Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 9, 2022

"Specifically, leaders have indicated three key priorities for 2022 and beyond: addressing the human capital crisis, continuing with digital transformation to improve interoperability and fully unlock the potential of healthcare data, and closing the healthcare equality gap and prioritizing sustainability."

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

Certainly AI us currently doing that in health IT, but in the world of interoperability TEFCA and QHINs are grabbing all of the attention. There are a lot of views on TEFCA, but the one thing that’s certain is that it’s grabbing a lot of the interoperability focus from government regulators and the industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Developing that interoperability – where all stakeholders will have access to data on patient treatment and outcomes – is going to be essential to the expansion of VBP in the United States as well, and the more interoperability there is, the easier it will be for stakeholders to implement, and benefit from, VBP.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

News Interoperability: Where it's headed, and where IT leaders will be investing Five CIOs, a COO and a CMIO chart a course for the complex demands of data exchange, and discuss. Feature Series Though the pandemic certainly is not over, the dust has started to settle a bit, giving C-suite executives a clearer look forward.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

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. – Susan Morse, Senior Editor, Healthcare Finance News. by Bill Siwicki April 05, 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

It was Healthcare IT Today’s first time attending the ONC Annual Meeting despite multiple years of FOMO for not attending. In the world of interoperability, the announcement of the QHINs and that they’re already starting to share records is a big deal. Of course, the proof is really in the pudding.

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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

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

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. Of course, John also asked him for some thoughts about what’s been happening at his older employers. Caraway emerged from stealth with $10.5

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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 News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

In a discussion with Healthcare IT News , Fobare spells out the role telemedicine has grown to play during the pandemic, where healthcare goes with telehealth, how change may affect physicians and what virtual care might look like 10 years from now. What role has telemedicine grown to play during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

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. Some key HTI-1 compliance deadlines require action before the end of 2024.To

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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 News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2020

The upswing of interest in telehealth and virtual care, combined with the federal focus on interoperability , has highlighted the importance across the industry of keeping patient data secure. "We don't store patient data," Welch explained to Healthcare IT News. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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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

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. Healthcare data centers have come a long way in the last five years , VMware’s Michael Robinson told John Lynn.

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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. Are there ways we should change course? What are your thoughts on the right approach to health data?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2022

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. One of the challenges we often hear at Healthcare IT Today is the cognitive overload that many doctors face. Next up was Prisma and search insights. John Lynn (@techguy) October 7, 2022.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2023

mRNA vaccines, ambient voice scribes, and of course AI. As I scanned the agenda there were an almost equal number of sessions on release of information (ROI) – a throwback to the historic role of HIM professionals, and sessions on data collection/quality – a nod to the continued evolution into healthcare’s information stewards.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In this session "Cross-Border Collaborations: Improving Digital Health" (20 November, 13:00 - 13:50), speakers from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and beyond will share concrete examples of how governments and healthcare organisations are successfully collaborating across borders to implement various digital health initiatives.

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Optimum Healthcare IT

MARCH 1, 2023

Burnout and fatigue among clinicians and healthcare IT professionals are increasingly severe issues that can devastate the quality of care provided. Ensure clinicians and healthcare IT professionals have adequate resources to do their jobs efficiently. Give clinicians ample time off to rest and recharge.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

Government & Policy Interoperability Telehealth The director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay writes about significant acceleration of digital transformation across the UK. It's not all plain sailing, of course. This in turn restricts how responsive services and systems can be to patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Technology infrastructure and interoperability - A seamless, integrated and sustainable ecosystem can be created by using a digital health blueprint to define the infrastructure and interoperability requirements to connect current siloed virtual care solutions.

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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 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 22, 2020

Providers, of course, are far more focused on the contents of medical records, which offer a […]. Historically, health insurers have relied on one form of patient data, while providers operated in a different world.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

Health Gorilla’s platform has integrated four clinically validated SDoH scores from LexisNexis Risk Solutions into its national Health Interoperability Platform, putting SDoH data in context with comprehensive clinical information retrieved from hospitals, electronic health records (EHRs), and labs across the country.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2019

Of course, this is an issue worth discussing at any point, but especially noteworthy given that new regulations from CMS and ONC are soon to take effect. A new survey suggests that despite spending countless dollars and people-hours on the problem, hospitals and health systems are still struggling with data sharing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As vaccines continue to roll out, requiring meticulous record-keeping and specialized shipping and storage conditions (and that's to say nothing of the ongoing critical need for PPE and other lifesaving equipment) nowhere are interoperability and data visibility more important than with healthcare supply chains.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

APRIL 27, 2020

It’s not all plain sailing, of course. While it is encouraging that digital transformation has accelerated in many areas, it remains the case that interoperability within and between sectors is limited. Originally posted at Healthcare IT News. This in turn restricts how responsive services and systems can be to patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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. Previous articles in this series introduced the importance of social determinants of health (SDoH) and explained how it can be captured and classified.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

"The other critical challenge we wanted to solve is one that every healthcare delivery organization faces right now – provider efficiency," he continued. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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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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Health Intersections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

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. However, as products climb the slope of enlightenment they get less frequent. Are we there yet?

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