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

Healthcare IT Today

But the administrative costs for providers to share this information keep escalating. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. Automated chart retrieval is performed at scale, leveraging modern HL7 FHIR APIs.

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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Healthcare IT Today

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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Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With some 95 percent of healthcare providers having deployed EHRs, the healthcare system is officially digital. Interoperability: Health IT's hardest problem is (finally) at an inflection point. Helping women entrepreneurs 'springboard' into health IT marketplace. by May 10, 2019. The system is digitized. The new frontier?

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Kno2’s Unique Perspective on Why TEFCA is Different as They Pursue QHIN Designation

Healthcare IT Today

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”. We’ve been there from the beginning,” said Bell.

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The Ins and Outs of Healthcare Communication Platforms

Healthcare IT Today

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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Patient Engagement through Communication Platforms

Healthcare IT Today

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. Many healthcare organizations use disparate EHRs and communication tools that may not seamlessly integrate, leading to data silos and communication gaps.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Defining and Sharing

Healthcare IT Today

The modern health information API, FHIR, includes the Gender Harmony taxonomy developed by HL7. Sharing SDoH CRISP Shared Services is a nonprofit health data utility (HDU) that integrates data between health information exchanges (HIEs).