Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2024

Ryan Howells , Principal at Leavitt Partners and Executive Director of the CARIN Alliance, a bipartisan, multi-sector collaborative dedicated to advancing consumer-directed exchange of health information, has joined the b.well board as an independent director.

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Redox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Consequences for non-participation are currently unclear, although providers may be cited for non-compliance with federal information blocking regulations which, according to the recent HHS proposed rule could be up to $1 million per violation. Of note, the XCPD, XCA, and XDR profiles do not currently support FHIR natively.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 12, 2023

1upHealth’s FHIR®-native platform designed for interoperability and modern computing is used by over 75 enterprise organizations including leading national and regional health plans, the highest performing CMS ACOs, international clinical research organizations, and over 20 state medicaid agencies. For more information visit [link].

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

This chart illustrated data from that survey, showing that trust, authenticity and satisfaction were the top three drivers among consumers looking to engage for health. The cloud and FHIR standards are fostering a new era of interoperability in health care.

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Medicine and Technology

JANUARY 30, 2018

Tethered PHRs became available when patient portals were launched by hospitals, health systems, and clinics to meet the CMS Meaningful Use requirements. FHIR is finally allowing true interoperability to become a reality. We can also expect to see some very interesting days ahead as Amazon dives into health care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

As the demand for genomic testing grows and meets the needs of the general population, health plans will need to revisit their coverage benefits in the coming year to meet member, provider, and employer group expectations. Ashley Basile, Chief Product Officer at Diameter Health (now part of Availity).

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Redox

AUGUST 8, 2023

JSON, XML, pipe delimited) and is siloed within a myriad of source systems like electronic health records (EHR), medical imaging databases, claims processing systems, revenue cycle solutions, health information exchanges (HIE), and so on. Data is often unstructured (e.g.,

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 11, 2016

The topic is Patient Privacy Consent; the discussion is if this should be modeled as a core FHIR Resource, or as a core FHIR Profile upon the Contract Resource. When we first started to model Privacy Consent Directive in FHIR, we had just finished (mostly finished) the CDA Privacy Consent Directive.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Particularly for risk adjustment (RA) reviews, even the slightest gaps in reporting leaves health plans at risk for drops in quality ratings and subsequent revenue loss. But the administrative costs for providers to share this information keep escalating. Automated chart retrieval is performed at scale, leveraging modern HL7 FHIR APIs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

When patients are unable to come to a hospital or clinic, telehealth solutions that provide secure, two-way audio, video and text communications provide an effective way to meet patients where they are. This is particularly effective for communication with patients during a health crisis or during an open enrollment period.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

The key to unlocking the data is interoperability across the entire health ecosystem. Microsoft took a step to address health data interoperability with Azure API for FHIR in 2019. The company's next evolution of that journey is Azure Health Data Services.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 6, 2019

We still are not meeting in Treviso Italy. , but we have heard that the July meeting will be in Sardinia Italy. Great time to join IHE and have your company send you to the meeting. This updates the version from last meeting. This work item also updated the Query to FHIR R4, so this supplement is focused on FHIR R4.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2023

Responsibilities Responsible for system analysis, design, workflows, configuration, testing, implementation, application & end-user support, and issue resolution Prepares supporting documentation related to system builds, workflows (Visio), test scripts, staff trainings, standard operating procedures, and user guides Escalates issues that adversely (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

You’ll collaborate closely with others on the various technologies of our health information exchange platform to implement software solutions. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with health information exchange architecture. Thank you for your cooperation.

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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. For data reporting, Diameter Health improved lab data to adhere to standard and interoperable formats. Pinho said there were different fixes to each problem.

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

. – February 26, 2020 – GlobalMed, a leading provider of virtual health solutions, today announced that it will showcase integration enhancements to its virtual health platform eNcounter®, introduce a backpack telehealth exam station, and offer a lighter, more affordable exam camera at HIMSS20, March 9-13 in Orlando, FL.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2022

In addition, the solutions support FHIR terminology management and mapping, value set management, and converting unstructured data, such as notes fields, into discrete interoperable information. Around the globe, healthcare organizations rely on HealthTerm to support data quality governance and health information exchange.

