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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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. State documents define rules for collecting, storing, processing, and transmitting medical information.

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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. Addressing many different perspectives including BAA, Government reporting, and special sensitive health topics. I will explain this in another article.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer. A few of my favorite comments were: “Jim Cramer needs a crash course in FHIR standards” from the wonkier section of peanut gallery. The fact is that HIPAA may not cover all of these data flows.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

The whole concept of Health Information Exchanges , that I have been involved with, is there to improve Health outcomes for the Patient. There is a bright future for the Health Information Exchange too. But that is the last article. Even HIPAA acknowledged the need for the Patient to 'Amend" their data.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 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. With more funding acquired for the LTPAC space and investment in health information technology, care delivery will be secure.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As such, as a regulator for a day, I’d implement critical clarification and updates of HIPAA, its scope and classification when it comes to medical guidance from AI-powered tools, outline the responsibility and liability of AI, and explore the selling of data for profit without transparency and consent. So many good ideas here!

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