Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information. As the industry standard, Direct Secure Messaging continues to expand nationally.

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Continue Education Journal

DECEMBER 30, 2021

These parts are 1) establishing a clearinghouse for bill submission, 2) simplifying prior authorizations, 3) harmonizing quality reporting, and 4) enhancing data interoperability in the health-care system. These public programs include Medicare, the ACA, federal employee insurance, VA insurance, and more.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2023

More regulatory churn is coming to shake up e-prescribing, this time with new data standards to step up clinical decision support at the point of care. The Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) final HTI-1 rule will bring major compliance hoops for EHR developers to jump through as they carry the next stage of interoperability forward.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Presidential elections to that point, and that the last retiring Baby Boomer enrolls in Medicare that year. Let’s take a walk with “Quincy” through each of the four worlds to see how their health care experience might play out across the key driving forces. Privacy protections are assured through the GDPR which the U.S.

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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. Budget leaders have asked, "How do you really know what the impact on the Medicare population and the Medicare Trust Fund will be?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In January, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) became a reality, and in October applications opened for organizations seeking designation as Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs). Currently, perhaps 99% of health data exchange is initiated to support treatment.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Representatives have introduced the WEAR IT Act , which would let Americans use money from Flexible Spending Accounts or Health Savings Accounts to pay for devices such as blood glucose and EKG monitors or sleep trackers. In particular, critical access hospitals are 16% less likely than other hospitals to engage in information exchange.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

Clinical data exchange vendor MRO is now automating data exchange between providers for continuity of care purposes. Interoperability vendor Innovar Healthcare released an OSS Mirth Connect plugin that’s now available on AWS Marketplace. Senior virtual care vendor Connect America launched a fall prevention program.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

in January , according to the latest data from Syntellis. Partnerships Instacart is now integrated with Pack Health , the patient engagement program from Quest Diagnostics. Dandelion Health has partnered with The SCAN Foundation to incorporate SDoH data on older adults into its data sets training clinical AI models.

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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

JULY 9, 2023

News and Research The Connected Health Initiative released recommendations for state-level policymakers to strike a balance between protecting personal health information and supporting the use of digital health tools.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

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. News In a blog post, ONC highlighted trends in patient access to electronic health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Stephen Sofoul, SVP, Data & Decision Science Services at MultiPlan A critical challenge lies in the shortage of experienced financial analysts or data analysts capable of effectively analyzing the wealth of information that the healthcare industry holds.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Health Informatics (HI) is a relatively new, interdisciplinary field. HI (also called Health Information Systems) uses information technology to organize and analyze health records to improve healthcare outcomes. Tools include medical terminology, information and communication systems, and computer technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2023

This problem is only made worse by the silver tsunami of 10K baby boomers aging into Medicare coverage every day. Read more… What Healthcare Interoperability Topic Are Not Enough People Talking About? Briya, an end-to-end healthcare data exchange platform, raised $11.5

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

At its heart, Remote Patient Monitoring informs clinicians of a patient’s health status between face-to-face visits, which leads to timely intervention, improved engagement, and efficiency for both the provider and the patient. Data captured through RPM platforms can better inform clinicians and enrich the experience for all.

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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). Founded in 2015, Canvas is reimagining the EMR for the future of healthcare. About Canvas Medical.

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

Relevant clinical patient management data workflow was not a priority and remains a major pain point for clinicians today. the regulatory and billing data entry should be performed by someone else and relegated to an (almost) invisible part of the EHR. EHRs were designed as documentation centers for billing and regulatory purposes.

