Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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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. When it was announced on March 4, 2013, CommonWell was still just a concept, but by December of 2013, a pilot program was in place to test its interoperability services at four provider sites across Illinois, North Carolina and South Carolina.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 29, 2019

In the past two weeks I have been in large audience discussions where there is a very different kind of topic being discussed around Health Information Technology. The topic is about a vision of how things could/should be at the point of care because of successful interoperability. It is not explicitly said that way.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Here's what execs from some leading health IT vendors think about the most pressing challenges – and big opportunities – of the year ahead. "A primary health IT focus for 2021 must be empowering clinicians with solutions that deliver relief today," said Laureau. Supply chain: Machine learning insights.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

Guillermo Diaz, Chief Medical Information Officer at Los Angeles Department of Health Services – Ambulatory Care Network , and Ali Modaressi, CEO at Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services (LANES) When Alex was brought into L.A. Prior to LANES, Modaressi was a health IT leader at L.A. Care Health Plan.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

DirectTrust is a non-profit healthcare industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of protected health information. Additionally, we’ll be able to continue our combined focus on interoperability initiatives to assist the healthcare ecosystem meet industry initiative timelines.”.

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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 News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

After more than 15 years of creating and pushing health IT innovations forward in the state, the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative has completed its final dissolution. It has also spearheaded interoperability, standards development and HIT policy initiatives. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2023

There has been a lot of activity and news coverage of Qualified Health Information Networks, or QHINs, recently. The Qualified Health Information Networks, or QHINs, are the actual networks that are Qualified to operate under the rules of TEFCA and move health information between exchange participants.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 27, 2015

There is much talk on the blogs about the USA government trepidation around Health Information Exchange interoperability. We will keep you up to date with WISHIN activities, news on health information exchange (HIE) and new product developments. per patient per year.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

Products Augmedix launched Augmedix Go , ambient AI medical documentation for the ED, and announced HCA Healthcare as a pilot user. Interoperability vendor Innovar Healthcare released an OSS Mirth Connect plugin that’s now available on AWS Marketplace.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Jim Jirjis, Chief Health Information Officer at HCA to discuss the value of data quality in healthcare and find out more about the link between their sepsis project and better emergency preparedness. This information was used to arrange for proper transportation during the evacuation.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Another likely forthcoming requirement that will exacerbate the existing challenges: in the coming years, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will implement the provision for convening providers to incorporate projected costs from co-providers on an estimate for a care episode.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Read more… What Healthcare Interoperability Topic Are Not Enough People Talking About? Since interoperability is a way of combining workflows in the interest of simplicity, there are so many topics and angles to discuss. The OntarioMD Digital Health Conference returned to in-person for the first time since COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2023

Colin Hung interviewed Charlie Harp at Clinical Architecture about how Qualified Health Information Networks will shine a light on data quality issues. Information will be moving more freely, to be sure – but the providers on the receiving end may not be able to make much use of the data they get.

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Digital Health Global

JULY 20, 2023

Chronic pain management provider utilizes digital health IT solutions across the organization for improved workflows WESTBOROUGH, Mass.–(BUSINESS Learn more about the eClinicalWorks suite of health IT solutions at www.eclinicalworks.com and more about the healow suite of patient engagement solutions at www.plus.healow.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2024

Complexity of Medical Data – Medical records contain intricate details, such as medical history, lab results, and medications, which require precise documentation. Something as simple as transposing a number incorrectly could have major implications.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2022

Epic’s Take on TEFCA and Interoperability. Epic has plans to join TEFCA as an inaugural Qualified Health Information Network. Read more… How Automation Can Streamline Patient Documentation. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.

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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. Interoperability vendor ELLKAY appointed Ajay Kapare as President and Chief Strategy Officer.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 1, 2023

Leveraging our AI-enabled platform with NLP and MDPortals’ sophisticated interoperability allows us to deliver providers a pre-encounter clinical summary of patients within their EHR workflow at the point of care,” said Jay Ackerman, CEO and President at Reveleer.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 25, 2023

The report also details critical information on how to successfully leverage HIN data when building digital healthcare tools and operating healthcare organizations or digital platforms. A sample of queryable data found that a plurality (about 45%) of health data available on HINs was generated within the past three years.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

John Blair, III, MD, CEO at MedAllies It’s been well-documented for years that the healthcare industry has an interoperability problem. The commercial efforts to date to push interoperability forward have made true advances. The following is a guest article by A.

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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, 2024

New data standards announced last December by the Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare Technology (ONC) are an extraordinarily significant expansion of regulations around health IT and could hijack product roadmaps for years to come.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

Interoperability: Health IT's hardest problem is (finally) at an inflection point. With FHIR 4, Open APIs, Carequality and CommonWell reaching a milestone of sorts and the finalized information blocking rule from Health and Human Services coming, the table is set for notable advancements in health information exchange.

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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 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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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

While the key components of privacy (administrative, uses and disclosures, individual rights, and general security) are all necessary today, I would put privacy, security, breach – and relevant 21 Century Cures Interoperability topics – all together and make sure everyone handling any type of sensitive information be subject to these rules.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2015

And often considered an important part of health IT initiatives and clinical care services. mHealth is term used to describe the use of wireless and mobile devices to generate, aggregate and disseminate health information. Interoperability. Interoperability is NOT the same thing as health information exchange.

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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. Vijay Verma, VP of Product Strategy at TeleVox A common shortcoming in healthcare communication systems is interoperability.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Patient portals and personal health records (PHRs) have both received considerable praise for their role in increasing patient engagement. However, distinguishing between the two forms of health IT tools can often be difficult, due to nebulous definitions and overlapping features.

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