Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The increasing need for interoperability in healthcare has driven significant growth and demand for the company’s data fabric platform and continued innovation in this area. Smile Digital Health has seen significant growth in our platform because it does just this. Smile CDR Inc.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by Natalie Tkachenko, Healthcare Software Solutions Consultant at NIX To obtain test results today, there’s no need to visit the hospital. Doctors remotely manage patient data without being tied to a specific medical facility. When it comes to managing medical information, we go even further.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) Health Data Locator and Revoke Option - Rev. The Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) Health Data Locator and Revoke Option Supplement enhances the existing IHE XCPD Integration Profile by adding two new capabilities.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

Many facets of healthcare remained in a state of flux at the close of 2022, as care practices that started during the pandemic found their way into the mainstream, and enthusiasm for new data sources and interoperability outpaced the realities of implementation. We’re excited to see where this goes.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2022

Recent government initiatives and legislation, such as the Omnibus Bill and Executive Order on Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery include provisions intended to bolster federal healthcare IT programs. These innovations have the potential to unlock dramatic improvements in the healthcare landscape at scale.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2019

With increasing buzz around population health and social determinants of health, those two forces are poised to change philosophies around care delivery and how a hospital or health system works to keep the surrounding community healthy. But we have not adjusted our thinking about data to how the bad guys think of it.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2024

Ryan Howells , Principal at Leavitt Partners and Executive Director of the CARIN Alliance, a bipartisan, multi-sector collaborative dedicated to advancing consumer-directed exchange of health information, has joined the b.well board as an independent director. “The support from Leavitt Equity Partners and the expertise of Dr. .

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The biggest impact I had this year: IHE whitepaper on Health Information Exchange models (3.7k) From Implementation-Guide to IHE-Connectathon (2.7k) Healthcare use of Identity level of assurance (2k) When is a document not a Document but still a document?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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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 News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care Full coverage: HIMSS22 APAC Health Conference News 5 sessions to look out for at HIMSS23 APAC Healthcare IT News’ APAC Managing Editor weighs in on the sessions he's looking forward.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 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. Like most of us, Andy Oram has a health insurance card in his wallet. Read more… Why the Future is Bright for Health Information Management.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2023

Just a few weeks ago, CommonWell was announced as one of six applicants—along with eHealth Exchange, Epic TEFCA Interoperability Systems, Health Gorilla, Kno2 and Konza— accepted to continue in the onboarding process to become a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) under TEFCA. About Paul L.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Senior Solutions Architect – HIE position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Here’s a description of the position: Company: TransForm Shared Service Organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Particularly for risk adjustment (RA) reviews, even the slightest gaps in reporting leaves health plans at risk for drops in quality ratings and subsequent revenue loss. Furthermore, the 21 st Century Act opens the door for greater availability to clinical data among patients, providers, and other requesters such as payers.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 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. Burnout’s Effect on Healthcare Staffing. As burned-out healthcare workers leave their roles, the workers who remain must do more with less.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The proposed rule aims to improve the exchange of electronic health information between healthcare providers, payers, and other stakeholders and to streamline the prior authorization process for services and procedures. CMS Calls for FHIR Adoption to Enhance Interoperability in Healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

There were many new product and partnership announcements and insightful panels and discussions, but here are two critical takeaway themes from HIMSS22 relevant to healthcare decision-makers like you! Healthcare cloud is everywhere. It feels like every company has a health cloud offering these days. Healthcare at your doorstep.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Enterprise Architect position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. This hybrid work schedule is subject to change.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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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 15, 2022

Semantic Interoperability Pioneer, CareCom, Improves Clinician Experience with Advanced Healthcare Terminology Mapping and NLP Conversion of Unstructured Data. CareCom solutions uniquely accommodate clinical expression by enabling the cross-mapping of all major healthcare vocabularies, including diagnostic and procedure codes.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Consumers Finally take Advantage of Up-and-Coming Commercial Applications to Store their Data and to Search for the Best Health Plan In 2020, the industry put healthcare data in consumers’ hands through implementing application programming interfaces (APIs). Data input means data output.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Or are there areas in healthcare where past regulations are now too restrictive and are holding us back? In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update regulations. The following is what they had to say.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

In addition to this funding, Canvas has achieved federal certification through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). Canvas Medical, founded in 2015, provides the digital infrastructure for care delivery companies.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2021

Micky Tripathi, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the US Department of Health and Human Services shared his interoperability wish list during his opening keynote at the 2021 Direct Trust Summit. Topping his list was richer information exchange to support advanced payment models.

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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. 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. Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. Healthcare Consumerism.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

In the month of July, we'll speak to experts about how they're managing their workforces – not just clinicians, but IT departments, data scientists, care managers, back office staff and others. With some 95 percent of healthcare providers having deployed EHRs, the healthcare system is officially digital.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

– Microsoft has announced advancements in cloud technologies for healthcare and life sciences with the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. The health industry generates an overwhelming amount of data, much of which is unstructured and inaccessible.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 14, 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. SDoH data illustrates this dilemma well: There’s a lot of it, but it’s often hard to put to use to improve clinical care.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But when dealing with all of the many things that providers do and the highly important health information about patients, something as simple as selecting a communication platform becomes a very tricky situation. How do you maintain the security and privacy of your patient’s health information as cyberattacks continue to climb?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Depending on where you sit in healthcare today it may feel like 1986 or 2023. The breadth of connectivity, the exchange of data, and the benefit of both feels significantly different depending on where you sit inside the healthcare ecosystem. I recently sat down with Bell in Kno2’s Boise office to chat all things TEFCA.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The previous article in this series gave some history of social determinants of health (SDoH) and the importance of addressing them in medicine. This article delves deeper into various aspects of data handling, and who is working in these fields. GCOM has also publicized another data sharing initiative in the state of New York.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the EHR Applications Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Harbor Health Services and is located in Massachusetts.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For some insights on patient engagement in communication platforms we reached out to our beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community. Vijay Verma, VP of Product Strategy at TeleVox A common shortcoming in healthcare communication systems is interoperability. The following is what they had to say.

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