Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

The alliance was a bold gesture made ten years ago by leading EHR vendors to demonstrate their commitment to data sharing. Plus, Wilder shares what he was hearing about the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) at the HIMSS 2023 annual conference and offers up a few takeaways.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The organizers of the FHIR #DevDays conference next month have announced the four finalists who will come to Amsterdam to present their ideas to a panel of judges. In contrast to this, the HL7 FHIR organization said explicitly this June that #FHIR exists to serve patient needs. This is a cross-post from my personal blog.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

Much has been written about Larry Ellison’s vision of what he called a “National EHR Database.” To be clear, I’m not sure if this was Ellison’s goal with a “National EHR Database” or not. The second group to benefit from this National EHR Database was public health.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 14, 2023

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. Read more… Learning About the Latest FHIR Analytics Tool. AHIMA23 Attendees are Ready for the Challenges Ahead.

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HIStalk Interviews

MARCH 25, 2019

Grahame Grieve is a principal with Health Intersections of Melbourne, Australia and was the architect-developer of HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR, pronounced “fire”) specification that allows EHRs to exchange information. Was it weird to see FHIR as the only universal topic of HIMSS19? Not so much weird.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 25, 2022

Is Larry Ellison’s Vision of a National EHR Database Even Possible? John Lynn decided to let the dust settle a bit before offering his thoughts on what the Oracle CEO called a “National EHR Database.” Read more… Where Are We At With FHIR? Read more… Is Healthcare AI Essential or Nice to Have?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 4, 2024

Patient Experience Insights From the Qualtrics X4 Conference. Nextech CEO Bill Lucchini talked to John about the benefits of EHRs tailor made for medical specialties , particularly when it comes to mapping to specific workflows. requires support for FHIR API exchange. Read more… Bonus Features For April 28, 2024.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

I think the most useful value-add that an HIE can add is an API that is based on FHIR. This is true of an XDS based HIE, Regional Exchange (XCA), Vendor based EHR, nationwide Exchange, and Direct HISP. It is something I expected to be more included in the WISHIN Future is bright conference. Also see my FHIR Topic

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Here’s what he learned about SMART Health, FHIR, registries, EHR integrations, and other technology that could support digital insurance cards in the not-too-distant future. TT Capital Partners announced an investment in Cantata Health Solutions , which makes EHR and RCH software for post-acute care and behavioral health.

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Xealth

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This award recognizes partners that demonstrate consistent behavior, focus on the quality of the integrated offers, and deliver tangible impact to clients, and was presented during the Oracle Cerner Health Conference , held October 17-19 in Kansas City. We are thrilled for this approach to be recognized by Oracle Cerner.”.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Microsoft took a step to address health data interoperability with Azure API for FHIR in 2019. An inside look at the innovation, education, technology, networking and key events at the HIMSS22 Global Conference & Exhibition in Orlando. The key to unlocking the data is interoperability across the entire health ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

At the recent HIMSS 2023 conference, a panel of QHINs shared their perspectives on what’s happening in a session called “Real Talk: TEFCA, Evolution or Revolution in Health Care Interoperability? .” – Matthew Doyle, Epic on why they decided to join TEFCA. ✅FHIR APIs alone are not a silver bullet.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Colin Hung connected with CEO Robert Krayn to talk about how the telemedicine service connects psychiatrists with patients and handles the many types of mental health referrals using eCW EHR, which Talkiatry chose based on its flexibility. One key, of course, is EHR integration.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

Healthcare IT and EHR Conferences and Events. DoJ Joins False Claims Whistleblower Suit Against EHR Vendor Modernizing Medicine – Everyone seems to flock to judgments and lawsuits like this one. Plus, it illustrates how much the EHR still impacts so many in health IT. Where Are We At With FHIR?

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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. A few of my favorite comments were: “Jim Cramer needs a crash course in FHIR standards” from the wonkier section of peanut gallery. I spent time on the phone before the conference with John Sharp of HIMSS.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 27, 2022

Rusty Yeager on EHR Standardization and Rehabilitation Hospitals. 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. In a nutshell, real-time updates enabled by FHIR are the future.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

No doubt these are topics that we’ll be discussing at the MRO booth (#213) at the upcoming HFMA conference. Requests are then electronically communicated directly to the provider organization’s EHRs and other systems. Automated chart retrieval is performed at scale, leveraging modern HL7 FHIR APIs.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2023

The American Telemedicine Association rebranded its annual conference as ATA Nexus ; next year’s event is May 5-7 in Phoenix. Partnerships Epic users can now run the EHR on Microsoft Azure Large Instances. Accreditations NCQA expanded its Data Aggregator Validation program to include FHIR output files.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Trey Davis at the Phoenix-area FQHC talked to Colin about ensuring patient data goes directly into the EHR to help physicians close gaps in care and, from there, increase the frequency of reminders and the uptake of patient portal adoption. Read more… Getting the Patient Into the Office at Sun Life Health.

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GlobalMed

JANUARY 5, 2021

On the clinician side, providers are using telehealth to conference with colleagues, work from home as needed, and balance patient volume at facilities in their network. Data-based telehealth dissolves the above limitations to confer the following benefits: A secure healthcare experience. Collaboration across the continuum of care.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon HealthLake, which AWS describes as “HIPAA-eligible,” was launched during Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference. Amazon Web Services is rolling out a new tool designed to make it simpler for healthcare organizations to work with their data.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 23, 2018

This requires a variety of technical strategies and ongoing collaboration for the industry to converge and embrace emerging standards for healthcare data interoperability, such as HL7 FHIR and the Argonaut Project. I got involved with the FHIR community early when I wrote the first open-source FHIR server.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders. I discussed the current state of the EHR with Michael Nissenbaum of Aprima. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. I am pleased to share some of those conversations here.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders. I discussed the current state of the EHR with Michael Nissenbaum of Aprima. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. I am pleased to share some of those conversations here.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders. I discussed the current state of the EHR with Michael Nissenbaum of Aprima. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. I am pleased to share some of those conversations here.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders. I discussed the current state of the EHR with Michael Nissenbaum of Aprima. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. I am pleased to share some of those conversations here.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders. I discussed the current state of the EHR with Michael Nissenbaum of Aprima. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. I am pleased to share some of those conversations here.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 27, 2018

90 minutes from now, 2:30 pm ET on Friday 4/27, at the Health Datapalooza conference in DC, people will gather in an “unconference” session to discuss the US Veterans Administration “Open API Pledge,” which was announced last month at the huge HIMSS conference. Argonaut, HL7, FHIR are toolkit.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

We’ll be adding it to our Healthcare IT conferences list. COTA and Google Cloud will partner to develop algorithms to extract unstructured oncology data from EHRs. Consensus Cloud Solutions released Consensus Conductor , an integration platform for sharing fax via Direct Messaging or FHIR APIs. News and Resources.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

With some 95 percent of healthcare providers having deployed EHRs, the healthcare system is officially digital. RSA 2019: Insider's look at the premier cybersecurity conference. In San Francisco, the conference's overarching themes were emerging cybersecurity technologies (AI and machine learning, anyone?) by May 10, 2019.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

A Bright Future for EHRs and Telehealth. Today, most EHRs and telehealth systems integrate data, transporting patient demographic, financial, medical and visit information back and forth between systems using protocols like HL7. Subscribe to Updates. HIT Leaders and News. A Bright Future. Learn More. Healthcare IT News.

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