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

Healthcare IT Today

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

Healthcare IT Today

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. . The expanded definition of EHI now includes virtually any health information tied to an individual that is used in decision making.

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Big ONC News: QHINs, TEFCA, and HTI-1

Healthcare IT Today

This is a big step forward for QHINs who can now start sharing health data. We’ll see how effective it is at solving the healthcare interoperability problem. Developers of certified health IT will also have the ability to move to USCDI v3 sooner.

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

Healthcare IT Today

How are health data utilities evolving? Lindsey Ferris, DrPH, Senior Interoperability and Public Health Director at PointClickCare – I think we’re at the very early stages. I think it’s a great model, trying to bring together different elements of data exchange and really serving a public good.

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So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare IT Today

But the administrative costs for providers to share this information keep escalating. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. The definition of quality here includes four specific pillars.

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Leslie Krigstein of CHIME on Health IT Challenges and Opportunities – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

These perspectives reinforce each other as she works to improve the regulatory landscape shaping security and interoperability in her role at CHIME overseeing congressional engagement efforts focused on effective use of health IT. Five years from now, Leslie expects that cybersecurity and interoperability will be much improved.

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Leslie Krigstein of CHIME on Health IT Challenges and Opportunities – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

These perspectives reinforce each other as she works to improve the regulatory landscape shaping security and interoperability in her role at CHIME overseeing congressional engagement efforts focused on effective use of health IT. Five years from now, Leslie expects that cybersecurity and interoperability will be much improved.