to a healthcare organization. It’s easy to see that the future of healthcare rests on the back of data. The problem is that data in and of itself isn’t useful.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In recent times, Apple has been making a number of public moves focused on getting its customers to pull their health data onto their iPhone. Using Apple’s Health app, consumers can have their health data downloaded automatically from any institution with which it has partnered.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

Zus Health , (pronounced “Zoose”), a next-generation shared health data platform bringing distributed patient data directly to the point of care, announced today that the company has closed a $40 million financing.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A new survey concludes that many health IT executives are not too familiar with new federal regulations which, among other things, require that patients have more access to their health records and forbid providers from hampering health data sharing across networks.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2023

The organization’s 5,000+ physicians, who are treating people across the socioeconomic spectrum, believe that comprehensive health information is crucial to deliver high-quality care for their patients. A lot of work remains to make data sharing a reality.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For the health IT community, 2022 has been a big year. . In January, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) became a reality, and in October applications opened for organizations seeking designation as Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs). Does the Exchange Allow Participants Full Control Over Their Data?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

2022 Predictions for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and In Home Care – I know not everyone enjoys predictions, but the fact that last year’s prediction did so well means that people like them more than I realized which is good since we just started our 2023 Health IT Predictions. Top Whitepapers and eBooks.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 4, 2021

” We’re inundated with healthcare standards and always hearing buzzwords like “interoperability” and “information […]. This week’s chat will be hosted by Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser (@KAWickenhauser) from @DirectTrust on the topic “How Connected Is Our Care?”

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2023

Data sharing and interoperability are spreading too slowly in health care, and even if a doctor manages to get all the data, its varied formats make it hard to draw insights from.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Additionally, improving data interoperability and the seamless exchange of health information across different healthcare systems and providers has been a focus of policymakers. For example, the CMS-0057-P proposed rule requires the use of FHIR APIs and essentially builds upon previous regulations.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Lastly, we wrap everything up by discussing what a health data utility (HDU) is. What’s a health data utility (HDU)? Lastly, we wrap everything up by discussing what a health data utility (HDU) is. Are TEFCA and QHINs real or are they memorex?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2023

In addition to data conversion and archiving, MediQuant can help health care systems prioritize the order of decommissioning systems through application rationalization—taking into account priorities such as highest ROI and highest risk.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The purchase of OneRecord positions Milliman IntelliScript to better serve clients who depend on the company’s delivery of digital health and consumer data to mitigate applicant risks, meet customer demand for a faster application process, and extend coverage to more people. More information is at milliman.com. About OneRecord, LLC.

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