Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Many smart, dedicated people have relentlessly pursued nationwide healthcare interoperability, and the arrival of TEFCA represents both a major milestone and a significant opportunity for the industry to pause and carefully consider our next steps based on past attempts and current endeavors. And time, money, and talent will all be wasted. .

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AMD Telemedicine

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

For many, the most obvious solution has been to rely on a third-party vendor to provide telehealth services and then work to make that service interoperable with existing electronic health records (EHR). Research has shown that telemedicine interoperability often results in a fragmented, redundant, and costly mess. View our Solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

This week’s chat will be hosted by Richard Bagdona (@richardbagdonas) on the topic “Interoperability with COVID“. Many health tech workers at facilities providing COVID vaccinations are being asked to create HL7 documents with vaccination […].

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Healthcare groups are largely supportive of a federal draft strategy to reduce clinician burden revolving around entering information into EHRs, but are calling for ONC and CMS to focus on usability, improved interoperability and better alignment of workflow and documentation requirements.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 16, 2018

The "historic changes" announced late yesterday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, promising big adjustments to its policies around the Physician Fee Schedule and the Quality Payment Program, already have the healthcare industry talking.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 16, 2018

The "historic changes" announced late yesterday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, promising big adjustments to its policies around the Physician Fee Schedule and the Quality Payment Program, already have the healthcare industry talking.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

In a fast-paced exchanged with John Lynn of Healthcare IT Today, Rucker covers regulations and evolving data exchange standards that foster interoperability and data analytics. “The real point of interoperability is continuous, real-time computing,” according to Rucker.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2021

There is a lot of valuable information lying dormant in paper and electronic documents in healthcare. Although EHRs have almost eliminated the use of paper charts, the same cannot be said for faxes. Fax continues to be a common method for sharing health information between providers.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

The IHE IT-Infrastructure committee continues to produce new and improved specifications for HIE interoperability. The first is the ability to exchange a list of health data locations, which enables Record Locator Services to interoperate with consumers wishing to discover the location of patient records within a health information exchange.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Given that clinicians have different styles, it’s hardly surprising that they document care in different ways. Unfortunately, however, these idiosyncrasies are one of the obstacles that stand in the way of better interoperability, according to an article by Corepoint Health.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

CAQH CORE and Health Level Seven International (HL7) announce a collaboration to address long-standing healthcare industry challenges by accelerating automation and improving interoperability between administrative and clinical systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A Process in Urgent Need of an Upgrade Clearly, prior authorization is crying out for standardization and interoperability. The federal government has been haranguing vendors and clinicians to make interoperable systems since the HITECH act was passed in 2009. A CMS fact sheet offers more details on CMS’s thinking and plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2022

The Sequoia Project has released additional documentation support the implementation of TEFCA , the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement for health IT interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2023

Nationwide Interoperability: It’s been a concept, a term bandied about for a while in various forms, but for those of us who have worked in health IT for more than a few years, we know that it has taken a long time for transformational change to be felt by the providers and the individuals they serve. billion documents to date.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 10, 2017

How does one put a FHIR Document into XDS? How does one find a FHIR Document in XDS? XDS, more broadly the whole Document Sharing family, including XDS , XCA , XDR , XDM , and MHD. Initially Document Sharing was about 'historic' documents. Thus the Document is "Shared". FHIR has a Document model.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2020

From that analog origin to enterprise-scale cloud fax, we have seen the evolution of fax from simple point to point document exchange to something extremely powerful and capable. The origin of the modern fax machine dates back to the 1960’s. Some pundits see fax […].

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 29, 2019

The topic is about a vision of how things could/should be at the point of care because of successful interoperability. Historically discussions in Health IT have been around very basic interoperability fundamentals. These existing Health IT Interoperability are supported by basic security and privacy models.

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InTouch Health

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has become an integral part of hospital system operations in recent years, making interoperability a must-have for HIT innovations. This year, InTouch Health sought to fill the industry’s technology gap for interoperable telehealth solutions by creating Solo. By Joe DeVivo.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The following is a guest article by Jim Cropper, Director of Sales at Brother International Healthcare technology development and modern security needs are continually evolving, calling for a shift toward digitization and interoperability to facilitate easier access to information, and more efficient and effective healthcare delivery.

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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 Exchange Standards

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Initially I would focus on Document sized objects, Later moving to more element level. Likely move to publishing Documents before element level access For targeted Apps, that is the most highly vetted and trusted, they will be Reading and Writing at the Organization level. Why Documents? Especially if the data is historic.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Based on Twilio’s Programmable Video API, the service will give healthcare professionals the ability to launch video visits with patients and to update clinical documentation and review patient histories within Epic EHR workflows. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Redox

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Original prediction: We won’t see accelerated adoption of interoperability standards (e.g., HL7 ® , HL7 ® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources or FHIR ® ). Increasingly, machines are much less discriminating between a finely structured FHIR document and a poorly scanned PDF—and the latter may be richer than the former.

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Continue Education Journal

DECEMBER 30, 2021

BIR can include the costs of a provider verifying that a patient is eligible for services, prior authorization procedures on both provider and payer side, submitting bills and appropriate documentation, addressing denied claims, and remitting payment. of BIR is unnecessary. We will go through them in detail below.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2024

Because many people don’t proclaim themselves as medical tourists on travel documents, reliable statistics on the prevalence of medical travel are scarce. This lack of code interoperability creates paperwork challenges for American hospitals seeking payment from other nations. But the U.S.

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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

MAY 18, 2023

"These are good steps; however, we believe the secret to accountability is improving the level of patient-provider engagement and keeping those practicing addiction medicine compliant with all required documentation. All of these components are critical for quality-of-care and for documentation if an audit is performed.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The best document management systems drive improvements by not only storing digital healthcare data, but by also ensuring data is easily accessible enterprise-wide. Learn more about preparing your organization for enterprise content management and the adoption of a document management and imaging (DMI) platform.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has put together further detailed guidance for how healthcare providers should be documenting and reporting electronic clinical quality measures for telehealth encounters.

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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. Elimination of HIE-related fees is just one piece of the puzzle for interoperability. WISHIN's vendor-agnostic, one-to-many architecture advances true interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

It means carefully mapping the data that is collected in its warehouses so that it is accurate, normalized, and semantically interoperable (the ability for computer systems to exchange data with unambiguous meaning). With 185 hospitals, it takes effort for HCA to maintain good quality health data across their entire organization.

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