Digital Health, FHIR and Medicare - Connected Health Pulse

Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Reps Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (MATCH IT) Act of 2024 , which would standardize the way demographic information is entered into certified health IT products and ensure more precise patient matches.

FHIR

FHIR Digital Health Telemedicine EHR

Vital Lines November 2023

Redox

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Top stories Health systems will increase 2024 IT budgets More than 85% of health systems are boosting next year’s spend on digital health and IT projects, with cybersecurity and EHR modernization topping the list. Build an HL7 ® FHIR ® data store for your health system, minus the missteps.

FHIR

FHIR Digital Health EHR Telehealth

Canvas Medical Achieves ONC Certification, Raises $24MM to Power Clinicians and Developers Building and Scaling Digital Health Companies

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Canvas provides a full-stack ambulatory EMR and digital health developer platform, enabling both established and startup healthcare providers to launch new patient experiences and business models faster. Canvas Medical, founded in 2015, provides the digital infrastructure for care delivery companies.

EMR

EMR Digital Health Primary Care RCM

InterSystems Helps Pria Improve Patient Outcomes and Streamline At-Home Care Delivery with Health Connect Cloud

Digital Health Global

APRIL 11, 2023

Health Connect Cloud streamlines data integration between clinical systems and applications, while managing the entire infrastructure and providing enhanced data automation and management capabilities to help providers and application developers rapidly leverage HL7 FHIR® and other healthcare standards to connect systems and solutions.

Nursing

Nursing Interoperability Medicare FHIR

Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

The most notable approval is USCDI v3, and others include two implementation guides from CMS for Quality Reporting Document Architecture and three HL7 standards (for C-CDA, FHIR, and QRDA). Health information network Availity was awarded Compliance Leader Verification by the Ethisphere Institute.

HIPAA

HIPAA Digital Health EHR Healthcare IT

Bonus Features – November 5, 2023 – Only 24% of healthcare organizations have successfully disrupted ransomware attacks, 83% of healthcare leaders say AI is or will be an essential skill, plus 20 more

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Research from Inovalon and Harvard Medical School found that Medicare Advantage has 70% fewer readmissions and 24% fewer preventable hospitalizations than fee-for-service Medicare. Partnerships EHR workflow automation tool Clinical Data Connector from Odesso Health is now available on the athenahealth and Appian marketplaces.

RCM

RCM Medicare EHR FHIR

3 Ways Consumers are Putting the Pressure on Health Plans

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

The following is a guest article by Mike Pattwell, Principal Business Advisor, Value Based Care at Edifecs Consumers are at the heart of healthcare — their fears are forcing healthcare innovators to shift priorities to deliver consumer-centric digital health offerings. This is true today, tomorrow, and far into the future.

Medicare

Medicare FHIR Healthcare Improvement EHR

Weekly Roundup – March 9, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2024

Don Rucker, now at 1upHealth, about why TEFCA isn’t ideal for real-time data access and how FHIR APIs will help do the job – and allow payers and even employers to access data, too. Dina raised $7 million in Series B funding ; the company supports network management for Medicare Advantage and Managed Medicaid.

Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT EHR FHIR Mental health

Modernising the MyHR?

Health Intersections

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

On Friday last week, an article by Wendy John was published by Wild Health , in which I’m quoted as saying, regarding the My Health Record and the Strengthening Medicare Taskforce report : FHIR guru Grahame Grieve has advocated for interoperability standards in healthcare for over two decades.

FHIR

FHIR Medicare Digital Health Health Information

Bonus Features – November 12, 2023 – 93% of clinicians use RPM in cardiac care rehab, telehealth flexibilities remain in place until the end of 2024, plus 25 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

News The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule continues many telehealth flexibilities first adopted during the public health emergency, such as an expanded scope of originating sites an expanded definition of qualified practitioners. of the Common Agreement and committed to having TEFCA support FHIR-based exchange within 2024.

Telehealth

Telehealth RCM Public Health EHR

Featured Health IT Job: Lead Data Architect – Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Here’s a description of the position: Lead Data Architect – Healthcare (Remote) About Our Company Vytalize Health is a leading value-based care platform for seniors that has raised over $70 million in financing from top healthcare investors.

