Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2023

Rochester Regional Health is using a measured and practical approach to data interoperability. They have focused their efforts on data that clinicians want to use, that fits their workflow, and can be seamlessly incorporated into their Epic system. When the work was done, the lab data seamlessly appeared within Epic.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC works to help New York State achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, delivering better health outcomes, and reducing costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC works to help New York State achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, delivering better health outcomes, and reducing costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

As part of their intake process, the team checked Alex’s (a pseudonym) medical history through the hospital’s health information organization and discovered the patient had recently undergone a cardiac surgery at a different hospital; their post-surgical issues had merely mimicked a neurological challenge.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. Using APIs can help drive interoperability and make data “liquid” and useable. Sidebar on “what is an ‘API?’

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jolie Ritzo, VP of Strategy and Network Engagement at Civitas Networks for Health Health data management in 2024 is both intricate and complex. Here are some of the most exciting and challenging aspects of both exchanging and using comprehensive health data this year and ahead.

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David Chou

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The TEFCA sets standards for healthcare data interoperability that enables healthcare providers, patients, payers, health information exchanges (HIEs), healthcare IT vendors, and other healthcare organizations to securely and effectively share healthcare data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Further, CIOs and other health IT leaders reinvented systems and processes, and clinicians gained an improved understanding of the invaluable impact of integrated informatics on digital transformations and the quality and efficiency of care. With telehealth and remote patient monitoring comes the need for interoperability and security.

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Redox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Here are some specific reflections: FHIR adoption: We missed the mark on our HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) growth prediction. Through our research with our partners at Sage Growth, we found that only 62% of providers and 38% of payers have adopted the FHIR standard for their data interoperability use cases.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2023

There has been a lot of activity and news coverage of Qualified Health Information Networks, or QHINs, recently. The Trusted Exchange Framework is the technical standard that governs the actual sharing of data, and the Common Agreement is the legal agreement that governs the obligations of those sharing the data.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. ” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2024

The government and many healthcare leaders are pushing for more interoperability and data sharing in healthcare. When you look at how much data is passing through Healthix, it’s kind of hard to comprehend. 50 million patients with 105+ million inbound data is a lot of health data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

Also on its policy agenda for the year ahead: advocating for data standardization, offering input for interoperability rulemaking and engaging with agencies and states to increase telehealth access. We now have three years of data on the impact to the Medicare Trust Fund," he said.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While we are still in this mindset, let’s talk about how we can also improve as health IT leaders. So to become a better leader in health IT, we need to figure out what skills and best practices we must do and find out if these skills for health IT leadership is different than other healthcare sectors.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As health data sharing continues to evolve, the mere collection of patient data is no longer sufficient; it’s imperative that the data collected have tangible value for overburdened clinicians increasingly being requested to gather more data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2024

The following is a guest article by Ann Krutsko, Healthcare IT Researcher at ScienceSoft In healthcare, working with inaccurate patient data is a dangerous game. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were designed to streamline operations and improve coordination across healthcare systems. Data entry is still fraught with human error.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Health data utility is still a fairly new concept in the world of healthcare. How are health data utilities evolving? Lindsey Ferris, DrPH, Senior Interoperability and Public Health Director at PointClickCare – I think we’re at the very early stages.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

About NYeC New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State. This hybrid work schedule is subject to change.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Harmony Healthcare IT (HHIT) , a leading health data management and platform solution provider, today announced a significant investment from Novacap , one of North America’s premier private equity firms. This strategic partnership will accelerate HHIT’s technological contribution and expansion in health information technology.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

Trust is a precursor to health engagement, I learned way back in 2008 when I collaborated with Edelman on the first Health Engagement Barometer in 2008. This chart illustrated data from that survey, showing that trust, authenticity and satisfaction were the top three drivers among consumers looking to engage for health.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It’s not a huge surprise that the week of the ONC Meeting, they would make a number of big announcements for those of us in health IT. I expect we’ll see many more health IT companies become QHINs. This is a big step forward for QHINs who can now start sharing health data.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The Argonaut Project is a collaborative effort between the healthcare industry and the technology industry to develop and implement standards for exchanging electronic health information (EHI). It was launched in 2014 by a group of leading health IT vendors and provider organizations, and is now supported by over 200 organizations.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Exec Summary: Self-sovereign identity (SSI) holds immense potential to revolutionize the future of health data, empowering individuals to take control of their information and fostering a more secure, transparent, and patient-centric healthcare ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2022

Digitization efforts have resulted in tons of healthcare-related data, and the key to capitalizing on the revolutionary benefits that data has to offer is comprehensive healthcare data management (HCDM). A Data Problem. Interoperability. Security, Integrity, and Accuracy.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

1upHealth’s FHIR®-native platform designed for interoperability and modern computing is used by over 75 enterprise organizations including leading national and regional health plans, the highest performing CMS ACOs, international clinical research organizations, and over 20 state Medicaid agencies. Our customers are ready.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 24, 2023

One area where we have seen this front and center is when it comes to how healthcare organizations approach interoperability and integration. In the past, interoperability and integration were kind of an afterthought. This is just one of many reasons why interoperability and integration are important in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 17, 2021

The following is a guest article by Jaime Bland, DNP, RN-BC, Chief Executive Officer at CyncHealth, the health data utility for the Midwest, and Kat McDavitt, Principal Advisor and Head of Public Affairs for Innsena and advises organizations including PointClickCare on external affairs.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Doctors remotely manage patient data without being tied to a specific medical facility. They also handle large volumes of data effortlessly within their hospitals. This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. When it comes to managing medical information, we go even further.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer. The patient is worried about privacy and data security.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Here's what execs from some leading health IT vendors think about the most pressing challenges – and big opportunities – of the year ahead. " Going forward, using AI-powered big data analytics to optimize the supply chain is going to be essential, said Byczkowski. Supply chain: Machine learning insights.

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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. 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

MARCH 20, 2024

Ben Hsieh, Vice President of Product, says that Discern Health works with payers, providers, and Health Information Exchanges (HIE). Pinho would also like Discern Health’s analytics to help patients; families, decreasing their financial, physical, and emotional burdens.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Xealth is also integrated with Epic and Cerner, so the clinician can record data on third-party content if desired. Watch this short video demo for more details about how Xealth connects hospitals and health systems to patients at home.

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