Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

The journey to achieve interoperability in healthcare has been too long and too expensive. To address this, companies have put effort into creating interoperability tools and platforms designed to make it easier to exchange data. To accelerate interoperability efforts, however, creating more technology may not the answer.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Te Toka Tumai Auckland launching FHIR-driven PAS Te Toka Tumai Auckland, formerly Auckland District Health Board, will be launching a new patient administration system that runs on the new FHIR-based National Health Index API. It will also make data more updated, consistent, and reliable, he added.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) keeps releasing new rules to address the urgent need for data exchange. Hopefully, interoperability will result in a “connected healthcare ecosystem” that enables payers, providers, and pharmacies to be more efficient and deliver a better experience to patients and doctors alike.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2020

Microsoft is previewing its new Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, an API feature that enables healthcare organizations to scale secure connectivity for an array of devices streaming protected health information. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

And caring for those patients, and stewarding their data, requires major infrastructure. The symposium, which was hosted in partnership with the Digital Medicine Society, convened federal officials and industry partners to discuss the most pressing issues facing the agency – and healthcare as a whole.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

This month’s chat will be hosted by Erica Olenski Johansen ( @thegr8chalupa ) on the topic “ Back to the Basics: Implications of Interoperability. ”. At that time, the chats were inspired by advancements in interoperability, including some rather niche healthcare standards discussions, including HL7 v2, HL7 v3, CDA, and eventually FHIR.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2023

That’s why I had to sit down with Jared Jeffery, Founder at healthKERI , to learn more about his pathway to starting his new health data exchange company. He also shares who the target customers are for healthKERI and we discuss whether healthcare organizations really want to solve the data interoperability problem.

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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

APRIL 28, 2024

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

APRIL 25, 2023

1upHealth will use this latest investment to expand product development and customer growth teams and accelerate efforts to lead the digital transformation of the healthcare industry in the cloud. Over the past decade, industries ranging from manufacturing to retail have all undergone digital transformation and now it’s healthcare’s turn.

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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. The alliance was a bold gesture made ten years ago by leading EHR vendors to demonstrate their commitment to data sharing. This is the burden still faced by three quarters of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

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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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Smile CDR has built a clinical data repository that is completely based on the HL7 FHIR standard. The founders bet their entire company on this standard and that bet is paying off. The company has grown from 5 employees to over 250 in just a few years and recently closed a $20 Million Series A. […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2022

At this point, it's not a surprise to say that data is power – particularly when it comes to advancing clinical research, furthering innovation and improving patient care. Still, experts say that network-wide availability of patient-generated health data is still lacking.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

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 15, 2022

Semantic Interoperability Pioneer, CareCom, Improves Clinician Experience with Advanced Healthcare Terminology Mapping and NLP Conversion of Unstructured Data. Around the globe, healthcare organizations rely on HealthTerm to support data quality governance and health information exchange.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Many IT companies have tried to create solutions that advance interoperability in healthcare. While FHIR has made significant headway in creating common protocols and standards for data exchange, there is opportunity to create greater data fluidity among all healthcare stakeholders.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A Process in Urgent Need of an Upgrade Clearly, prior authorization is crying out for standardization and interoperability. The federal government has been haranguing vendors and clinicians to make interoperable systems since the HITECH act was passed in 2009. The release of FHIR in the mid-2010 decade changed everything.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2022

It feels like FHIR has gone through all the hype cycles you can imagine in the decade or so that FHIR’s been around. I’ve heard FHIR described as the solution to healthcare’s woes and heard others describe its limitations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2021

The National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved, a nonprofit organization geared toward advancing health equity and economic viability, recently launched a new platform aimed at building actionable insights from social determinants of health data.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2022

What Is Interoperability in Healthcare? The ability of different systems, devices, and applications to work together and exchange information seamlessly is known as interoperability in healthcare. primary care physician, psychotherapist, physical therapist, pharmacist) who work in multiple healthcare systems.

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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 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. Simply open a mobile app and download the report to your smartphone.

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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. “Data fabrics open up many new ways of leveraging and working with health data. Smile CDR Inc.

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Redox

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Transforming healthcare through data-driven digital solutions CHICAGO, IL, October 17, 2023 — Productive Edge , a healthcare-focused digital transformation consultancy, announces a strategic partnership with Redox , a leader in healthcare data integration.

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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. If it seems like we’ve been talking about interoperability forever, […]. 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.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

The IHE IT-Infrastructure committee continues to produce new and improved specifications for HIE interoperability. Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) Health Data Locator and Revoke Option - Rev. Health IT Vendors should review this supplement and determine if the capabilities within meet their interoperability needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For those not familiar with 1upHealth, the provide a FHIR platform for payers, providers, and developers. At the HLTH conference last month, I had a chance to talk with Ricky Sahu, CEO at 1upHealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

by Healthcare IT News November 22, 2019. This month, Healthcare IT News, MobiHealthNews and Healthcare Finance News take a look at what all of this means and how technology, as always, is spurring innovative solutions. -- Susan Morse, senior editor, Healthcare Finance News. Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2024

MediQuant has been providing health data management and active archiving since 1999. In this video, CEO Jim Jacobs describes how they seek “one patient, one record” so that providers have complete and accurate data for the patients they serve. How can they make the data in these systems available to their organization?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 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. Read more… Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy. Streamlining Enterprise Network Management and Monitoring.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 26, 2023

Because data allows for better decision-making, patient records are being requested by payers, communities of care, and patients themselves. However, this can sometimes be overwhelming for healthcare provider organizations that are now getting larger and larger volumes of requests from payers which inundate their systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2023

Nationwide Interoperability: It’s been a concept, a term bandied about for a while in various forms, but for those of us who have worked in health IT for more than a few years, we know that it has taken a long time for transformational change to be felt by the providers and the individuals they serve.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community for their thoughts and the following is what they had to say. Tom Liddell, CEO at Harmony Healthcare IT A successful career in health IT leadership requires a unique blend of technical expertise, regulatory knowledge, and strong communication skills. FHIR/HL7.)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2023

Telstra Health unveils FHIR-native virtual care platform Telstra Health has introduced a new FHIR-based virtual care solution, Virtual Health Platform. Based on a media release, the solution provides a digital, automated, and streamlined process for creating remote healthcare delivery.

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