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CommonWell Marks its 10th Anniversary as TEFCA Gets Underway

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director, CommonWell Health Alliance. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) is indeed an instance of transformational change. Taking the Road Less Traveled Heath data interoperability is hard.

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7 Telehealth Terms You Need to Know

BHM Healthcare Solutions

If you read our blog post 5 Top Telemeds Trend of 2015 , you know that telehealth is slowly revolutionizing the healthcare world for the better. And often considered an important part of health IT initiatives and clinical care services. Interoperability. Interoperability is NOT the same thing as health information exchange.

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How Do Patient Portals and Personal Health Records Differ?

Lloyd Price

Patient portals and personal health records (PHRs) have both received considerable praise for their role in increasing patient engagement. However, distinguishing between the two forms of health IT tools can often be difficult, due to nebulous definitions and overlapping features.

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Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement

Chilmark Research

For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and interoperability. The final rule is expected to drop sometime in Q1-Q2 of 2015 – just one year away.

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Tools, Technology Already Exist for HIEs to Succeed

Healthcare IT Today

All this makes a tremendous difference in what sort of health data you need to track and how you track it. . Politics can significantly affect the enthusiasm or skepticism certain communities have when responding to public health agency data gathering.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Their approach is focused on hardware - using its popular iPhone and Apple Watch to turn its devices into trusted, secure channels through which medical data can flow, to help consumers better track and manage their health. Clinical Trials In 2015, Apple introduced new software, called Apple ResearchKit, for health researchers.

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HIStalk Interviews Stephen Brown, Director of Preventive Emergency Medicine, UI Health

HIStalk Interviews

I run the Better Health Through Housing program, which identifies the chronically homeless in our emergency department and transitions them into permanent supportive housing. We’ve been doing this since 2015. Those are all things that are measurable and that health IT could take an active role in bringing forth.