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TEFCA Real Talk

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

Certainly AI us currently doing that in health IT, but in the world of interoperability TEFCA and QHINs are grabbing all of the attention. There are a lot of views on TEFCA, but the one thing that’s certain is that it’s grabbing a lot of the interoperability focus from government regulators and the industry.

Interoperability

Interoperability FHIR Healthcare IT Health Data

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

A survey from Turquoise Health found prices for “shoppable services” in healthcare are increasing roughly at the pace of inflation , though some vaccines have seen price increases of more than 20%. In addition, AVIA published its Top Interoperability Companies Report , with Andor Health topping the list.

Leadership

Leadership HIE Nursing Life Science

Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

A survey published in JAMIA found 73% of digital health vendors are using standards-based FHIR APIs when integrating with EHR systems. Roughly 83% of clinicians agree that telemedicine is effective for managing chronic conditions , according to a SteadyMD survey.

FHIR

FHIR Digital Health Telemedicine EHR

Bonus Features – February 19, 2023 – 80% of orgs collect SDOH data but struggle to make use of it, 2 in 3 cybersecurity pros say their orgs underestimate threats, and more

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Surveys A survey of 2,600 AHIMA members found that about 80% of healthcare organizations are collecting social determinants of health data. Montana HIE Big Sky Care Connect chose Lyniate ‘s Rhapsody Interoperability Suite for data classification and cleansing.

Healthcare Cybersecurity

Healthcare Cybersecurity HIE EHR Healthcare IT

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

Healthcare organizations are only using 57% of their data to drive decision-making , according to a survey from Arcadia. Only 45% of consumers are fully satisfied with their health insurance , according to a survey from HealthEdge, and 40% blame insurers for the high cost of care.

Digital Health

Digital Health HIE eHealth Life Science

Bonus Features – August 6, 2023 – 83% of hospitals are collecting SDoH data, 46% of hospitals planning to use large language models in the call center, and more

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2023

Another 60% of hospitals are receiving SDoH data from outside sources, primarily from HIE entities. Nearly half (46%) of providers already have or plan to deploy large language models in their call centers , according to a survey from Hyro. Interoperability company Kno2 appointed Dr. Peter Schoch as Chief Health Officer.

EHR

EHR Interoperability RCM HIE

Bonus Features – April 9, 2023 – 63% of RCM departments face staffing shortages, small Stanford study shows 90% of GPT answers in clinical setting are “generally safe,” and more

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2023

Research and Surveys Stanford Health Care tested GPT-3.5 This year’s survey aims to address several new topics, including SDOH, workforce skill development, managing offshore and domestic workforces, and transitioning to ICD-11. Researchers found that more than 90% of GPT-3.5

RCM

RCM HIE Healthcare IT Primary Care

Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2023

News and Studies Amid the push for interoperability, data gaps persist, according to the inaugural State of Interoperability report from Health Gorilla , a health information network. This is despite the fact that 65% of survey respondents saying they believe patients should own their data.

Digital Health

Digital Health Interoperability Health Information HIE

Weekly Roundup – June 17, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 17, 2023

How Interoperability Saves Lives – and Builds Trust. The organization’s Geli Brown sat down with Colin Hung to explain interoperability’s role in building trust: When clinicians know more about a patient’s history, they can be better partners in care.

Interoperability

Interoperability FHIR Healthcare IT eHealth

Bonus Features – January 29, 2023 – ONC says more than 70% of hospitals can use external data at the point of care, the 3 largest health info networks have indexed 90% of patients, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2023

The group also launched a health equity survey , with the results to be announced at ViVE in Nashville in March. About 75% of hospitals are members of regional HIE organizations, and 35% participate in regional and national HIEs. All told, 71% of organizations are now able to use data from external sources at the point of care.

eHealth

eHealth HIE Health Information RCM

10 Healthcare Organizations Ask HHS to Postpone Information Blocking Deadline

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

39% of those surveyed by CHIME said that they were concerned about receiving an upgrade of their health IT system in time to comply. The organizations do suggest they support HHS’ efforts to “advance health data exchange and interoperability while advancing health equity for all.”

HIE

HIE Interoperability Health IT Health Information

The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

Increasing healthcare consolidation of hospitals has exacerbated the problem of lack of interoperability. There remain many opportunities for technologies to assist in achieving true interoperability. From a provider standpoint. We need EHRs which are clinically oriented with good user interfaces. Clinical trials.

Digital Health

Digital Health EHR Interoperability Health Information

Hospitals Still Struggling To Share Data Effectively

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2019

A new survey suggests that despite spending countless dollars and people-hours on the problem, hospitals and health systems are still struggling with data sharing. The survey, which was […].

HIE

HIE Interoperability EMR Health Data

A Wide Range Of Problems Still Holding Back Health Data Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

A new health data interoperability survey by Healthcare IT Today with 82 responses suggests that when it comes to interoperability, healthcare organizations are struggling with many of the same challenges they faced five or even 10 years ago. Without a doubt, respondents are still interested in fostering health data sharing.

