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Navigating the Interoperability Maze: 3 Key Challenges for Healthcare Providers and Payers

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Anthony Murray, Chief Interoperability Officer at MRO In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the quest for interoperability has become paramount. While the vision of seamless data exchange promises improved patient care and streamlined operations, the journey is not without its hurdles.

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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

Using APIs can help drive interoperability and make data “liquid” and useable. APIs can enable “Data liberación,” a concept proposed by Todd Park when he worked in the Obama administration. One-half of the APIs allowed Alissa to access pathology, x-rays, and clinical results of patients.

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Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

E-CareManagement

Some have called on policymakers to extend HIPAA to cover mHealth apps and other online platforms. In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? ” — Deven McGraw and I argue that extending HIPAA is not a viable solution. Read the full article in The Health Care Blog.

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

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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VA still facing interoperability, scaling challenges amidst COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

And caring for those patients, and stewarding their data, requires major infrastructure. One such issue is interoperability. But data silos present a hurdle, as does the capability to scale products across an enterprise. "We all have been talking about interoperability, and that will have a profound impact."

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Why You Shouldn’t Aim for EHR Interoperability With Telemedicine Software

AMD Telemedicine

For many, the most obvious solution has been to rely on a third-party vendor to provide telehealth services and then work to make that service interoperable with existing electronic health records (EHR). Research has shown that telemedicine interoperability often results in a fragmented, redundant, and costly mess.

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Changes to HIPAA, New Data Interoperability Rules, and the Impact of COVID-19 on ROI

Healthcare IT Today

As mentioned previously, we’re taking part on the Virtual AHIMA conference this week. Exploring how things work in the virtual world, we tried something new today and did a text based chat interview with Rita Bowen, VP of Privacy, Compliance and HIM Policy from MRO. In this wide ranging text interview, we talked with Rita […].

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