Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2023

News and Announcements from NextGen UGM 2023. Trey Davis at the Phoenix-area FQHC talked to Colin about ensuring patient data goes directly into the EHR to help physicians close gaps in care and, from there, increase the frequency of reminders and the uptake of patient portal adoption.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

The alliance was a bold gesture made ten years ago by leading EHR vendors to demonstrate their commitment to data sharing. Plus, Wilder shares what he was hearing about the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) at the HIMSS 2023 annual conference and offers up a few takeaways.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

John Lynn spoke to Mo Weitnauer at MRO about using FHIR-based APIs to automatically fulfill the vast majority of requests in minutes or seconds – not weeks. Helping clinicians troubleshoot within the EHR can improve workflows and job satisfaction , Bill Lewkowski at HCTec pointed out.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Studies and Reports So far in 2023, only 24% of healthcare organizations were able to disrupt a ransomware attack before attackers encrypted their data , according to a Sophos survey. Partnerships EHR workflow automation tool Clinical Data Connector from Odesso Health is now available on the athenahealth and Appian marketplaces.

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Redox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I called 2021 weird , then 2022 just as weird , but 2023? 2023: the year where nothing changed, and yet everything changed Reflecting on our predictions from last year, we are quite baffled why we didn’t say anything about AI. Garrett thought record retrieval would rid itself of the fax machine in 2023. Decidedly weirder.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

HIMSS23 APAC Healthcare thought leaders, disruptors, and changemakers across Asia-Pacific will convene once again in Indonesia – this time in the country's capital, Jakarta – from 18 to 21 September 2023. Get all the coverage from this event on this page.

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Xealth

JANUARY 11, 2023

SEATTLE – January 17, 2023 – Xealth , the leader in enabling digital health at scale, today announced that it has been named by Fierce Healthcare as one of the 2023 Fierce 15 companies, designating it as one of the most promising healthcare companies in the industry. “As Xealth spun out of Providence St.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Cybersecurity tops the list of investment priorities, followed by EHR modernization, virtual / digital care, and AI. The EHR Association is worried about USCDI modeling, noting in a letter to ONC that HL7 has specific requirements while USCDI standards are ambiguous and decrease the effectiveness of those standards.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

At the recent HIMSS 2023 conference, a panel of QHINs shared their perspectives on what’s happening in a session called “Real Talk: TEFCA, Evolution or Revolution in Health Care Interoperability? It will include TEFCA, FHIR, HIEs, Direct Messages, APIs and much more. It’s pretty profound that he used the word highway.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2023

Andy Oram discussed how adopting FHIR should be a no-brainer for better public health data collection and sharing – and how that must be followed up with standards for what data should be collected and shared. Primary care EHR vendor Elation Health acquired Lightning MD , a cloud-based billing and claims management company.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Also, Oracle Health is collaborating with Valeos , providing access to EHR data and cloud infrastructure to modernize the organ transplant system. Drummond Group unveiled FHIR Client Certification Program , which will enter its pilot phase on Oct. ModMed added maternal fetal medicine capabilities to its EHR suite for OBGYNs.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 3, 2024

Investment in women’s health tech increased 5% between 2002 and 2023 , according to Deloitte. Partnerships The Sequoia Project and HL7 International are collaborating to accelerate the adoption of FHIR standards. The good news? The bad news? It represents just 2% of all health tech VC investment.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

Supporting organizations include Epic, the HIMSS EHR Association and HCA Healthcare. The most notable approval is USCDI v3, and others include two implementation guides from CMS for Quality Reporting Document Architecture and three HL7 standards (for C-CDA, FHIR, and QRDA).

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

of the Common Agreement and committed to having TEFCA support FHIR-based exchange within 2024. Partnerships Hona has integrated Particle Health’s API for retrieving records outside an EHR system into its tool for creating medical history summaries. As a result, these flexibilities will be in place until at least Dec.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

This edition is a special dispatch from HIMSS 2023, which returns to Chicago for the first time in eight years. Partnerships Epic and Microsoft expanded their partnership , with generative AI powered by Azure OpenAI Service now available in the Epic EHR. (We Surescripts released research noting that half of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

Arkansas-based Conway OB-GYN Clinic implemented eClinicalWorks EHR. Awards HHS announced two 2023 LEAP in Health IT awardees : Western New York’s HIE, HEALTHeLINK, for its use of Advanced FHIR capabilities, and Boston Children’s Hospital for identifying data quality improvements for USCDI data elements.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2023

RockHealth.org announced its 2023 cohort of Innovation Fellows , with founders focused in areas such as mental health, end-of-life care, pediatric telehealth, and trauma care. Partnerships Epic users can now run the EHR on Microsoft Azure Large Instances. News The Drug Enforcement Administration will hold listening sessions Sept.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

However, rather than jump from fax all the way to electronic data exchange through FHIR or APIs, Turicchi suggests that we should leverage the inherent network effect that fax still enjoys. “We From there we can add other functionality, like converting those electronic faxes into HL7 FHIR, direct secure messages.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 27, 2023

The organization went with vendor Rimidi, which combines clinical decision support, remote patient monitoring and patient-reported outcomes in a unified, FHIR-based platform. The vendor integrates with TrueCare's Epic OCHIN EHR. Denise Gomez, a primary care physician and director of adult medicine at TrueCare.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 1, 2023

Our proprietary full-stack multi-use Health Management System™, the Parker Suite™, is America’s first FHIR-built, interoperable, affordable, and compliant platform that is revolutionizing the industry with limitless applications for patients, providers, health systems, governments, researchers, and payors.

