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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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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. As we look back on 2019, it's worth remembering how far the industry has traveled to get here. -- Mike Miliard, Editor. by Healthcare IT News November 22, 2019. by November 18, 2019. by September 30, 2019. by September 01, 2019.

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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. As the pie chart from the study result illustrates, well over one-half of health care providers are interested in integrating SDOH data into the EHR. That was tweeted ten years ago.

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6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.1

Digital Health Global

Relying on patient consent to data sharing within the context of an international network of interoperable EHRs, collective medical data could be made available to the scientific community for large-scale processing of predictive patterns of pathologies, thus significantly supporting health research 7.

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Interoperability Generates Excitement at #PCCSUMMIT19

Healthcare IT Today

Interoperability generated the most excitement for the leaders of long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) organizations gathered at the annual PointClickCare user conference – #PCCSUMMIT19. PDPM – Barely A Ripple On October 1st, 2019 the LTPAC industry experienced a seismic shift […].

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

Health Populi

For context, “Big Tech” in this report covers activity among eight companies between January 2019 and March 22, including: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, IBM, Meta (Facebook), Microsoft, Oracle, Samsung and these organizations’ subsidiaries.

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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

What’s held up data liquidity and interoperability, and contributed to clinician burnout and administrative burden, has been the implementation of electronic health records poorly designed for relationship-building and shared decision making. for every $1 invested.

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