Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2023

The following is a guest article by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director, CommonWell Health Alliance. We’re building the next generation of FHIR into our services—and looking ahead to create new use cases for care settings that are still untapped. billion documents to date. To learn more about CommonWell and TEFCA visit [link].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. AVIA added RUSH, MUSC Health, and United Regional Health Care System to its network. UConn Health chose Force Therapeutics for musculoskeletal digital care management.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Partnerships EHR workflow automation tool Clinical Data Connector from Odesso Health is now available on the athenahealth and Appian marketplaces.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I have covered the vision of Data Segmentation for Privacy (DS4P) concept, and outline how a Security Labeling Service (SLS) would enable this grandiose vision of DS4P. However, there are stepping stones: The following is a slightly update on an article I wrote in July 2015 on how to set the confidentialityCode. for "_confidentiality".

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

As we kick off a new year, I thought it would be fun to take a quick look back at some of the top resources, articles, videos, and podcasts we shared in 2022. Most Visited Healthcare IT Today Articles Published in 2022. Not sure why this article did so well, but maybe because so many are struggling and looking for some ideas and hope.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. The effort will align UDS data sets with FHIR standards and transition the UDS data set to existing patient-level reporting requirements with USCDI and other quality reporting efforts.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 27, 2022

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. In the latest CIO Podcast, Yeager, the Senior VP and CIO at Encompass Health, talked to John Lynn about the benefits of deploying a standardized EHR across an organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 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. Given the nation’s lack of lab data standards, there are 40 different ways to code a negative PCR test result. Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Using AI to Detect Rare Conditions.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 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. Colin Hung attended the vendor’s User Group Meeting and provided a recap of the event, where NextGen discussed an AI-powered ambient voice assistant and a Luma Health partnership to power patient self-scheduling.

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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. 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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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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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. Automated chart retrieval is performed at scale, leveraging modern HL7 FHIR APIs. But the industry isn’t there yet and significant gaps remain.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

How data are tagged with specific kinds of sensitivity labels is the topic of my next article. Conclusion So, this is why the health database can't be simply treated as a "Permit all access." It is important that any organization that has health data must start with gross Permit and Deny capability.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 3, 2016

There are many standards efforts to develop support for Patient directed Authorization to their health data. I will be writing a few articles about these efforts. I will explain this in another article. This article is all about IHE Document Sharing, and not about FHIR.

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E-CareManagement

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Looking in the rear view mirror, many healthcare providers have viewed patient data as “their asset”, something to be controlled–not shared. We’ll also take a view out the windshield, explaining why generous data sharing is a highly leveraged clinical and business strategy. by Leslie Kelly Hall and Vince Kuraitis.

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Even PDFs going into your system won’t offer portable health data that can flow into the patient record. As innovators in virtual health data acquisition, GlobalMed is now capable of FHIR-enabled integration, bridging the clinical data gap to your health information system. So here’s some good news.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2022

The following is a guest article by Jane Hite-Syed, VP and COO of National Government Services. Digitization efforts have resulted in tons of healthcare-related data, and the key to capitalizing on the revolutionary benefits that data has to offer is comprehensive healthcare data management (HCDM).

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GlobalMed

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Even PDFs going into your system won’t offer portable health data that can flow into the patient record. As innovators in virtual health data acquisition, GlobalMed is now capable of FHIR-enabled integration, bridging the clinical data gap to your health information system. So here’s some good news.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Apple has re-entered the Healthcare space with their new announcement about support for a person to maintain their health data on their iPhone. What is important is that any visibility given to the Health Data portability problem is good for making changes. I hope that they evolve as FHIR evolves to Normative.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is also active in the industry at a local and national level, including being on the Board of Directors of the New England Health Exchange Network (NEHEN), the Sequoia Project, the CARIN Alliance, and the FHIR Foundation and the Project Manager of the Argonaut Project, an industry collaboration to accelerate the adoption of FHIR.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is also active in the industry at a local and national level, including being on the Board of Directors of the New England Health Exchange Network (NEHEN), the Sequoia Project, the CARIN Alliance, and the FHIR Foundation and the Project Manager of the Argonaut Project, an industry collaboration to accelerate the adoption of FHIR.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 12, 2022

The following is a guest article by Mike Noshay, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Board Member at Verinovum. Within the data sphere, patient information is the most important and crucial healthcare data. New legislation and technology are changing the way data is handled, and payers and providers are upping […].

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In my last article I outlined the need to recognize that health data have various kinds of sensitivity, which informs various types of Privacy rules of access, to support the goal of Privacy. Thus Data Segmentation for Privacy (DS4P). Please read this article on Vectors through Consent to Control Big-Data Feeding frenzy.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Public clouds bring scalability and are ideal for many applications, but the sensitive nature of health data often demands the security depth of private clouds. Thank you to everyone who took the time out of your day to submit a quote and thank you to everyone reading this article! So much to think about here!

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Partnerships Inovalon and Amazon Web Services are collaborating to improve risk score accuracy for health plans. Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

The following is a guest article by Abhishek Khandelwal, Vice President, Life Sciences at Capgemini Engineering The convergence of digital technology and healthcare has been underway for quite some time, but as we inch closer to 2024, the pace of change that this sector is experiencing is unprecedented.

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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. It is being considered to be added to SMART-on-FHIR , but is not fundamental there. Let me explain. Too often networks today are single purpose.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

APIs, Internet of (Healthy) Things, and AR/VR among the others are getting deployed in retail channels and at home to support peoples’ health in the real world, in real time outside of the clinical setting. For health care, the application of FHIR standards helps mobilize data for better health, turbocharging this trend.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The ONC’s proposed rule for “Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability,” known as HTI-1, breaks new ground by recognizing advanced clinical decision support tools and differentiates simple from complex decision support. So many good ideas here! We couldn’t do this without your support.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 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. Answers included making sense of unstructured data, reducing documentation, and predicting utilization trends – all based on the notion of using AI to aid healthcare workers and not replace them.

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