Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Interoperability is essential in healthcare because it allows providers to access and use relevant patient information from different sources, such as electronic health records (EHRs), lab results, psychological testing, and radiology images. CMS Calls for FHIR Adoption to Enhance Interoperability in Healthcare IT.

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Redox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. But the industry isn’t there yet and significant gaps remain. Automated chart retrieval is performed at scale, leveraging modern HL7 FHIR APIs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

Payers Will Start to Feel the Pain of Ad Hoc Implementation of FHIR Servers Many payers, forced to comply with federal requirements of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) server implementation, had little time to strategize data feeds and server utilization.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Storage of Information in Various Systems While serving diverse medical institution needs, Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) parallel existence complicates information access and exchange between doctors, patients, and different medical centers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Inflation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and healthcare staffing shortages have reshaped the industry landscape. Consumers are accustomed to sharing personal data, such as an address and birth date, in exchange for instant availability of information, grocery and meal delivery, and even meeting like-minded people or dating.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

HIMSS also released a new Community Care Outcomes Maturity Model (C-COMM) , which is designed to highlight the use of digital communication, population-level data, health information exchange, decision support, and predictive analytics to provide personalized care in non-acute settings.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Where is the iPhone listed on Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs?”

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 5, 2023

As part of my advisory position on SHIFT Shift (formerly Protecting Privacy to Promote Interoperability PP2PI) was founded in 2018 and formalized in 2020 with a mission to advance safe, equitable, and patient-empowered sharing of health information. Why do I express this?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Canvas provides a full-stack ambulatory EMR and digital health developer platform, enabling both established and startup healthcare providers to launch new patient experiences and business models faster. Canvas Medical, founded in 2015, provides the digital infrastructure for care delivery companies.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 23, 2018

FHIR is a standards framework featuring a RESTful API designed to enable the exchange of health care information between applications and systems. The Argonaut Project is an initiative dedicated to accelerating the development and adoption of HL7's Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

As we all know, the federal ban on spending related to development of a unique patient identifier hindered development of solutions in this arena (though certainly some have made progress), but with the ban lifted Leslie sees an opportunity for health care providers and other industry players across the spectrum to engage on the issue.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

As we all know, the federal ban on spending related to development of a unique patient identifier hindered development of solutions in this arena (though certainly some have made progress), but with the ban lifted Leslie sees an opportunity for health care providers and other industry players across the spectrum to engage on the issue.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

As we all know, the federal ban on spending related to development of a unique patient identifier hindered development of solutions in this arena (though certainly some have made progress), but with the ban lifted Leslie sees an opportunity for health care providers and other industry players across the spectrum to engage on the issue.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

As we all know, the federal ban on spending related to development of a unique patient identifier hindered development of solutions in this arena (though certainly some have made progress), but with the ban lifted Leslie sees an opportunity for health care providers and other industry players across the spectrum to engage on the issue.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

As we all know, the federal ban on spending related to development of a unique patient identifier hindered development of solutions in this arena (though certainly some have made progress), but with the ban lifted Leslie sees an opportunity for health care providers and other industry players across the spectrum to engage on the issue.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

As we all know, the federal ban on spending related to development of a unique patient identifier hindered development of solutions in this arena (though certainly some have made progress), but with the ban lifted Leslie sees an opportunity for health care providers and other industry players across the spectrum to engage on the issue.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2023

Today, we’re featuring the EHR Applications Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Harbor Health Services and is located in Massachusetts. We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

With some 95 percent of healthcare providers having deployed EHRs, the healthcare system is officially digital. How the consumerization of healthcare is changing the industry. Interoperability: Health IT's hardest problem is (finally) at an inflection point. EHR training is biggest predictor of user satisfaction, experts say.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 14, 2023

The underlying theme of AHIMA’s annual conference was that health information management professionals are both encouraged and frustrated at the state of the industry , Colin Hung reported from Baltimore. Read more… Learning About the Latest FHIR Analytics Tool.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 10, 2023

As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, open source software will play an increasingly important role in providing healthcare organizations with the tools they need to improve patient care. As a result of these factors, open source is becoming increasingly popular in the healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

The on-demand, self-service approach to analytics, more commonly associated with the financial services industry and its Bloomberg terminal, will become broadly accessible to hospitals, payers, and life sciences companies. This will further endeavor to cement FHIR as the data standard to support future information exchange.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

The goal of Azure Health Data Services is interoperability that drives better patient outcomes and clinical advances. The health industry generates an overwhelming amount of data, much of which is unstructured and inaccessible. The key to unlocking the data is interoperability across the entire health ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Therasa Bell, Cofounder, President and CTO at Kno2 , has spent her career in healthcare IT, so it’s very meaningful to hear her speak of Kno2’s intention to become a designated QHIN (Qualified Health Information Network) under the TEFCA, asserting, “This is a turning point”.

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Redox

MAY 10, 2018

HL7 was created in 1987 to provide a framework and standards for the exchange and retrieval of electronic health information. Today, the organization has more than 1,600 members from over 50 countries, including healthcare providers, government officials, payers, vendors, and others with a vested interest in the healthcare industry.

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HIStalk Interviews

MARCH 25, 2019

Grahame Grieve is a principal with Health Intersections of Melbourne, Australia and was the architect-developer of HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR, pronounced “fire”) specification that allows EHRs to exchange information. Was it weird to see FHIR as the only universal topic of HIMSS19?

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

While health care has been slower than other industries to leverage digital transformation, COVID-19 accelerated change — revealing some key barriers blocking the potential for more fulsome transformation, the OECD explains in its latest version of Health At A Glance for 2023 with a detailed chapter on “digital health at a glance.”

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 6, 2018

Blockchain lets the healthcare industry exchange data in a standard format, automate complex processes and apply AI against large silos of medical data. The VA was an early adopter of electronic health records or EHRs.) It might even allow patients to sell their data for rewards. "It's a big conundrum."

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 26, 2018

Non Invasive Glucose Monitoring - A needle-free alternative to the finger-prick test would be a godsend for many sufferers of diabetes, but the industry has yet to clear the technological hurdles. Immuno-Oncology - the study and development of treatments that take advantage of the body’s immune system to fight cancer.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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. Steven Lane, chief medical officer of Health Gorilla , believes in unified standards. to make a recommendation. AI could probably do even better.

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Redox

AUGUST 8, 2023

How Together We Unlock Healthcare Data to Drive Advanced Analytics Healthcare is sitting on mountains of data Pop quiz: Which industry accounts for about 30% of newly created data around the world and is generating more data faster than any other industry? You guessed it — healthcare. Data is often unstructured (e.g., How does it work?

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