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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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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.

HIE

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How Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

General were not participating in data sharing. As data sharing initiatives gain momentum, including TEFCA nationally and the Data Exchange Framework in California, it’s an important reminder that data sharing advancement is more than a policy or technological discussion.

Health Data

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Verato Forges Strategic Partnership with CLEAR to Accelerate the Adoption of Digital Identity in Healthcare

Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 10, 2023

By joining forces, Verato’s proven, purpose-built-for-healthcare hMDM approach to enterprise identity data management and CLEAR’s consumer-facing identity verification technology will provide healthcare organizations and consumers with a trusted identity at every touchpoint across the patient journey.

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How HIEs are Improving Healthcare with Patient-Generated Data

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2020

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. Through the right approach in using patient […].

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Featured Health IT Job: Data Scientist

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Today, we’re featuring the Data Scientist 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. Other duties as assigned.

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Discern Health Ties Interventions to Patient Improvements

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

Patients as well as clinicians demand explainability (also known as transparency and accountability). Ben Hsieh, Vice President of Product, says that Discern Health works with payers, providers, and Health Information Exchanges (HIE). Their service concentrates currently on care management for value-based care.

HIE

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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.

Digital Health

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Patient Centered HIE

Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 6, 2018

BUT rather that this is because of a lack of considering how the would or could Patient Experience the impact available because of the Health Information Exchange. The architecture supports the following Patient Centered use-cases. Lets think about the Patient -- User Experience. Who requested the access?

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Full coverage: HIMSS23 APAC Health Conference

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care Full coverage: HIMSS22 APAC Health Conference News 5 sessions to look out for at HIMSS23 APAC Healthcare IT News’ APAC Managing Editor weighs in on the sessions he's looking forward. Get all the coverage from this event on this page.

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Bonus Features – June 18, 2023 – 68% of health systems lack the staff to handle another health crisis, 46% of Americans are using consumer health tech, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2023

A staggering 94% of executives said the nurse shortage at their organization is critical, in part because 53% of nurses have less than five years of experience. Nearly half (46%) of Americans are using consumer health tech such as smartwatches and medical-grade health monitors, according to survey data from AnalyticsIQ.

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A Wide Range Of Problems Still Holding Back Health Data Interoperability

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. Without a doubt, respondents are still interested in fostering health data sharing.

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

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

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). That said, the industry as a whole needs to find new ways to share data where the economics and the values are balanced.

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Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023. With healthcare professionals working longer hours and dealing with increased workloads, patient experience has fallen to the wayside. Chris Baird, Chief Marketing Officer at Weave.

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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. Clinicians can spend more time on each patient chart before, during, or after the clinic visit. It’s like a fire hose sprayed data into the chart without any clear direction or control.

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HIStalk Interviews Gabriel Orthous, CIO, Central Georgia Health Network

HIStalk Interviews

JUNE 12, 2019

There are different views of the world of how you look at your data, how you look at analytics. One is the clinical focus, the EMR perspective of workflow and patient-centered focused around clinical things that have to occur. Just send me all the data. If you have the money to create your own, that’s great. Absolutely.

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Northwell Health’s Patients engage with AI ChatBot for guidance & support through their care journey

Consumer eHealth Engagement

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Since this patient engagement solution is seamlessly integrated into Northwell’s work flow (e.g. care management tool/HIE), Pamela receives these personalized chats from her specific Nurse Navigator at Northwell and the chat content is tailored for her specific care journey. Expanding Conversational Chat at Northwell Health.

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Bonus Features – December 10, 2023 – 84% of physicians still use manual processes to manage care transitions, 70% of executives prefer managed services for RCM, plus 26 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Partnerships Qualtrics and Epic are partnering to integrate patient experience data into the EHR. Kentucky-based UofL Health is deploying Verato for healthcare master data management. Florida-based Complete Health selected Relatient for patient-facing self-scheduling tools and chat functionality.

RCM

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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 use claims data to track use of emergency rooms, medical equipment, and generic versus brand medications.

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What’s on Micky Tripathi’s Wish List? Highlights from #DirectTrustSummit Day 1

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2021

Micky Tripathi, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the US Department of Health and Human Services shared his interoperability wish list during his opening keynote at the 2021 Direct Trust Summit. Topping his list was richer information exchange to support advanced payment models.

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Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

An ONC blog post described how the tool works: Developers answer questions about the type of health data the app will collect, the intended use of the app, and the type of entity developing the app to determine whether the app is subject to HIPAA, the information blocking rule, or other federal laws.

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DirectTrust Passes 2 Billion Messages – Healthcare Interoperability in Action

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

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

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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

HIE infrastructure provider CRISP Shared Services is the first partner for eHealth Exchange’s planned Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN). Connectivity service provider MedAllies selected the Lyniate Enterprise Master Patient Index by NextGate for identity data management. Clinical data platform MRO made the Inc.

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Are We At the End of the Healthcare Interoperability Tunnel?

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 25, 2021

In a recent message I got from EHNAC, they had this great image at the start of their email: Then, they had this line below it which really caught my attention: Interoperability has been an important topic in healthcare for over a decade. Are we there yet? Are we closer than we were? Absolutely. No […].

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Weekly Roundup – August 19, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2023

Eli Ben-Joseph at Regard talked to John about the benefits of analyzing EHR data to find old data relevant to new treatment , along with the importance of making this functionality available with a single click. They also touched on some lesser-known parts of the patient experience that organizations may want to address.

RCM

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How to TEFCA with Redox

Redox

MARCH 7, 2024

Over time, it will undoubtedly make data more accessible and more useful in improving care coordination and patient experiences. For the foreseeable future, we see participation in TEFCA as just one of the many ways Redox customers can exchange data with other healthcare organizations and source systems.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Defining and Sharing

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This article delves deeper into various aspects of data handling, and who is working in these fields. A roundtable cohosted by Department of Health and Human services issued a report in December 2019 listing about two dozen data elements (pages 43-44), such as eligibility for social programs, air quality, and exposure to violence.

Health Information

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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

HIE infrastructure provider CRISP Shared Services is the first partner for eHealth Exchange’s planned Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN). Connectivity service provider MedAllies selected the Lyniate Enterprise Master Patient Index by NextGate for identity data management. Clinical data platform MRO made the Inc.

eHealth

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2023 may bring progress in SDOH tech, telehealth and interoperability

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 5, 2022

These data will be used to better understand how programs and policies affect health inequities and health disparities, which will provide the nation with the data we need to better understand how we can meaningfully impact health equity. Q: You suggest interoperability will play a big role in healthcare innovation in 2023.

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Discern Health Ties Interventions to Patient Improvements

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

Patient Centered HIE

Full coverage: HIMSS23 APAC Health Conference

Bonus Features – June 18, 2023 – 68% of health systems lack the staff to handle another health crisis, 46% of Americans are using consumer health tech, and more

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This Mission is Possible: Achieving Better Data in Healthcare

HIStalk Interviews Gabriel Orthous, CIO, Central Georgia Health Network

Northwell Health’s Patients engage with AI ChatBot for guidance & support through their care journey

Bonus Features – December 10, 2023 – 84% of physicians still use manual processes to manage care transitions, 70% of executives prefer managed services for RCM, plus 26 more stories

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

What’s on Micky Tripathi’s Wish List? Highlights from #DirectTrustSummit Day 1

Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

DirectTrust Passes 2 Billion Messages – Healthcare Interoperability in Action

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Weekly Roundup – August 19, 2023

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Defining and Sharing

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

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