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OntarioMD is Making Interoperability a Priority for Ontario

Healthcare IT Today

In a recent interview with Healthcare IT Today , Aidan Lee, Director of the Certification Program at OntarioMD , and Matt LaDuke, Director of Products, Integrations, and Service Management, shed light on the evolving landscape of electronic medical records (EMRs) and the state of interoperability in the healthcare sector.

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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Healthcare IT Today

Storage of Information in Various Systems While serving diverse medical institution needs, Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) parallel existence complicates information access and exchange between doctors, patients, and different medical centers. AWS solutions require software compatible with HIPAA standards.

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The Tension in TEFCA

Healthcare IT Today

There have been public statements from ONC and to extent from the Sequoia Project that TEFCA will be modernized to computable data – i.e. FHIR data. FHIR has been around for over 10 years so it is worth pondering why it was not incorporated into TEFCA from the start. Of course, the big question is, what is the public benefit?

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Fighting COVID-19 takes collaboration, including between 'fierce competitors'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"The ability to layer in social determinants of health as we do our research and tie it to our EMR data … is very, very important," said Barchi. " People of color, for example, have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus, at sometimes staggering rates. '" said Halamka.

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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Of course, that's been the case every year over the past decade since the first meaningful use checks were mailed out, kickstarting the digital healthcare age as we know it. How FHIR 4 will drive interoperability progress in healthcare. Vanderbilt combines AI and Smart on FHIR in an EHR voice assistant. " News.

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After A Troubled Start, Can Telstra Health Be Australia’s First Digital Health Unicorn?

Lloyd Price

All the acquisitions were a string of pearls and MD was to be the string that tied them all together …hospital EMR products, aged care management products, pharmacy script dispensing products and so on. It has embraced FHIR. GPs were the healthcare system hub, where all these other products needed to meet and connect and transact.

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HIStalk Interviews Paul Roma, CEO, Ciox Health

HIStalk Interviews

We also do tens of millions of doctor requests for information for continuity of care and things like that, for which we don’t charge, of course. The reality of the situation is that a large integrated health system has, on average, 17 different EMR systems. Even if you or I are reading it, it’s a 1,200-page EMR.