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Featured Health IT Job: Senior Solutions Architect – HIE

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

Today, we’re featuring the Senior Solutions Architect – HIE position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. This position was posted by TransForm Shared Service Organization and is an international position in Canada – Ontario.

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Unified Data: The Key to HIE Success

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 21, 2021

Electronic Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are exploding globally and in the U.S., The following is a guest article by Todd Broadhurst, Solutions Director, Tamr. with 92% of the U.S. population now served by them. Private companies, states, and even large counties and cities are scrambling to launch their own HIEs. HIEs […].

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Going the Extra Mile to Support Patient Access Is a Win-Win for Patients and HIE Compliance

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 16, 2023

The following is a guest article by Deven McGraw , Co-Founder of Ciitizen® and Lead for Data Stewardship and Data Sharing at Invitae Corporation HIEs and HINs Should take Key Actions Now to Prepare for the Enforcement of the Information Blocking Rules On Sept.

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Big Focus on Small Data = Big Impact for HIEs Like Healthix

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are improving the quality of their data to further increase their value. Higher quality data means they can help healthcare organizations understand their region more clearly, allowing them to allocate their resources in the areas that need it.

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Steadfast Commitment to HIE Opens the Door for Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Such was the case at the first ever collaborative conference for health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, public health, and health equity. The four-day summit focused on the evolving role of HIE, new interoperability successes and the valuable implications of harnessing data to advance health equity.

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Healthcare Interoperability, Data, and Cloud – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC).

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Tools, Technology Already Exist for HIEs to Succeed

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

Infrastructure is available nationally for states to leverage and customize locally for their unique Health Information Exchange needs. But establishing an HIE and finding success can be a tremendous challenge for some states to establish in large measure because they require complex and expensive technical infrastructure.

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How Do You See Health Data Utilities Evolving? Where are We Today and Where is it Heading?

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Health data utility is still a fairly new concept in the world of healthcare. But as we talk about it, more and more HIE organizations have started to use it and the concept has been embraced by many. How are health data utilities evolving? I think it’s kind of HIE plus certain new characteristics.

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Too Many QHINs Could Hinder Progress Toward Nationwide Health IT Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This fall, The Sequoia Project began accepting applications for potential qualified health information networks (QHINs), the entities tasked with operationalizing the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) established by the 21st Century Cures Act. Suppose a patient reports alcoholism within the family.

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HIEs Must Shift From Health Data Sharing To Curating And Analyzing Data

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The thing is, the job they’ve learned to do – serving as an exchange point for any and all data coming their way – may already be outmoded, according to Claudia […]. After years of evolving and struggling to find a solid business model, HIEs have finally found a reasonably secure place in the healthcare system.

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This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Along the way, we almost inevitably uncover challenges surrounding the quality of the patient data transferred to the new and existing EHR. Or, the organization can leverage an outsourced clinical data team to augment the abstraction efforts of the internal clinical staff. Healthcare organizations have two options for this.

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Featured Health IT Job: Director/Sr Director of Finance

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2022

As the trusted data steward for secure health information exchange, Rochester RHIO is one of the most respected, trusted and successful health information exchanges in the United States. At Rochester RHIO, we love connecting with talented people who get excited about making a difference in patient care with health data.

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TEFCA, QHINs, HDUs, and Interoperability with Civitas CEO Lisa Bari

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Civitas Networks for Health is a non-profit consortium that brings together a broad community of organizations interested in health data exchange. Many members are HIEs, but a number of other organizations in health care including community organizations are members as well.

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What is Your Perspective on TEFCA and QHINs?

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Here’s a quick summary of what everyone had to say in the video: Deven McGraw, Head of Data Stewardship and Data Sharing at Invitae – It’s not a replacement for Community HIE but I think it’s an essential tool for making sure that there’s nationwide exchange.

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How HIEs are Improving Healthcare with Patient-Generated Data

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2020

The following is a guest article by Andrea Tait, VP of Client Value, Orion Health. Patient-Generated Data’s Place in Patient Care Today, health systems have increasingly recognized the need to be patient-centered, with a focus on empowering and engaging patients to assist them in maintaining their own health.

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Not All QHINs Will Be Created Equal

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For the health IT community, 2022 has been a big year. . 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). The Case for Federal Agencies.

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Discern Health Ties Interventions to Patient Improvements

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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What Healthcare Interoperability Topic Are Not Enough People Talking About?

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2023

What isn’t being talked about enough when it comes to sharing health data? Susan Clark, Principal Health IT Consultant at Briljent – Usability workflow – what happens in real life, on the ground, and the people who are interacting. The video below is a compilation of their answers.

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CyncHealth Optimizes Health Data Sharing to Enhance the Patient Experience

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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Bonus Features – October 16, 2022 – Half of docs considering leaving their job, there’s little risk in sharing de-identified data, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Researchers at MIT have found that de-identified patient data runs an extremely low risk of being re-identified in the event of a data breach. Study authors concluded that that the potential risk to patient privacy in sharing de-identified data is greatly outweighed by the gains for patients through medical research.

