Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2020

As part of our Healthcare IT 100 in 100, we asked a wide variety of healthcare interoperability experts to chime in on the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare interoperability. Plus, then we asked them how it will impact health data sharing going forward.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2020

Healthcare interoperability has always been a hot topic, but it’s become even more interesting amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. In many ways, the pandemic has highlighted some of the challenges healthcare faces in sharing health data between providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Each day in healthcare, data becomes more valuable, more useful, and more important to a healthcare organization. It’s easy to see that the future of healthcare rests on the back of data. The problem is that data in and of itself isn’t useful.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2023

Data sharing and interoperability are spreading too slowly in health care, and even if a doctor manages to get all the data, its varied formats make it hard to draw insights from. For instance, his neurology service works with 42 hospitals, each displaying data on patients in its own idiosyncratic way.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2023

The organization’s 5,000+ physicians, who are treating people across the socioeconomic spectrum, believe that comprehensive health information is crucial to deliver high-quality care for their patients. A lot of work remains to make data sharing a reality. Access to discrete data is at the core of the DxF.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

I recently came across an article by Verto which identified 3 fundamental problems with interoperability and care coordination in healthcare as follows: Data Integration and Aggregation Sub-Set of the Data Relevant to a Particular Care Step Data Governance and Patient Transitions The article was spot on in identifying these problems.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

In a fast-paced exchanged with John Lynn of Healthcare IT Today, Rucker covers regulations and evolving data exchange standards that foster interoperability and data analytics. “The real point of interoperability is continuous, real-time computing,” according to Rucker.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The evolution of Health Information Management (HIM) professionals has been remarkable. They are no longer paper pushers (literally) and are now stewards of healthcare data. Jennifer Mueller, President of the American Health Information Management Association ( AHIMA ), sees a bright future for the HIM industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The response to my article asking the question “Are we at the end of the healthcare interoperability tunnel?” I think some people thought that I was hammering on all the work that’s being done on healthcare interoperability. ” was quite interesting.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

Digital health companies on the list include AngelEye Health , Authenticx , DAS Health , FarmboxRX , ixlayer , Mytonomy , Reveleer , TigerConnect , TimelyCare , Valenz Health , Veda , and Vytalize Health. AVIA added RUSH, MUSC Health, and United Regional Health Care System to its network.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This is a big step forward for QHINs who can now start sharing health data. We’ll see how effective it is at solving the healthcare interoperability problem. Developers of certified health IT will also have the ability to move to USCDI v3 sooner.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2020

During the decade or so in which I’ve been following data interoperability, the cleverest people in the healthcare and technology industries have come together to make disparate systems work together effectively.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 19, 2021

New research data from KLAS suggests that while providers generally feel comfortable with their preparations for complying with new information blocking rules, they’re not sure their efforts will be much help in winning their ongoing interoperability battles.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

If you’ve been watching stop-and-start efforts toward health data interoperability over the last several years, many of which have netted little progress, you might be surprised to hear a top-drawer consulting firm argue that we’re moving ahead into an era of radical interoperability in the healthcare and life science industries.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In recent times, Apple has been making a number of public moves focused on getting its customers to pull their health data onto their iPhone. Using Apple’s Health app, consumers can have their health data downloaded automatically from any institution with which it has partnered.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Several trade groups focused on healthcare issues have come together to publish a letter urging the ONC to rethink aspects of its proposed interoperability rule tackling health data sharing, privacy and information blocking.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As mentioned previously, we’re taking part on the Virtual AHIMA conference this week. Exploring how things work in the virtual world, we tried something new today and did a text based chat interview with Rita Bowen, VP of Privacy, Compliance and HIM Policy from MRO. In this wide ranging text interview, we talked with Rita […].

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Yesterday, we shared a number of the insights into the health data and interoperability needs in healthcare. More vendors mean more systems and more data silos. A HIMSS statistic cited the average healthcare system as having 18 EMRs. The continuous addition of new rich data sources [e.g.,

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David Chou

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Most of Cerner's EMR is based on outdated development and proprietary code that does not work well in today's cloud systems. Putting the Cerner EMR systems into the Oracle cloud may require a software redesign. Data is the new oil. The problem arises over whether this is an unattainable objective or a legitimate aspiration.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A new survey concludes that many health IT executives are not too familiar with new federal regulations which, among other things, require that patients have more access to their health records and forbid providers from hampering health data sharing across networks.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Healthcare providers are well aware that the interoperability demands imposed by the 21st Century Cures Act are barreling down the pike rapidly and will soon slam their organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

The optometrist printed his report that I would bring to my next PCP exam, because otherwise my optometrist had no reliable way to transfer the data. clinicians, as estimated by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance. Many other health IT firms have joined CommonWell since then.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The topic of healthcare interoperability is one that it feels like we’ve been talking about ad nauseam for nearly the entire 15 years I’ve been writing about healthcare IT. In fact, I’m sure the discussion started well before I started in health IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC). That said, the industry as a whole needs to find new ways to share data where the economics and the values are balanced.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

One of the biggest networks for sharing health data in the country is CommonWell Health Alliance. After some changes in the industry and some acquisitions, CommonWell was in need of a new technical service provider to continue their interoperability work and to finish their work to become a QHIN under TEFCA.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For federal agencies and state and regional exchanges, this is an excellent time to demonstrate leadership in interoperability by joining a network that will likely provide a ready on-ramp to TEFCA. Currently, perhaps 99% of health data exchange is initiated to support treatment. The Case for Federal Agencies.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This includes high-speed broadband networks, data centres, and cloud computing platforms. Expertise in security and privacy: Telecom companies have expertise in security and privacy, which is essential for protecting healthcare data. Overall, telecom companies are well-positioned to play a major role in the future of healthcare.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

MARCH 16, 2023

But on Sunday she told breast cancer health data activist Andrea Downing that she’s going to enter hospice. It links to her online medical record, as a protest against healthcare’s lack of interoperable records. This is simply not possible. Invincible heroes and sheroes do not die. But, as they say, cancer sucks.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2020

New research has concluded that healthcare CIOs see analyzing social determinants of health data as a top priority going forward, along with tackling data interoperability and cybersecurity. Focus group leads asked the […].

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

If you’re running an HIE, you’re always hoping to see your participants step up their interoperability game. The thing is, few HIEs go the extra mile to make it happen, in many cases because they just don’t have the resources to tackle the problem. Given this fact, I was interested to see the recent announcement […].

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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

APRIL 13, 2023

This rarely happens anymore, but when hospitals and health systems replace legacy applications nowadays—often after an acquisition—old data still might not be used the way it could be. Converting patient data to PDF is too common a shortcut, according to Jim Jacobs, CEO of MediQuant.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Unfortunately, however, these idiosyncrasies are one of the obstacles that stand in the way of better interoperability, according to an article by Corepoint Health. Given that clinicians have different styles, it’s hardly surprising that they document care in different ways.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Lastly, we wrap everything up by discussing what a health data utility (HDU) is. What’s a health data utility (HDU)? Lastly, we wrap everything up by discussing what a health data utility (HDU) is. Are TEFCA and QHINs real or are they memorex?

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