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Health Intersections

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

On Friday last week, an article by Wendy John was published by Wild Health , in which I’m quoted as saying, regarding the My Health Record and the Strengthening Medicare Taskforce report : FHIR guru Grahame Grieve has advocated for interoperability standards in healthcare for over two decades.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 16, 2019

Editor’s Note: Payers stay informed with information security trends to protect their patients’ data. Click HERE to learn how BHM’s investments into cyber-security protect your data. Click HERE to learn how BHM’s investments into cyber-security protect your data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

And, the proof points are where many companies stumble, as it can take years to develop this type of data in healthcare. As a result, these provider types sit outside of current interoperability and health information exchange efforts and have been slow to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) due to a lack of government incentive programs.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The following is a guest article by Venki Subramanian , SVP Product Management at Reltio When data is missing, inaccurate, incomplete, or misdirected, it can have severe, sometimes life-altering impacts. This data segmentation hampers the holistic understanding of patient health and impedes timely and coordinated care delivery.

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CMS.gov

JULY 18, 2018

CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CMS is committed to leveraging innovation to truly empower patients with their own data, decisions, and care. Patients should expect health IT that enhances their care coordination instead of disrupting it. Mohanraj.Balas….

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dave Cassel, Chief Customer Officer at Health Gorilla and Former Executive Director of Carequality Talking about privacy and security in health information exchange is tricky. And 75 percent reported that data privacy and security as their primary concern regarding TEFCA.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Their approach is focused on hardware - using its popular iPhone and Apple Watch to turn its devices into trusted, secure channels through which medical data can flow, to help consumers better track and manage their health. Clinical Trials In 2015, Apple introduced new software, called Apple ResearchKit, for health researchers.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

I hear patients discouraged and disgusted when they can’t get access to their own data even in 2023! The information would be covered in all forums, hard copy/paper, electronic, and spoken. Hearing about these pain points from stakeholders is why I’d “repackage HIPAA” if I were a regulator for a day.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The virtual trial, to be sure, is not a new concept: One team of researchers counted more than 1,100 trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov employing connected digital products for remote data collection in both 2017 and 2018, the organization observed. ” The report read.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH). Data can both call out SDoH and help to address its effects. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE).

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The Digital Health Corner

MARCH 26, 2018

1] [6] Each block typically contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, [6] a timestamp and transaction data. [7] 7] By design, a blockchain is inherently resistant to modification of the data. Herding a patient’s data from many sources into a single record has always been a lofty goal of digital health.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The EHR Association called for greater flexibility in the data completeness threshold and additional criteria to enhance patient matching accuracy, while MGMA called for a positive update to the Medicare conversion factor amid high inflation. East Tennessee Health Information Network chose 4medica to manage duplicate patient records.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

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. 29, 2022, President Biden signed the omnibus spending bill.

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HIStalk Interviews

OCTOBER 3, 2018

How do you see the company fitting into the interoperability landscape? I’m not sure I would even classify what we do as carte blanche interoperability. Interoperability is principally concerned with moving data from Point A to Point B. We have data silos and we need to unify those.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Meanwhile, KLAS noted that digital pathology, interoperability, and recovering from the pandemic have been driving health systems’ technology investment strategies. The company aggregated anonymous user data from 40,000 practitioners in 13,000 practices. Epic won top honors in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

MAY 28, 2019

The report is based on an evaluation of six Medicare ACOs. OIG conducted interviews with staff and providers at the six ACOs about how they use health IT and the challenges that remain. ACOs with a single EHR were able to avoid interoperability challenges and better coordinate care in real time. Three takeaways: 1.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Had PPS been required to have broader governance – including community-based organizations, health plans, faith-based organizations, Health Information Exchanges, and other nonprofits, we would have had more balanced governance decision-making that would have supported the policy goals of the program more consistently statewide.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 29, 2019

For platforms to succeed, market participants must share data and invest in collaborative initiatives to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce costs for the sector. The closest we have come to this ideal in healthcare is in health information exchanges (HIE), and even those have failed to gain traction due to a variety of issues.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 7, 2013

Stage 2 of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs. The next step on the path of meaningful adoption of health information technology (HIT) for providers—will launch later this year for hospitals and next year for eligible professionals. Achieves Electronic Data Reporting.

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