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ONC’s HTI-1 Places Undue Burdens on Healthcare Providers, Health IT Developers

Healthcare IT Today

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Big ONC News: QHINs, TEFCA, and HTI-1

Healthcare IT Today

HTI-1 Final Rule Appropriately, we’ve been breaking down what health IT and EHR vendors need to expect when it comes to HTI-1 in our Healthcare Regulatory Talk series. This is a big step forward for QHINs who can now start sharing health data. We’ll see how effective it is at solving the healthcare interoperability problem.

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HIC to host first UK EPR Summit

Healthcare Innovation Consortium

It is an opportunity for those with EPR in their remit to come together and share experiences and plans ahead of all Trusts having Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) in place by 2026. It will also include interactive Q&As to inform the debate.

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Implementing Digital Strategies Helps Re-define the Healthcare Industry

Healthcare IT Today

million by 2026. For medical staff, there is increased support for medical diagnosis; for front-office staff, it’s much easier to manage electronic health records (EHR); and for physicians, digital transcription and updating medical logs can be done much faster than ever before.

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Finding the future of interoperability with Redox: Part 1 – Bulk FHIR

Redox

Like many aspects of HL7 ® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR ® ), there has been a lot of hype about the potential of using bulk FHIR to get large amounts of data out of EHRs. If you’re a software vendor who’s ever wondered, “Why can’t I just run a big ol’ SQL query against the EHR database?”

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6 Ways to Drive Higher Medicaid Reimbursement with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

From misplaced faxes and handwritten notes to EHR systems requiring more than a dozen documentation steps, patients often fall through the cracks – or wait so many months for a specialist appointment that they forget about it. That number will rise to 82 million by 2026. New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Catalyst?

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Bonus Features – September 17, 2023 – 20% of healthcare marketers worried about job security amid AI adoption, 53% of executives using AI to address drug diversion “very confident” in their efforts, and more

Healthcare IT Today

The EHR Association called for greater flexibility in the data completeness threshold and additional criteria to enhance patient matching accuracy, while MGMA called for a positive update to the Medicare conversion factor amid high inflation. News Comments rolled in on the proposed Calendar Year 2024 Physician Fee Schedule.

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