Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Interoperability is essential in healthcare because it allows providers to access and use relevant patient information from different sources, such as electronic health records (EHRs), lab results, psychological testing, and radiology images. CMS Calls for FHIR Adoption to Enhance Interoperability in Healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by Moliehi “Mo” Weitnauer, Chief Product Officer at MRO Providers are witnessing an explosion in health plan requests for medical records. Requests are then electronically communicated directly to the provider organization’s EHRs and other systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Like most of us, Andy Oram has a health insurance card in his wallet. Read more… Why the Future is Bright for Health Information Management. Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Supporting organizations include Epic, the HIMSS EHR Association and HCA Healthcare. Illinois-based Primary Care Joliet implemented eClinicalWorks EHR and healow.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

The following is a guest article by Mike Noshay , MSE, Founder and Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at Verinovum. He was previously Director of Business Development & Innovation for Oklahoma’s Health Information Exchange, MyHealth Access Network, and is also a former Teach for America Corps member.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 10, 2020

GlobalMed recently announced that it is delivering FHIR-enabled integration to address interoperability limits between virtual care delivery solutions and other systems such as EHRs and practice management software. Has your system changed its compatibility with FHIR versions and upgraded from STU2 to 3? Introducing DIMS.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Partnerships Epic and Microsoft expanded their partnership , with generative AI powered by Azure OpenAI Service now available in the Epic EHR. (We

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by Natalie Tkachenko, Healthcare Software Solutions Consultant at NIX To obtain test results today, there’s no need to visit the hospital. Unlike EMRs, requests for access to EHR records can be made by other medical centers. Simply open a mobile app and download the report to your smartphone.

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

. – February 26, 2020 – GlobalMed, a leading provider of virtual health solutions, today announced that it will showcase integration enhancements to its virtual health platform eNcounter®, introduce a backpack telehealth exam station, and offer a lighter, more affordable exam camera at HIMSS20, March 9-13 in Orlando, FL.

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Often vendors will assure you they can integrate with your EHR and workflows. Then the telemedicine solution is deployed and you discover the vendor’s version of integration is limited to their video platform, allowing you to launch a video consult from your EHR. Imagine that I’m an urgent care center physician and we use EHR System 1.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

The following is a guest article by Mike Pattwell, Principal Business Advisor, Value Based Care at Edifecs Consumers are at the heart of healthcare — their fears are forcing healthcare innovators to shift priorities to deliver consumer-centric digital health offerings. This is true today, tomorrow, and far into the future.

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GlobalMed

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Often vendors will assure you they can integrate with your EHR and workflows. Then the telemedicine solution is deployed and you discover the vendor’s version of integration is limited to their video platform, allowing you to launch a video consult from your EHR. Imagine that I’m an urgent care center physician and we use EHR System 1.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. They are not even in the same universe” among people dissing the idea in short-hand.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Interoperable Consent Standards My main focus is on enabling Health Information to flow given proper Security and Privacy. The vocabulary and evidence could use simple (BPPC), or comprehensive (APPC), or FHIR Consents. PLUS these have gotten the attention of Argonaut, and thus the EHR vendors.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. The underlying theme of AHIMA’s annual conference was that health information management professionals are both encouraged and frustrated at the state of the industry , Colin Hung reported from Baltimore.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The previous article in this series gave some history of social determinants of health (SDoH) and the importance of addressing them in medicine. This article delves deeper into various aspects of data handling, and who is working in these fields.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Digital virtual assistants can then construct true dialogs that “learn” from the patient to zero in on intent and context so relevant, accurate information is provided. Many healthcare organizations use disparate EHRs and communication tools that may not seamlessly integrate, leading to data silos and communication gaps.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 16, 2020

There is a fundamental difference between access requests for Personally Identifiable Health Data when a PHR requests access vs when a Clinical application or other EHR asks for access. For example a Health Information Exchange (HIE) that is designed for supporting Treatment. Let me explain. How is PurposeOfUse used?

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Redox

MAY 10, 2018

HL7 was created in 1987 to provide a framework and standards for the exchange and retrieval of electronic health information. It’s worth noting that HL7 has also introduced FHIR® (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), a standard with a more modern communication structure that is currently in a trial use stage.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health. This article summarizes their responses. Paths to Interoperability A recent article exposes the woeful silo-ing of public health: Data often has to be faxed and re-entered into new systems manually.

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