Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Patients, regulators, and payers are insisting on data exchange in health care. But despite the availability of FHIR and of APIs from many vendors, interoperability is often described as “difficult and “not frictionless” according to Loyd Bittle, CEO and Founder at Innovar Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Canvas Medical, the EMR that enables clinicians and developers to power the future of care delivery, has raised $24MM in Series B funding led by M13 with participation from Haystack and previous investors Inspired Capital, IA Ventures, Upfront Ventures, and Irongrey. Founded in 2015, Canvas is reimagining the EMR for the future of healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon Web Services is rolling out a new tool designed to make it simpler for healthcare organizations to work with their data. Amazon HealthLake, which AWS describes as “HIPAA-eligible,” was launched during Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2020

CMS has released a proposed rule that will require Medicaid managed care plans and other insurers offering products on the ACA Exchanges to support the sharing of patient data amongst themselves.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

Two requirements in particular are critical to that goal: “APIs without special effort” and a requirement to share data on behalf of the patient (“information blocking prohibited”). FHIR has been around for over 10 years so it is worth pondering why it was not incorporated into TEFCA from the start.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

” In addition to clinical information, Health Note can assemble information about social determinants of health from the EHR and the patient, using EHR data to create specific questions relevant to each patient. Integration with the EHR, according to Rau, was difficult.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

How the IoMT Helps Data Reach Its Full Potential. We asked members of the Healthcare IT Community to share their thoughts on the growing role of the Internet of Medical Things in managing healthcare data. Read more… Public Health Transparency Improves Outcomes in San Bernardino County. million in seed funding.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dr. Mark Pratt , Chief Medical Officer at Altera Digital Health The patient quietly sits while her physician delves into the data stored in her electronic health record, combing through different screens for specific information. It’s past time to deliver on this.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 14, 2018

The acquisition will effectivey be a "trojan horse" unlocking access to data, clinical technology, mobile technology, paying clients and research. App Orchard, for its part, lets developers use a FHIR-based API to access an Epic development sandbox. Voice technology also has massive potential for clinical drug trials.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. Experts from across the health IT field will share insights about everything from AI and cloud computing to telemedicine and population health. Health IT implementation best practices. How FHIR 4 will drive interoperability progress in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Health Equity and SDoH. Jean Drouin, Co-Founder and CEO at Clarify Health. Big data platforms go mainstream. Healthcare AI.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2022

Recently, we shared news about the growing feature set under development as part of Google Health’s Care Studio, most recently its “Conditions” feature which summarizes patient conditions and uses NLP to link related information like labs or medications to those condition listings.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

Data discovery through Cosmos to facilitate research, clinical trials, and other life science efforts. Making it easier to leverage that data to improve care and treatments is a goal in 2023. PRISMA provides access to patient data from external sources (other hospitals and other EHRs) without the need for custom interfaces.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Milliman IntelliScript® , an insurtech company with risk assessment solutions for life and health insurers, has acquired OneRecord , a digital healthcare company that empowers consumers to access, aggregate, and share their healthcare data with the people and organizations they trust using standards-based APIs.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2019

In another step in fleshing out its interoperability efforts, CMS has announced plans to launch a pilot program giving clinicians access to claims data. During the pilot, which is called “Data at the Point of Care” or DPC, clinicians will be able to access the claims data from CMS’s Blue Button 2.0 functionality.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

Zus Health , (pronounced “Zoose”), a next-generation shared health data platform bringing distributed patient data directly to the point of care, announced today that the company has closed a $40 million financing. Zus is building a healthcare common ground.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

No doubt a month still isn’t enough to fully understand this quickly changing area of health IT. This month we’ve had an added focus on Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and all it’s nuances and features.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

2022 Predictions for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and In Home Care – I know not everyone enjoys predictions, but the fact that last year’s prediction did so well means that people like them more than I realized which is good since we just started our 2023 Health IT Predictions. Where Are We At With FHIR?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2021

After hearing about DirectTrust passing the 2 billion message mark, we thought it would be valuable for readers to learn more about DirectTrust and the healthcare interoperability work their non-profit is doing. Plus, they have their DirectTrust Summit coming up on June 9-10, 2021 which might be of interest to many of our readers as […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

To simplify the question, is Epic going to give Oracle Cerner access to all their health records? I think we all know the answer to that and FHIR and all these other standards won’t get us there either. a lot of data, but not all the data). Can Oracle really create a full longitudinal record of all patients?

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HIStalk Interviews

JULY 23, 2018

We knew that the next generation of digital health solutions would require data liquidity. We thought we had an innovative way of providing advanced data exchange between health IT applications. Recognition is now widespread that this will happen only with secure, seamless exchange of data between applications.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 14, 2019

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. And Telstra Health was back. But that’s revenue and just a series of contracts. How sustainable is all this?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Matt Cohen, Director of AI at Loyal As the buzz continues around emerging technologies in healthcare IT, like generative AI, it’s paramount for health systems to practice a level of caution when adopting these tools. Technology – like humans – has both the power to hurt and to heal.

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