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TEFCA Real Talk

Healthcare IT Today

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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Doctors Say EHRs Are Good for Storage, But Risky for Patient Relationships and Burnout

Health Populi

That deficiency is, in three words, lack of interoperability; that challenge has required one-half of physician-users to use work-around’s to make their EHR investments more useful. Most physicians rarely have time to address all patients’ questions and concerns, the third chart from the Stanford/Harris survey shows.

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Virtual care to become ‘new normal’ throughout GCC countries

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. And this was happening not exclusively in the Middle East.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Acting on SDoH

Healthcare IT Today

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. On their first round of outreach, 366 completed surveys were received out of a total 4,200 patients enrolled from an array of different locations within the system.

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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

Using APIs can help drive interoperability and make data “liquid” and useable. Through the patient-as-consumer lens, most Americans say they were communicating and connecting online more in 2020 than ever before, an Ipsos survey found. As a result, most U.S.

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Zealous for Wellness: The Ongoing Quest for Standard Measures

Healthcare IT Today

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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Hospitals Still Struggling To Share Data Effectively

Healthcare IT Today

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. 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.

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