Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. After that, you can listen on demand (See podcast information below.)

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 3, 2017

I propose that “The most technically advanced” document format be considered the Prime, with all of the other formats considered Transforms (XFRM) from that prime document. Thus if the Document Source can create a C-CDA 2.1; Yet if a Document Source only can create a C32 and PDF, then the C32 would be the prime.

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FHIR Health Information Interoperability EHR 40

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Like most of us, Andy Oram has a health insurance card in his wallet. Here’s what he learned about SMART Health, FHIR, registries, EHR integrations, and other technology that could support digital insurance cards in the not-too-distant future. Read more… Toward Wider Adoption of Digital Insurance Cards.

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Healthcare IT EHR FHIR Health Information 80

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

Supporting organizations include Epic, the HIMSS EHR Association and HCA Healthcare. The data breach impacted about 11 million patients and included demographic and contact information, though the provider said no clinical, financial, or otherwise sensitive information was breached.

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HIPAA Digital Health EHR Healthcare IT 85

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

State documents define rules for collecting, storing, processing, and transmitting medical information. In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). CDA supports document exchange among all structures involved in patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

HIMSS also released a new Community Care Outcomes Maturity Model (C-COMM) , which is designed to highlight the use of digital communication, population-level data, health information exchange, decision support, and predictive analytics to provide personalized care in non-acute settings.

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FHIR Primary Care Healthcare IT Interoperability 87

Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Interoperable Consent Standards My main focus is on enabling Health Information to flow given proper Security and Privacy. That is to say that a custodial organization obtains consent, manages consent, and enforces consent with no visibility to the exchange beyond the enforcement of releasing documents or not.

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Interoperability FHIR EHR Health Information 94

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2023

Today, we’re featuring the EHR Applications Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Harbor Health Services and is located in Massachusetts. We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers.

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EHR Health IT FHIR Health Information 82

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

With some 95 percent of healthcare providers having deployed EHRs, the healthcare system is officially digital. Interoperability: Health IT's hardest problem is (finally) at an inflection point. AI-powered clinical documentation boosts patient satisfaction and physician well-being. by May 10, 2019. The system is digitized.

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Nursing Leadership Patient Experience EHR 65

Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 12, 2018

So we in the Interoperability space MUST be succeeding with all the efforts to create Health Information Exchanges, and to enable Patient to access their data. A document entry has a unique ID. Duplicate Document UniqueID The Document UniqueID is an absolute proof of duplicate documents. Well, yes and no.

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FHIR Interoperability EHR Health Information 61

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But when dealing with all of the many things that providers do and the highly important health information about patients, something as simple as selecting a communication platform becomes a very tricky situation. How do you maintain the security and privacy of your patient’s health information as cyberattacks continue to climb?

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HIPAA Health Information Interoperability EHR 71

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Digital virtual assistants can then construct true dialogs that “learn” from the patient to zero in on intent and context so relevant, accurate information is provided. Many healthcare organizations use disparate EHRs and communication tools that may not seamlessly integrate, leading to data silos and communication gaps.

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EHR Interoperability Digital Health Patient Experience 99

Redox

MAY 10, 2018

HL7 was created in 1987 to provide a framework and standards for the exchange and retrieval of electronic health information. It’s worth noting that HL7 has also introduced FHIR® (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), a standard with a more modern communication structure that is currently in a trial use stage.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Paths to Interoperability A recent article exposes the woeful silo-ing of public health: Data often has to be faxed and re-entered into new systems manually. For missing demographic information, the state, through a partnership, contacted the labs and made sure they captured the desired data. to make a recommendation.

Health IT 101

Health IT Public Health Interoperability FHIR 101