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“Complexity is Profitable” in U.S. Healthcare – How to Save a Quarter-Trillion Dollars

Health Populi

Addressing administrative flows both inside and outside health care organizations can save money; take the lack of interoperability between claims systems between payers and hospitals and other aspects of lack of standardization and fragmented data systems. This represents a $210 billion savings opportunity, shown in the McKinsey model.

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From Paper to Pixels: The Future is Bright for Health Information Management

Healthcare IT Today

Prior to the Meaningful Use incentives in 2005, only 20% of medical records were stored electronically. One area where Mueller believes HIM professionals can make a significant difference is interoperability. The era of rolling shelves, paperclips, and Dictaphones ended less than 20 years ago. A lot has changed. “I

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Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative dissolves, saying 'work completed'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Since its founding in 2005, MAeHC has worked to improve the safety, efficiency and quality of healthcare delivery in the state by guiding organizations in the implementation and meaningful use of health IT. It has also spearheaded interoperability, standards development and HIT policy initiatives. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Redox Survey Reveals That Clinical Integration Challenges are Slowing Cloud Adoption for 97% of Provider Organizations

Redox

June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Redox – the leader in healthcare interoperability – recently partnered with Sage Growth Partners to survey executives and technology decision-makers from over 100 large academic medical centers and multi-hospital health systems. MADISON, Wis.,

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Kno2’s Unique Perspective on Why TEFCA is Different as They Pursue QHIN Designation

Healthcare IT Today

As we approach 2023 it is amazing that interoperability, true broad-based connectivity between healthcare systems, looks like the Verizon heatmap back in 2005 when there was as much white on the map as there was red. She says of Kno2, “We enable interoperability and the magic happening on the edge.”

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Electronic Health Records : History, hurdles and the promise of Blockchain

Lloyd Price

The main obstacle has always been interoperability, something that blockchain technology offers a solution to. In April 2005, it began deployment of EHR systems in NHS Trusts. A distributed ledger also solves the need for intermediaries regarding access and validation, and the overhead for providers is minimal.

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Multiple formats of the same Document content

Healthcare Exchange Standards

focused more on template inheritance -- Template Identifiers, Business Rules and Degrees of Interoperability -- with a cool graphic text/x-hl7-text+xml urn:hl7-org:sdwg:ccda-structuredBody:1.1 is not really special, but it happens to be the thing that has just released and C-CDA 1.1 are laying around.

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