Interoperability

Interoperability Health Data Healthcare IT HIE

CIOs tackle barriers to innovation, telehealth integration, analytics and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

"Skills-based routing, request queuing, SMS messaging and surveys, and other 'service-management' type capabilities, become very important when you're scaling virtual services and need to make sure they are easy to request, and that service fulfillment is managed in a service management model. Enterprise Taxonomy:

Telehealth

Telehealth Leadership Telemedicine HIE

Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Patients are the lifeblood of the healthcare industry — especially small healthcare clinics — yet a recent survey conducted by Weave found that 2 out of 3 small healthcare businesses claim they are short-staffed, with little evidence that these shortages will end anytime soon. Staffing shortages will cause severe care disruption.

Health IT

Health IT Nursing HC Patient Experience

HIStalk Interviews Kurt Garbe, CEO, IMAT Solutions

HIStalk Interviews

OCTOBER 29, 2018

When we talk to people through surveys and discussions, 80 percent aren’t looking at that data yet. The historical approach to interoperability or interconnecting data is to tell Company A, “Here is how we want you to give us output.” ” That’s historically a huge problem. We don’t do that.

Interoperability

Interoperability HIE

HIStalk Interviews G. Cameron Deemer, President, DrFirst

HIStalk Interviews

APRIL 1, 2019

To de-jargonize that, we provide core technologies such as electronic prescribing, controlled substance prescribing, and a lot of things around medication history and interoperability. Those are often included in EHR platforms, hospital systems, HIEs, and pharmacies. We have a pretty broad footprint across the industry. This is a new concept.

EMR

EMR EHR HIE Interoperability

Blockchain in Healthcare: A Vehicle Towards Digital Health 2.0?

The Digital Health Corner

MARCH 26, 2018

Interestingly, an IBM survey of 200 healthcare executives in 16 countries focused on interest in adopting blockchain technology revealed that this is a very rapidly evolving area. However, interestingly, interoperability of blockchain itself remains as much a Holy Grail as interoperability of digital healthcare data.

Digital Health

Digital Health Interoperability Life Science Healthcare Data Security

Bonus Features – May 14, 2023 – Only 16% of organizations are using data to define clinical best practices, 84% of orgs hit with ransomware attacks lose revenue, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2023

Studies A survey from data analytics vendor MDclone reported that only 16% of healthcare organizations successfully use data to define clinical best practices. The company’s survey found that 62% of patients prefer paying bills online, while 59% prefer SMS bill payment reminders to phone calls.

RCM

RCM Healthcare IT HIE Primary Care

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). See a survey cosponsored by Genpact.) You have to know how you will share data with the people who can act on it, roping in questions of formats, conformance, and data interoperability that are familiar to professionals in health IT.

Public Health

Public Health HIE Medicare Health IT

HIStalk Interviews Gabriel Orthous, CIO, Central Georgia Health Network

HIStalk Interviews

JUNE 12, 2019

I’m going through an HIE implementation right now with a local HIE here in Georgia. The problem with interoperability and intraoperability is that those files become convoluted quickly. All of them have a lot of work to do around interoperability and parsing the right data set for the right patient at the right time.

EMR

EMR RCM HIE Interoperability

Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

A patient survey from Global Healthcare Exchange found that half of Americans are avoiding hospital care due to staffing shortages , while one-third fear that they won’t get to see the right doctors or spend enough time being cared for. Notable holdovers from last year’s list include Xealth, Redox, and Maven Clinic.

HIE

HIE Healthcare IT Digital Health EHR

Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Exhibit 2: SDHN Structural and Funding Diagram. Social Care Data Interoperability Exchange. GRHEOs will require (much) less funding than the HERO defines – and will have less responsibility – focusing only on need definition and coordination of county health and prevention services with SDHN and HIE/QE activities.

Primary Care

Primary Care Telehealth HIE Public Health

Connected Health Pulse

TEFCA Real Talk

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

Trending Sources

Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

Bonus Features – February 19, 2023 – 80% of orgs collect SDOH data but struggle to make use of it, 2 in 3 cybersecurity pros say their orgs underestimate threats, and more

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

Bonus Features – August 6, 2023 – 83% of hospitals are collecting SDoH data, 46% of hospitals planning to use large language models in the call center, and more

Bonus Features – April 9, 2023 – 63% of RCM departments face staffing shortages, small Stanford study shows 90% of GPT answers in clinical setting are “generally safe,” and more

Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes, and more

Weekly Roundup – June 17, 2023

Bonus Features – January 29, 2023 – ONC says more than 70% of hospitals can use external data at the point of care, the 3 largest health info networks have indexed 90% of patients, and more

10 Healthcare Organizations Ask HHS to Postpone Information Blocking Deadline

The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

Hospitals Still Struggling To Share Data Effectively

A Wide Range Of Problems Still Holding Back Health Data Interoperability

CIOs tackle barriers to innovation, telehealth integration, analytics and more

Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

HIStalk Interviews Kurt Garbe, CEO, IMAT Solutions

HIStalk Interviews G. Cameron Deemer, President, DrFirst

Blockchain in Healthcare: A Vehicle Towards Digital Health 2.0?

Bonus Features – May 14, 2023 – Only 16% of organizations are using data to define clinical best practices, 84% of orgs hit with ransomware attacks lose revenue, and more

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

HIStalk Interviews Gabriel Orthous, CIO, Central Georgia Health Network

Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

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