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In Wisconsin we have Interoperability

Healthcare Exchange Standards

There is much talk on the blogs about the USA government trepidation around Health Information Exchange interoperability. We will keep you up to date with WISHIN activities, news on health information exchange (HIE) and new product developments. WISHIN's vendor-agnostic, one-to-many architecture advances true interoperability.

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

The range of clinical areas covered by these apps is shown in the “wheel” above, illustrating that mental and behavioral health, diabetes, heart and cardiovascular, digestive system, and respiratory applications together represented over one-half of the digital health categories and disease states in 2021.

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The Patient Safety Issue of Racial Disparities and the Opportunity for “Health Equity By Design”

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In a wonderful interview with Mike Miliard in Healthcare IT News , the Biden Administration’s National Health IT Coordinator Micky Tripathi talks about his priorities for leading ONCHIT. health care — especially expressed by health disparities. .’…

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

Philips, recently named as one of the largest Fortune Global Companies in 2020 (#385, up 46 spots and ranking in the top 10 largest public health care companies in the world), has been working globally with health systems since the emergence of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China in 2019. equipment and hardware).

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Tools, Technology Already Exist for HIEs to Succeed

Healthcare IT Today

Consolidating and coordinating information between providers, payers and public health departments is particularly tough, not only because there are so many providers, but because of the variability between data platforms and systems. In 2001, Sonia was appointed to the West Virginia Health Care Authority (WVHCA).

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IT preparedness is key to managing outbreak of COVID-19, says CIO of SNUBH

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

South Korea already has experienced that in-hospital infections are disastrous from MERS outbreak in 2015. Health4U communicates bi-directionally with BESTCare using Health Level 7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). SNUBH has been conducting surveys since 2015 through an electronic survey system.

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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. Very similar to telehealth, telemedicine is “the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve a patient’s clinical health status. .”