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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Healthcare IT Today

In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Healthtech providers can adopt HL7 (Health Level Seven) or FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). AWS solutions require software compatible with HIPAA standards.

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VA still facing interoperability, scaling challenges amidst COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"We've talked about FHIR and interoperability and APIs," said Gregory Moore, corporate vice president of Microsoft health and life sciences. "FHIR is table stakes," he said. Or, as Bloomfield put it, "If we expect any patients to know what FHIR is or know what OAuth2.0 is, we've failed."

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HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Health Populi

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. Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer.

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Health Tech Investment in the Third Wave

Redox

Of course these levels of telehealth utilization will calm down as our agoraphobia subsides, but we’ve been broken out of our old school habits and are now willing to see our providers via a video screen. Of course we all want solutions we can customize to meet each of our quirks. To add fuel to the fire (or FHIR?

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California says goodbye to fax machines. Hello to DxF.

Redox

The inclusion of social services organizations in the CA DxF is also unique as these entities are not recognized as healthcare providers under HIPAA and data sharing has been limited. Of note, the XCPD, XCA, and XDR profiles do not currently support FHIR natively. The CA DxF includes both clinical and social determinants data.

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At HIMSS22, Microsoft and Salesforce expand their healthcare offerings

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Microsoft took a step to address health data interoperability with Azure API for FHIR in 2019. Patient Unified Health Scoring also provides actionable insights that can help identify potential risks the patients may face and help inform the next-best course of action for that patient.

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HIStalk Interviews Paul Roma, CEO, Ciox Health

HIStalk Interviews

Consumers complain about the cost of getting copies of their electronic information from their providers and Ciox has sued over the HIPAA limitation on how much providers can charge. 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.