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Health Intersections

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

On Friday last week, an article by Wendy John was published by Wild Health , in which I’m quoted as saying, regarding the My Health Record and the Strengthening Medicare Taskforce report : FHIR guru Grahame Grieve has advocated for interoperability standards in healthcare for over two decades.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

To seamlessly obtain information from various systems, healthcare data exchange standards are essential. Healthtech providers can adopt HL7 (Health Level Seven) or FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). Currently, ChatGPT does not meet HIPAA standards.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 10, 2023

This is because the code is freely available, so users can modify it to meet their specific needs. One of the early pioneers of open source software in healthtech was the World Health Organization (WHO). FHIR: An open standard for exchanging health data. 2004: The HL7 FHIR standard is released.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer. A few of my favorite comments were: “Jim Cramer needs a crash course in FHIR standards” from the wonkier section of peanut gallery. Where is the iPhone listed on Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs?”

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A truly effective interoperability ecosystem should provide an information infrastructure that uses technical standards, policies, and protocols to enable seamless and secure capture, discovery, exchange, and utilization of health information, with appropriate controls to ensure proper and effective use.

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

You can pick up his antibiotics and still make it to work in time for your morning meeting. As innovators in virtual health data acquisition, GlobalMed is now capable of FHIR-enabled integration, bridging the clinical data gap to your health information system. It’s great…. So here’s some good news.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Thanks to the rapid development and push for digital tools and apps to track vaccination status, reactions to the vaccine and future dose reminders, and COVID-19 test results, health care consumers are growing increasingly aware of what it means to have access to their health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Therasa Bell, Cofounder, President and CTO at Kno2 , has spent her career in healthcare IT, so it’s very meaningful to hear her speak of Kno2’s intention to become a designated QHIN (Qualified Health Information Network) under the TEFCA, asserting, “This is a turning point”.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Interoperable Consent Standards My main focus is on enabling Health Information to flow given proper Security and Privacy. They mostly look for a reasonable subset of full capability of these standards that minimally meet their needs. The vocabulary and evidence could use simple (BPPC), or comprehensive (APPC), or FHIR Consents.

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GlobalMed

OCTOBER 5, 2020

You can pick up his antibiotics and still make it to work in time for your morning meeting. As innovators in virtual health data acquisition, GlobalMed is now capable of FHIR-enabled integration, bridging the clinical data gap to your health information system. It’s great…. So here’s some good news.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

APRIL 20, 2023

A truly effective interoperability ecosystem will provide a unified infrastructure that uses technical standards, policies, and protocols to enable seamless and secure capture, discovery, exchange, and utilization of health information, with appropriate controls to ensure proper and effective use.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

I have worked closely with product development teams working on small medical devices, big medical devices, health information systems, and cloud workflows combining all. I am especially excited about the latest standard from HL7 - FHIR. The FHIR standard leverages modern platforms and interaction models.

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Redox

MAY 10, 2018

HL7 was created in 1987 to provide a framework and standards for the exchange and retrieval of electronic health information. It’s worth noting that HL7 has also introduced FHIR® (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), a standard with a more modern communication structure that is currently in a trial use stage.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Patient engagement platforms in healthcare are instrumental in enabling patients to securely communicate with their healthcare providers, access their health records, and receive personalized health information.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 6, 2018

Blockchain's interoperability could underpin data exchange, serving as an alternative to today's health information exchanges (HIEs); essentially, it would act as a mesh network for transmitting secure, near real-time patient data for healthcare providers, pharmacies, insurance payers and clinical researchers, according to IDC.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 26, 2018

Medical Records on iPhone - Apple already allows iPhone users to store health information gathered by the Apple Watch and other connected devices in its Health app, but this is the first time a system for retrieving records from a variety of medical providers has been launched on a smartphone.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Eden Avraham-Katz, VP of Legal & Compliance at 1upHealth While I appreciate the efforts to simplify the prior authorization process with FHIR APIs, the underlying issues with prior authorization are fundamentally systemic.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 18, 2016

I asked for use-cases on the FHIR chat so that I could model them. The parent will be his authorized representative to view patient health information. The authorization, or contract as we have modeled it in FHIR, would expire, while the relationship will always exist. There are a couple of things worthy of modeling.

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