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Just Get Connected Already

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. clinicians, as estimated by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance. Many other health IT firms have joined CommonWell since then.

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Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2023

News and Studies Amid the push for interoperability, data gaps persist, according to the inaugural State of Interoperability report from Health Gorilla , a health information network. This is despite the fact that 65% of survey respondents saying they believe patients should own their data.

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Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. Current staffing levels are barriers to accessing care at a time when the industry is focusing important thought leadership on health equity. Without addressing the work of healthcare, these efforts are bound to sub-perform.

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EHI is Not What it Used to be, but Don’t Panic

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

On October 6, 2022, the healthcare and health IT community woke to a new reality – one in which electronic health information (EHI) included far more than it did the day before. . Actors include healthcare providers, developers of certified health IT, health information exchanges (HIEs), and health information networks (HINs).

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Why COVID-19 is a Breakout Moment for HIEs

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis has exposed a painful number of deficiencies in our nation’s healthcare system, including just how severe the lack of an interconnected health infrastructure has hampered response efforts. As the need for collaboration and access to quality data for tracking […].

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Bonus Features – January 29, 2023 – ONC says more than 70% of hospitals can use external data at the point of care, the 3 largest health info networks have indexed 90% of patients, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2023

News and Studies HLTH Foundation formed the Techquity for Health Coalition , with a mission to help organizations consider health equity in health technology innovation and data practices. The group also launched a health equity survey , with the results to be announced at ViVE in Nashville in March.

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#HIMSS24 Europe: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Lloyd Price

APRIL 13, 2024

Our lineup includes a deep dive into Europe’s current regulatory landscape, including the AI Act, the European Health Data Space and the European Recovery and Resilience Fund. We’ll also help you make sense of all today’s trends in health technology—from machine learning to digital maturity and telehealth.

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Changing Our Approach Together: How Health Data Can Advance Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The content of this article is taken from a panel Kno2 hosted as part of the recent Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference , in collaboration with DirectTrust™ within a track dedicated to the sharing of health data to advance health equity. He remarked that providers actually have a great appetite for data!

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Bridges and Tunnels: Future High Value Assets in Healthcare Technology

Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This is essential for providing telemedicine services, remote patient monitoring, and other healthcare services that rely on data sharing. Electronic health records (EHRs): EHRs allow healthcare providers to store and share patient medical records electronically. Email lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk Email lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk

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TEFCA Real Talk

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

As someone who has covered the health IT industry for 17 years, I’m always fascinated when I see something really grab the attention of the health IT community. There’s no one solution that will solve the health data sharing problem. Maybe we should call it meaningful data sharing? (Is

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CIOs tackle barriers to innovation, telehealth integration, analytics and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis put a laser focus on how apparent it is that data and advanced analytics can be powerful weapons in the fight against pandemics. And the CIOs in this tenth installment of our Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era feature series will explain these lessons and how they are going to apply them moving forward.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

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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Bonus Features – October 9, 2022 – Optum completes Change Healthcare acquisition, interest in flu shots is declining, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2022

According to 57% of survey respondents, the most important consideration when choosing a provider is how well they understand you as an individual, and not just though the patient data they have about you. Google Cloud launched its Medical Imaging Suite and announced Hackensack Meridian Health and Hologic as users. Partnerships.

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CIO Podcast – Episode 54: Patient Information Privacy with Natalie Pageler, MD

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2023

For the 54th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Natalie Pageler, MD, CMIO at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health to talk about patient information privacy! To kick things off, Pageler shares some of the unique challenges that exist with data privacy for children.

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10 Healthcare Organizations Ask HHS to Postpone Information Blocking Deadline

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

If you’re familiar with the 21st Century Cures Act, then you know that October 6th is a major deadline that requires healthcare providers, health IT developers, HIEs, HINs, and others to share all ePHI (electronic protected health information) in the DRS (Designated Record Set).

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Bonus Features – August 21, 2022 – DirectTrust sending 75 Million messages per month, HIMSS23 submission deadline is September 12, and more

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 21, 2022

Check out our full list of health IT conferences. HIE infrastructure provider CRISP Shared Services is the first partner for eHealth Exchange’s planned Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN). Duke Health chose Scanslated for patient-centered radiology reporting across three hospitals and 14 outpatient imaging centers.

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Bonus Features – August 28, 2022 – Epic data shows only 5% of OD patients get tested for fentanyl, 40% of clinicians plan to add AI to their day-to-day work, and more

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2022

ONC released a framework to improve integration of health IT tools used to treat drug overdose patients. Analytics and value-based payments platform vendor Clarify Health expanded its collaboration with Datavant , a healthcare data repository.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Defining and Sharing

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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Bonus Features – September 25, 2022 – More than 90% of patients prefer providers who offer telemedicine, Sequoia Project releases info blocking resources, and more

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Madaket Health has collaborated with Licentiam to add state medical licensing and credentialing services to its data management platform. PointClickCare is partnering with the Michigan Health Information Network to help post-acute providers and case managers exchange data with MiHIN.

