Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

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). One in four patients have self-diagnosed themselves based on information they got from social media, according to research from Tebra.

HIPAA 98

HIPAA Digital Health EHR Healthcare IT 98

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

State documents define rules for collecting, storing, processing, and transmitting medical information. In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). AWS solutions require software compatible with HIPAA standards.

HIPAA 115

HIPAA EMR FHIR EHR 115

Redox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

All general acute care hospitals, physician organizations, medical groups, skilled nursing facilities, health service plans and disability insurers, Medi-Cal managed care plans, clinical laboratories, and acute psychiatrist hospitals were required to sign the CalHHS data sharing agreement (DSA) by January 2023.

HIE 59

HIE FHIR Health Information Nursing 59

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

I hear patients discouraged and disgusted when they can’t get access to their own data even in 2023! Hearing about these pain points from stakeholders is why I’d “repackage HIPAA” if I were a regulator for a day. In that manner, businesses that remained “outside of the purview of HIPAA” would be impacted.

Healthcare IT 136

Healthcare IT Interoperability HIPAA Nursing 136

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

While health care has been slower than other industries to leverage digital transformation, COVID-19 accelerated change — revealing some key barriers blocking the potential for more fulsome transformation, the OECD explains in its latest version of Health At A Glance for 2023 with a detailed chapter on “digital health at a glance.”

Interoperability 227

Interoperability Digital Health FHIR EHR 227