Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

As someone who has covered the health IT industry for 17 years, I’m always fascinated when I see something really grab the attention of the health IT community. Certainly AI us currently doing that in health IT, but in the world of interoperability TEFCA and QHINs are grabbing all of the attention.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. 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. by Healthcare IT News November 22, 2019. Collection. by September 30, 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But having learned some difficult lessons this pandemic year, it's worth taking stock of that hard-won wisdom – and forecasting how it might be put to work in the next 12 months as healthcare organizations chart a path forward to help a " shocked system emerge stronger " (as PwC puts it). " Telehealth: Now what?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

We previously shared ONC’s big QHIN announcement which shared the names of five officially designated QHINs as part of TEFCA: eHealth Exchange Epic Nexus Health Gorilla KONZA MedAllies No doubt, the timing of this announcement was planned to coincide with the ONC Annual Meeting in Washington DC.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 12, 2022

Over dinner we had a great discussion about healthcare interoperability and standards. While many of us know ELLKAY from their work in EHR conversion, it’s really amazing how much ELLKAY has done when it comes to healthcare interoperability and also making that interoperability data useful. Of course not.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2024

The government and many healthcare leaders are pushing for more interoperability and data sharing in healthcare. Of course, one of the biggest problems they faced was how do you handle identity across all of these various sources, functions, and services?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This article kicks off the Healthcare Regulatory Talk series. There’s a collective holding of breath right now in health IT as the ONC appears likely to issue its final HTI-1 rule with new data standards for the next stage of healthcare interoperability soon.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Catching Up With Veteran Health IT Leader Zane Burke. Read more… Understanding the The Biggest Barrier to Lowering Healthcare Costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Unpacking Healthcare’s IT Infrastructure Needs. Read more… What Are the Industry’s Interoperability Infrastructure Needs ?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For those not familiar with the healthcare interoperability space, you may not know that a major portion of health data exchange happens on open source software called OSS Mirth Connect. For many organizations, OSS Mirth Connect is like the “Intel Inside” of their healthcare interoperability efforts.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

This week I’m attending the The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit, which I previously described as The Woodstock of Healthcare Interoperability. Their discussion was prompted by this paper that was published on “Health Data Federalism.”

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Of course, this is the initial list of QHINs. That event happened today and the big news coming out of the event was the six organizations that applied and have been officially designated as QHINS. I’m sure that was part of the discussion when they became the coordinating entity.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

Of course, the big question is, what is the public benefit? We look forward to true interoperability and computable health information and hope that TEFCA will become one of those building blocks rather than serve as a detour in our search for true interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Searching for a New Angle to Address Health Equity. Read more… To Achieve Success With AI, Focus on the Results.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2022

If you’ve followed our coverage of health IT conferences for any amount of time, you know that we love to attend user conferences. They usually include big announcements on stage from the company and you get to spend time with the real boots on the ground of healthcare IT. Next up was Prisma and search insights.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As background, it’s worth stating that the insurance industry has settled on a ten-session course of therapy for most conditions (which of course was seen as ridiculously inadequate by the classical Freudian psychoanalytic movement, who could treat patients for years at a time).

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Lots of other challenges like lack of interoperability too. Of course, solving medication challenges isn’t easy. One of the challenges with drug data is cumbersome EHR…not going to explain that since you all know. SynapseMed. This is true. John Lynn (@techguy) November 15, 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

SDoH Maturity Model *Click on the image to see it full size Platforms like Health Gorilla’s Patient360 empowers care teams to transform SDoH from analytics to active care coordination.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

To get a better idea on what policies and regulations you need to be aware of and just how to get access to innovation funding, we reached out to our ever so talented Healthcare IT Today community for their insights and knowledge. Here is what they had to say. Since the U.S. Since the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

To seamlessly obtain information from various systems, healthcare data exchange standards are essential. Healthtech providers can adopt HL7 (Health Level Seven) or FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). This can include training sessions, webinars, online courses by developers, or cybersecurity experts.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 22, 2020

Historically, health insurers have relied on one form of patient data, while providers operated in a different world. Because it lines up with how they do business, health insurance companies have focused on analyzing patient care using claims data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

"Looking at our innovation and health IT project queue, we saw we had some capital needs and wanted to keep our margins steady despite greater costs associated with COVID-19," said Dr. Brett A. Oliver, chief medical information officer at Baptist Health. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Previous articles in this series introduced the importance of social determinants of health (SDoH) and explained how it can be captured and classified. Of course, the staff of a clinic or hospital don’t go around looking for apartments the way they actively look for a long-term care facility.

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Health Intersections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

From 2000-2014 I was the person positioning health IT standards on Gartner’s Hype Cycle. I would be looking at FHIR books, courses in school curricula including not only Universities but high-volume purveyors of video tutorials. AFAIK we’ve never aspired to that level of conformance testing or certification in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The patient might have been at dozens of different doctors over the course of their life. If identifying a patient securely is hard, the task of retrieving their data from other sites is truly intimidating.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. At HLTH, Healthcare IT Today also asked members of our community what has made for the most effectives use cases of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

A single breach can compromise the health records of thousands, if not millions, of patients, leading to potential misuse of personal data and a loss of trust in digital healthcare solutions. What’s further, an incremental approach to technological advancement will allow leaders to stay on task and build out their strategy carefully.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2023

"When we went live on the Epic platform in 2017, as a practicing physician I was startled by how much better the interoperability and data exchange was than anything I had seen on previous electronic health records. " MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Embedded in Apple’s Health app, the new feature will bring together medical data from participating hospitals and clinics, as well as from the iPhone itself, giving millions of Americans direct digital control of their own health information for the first time. s National Health Service. Source : [link]

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. Investing in consolidation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

Hospitals across the country have been slammed with challenges over the course of the past 12 months as the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the U.S., creating all kinds of chaos for CIOs and other health IT leaders to contend with. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. " Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s always been pretty obvious that factors such as wealth, race, education, and the quality of food and water have enormous impacts on health. Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH).

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2023

All of the decisions made in healthcare are based on the data we gather, so we need to make sure it’s sound. We reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on the importance of data in achieving health equity. Are we getting the representation needed to cover all of our patients?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 16, 2023

Of course, there are also financial concerns to consider, too. If you’re a patient and you have a very serious diagnosis or for which standard-of-care therapies don’t exist, determining eligibility for clinical trials depends on fast access to computable medical records. The monetary penalties for noncompliance could add up quickly.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

The second group to benefit from this National EHR Database was public health. Ellison highlighted how public health didn’t have a way to look across the health of a population. Of course, he highlighted the privacy area here by saying that the data would be anonymized.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But we also know that being knowledgeable and informed on the entire landscape of healthcare is crucial to being a good Health IT leader who can effectively lead their teams. So in search of the answer to this question, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community! The following is what they had to share with us.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.

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