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Interoperability Barriers: Achieving It In Today’s Healthcare Data Landscape

Electronic Health Reporter

It was generally recognized by 2009 that the health care industry was long overdue when it came to adopting electronic systems for storing patient data. At the time, hospital adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems was at about 10 percent while electronic record keeping […].

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HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Health Populi

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. As the pie chart from the study result illustrates, well over one-half of health care providers are interested in integrating SDOH data into the EHR. The fact is that HIPAA may not cover all of these data flows.

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The Future of Healthcare: Integrated Data for Integrated Care

Healthcare IT Today

The siloed nature of such data repositories can be attributed to various factors, including using different EHR systems, varying data capture standards, and a historical lack of emphasis on system interoperability. The solution to these challenges lies in the adoption of interoperable data systems.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Since it raised its first fund in 2009, it has backed nearly 60 health-related enterprises. This year there was job posting for a HIPAA compliance lead for the Alexa team. TPA Amazon realizes that they could significantly lower the costs of administrative services by solving interoperability.

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API mania misses the point on healthcare interoperability

Import Immunity

When I first testified at a FACA meeting in 2009 (six years ago!) — I talked about the “Connectathon” problem. But what became clear over time was that the two killer issues were discoverability and authentication / authorization — problems that made interoperability unworkable at scale. The Connectathon Problem.

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By 2020, 1-in-5 Healthcare organisations will adopt Blockchain says new IDC report

Lloyd Price

In essence, blockchain could help reshape healthcare interoperability by serving as a next-generation middleware that couples health data with decentralized, distributed, and immutable qualities, according to a new report by IDC Health Insights. The VA was an early adopter of electronic health records or EHRs.)

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Weekender 5/17/19

HIStalk Weekender

A large survey of clinicians finds that the #1 predictor of positive EHR experience is training, with EHR personalization also being a major contributor. The EHR is just not that platform. EHR vendors built their systems to suit their health system masters and use their size anti-competitively, just like health systems do.

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