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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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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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 19, 2022

Joint technology solution will deliver an integrated data interoperability platform that streamlines data acquisition and delivers clean, actionable, and intelligent data. Fueled by Diameter’s technology, Availity will create the nation’s preeminent data acquisition and interoperability platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

TEFCA aims to create one unified technical framework to exchange data across the country between healthcare providers, health plans, public health agencies, and individuals. . For example, the specifications might codify the name of a data element, but the data a provider captures within that element can vary.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

When I first heard that Civitas and DirectTrust were collaborating to hold the Civitas Networks for Health Annual Conference and the DirectTrust Summit together, I thought that this is likely going to be one of the greatest gathering of healthcare interoperability professionals that has happened. Will you be at the conference?

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David Chou

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The healthcare industry is rapidly transforming with the adoption of healthcare IT and digital healthcare solutions. The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) further bolstered this transition to a modern healthcare system.

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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). View the video with Discern Health for details about interoperability, making data work for patient improvement, and more.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At the Civitas Conference, there was a lot of talk about TEFCA and QHINs and what their impact will be on healthcare and interoperability. What do they mean for healthcare organizations and how will they be participating in them? Are they replacing current interoperability efforts? When will they be implemented?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

Health information exchanges (HIEs) are well-situated to help healthcare organizations achieve three core goals of value-based care: providing better care for individuals, reducing healthcare costs, and improving population health management strategies. Resources for All States. Agile Technology Tools.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

If you’re running an HIE, you’re always hoping to see your participants step up their interoperability game. The thing is, few HIEs go the extra mile to make it happen, in many cases because they just don’t have the resources to tackle the problem.

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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 News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

– and the wherewithal of the information systems and digital data that keep them running – been put to the test quite like it was in 2020. Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data.

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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. Tell us what you think. Contact us here or on Twitter at @hcitoday.

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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. Transferring HISP responsibilities can help to reduce administrative burden and increase the capacity to deliver better quality healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

A new health data interoperability survey by Healthcare IT Today with 82 responses suggests that when it comes to interoperability, healthcare organizations are struggling with many of the same challenges they faced five or even 10 years ago. Their objectives for doing so […].

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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

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

AUGUST 23, 2022

This week I’m attending the The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit, which I previously described as The Woodstock of Healthcare Interoperability. Their discussion was prompted by this paper that was published on “Health Data Federalism.”

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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 IT Today

JANUARY 24, 2023

.” This is true whether you’re a provider organization, an HIE, a vendor, or pretty much anyone in healthcare. One area where we have seen this front and center is when it comes to how healthcare organizations approach interoperability and integration. We cannot do this alone. We need to work with partners.

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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

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

AUGUST 20, 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

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For federal agencies and state and regional exchanges, this is an excellent time to demonstrate leadership in interoperability by joining a network that will likely provide a ready on-ramp to TEFCA. Currently, perhaps 99% of health data exchange is initiated to support treatment. The Case for Federal Agencies.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 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

JANUARY 29, 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

JANUARY 22, 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

JUNE 1, 2023

Leveraging our AI-enabled platform with NLP and MDPortals’ sophisticated interoperability allows us to deliver providers a pre-encounter clinical summary of patients within their EHR workflow at the point of care,” said Jay Ackerman, CEO and President at Reveleer.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The response to my article asking the question “Are we at the end of the healthcare interoperability tunnel?” I think some people thought that I was hammering on all the work that’s being done on healthcare interoperability. ” was quite interesting.

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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 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 6, 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 News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2023

"By connecting to NC HealthConnex, data from a provider's electronic health records can be leveraged to support chronic disease intervention and be used as a valuable tool for the public good," said Burris in a statement.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

It was Healthcare IT Today’s first time attending the ONC Annual Meeting despite multiple years of FOMO for not attending. In the world of interoperability, the announcement of the QHINs and that they’re already starting to share records is a big deal.

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