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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

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2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. Of course, that's been the case every year over the past decade since the first meaningful use checks were mailed out, kickstarting the digital healthcare age as we know it. by Healthcare IT News November 22, 2019. Health IT implementation best practices.

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Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-term and Nursing Care

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But these facilities are afterthoughts in our health care system, and were excluded in particular from the huge digitization of health care triggered in the United States by the 2009 HITECH act and 2010 Affordable Care Act. The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal.

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Prior Authorization Takes a Leap Forward in CMS Regulation

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Presently, physicians bear the burden of understanding each health plan’s requirements for utilization review. A Process in Urgent Need of an Upgrade Clearly, prior authorization is crying out for standardization and interoperability. The release of FHIR in the mid-2010 decade changed everything.

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Lucia Savage Discusses Highlights of the Upcoming Health Datapalooza

Healthcare IT Today

As the playful name suggests, it’s a somewhat countercultural happening, a place for freewheeling and respectfully critical discussion among health data experts. The conference was launched in 2010 by Todd Park, a ground-breaking technologist who was CTO of HHS at the time and was later promoted to be CTO of the United States.

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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. is a greatly expanded version of the classic Blue Button created by the Department of Veteran Affairs in 2010. Version 2.0

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Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances Set to Take Off

Healthcare IT Today

According to Dr. Colin Banas, chief medical officer at DrFirst , they initiated EPCS in 2010, partnering with the Massachusetts Department of Health. In general, electronic prescriptions have been a singular area of success in digital healthcare. How do you transmit the prescription to the pharmacy and record it in the PDMP?