Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

There’s no one solution that will solve the health data sharing problem. It will include TEFCA, FHIR, HIEs, Direct Messages, APIs and much more. While I don’t personally see TEFCA as a blank check for healthcare interoperability, it does have the backing of government. That’s what we see happening with QHINs.

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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. Tell us what you think.

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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

AUGUST 27, 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. In a nutshell, real-time updates enabled by FHIR are the future. Read more… Education and Communication Can Catalyze HIE Adoption.

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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 Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The last time I did a year-end report was at the end of 2017 - HIE Future is Bright - stepping into 2018. 1.6k) Agile improvements toward #FHIR (1.5k) Security of #FHIR implementations concerns (1k) It is good to see that the Alisa Knight cybersecurity attacks on #FHIR were not a big reason for visitors to my blog.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

HealthPolicyValentines [link] — Jared Jeffery (@Jk_Jeffery) February 12, 2024 One more…I promise: Roses are red, data is blue, Computers are fun, But Meaningful Use sucks without you. Less fragmented health data. Telephone lines to HIEs, to @CarequalityNet & QHINs. What does that mean for patients?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2023

I still remember being with a New York State HIE at the time, on the HIMSS13 floor, and being asked by a reporter to speculate about what it meant. We’re building the next generation of FHIR into our services—and looking ahead to create new use cases for care settings that are still untapped. About Paul L.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 17, 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. For FQHCs such as Dallas-area HHM Health, maintaining trust is critical because many patients are new users of the healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 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

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

AUGUST 24, 2022

DirectTrustorg has added multiple fields, but the HISPS have to utilize the fields and populate the right data. Great move for HISPS to use FHIR to update the directory versus batch file updates. My favorite piece of this is the move to FHIR updates versus the current batch file updates. . — John Lynn (@techguy) August 22, 2022.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

There is some strong discussion going on at HL7 around privacy concerns, especially now that HL7 FHIR has enabled easy application writing. There is concern that applications are being written by people that might not be as mature in the knowledge of how important Privacy is in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2022

As we head into 2022, we asked the Healthcare IT Today community to share some predictions for the new year. I always find it interesting to learn what people think is coming down the road. Be sure to check out all our Health IT Predictions. If it seems like we’ve been talking about interoperability forever, […].

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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

AUGUST 5, 2021

Claudia Williams, Former Senior Advisor to the White House CTO and current CEO of Manifest MedEx, recently commented about one of the ideas she took from the TEFCA webinar and strong reliance on the IHE spefications: In the TEFCA webinar… what are the pluses/minuses of such a strong reliance on IHE specifications? Let me just […].

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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

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. And that’s where Bell places TECFA; it’s meaningful.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This article delves deeper into various aspects of data handling, and who is working in these fields. A roundtable cohosted by Department of Health and Human services issued a report in December 2019 listing about two dozen data elements (pages 43-44), such as eligibility for social programs, air quality, and exposure to violence.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 7, 2020

In order to make the best possible decision during a crisis, healthcare leaders need reliable, up-to-date information delivered quickly. Omni-HealthData, from Information Builders recently introduced enhanced capabilities to make it even easier for healthcare providers to get a single, high-quality view of patients, physicians […].

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 6, 2018

Blockchain lets the healthcare industry exchange data in a standard format, automate complex processes and apply AI against large silos of medical data. It might even allow patients to sell their data for rewards. Even the U.S.

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