article thumbnail

Featured Health IT Job: Enterprise Architect

Healthcare IT Today

This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. About the Role NYeC is seeking an Enterprise Architect with an in-depth understanding of healthcare data exchange standards such as HL7 and FHIR, and the ability to use that understanding to design world class enterprise healthcare systems.

Health IT 116
article thumbnail

CommonWell Marks its 10th Anniversary as TEFCA Gets Underway

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director, CommonWell Health Alliance. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) is indeed an instance of transformational change. billion documents to date.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Redox unwraps interoperability in 2024

Redox

Here are some specific reflections: FHIR adoption: We missed the mark on our HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) growth prediction. It certainly is growing, but FHIR has not picked up the steam we had hoped for in 2023. We reflected on that in our recap of 2023 FHIR DevDays. Sadly, he was wrong.

article thumbnail

Bonus Features – August 20, 2023 – Healthcare orgs only use 57% of their data to drive decision-making, digital health is well represented on the Inc. 5000 list, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Only 45% of consumers are fully satisfied with their health insurance , according to a survey from HealthEdge, and 40% blame insurers for the high cost of care. That said, 66% trust their health plan more that the government or non-traditional entities such as Amazon or Walmart to their health insurance.

article thumbnail

Weekly Roundup – June 17, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

At HIMSS, John tuned into a TEFCA panel headlined by CommonWell, Epic, Health Gorilla, and MEDITECH. The main takeaway: Exchanging healthcare data is going to include multiple layers of policy and technology , not just TEFCA but also FHIR, HIEs, Direct Messages, APIs, and much more. Healthcare needs to treat data as a strategic asset.

article thumbnail

Weekly Roundup – March 4, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

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. Read more… Can a Modern Approach to Data Collection Save the CDC ?

eHealth 83
article thumbnail

Weekly Roundup – July 29, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

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.