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Bonus Features – August 21, 2022 – DirectTrust sending 75 Million messages per month, HIMSS23 submission deadline is Sep 12, and more

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 21, 2022

Check out our full list of health IT conferences. HIE infrastructure provider CRISP Shared Services is the first partner for eHealth Exchange’s planned Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN). Duke Health chose Scanslated for patient-centered radiology reporting across three hospitals and 14 outpatient imaging centers.

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Why Do I need to Partner for My Interoperability and Integration Capabilities?

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 24, 2023

” This is true whether you’re a provider organization, an HIE, a vendor, or pretty much anyone in healthcare. I already shared about the need to scale to hundreds of companies, but does your current tech stack have the ability to scale to the volume of data sharing that is coming? We cannot do this alone.

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Bonus Features – September 4, 2022 – CIOs struggling to retain talent and seek flexible staffing models, Sequioa Project set to begin receiving QHIN applications Oct. 3, and more,

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The 10th Annual Health IT Industry Outlook Survey from Stoltenberg Consulting found that the greatest IT challenge for CIOs is budgeting for and retaining qualified IT talent, with 65% of organizations saying this is their top operational burden. Brain health firm Linus Health named John Showalter, MD as Chief Product Officer.

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Interoperability is a Rural Health Disparity

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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Bonus Features – August 14, 2022 – Payers and providers look at Big Tech differently, half of physicians and nurses don’t think their orgs are headed in the right direction, and more

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 14, 2022

Voice-based mental health biomarker firm Ellipsis Health announced an integration with Ceras Health , which offers a clinical monitoring and health data analytics platform. The Iowa Hospital Association selected PayZen as the patient finance platform of choice for its network of 17 health systems and 117 hospitals.

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Featured Health IT Job: Senior Solutions Architect – HIE

Unified Data: The Key to HIE Success

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Going the Extra Mile to Support Patient Access Is a Win-Win for Patients and HIE Compliance

Big Focus on Small Data = Big Impact for HIEs Like Healthix

Steadfast Commitment to HIE Opens the Door for Health Equity

Healthcare Interoperability, Data, and Cloud – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Tools, Technology Already Exist for HIEs to Succeed

How Do You See Health Data Utilities Evolving? Where are We Today and Where is it Heading?

Too Many QHINs Could Hinder Progress Toward Nationwide Health IT Interoperability

HIEs Must Shift From Health Data Sharing To Curating And Analyzing Data

This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare

Featured Health IT Job: Director/Sr Director of Finance

TEFCA, QHINs, HDUs, and Interoperability with Civitas CEO Lisa Bari

What is Your Perspective on TEFCA and QHINs?

How HIEs are Improving Healthcare with Patient-Generated Data

Not All QHINs Will Be Created Equal

Discern Health Ties Interventions to Patient Improvements

What Healthcare Interoperability Topic Are Not Enough People Talking About?

CyncHealth Optimizes Health Data Sharing to Enhance the Patient Experience

Bonus Features – October 16, 2022 – Half of docs considering leaving their job, there’s little risk in sharing de-identified data, and more

Just Get Connected Already

Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don’t know where their healthcare data goes, and more

Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

EHI is Not What it Used to be, but Don’t Panic

Why COVID-19 is a Breakout Moment for HIEs

Bonus Features – January 29, 2023 – ONC says more than 70% of hospitals can use external data at the point of care, the 3 largest health info networks have indexed 90% of patients, and more

#HIMSS24 Europe: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Changing Our Approach Together: How Health Data Can Advance Health Equity

Bridges and Tunnels: Future High Value Assets in Healthcare Technology

TEFCA Real Talk

CIOs tackle barriers to innovation, telehealth integration, analytics and more

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Bonus Features – October 9, 2022 – Optum completes Change Healthcare acquisition, interest in flu shots is declining, and more

CIO Podcast – Episode 54: Patient Information Privacy with Natalie Pageler, MD

10 Healthcare Organizations Ask HHS to Postpone Information Blocking Deadline

Bonus Features – August 21, 2022 – DirectTrust sending 75 Million messages per month, HIMSS23 submission deadline is September 12, and more

Bonus Features – August 28, 2022 – Epic data shows only 5% of OD patients get tested for fentanyl, 40% of clinicians plan to add AI to their day-to-day work, and more

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Defining and Sharing

Bonus Features – September 25, 2022 – More than 90% of patients prefer providers who offer telemedicine, Sequoia Project releases info blocking resources, and more

Bonus Features – August 21, 2022 – DirectTrust sending 75 Million messages per month, HIMSS23 submission deadline is Sep 12, and more

Why Do I need to Partner for My Interoperability and Integration Capabilities?

Bonus Features – September 4, 2022 – CIOs struggling to retain talent and seek flexible staffing models, Sequioa Project set to begin receiving QHIN applications Oct. 3, and more,

Interoperability is a Rural Health Disparity

Bonus Features – August 14, 2022 – Payers and providers look at Big Tech differently, half of physicians and nurses don’t think their orgs are headed in the right direction, and more

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