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Redox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Despite vast seas of data from EHRs, devices, labs, and imaging systems, data that is truly useful for decision-making is hard to come by. The resulting cornerstones were published in “Transforming Healthcare: The Four Cornerstones of Clinical Analytics,” IDC #US50569723-P, April 2023. Request a demo , today.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Storage of Information in Various Systems While serving diverse medical institution needs, Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) parallel existence complicates information access and exchange between doctors, patients, and different medical centers. One of the reasons is outdated devices and infrastructure.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

FHIR, HL7). The combination of evolving data lakehouse architectures and powerful generative AI unlocks unprecedented value in loosely structured and unstructured data and, increasingly, machines are much less discriminating between a finely structured FHIR document and a poorly scanned PDF—and the latter may be richer than the former.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Requests are then electronically communicated directly to the provider organization’s EHRs and other systems. Automated chart retrieval is performed at scale, leveraging modern HL7 FHIR APIs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. John and Colin’s 2023 Healthcare IT Predictions. Healthcare AI. Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care. Healthcare Workforce.

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Xealth

APRIL 13, 2023

SEATTLE—April 13, 2023— Xealth , the leader in enabling digital health at scale, announced today that it was recognized as a Top Company in Digital Therapeutics upon conclusion of extensive research and company outreach by AVIA Marketplace, the leading digital health marketplace. Xealth spun out of Providence St.

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Redox

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This year, I invited Redox experts Alex Peitz , Garrett Rhodes , and Nick McKenzie (internally dubbed the Redox “Interopistas”) to help me reflect on what happened in 2022, and what we should be prepared for in 2023 (spoiler alert, it’s probably going to be pretty weird too). The short answer from all of them was “not exactly.”

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Read more… Learning About the Latest FHIR Analytics Tool. John Lynn sat down with Gail Stephens at SAS Health Solutions to learn about the benefits of ingesting disparate sources of FHIR-based data onto a single platform for analysis , whether it’s to identify gaps in care or find appropriate patients for clinical trials.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Colin Hung connected with CEO Robert Krayn to talk about how the telemedicine service connects psychiatrists with patients and handles the many types of mental health referrals using eCW EHR, which Talkiatry chose based on its flexibility. One key, of course, is EHR integration.

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Redox

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

At the end of 2023, I had the opportunity to speak at Google Cloud’s Generative AI in Healthcare Summit at Pier57 in New York. A tremendous milestone in itself, Google has been able to structure all of their tooling in HL7 ® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR ® ), ensuring standardized use and avoiding implementation scatter.

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Redox

APRIL 28, 2023

Event recap [Virtual event] Lean forward – mapping HL7v2 to FHIR Adopting FHIR may feel daunting in a world where the majority of EHRs still rely on HL7v2 for data exchange. Lean forward into the future by mapping and transforming HL7v2 to FHIR. Redox’s recommendations on HL7v2 to FHIR mapping.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 22, 2023

CHIME named 21 healthcare organizations to Level 10 in the 2023 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Survey , the most in the 24-hear history of the survey. Wolters Kluwer Health announces its Health Language Platform , a FHIR Terminology Server that will work with Microsoft Azure Health Data Services. to its clinical advisory board.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

Healthcare IT and EHR Conferences and Events. We’ll be doing more of them in 2023. DoJ Joins False Claims Whistleblower Suit Against EHR Vendor Modernizing Medicine – Everyone seems to flock to judgments and lawsuits like this one. I think that will actually continue in 2023. Where Are We At With FHIR?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

. “The Zus partnership will drastically accelerate Elation’s ability to build out market-leading EHR solutions to support population health and value-based care initiatives,” said Kyna Fong , Co-Founder and CEO at Elation Health. Originally announced March 16th, 2023 To learn more, visit zushealth.com.

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Digital Health Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

b.well was founded in 2015 by a former UnitedHealthcare exec whose daughter suffered a near-fatal medical error when two EHRs weren’t connected, and has since raised just under $100M to make sure patients have one-stop mobile access to their data.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As we approach 2023 it is amazing that interoperability, true broad-based connectivity between healthcare systems, looks like the Verizon heatmap back in 2005 when there was as much white on the map as there was red. Depending on where you sit in healthcare today it may feel like 1986 or 2023.

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Redox

APRIL 27, 2023

April 4, 2023 – Redox, the leader in healthcare interoperability – connecting healthcare’s products, providers, and payers, today unveiled its reimagined product portfolio. Redox FHIR and RESTful APIs allow health tech builders to delight their users, modernize their tech stack, and scale with confidence. MADISON, Wis.,

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