Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The release of FHIR in the mid-2010 decade changed everything. The workflow is illustrated in a diagram in an article on the FHIR web site. The standardization of documentation for prior authorization also enables physicians to submit requests within their familiar electronic medical record systems, reducing the burden on providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with health information exchange architecture. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Any communication received from a Vytalize Health recruiter during your screening, interviewing, or selection process will come from an email ending in @vytalizehealth.com Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with data architecture.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

They have advanced the current TEFCA implementation which is based on the 1990’s IHE document exchange protocols with a brokerage model (QHIN) overlay. Today TEFCA only supports document exchange and frankly largely within legacy EHR vendors who have familiarity with the IHE protocols.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2023

The following is a guest article by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director, CommonWell Health Alliance. billion documents to date. Today, we facilitate the exchange of 30-40 million documents each week across the nation. It has also required that resilient individuals and organizations stay focused.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

Large health systems have invested the time and cost to make their systems more interoperable. So too have Health IT vendors. However, rather than jump from fax all the way to electronic data exchange through FHIR or APIs, Turicchi suggests that we should leverage the inherent network effect that fax still enjoys. “We

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 16, 2020

In the space of things that are special in Health IT. Security Best Current Practice This document describes best current security practice for OAuth 2.0. I am a standards geek, and as such I am a strong advocate for standards developed and maintained by experts in their field. Cross-Site Scripting XSS. Insecure Deserialization.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2022

DirectTrust is adopting a FHIR-based approach to making updates to its provider directory , which contains more than 1 million addresses. Timothy Miller of Plus Technologies recommended secure email as a way to share important documents with patients – and direct them back to the portal.

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Redox

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Healthcare software vendors prioritize projects that use HL7 ® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR ® ) over those built on other standards for many reasons. Because FHIR resources have a defined structure, they can be accessed, manipulated, and exchanged in ways that other standards aren’t today.

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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

MARCH 4, 2023

While many tools exist to automate clinical documentation, they require human intervention and that can cause delays. Andy Oram discussed how adopting FHIR should be a no-brainer for better public health data collection and sharing – and how that must be followed up with standards for what data should be collected and shared.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

AVIA added RUSH, MUSC Health, and United Regional Health Care System to its network. Health Plan Alliance selected 1upHealth as its preferred health data interoperability vendor. Products Consensus Cloud Solutions launched Clarity Clinical Documentation , which routes unstructured data into patient records.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

John Lynn spoke to Mo Weitnauer at MRO about using FHIR-based APIs to automatically fulfill the vast majority of requests in minutes or seconds – not weeks. Read more… Public Health Transparency Improves Outcomes in San Bernardino County. Read more… Data Lineage Tools Help Unpack Complex Data Dependencies.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2023

Personalized care company Surgo Health launched as a Public Benefit Corporation. Cardiac remote monitoring company Implicity released a SMART on FHIR App that reports directly to Epic. Clinical data network OM1 expanded its mental health offering to include schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

You can also visit our HIMSS23 page to see all our coverage of health IT’s biggest event. 3M Health Information Systems is collaborating with AWS to incorporate generative AI into M*Modal clinical documentation. AWS selected Infor as an Amazon HealthLake Partner with its Infor FHIR Onramp on AWS.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 29, 2019

Historically discussions in Health IT have been around very basic interoperability fundamentals. These things have been greatly supported by current Health Information Exchange (IHE Document Sharing using XDS/XCPD/XCA). These things are accelerated by FHIR and US-Core. It is not explicitly said that way.

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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. Organizations that have a trust relationship can exchange data on a bulk basis (e.g.

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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. Organizations that have a trust relationship can exchange data on a bulk basis (e.g.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2022

These disruptions range from delays in receiving documentation (such as prior authorization) to receiving conflicting information from different sources to being stuck between the provider and another entity (such as a payer or pharmacy) trying to resolve a dispute.

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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. Organizations that have a trust relationship can exchange data on a bulk basis (e.g.

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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. Organizations that have a trust relationship can exchange data on a bulk basis (e.g.

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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. Organizations that have a trust relationship can exchange data on a bulk basis (e.g.

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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. Organizations that have a trust relationship can exchange data on a bulk basis (e.g.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

In 2023, ModMed we will be focusing on the following deliverables for our customers: Interoperability/FHIR and better communication between systems and healthcare participants. Check out all of our 2023 Health IT Predictions. ModMed – Dr. Michael Rivers, Sr. Medical Director of Ophthalmology.

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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). ONC has approved six standards as part of its annual annual Standards Version Advancement Process.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Specifically, certified health IT developers have a Dec. 31 deadline for meeting requirements for FHIR-based API standardization. ModMed received a patent for its adaptive logic software , which is used to automat documentation. Ascension is using Qualtrics for gathering patient experience feedback.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2023

As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with analyzing EHR applications! If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

For the month of April, we'll look at this trend from a variety of angles, including how hospitals, pharma organizations and payers can treat patients as customers, and how these healthcare consumers are cutting out traditional intermediaries through new D2C health and wellness businesses. Health IT implementation best practices.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

In part two, Andy explored why interventions, goals, and metrics for wellness programs depend a lot on who’s paying for the service – whether it’s employers, providers, commercial health plans, or government health plans. Read more… Reimagining Health IT on the Cusp of ONC’s Final HTI-1 Rule.

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HIStalk Interviews

MAY 8, 2019

Those are all things that are measurable and that health IT could take an active role in bringing forth. That creates accountability for hospitals — perhaps even a collection of hospitals if they serve the same geography — to take ownership of the health of the individuals within those communities.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Progress is being made on that last point as the 21st Century Cures Act aims to address some of these issues by establishing FHIR as the standard format for data sharing, but there is still work to be done to enhance communication both within and across healthcare organizations.

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HIStalk Interviews

JULY 23, 2018

We knew that the next generation of digital health solutions would require data liquidity. We thought we had an innovative way of providing advanced data exchange between health IT applications. Our team is a collection of experienced health IT personnel who know how to create safe application.

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Health Intersections

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

This would allow for the implementation of the National Digital Health Strategy, and stimulate innovation to improve health, and leverage international standards and programs. I am the Product Director and Community Lead for the FHIR standard , which is published through HL7 , the leading international healthcare standards provider.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Moving beyond health system-wide or regional interoperability has been a challenge due to several financial and operational hurdles. However, there have been some promising indicators that FHIR-enabled care coordination could be changing the game.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health. 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. This article summarizes their responses.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

APIs, Internet of (Healthy) Things, and AR/VR among the others are getting deployed in retail channels and at home to support peoples’ health in the real world, in real time outside of the clinical setting. For health care, the application of FHIR standards helps mobilize data for better health, turbocharging this trend.

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