Health IT

Health IT HIPAA Medicare EMR

Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019

Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

The barriers to adopting virtual, digital, telehealth modes have been regulatory, financial, and cultural — not so much technical.

Telehealth

Telehealth Telemedicine FHIR Medicare

Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce issue joint statement for healthcare interoperability

Lloyd Price

AUGUST 23, 2018

This requires a variety of technical strategies and ongoing collaboration for the industry to converge and embrace emerging standards for healthcare data interoperability, such as HL7 FHIR and the Argonaut Project. The 21st Century Cures Act will make digital health data even more accessible with the call for open APIs.

Interoperability

Interoperability FHIR EHR Health Data

2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Many want to target drug costs and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has mandated hospitals to post a list of their standard charges by diagnostic-related group, in an effort for consumers to have transparent cost options. How FHIR 4 will drive interoperability progress in healthcare. by Mike Miliard March 12, 2019.

Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT EHR Meaningful Use Interoperability

Healthfirst Affiliate SMC Partners Relaunches as Digital Health Company Hyphen

Digital Health Global

APRIL 24, 2023

Hyphen knows that data sharing is critical for reducing administrative burdens, closing care gaps, and providing the necessary support for traditionally underserved populations such as Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. “At At the center of Hyphen is a commitment to make healthcare easier for all who provide that care.

Digital Health

Digital Health Connected Care FHIR Accountable Care

Bonus Features – October 22, 2023 – 57% of patients accessed portals or medical records in 2022, 21 orgs make Level 10 in the 2023 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Survey, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 22, 2023

CHIME named 21 healthcare organizations to Level 10 in the 2023 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Survey , the most in the 24-hear history of the survey. Partnerships Inovalon and Amazon Web Services are collaborating to improve risk score accuracy for health plans.

Digital Health

Digital Health EHR FHIR Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Eden Avraham-Katz, VP of Legal & Compliance at 1upHealth While I appreciate the efforts to simplify the prior authorization process with FHIR APIs, the underlying issues with prior authorization are fundamentally systemic.

Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Interoperability HIPAA Nursing

Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

That said, integration with the electronic health record (EHR) is currently extremely challenging and costly. 44 FHIR allows external third-party apps to integrate into the EHR workflow. With this new ability to combine EHR and mobile health data, iOS mobile health apps may become more useful and effective. ” .

Mobile Health

Mobile Health mHealth EHR FHIR

Weekender 3/8/19

HIStalk Weekender

MARCH 8, 2019

FDA Commissioner and digital health advocate Scott Gottlieb, MD resigns. Newly formed Beth Israel Lahey Health says it will eventually consolidate its multiple EHRs into a single product. FHIR is not going to be a magic bullet either. Best Reader Comments. There is no long road to interoperability.

Medicare

Medicare Interoperability EHR FHIR

Connected Health Pulse

Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

Vital Lines November 2023

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Canvas Medical Achieves ONC Certification, Raises $24MM to Power Clinicians and Developers Building and Scaling Digital Health Companies

InterSystems Helps Pria Improve Patient Outcomes and Streamline At-Home Care Delivery with Health Connect Cloud

Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

Bonus Features – November 5, 2023 – Only 24% of healthcare organizations have successfully disrupted ransomware attacks, 83% of healthcare leaders say AI is or will be an essential skill, plus 20 more

3 Ways Consumers are Putting the Pressure on Health Plans

Weekly Roundup – March 9, 2024

Modernising the MyHR?

Bonus Features – November 12, 2023 – 93% of clinicians use RPM in cardiac care rehab, telehealth flexibilities remain in place until the end of 2024, plus 25 more stories

Featured Health IT Job: Lead Data Architect – Healthcare

Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019

Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce issue joint statement for healthcare interoperability

2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthfirst Affiliate SMC Partners Relaunches as Digital Health Company Hyphen

Bonus Features – October 22, 2023 – 57% of patients accessed portals or medical records in 2022, 21 orgs make Level 10 in the 2023 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Survey, and more

Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed

Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

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