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2019 wrap

Healthcare Exchange Standards

I am not impressed by 2019. In all cases we are working with HL7 leadership together to make this tooling better for everyone. Not personally, not for the healthcare industry, not for my country, and not for our world. This is depressing, but also gives me many things to work on. stone) on a Keto diet.

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Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

Healthcare IT Today

The Sequoia Project published an implementation guide for HIE technology for vendors, networks, and testers. Quantum Health released research showing its care navigation tool for employers limited healthcare cost increase to less than 1% from 2016 to 2019, compared to nearly 25% for all other companies.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Defining and Sharing

Healthcare IT Today

A roundtable cohosted by Department of Health and Human services issued a report in December 2019 listing about two dozen data elements (pages 43-44), such as eligibility for social programs, air quality, and exposure to violence. It’s notable that the committee included the climate and environment as factors (page 8).

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Bonus Features – March 12, 2023 – 87% of docs used telemedicine in 2021, 65% of healthcare orgs collect more trivial data once they adopt the cloud, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Since 2019, visit volume increased the most for diagnoses of eating disorders (at 53%), anxiety (48%), substance use disorders (27%), and depression (24%). The program is launching with Puerto Rico’s HIE. Veda launched Vectyr: Data Curation, a provider database that includes more than 50 data variables.