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What the Hell Is Going On with Healthcare Interoperability?

Electronic Health Reporter

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) filed its annual year-end report to Congress at the start of 2019. The 22-page report summarized nationwide trends in health information exchange in 2018, including the adoption of EHRs and other technologies that support electronic access to patient information.

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HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Health Populi

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Why is this so important? That was tweeted ten years ago.

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Big Tech + Digital Health: Even Big-Ticket Mistakes Won’t Dissuade Companies From Healthcare

Health Populi

This report profiles the current state and prospects for so-called “Big Tech” companies in the broad health/care ecosystem. Microsoft has had a strong focus on health systems and providers especially via clinical decision support, EHR, data analytics, and voice (think: Nuance).

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Many Hospitals Still Holding Out On Direct Health Information Sharing

Healthcare IT Today

However, at least when this data was collected in 2019, hospitals were still playing their little passive-aggressive game where they make the data available to […].

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Will Salesforce succeed in Healthcare where other Big Tech companies failed?

Lloyd Price

A focus on interoperability: Salesforce is focused on promoting data interoperability in healthcare, which is a critical challenge facing the industry. Salesforce is working to develop solutions that can help healthcare organizations achieve interoperability, which can improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.

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Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

by May 10, 2019. With some 95 percent of healthcare providers having deployed EHRs, the healthcare system is officially digital. by MobiHealthNews Staff April 08, 2019. Interoperability: Health IT's hardest problem is (finally) at an inflection point. by March 25, 2019. by March 25, 2019. Collection.

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Supporting Digital ICS Strategies Through Global Innovation – Electronic Health Records

Healthcare Innovation Consortium

Previous standards of patient recording could have ensured fluid data communication, which is a crucial component of data interoperability. Without this, medical practitioners across the country are blindsided and unable to personalize treatment due to the lack of historical health information. People without a job.

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