Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

“If #TEFCA is going to invite people in and achieve critical mass, of course we are going to do it.” – Matthew Doyle, Epic on why they decided to join TEFCA. HIMSS23 #HITsm #healthit @CommonWell pic.twitter.com/yLIq8NBs9m — Healthcare IT Today (@hcittoday) April 18, 2023 FHIR APIs are wonderful, but they’re not sufficient on their own.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Challenge of Interoperability LaDuke is responsible for helping vendors integrate with provincial services and part of that integration requires health data to be interoperable. Of course that finish line has moved substantially forward. The adoption of FHIR-based standards in Ontario is a notable development.

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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. To simplify the question, is Epic going to give Oracle Cerner access to all their health records?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

– Microsoft has announced advancements in cloud technologies for healthcare and life sciences with the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. The goal of Azure Health Data Services is interoperability that drives better patient outcomes and clinical advances.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

The health care section of Mary Meeker’s 334-page annual report, Internet Trends 2019 , comprises 24 of those pages (270 through 293). For health care, the application of FHIR standards helps mobilize data for better health, turbocharging this trend. Much of this is due to the fact that U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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. Steven Lane, chief medical officer of Health Gorilla , believes in unified standards. This article summarizes their responses. to make a recommendation.

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