Definition EHR Interoperability Medicare 
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.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 23, 2023
News and Studies The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule from CMS would continue many of the public health emergency telehealth flexibilities, such as an expanded definition of telehealth practitioners, continued payments to rural health centers and FQHCs, and the expansion of originating sites.
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The Digital Health Corner
JUNE 14, 2017
Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015. EHRs were designed as documentation centers for billing and regulatory purposes.
Xealth
MARCH 30, 2023
Interoperability continues to improve. Louis, and her hometown hospital in Kansas City is on a different EHR. The shift to home-based care is happening and an estimated $265 billion of Medicare services could be delivered in the home by 2025! Timely reference: while at the conference, my friend’s mom broke her arm in St.
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 20, 2023
The siloed nature of such data repositories can be attributed to various factors, including using different EHR systems, varying data capture standards, and a historical lack of emphasis on system interoperability. The solution to these challenges lies in the adoption of interoperable data systems.
The Digital Health Corner
MARCH 26, 2018
A good definition of blockchain is: “A blockchain , [1] [2] [3] originally block chain , [4] [5] is a continuously growing list of records , called blocks, which are linked and secured using cryptography. [1] now that it has entered the digital world (albeit tepidly) via EHRs and IT support.
HIStalk Interviews
JULY 25, 2018
Then they brought up the nebulous interoperability, which they couldn’t describe it at all. Most of the research I’ve seen around interoperability is pretty garbage. Everybody defines it in their own way, and if they can define it their own way, then we don’t have a definition. But enough about the HITECH Act.
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