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Prior Authorization Takes a Leap Forward in CMS Regulation

Healthcare IT Today

The release of FHIR in the mid-2010 decade changed everything. The workflow is illustrated in a diagram in an article on the FHIR web site. Incompatible, vendor-specific language will be replaced by new FHIR-based standards such as Clinical Quality Language. These factors are incentives for adoption.

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Toward a Wider Adoption of Digital Insurance Cards

Healthcare IT Today

HL7 , which has been setting standards for health care since 1987, leapt into the modern age of computer standards by adopting the FHIR standard. One of the FHIR standards, conveniently enough, is a digital insurance card. The CARIN Alliance has created a FHIR implementation of CMS Blue Button 2.0 Version 2.0

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2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service improper payment rate is lowest since 2010

CMS.gov

2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service improper payment rate is lowest since 2010. 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service improper payment rate is lowest since 2010 Significant progress in saving $4.59B in estimated improper payments for the Medicare Fee-For-Service program. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Fri, 11/16/2018 - 18:46. Seema Verma. Fraud, waste, & abuse.

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Start at Consent as a FHIR Resource

Healthcare Exchange Standards

This Agile methodology is a bit more than is required by the FHIR Principles, but is very much a good methodology to assure the focus on implementations and the 80% rule is adhered to. These exceptions are explicitly recorded in the except element. Realm specifics 6.7.4.1

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Color Me Healthy – Pantone’s Forecast on Post-Pandemic Well-Being and Design

Health Populi

In health care, we turn to ANSI health data standards like HL7 and FHIR for data interoperability, and DICOM for moving medical images from place to place. For context, Pantone plays a role in your life you might not realize.

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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

But at the tail end of the 'teens, we see a flowering of innovation that could only have been dreamed of in 2010. The National Coordinator talks 21st Century Cures, information blocking, Apple, consumerism, FHIR, open APIs and new business models he sees emerging amid the "overarching theme of human choice and freedom and dignity."

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Future of Secure Messaging in Australia

Health Intersections

SMD “Secure Message Delivery” is an Australian Standards ( AS 5552 ) finalised back in 2010 that specifies how software acting on behalf of any healthcare provider can send a message to any other provider. Sending Messages Securely. Of course, here in Australia, we have one of those. But in practice, providers can’t actually do that.