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Just Get Connected Already

Healthcare IT Today

clinicians, as estimated by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance. The alliance was a bold gesture made ten years ago by leading EHR vendors to demonstrate their commitment to data sharing. Many other health IT firms have joined CommonWell since then.

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Policy Ingredients for Real-Time Improvements in Health Care, Prior Auth, and Claims

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Many of us look forward to digital interactions in health care that work as simply as a retail sale or airline reservation. Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth , shows us in this video how current regulations and FHIR standards will actually make that happen.

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TEFCA Real Talk

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HIMSS23 #HITsm #healthit @CommonWell pic.twitter.com/yLIq8NBs9m — Healthcare IT Today (@hcittoday) April 18, 2023 FHIR APIs are wonderful, but they’re not sufficient on their own. There’s no one solution that will solve the health data sharing problem. That is that sharing health data requires commitment and cooperation.

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So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

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Requests are then electronically communicated directly to the provider organization’s EHRs and other systems. Automated chart retrieval is performed at scale, leveraging modern HL7 FHIR APIs. With a master’s degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H.

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5 Digital Health Predictions for 2018 by Lloyd Price

Lloyd Price

App Orchard, for its part, lets developers use a FHIR-based API to access an Epic development sandbox. 2018 Digital Health Prediction 2: Voice technology will be the first step to personalising pharma. Google Voice, Siri, Cortana and Alexa will finally have connectivity to raw and comprehensive up-to-date data. link] [link]

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Larry Ellison’s Vision of a National EHR Database as Part of Cerner Acquisition

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Much has been written about Larry Ellison’s vision of what he called a “National EHR Database.” To be clear, I’m not sure if this was Ellison’s goal with a “National EHR Database” or not. To simplify the question, is Epic going to give Oracle Cerner access to all their health records?

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Healthcare CIOs Speeding Up Social Determinants Of Health Efforts

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New research has concluded that healthcare CIOs see analyzing social determinants of health data as a top priority going forward, along with tackling data interoperability and cybersecurity. Focus group leads asked the […].