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Prior Authorization Takes a Leap Forward in CMS Regulation

Healthcare IT Today

A Process in Urgent Need of an Upgrade Clearly, prior authorization is crying out for standardization and interoperability. The federal government has been haranguing vendors and clinicians to make interoperable systems since the HITECH act was passed in 2009. The release of FHIR in the mid-2010 decade changed everything.

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Toward a Wider Adoption of Digital Insurance Cards

Healthcare IT Today

So I was intrigued when Mark Scrimshire, chief interoperability officer of OnyxOS , introduced me to developments over the past few years that will make digital insurance cards feasible. HL7 , which has been setting standards for health care since 1987, leapt into the modern age of computer standards by adopting the FHIR standard.

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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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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 EHR vendor’s founder also discusses the state of interoperability, cloud computing and today’s sticking points in health IT. Epic, Cerner and others reveal just how their EHRs are interoperable.

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Open Source Software in HealthTech: Hype today or Hope for the future?

Lloyd Price

In addition to these benefits, open source software is also becoming increasingly interoperable. These EHRs offer a number of benefits, including vendor independence, flexibility, and interoperability. FHIR: An open standard for exchanging health data. 2004: The HL7 FHIR standard is released.

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“Apple announces effortless solution bringing health records to iPhone”

mHealth Insight

“Apple today introduced a significant update to the Health app with the iOS 11.3 beta, debuting a feature for customers to see their medical records right on their iPhone” 24 January 2018, Apple Newsroom. mHealth Insights.

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