Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Reps Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (MATCH IT) Act of 2024 , which would standardize the way demographic information is entered into certified health IT products and ensure more precise patient matches. Median hospital margins hit 5.2%

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having a career in Health IT requires a lot of skills and qualifications, even more so if you want that career to be successful – but what are those skills and qualifications? To authentically contribute to societal health, it’s crucial to accept failure as an integral part of the process.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For those not familiar with 1upHealth, the provide a FHIR platform for payers, providers, and developers. Whether you’re looking at CMS compliance, population health efforts, Payer to Payer APIs, or EHR connectivity, they can help make sharing […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 21, 2022

They will additionally source solutions from, and contribute to, relevant open-source projects and participate in community events such as Health Level Seven (HL7) Connectathons. Code, test and maintain electronic clinical quality measures using Clinical Quality Language (CQL) and Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR).

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2023

CORE also prefers a candidate with interdisciplinary experience in health informatics (HI), who has familiarity with healthcare data standards (FHIR, HL7, DICOM), and an understanding of FHIR API and app design. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry.

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Plus, ONC says 87% of hospitals are using EHR platforms with FHIR capabilities. A new report pegs healthcare payments company nThrive as a possible suitor for Athenahealth.

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Health Intersections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

On a forum for FHIR Foundation members, I raised the subject of where FHIR is on the Gartner Hype Cycle (see Gartner write up , or Wikipedia ). FHIR Foundation member Wes Rishel ( @wrishel ), who’s a FHIR user, and also was a Gartner Analyst before he retired, graciously made this contribution that I could post here.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This article discusses the service provided by Health Note , which illustrates the capabilities of modern patient interaction using AI and integration with the EHR. But Health Note can do much better. Integration with the EHR, according to Rau, was difficult. They have integrated with the four most popular EHRs.

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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. They are not even in the same universe” among people dissing the idea in short-hand.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

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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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Any communication received from a Vytalize Health recruiter during your screening, interviewing, or selection process will come from an email ending in @vytalizehealth.com Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with data architecture.

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Health Intersections

AUGUST 30, 2019

This track shows that patients are the ultimate beneficiaries of FHIR. The Patient Innovator Track provides a stage to patients who have taking control of their health by using the data of their disease and their treatment, or app developers who enabled patients to do so. Connect with EHR vendors and discuss integration opportunities.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

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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Society for Participatory Medicine

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The organizers of the FHIR #DevDays conference next month have announced the four finalists who will come to Amsterdam to present their ideas to a panel of judges. In contrast to this, the HL7 FHIR organization said explicitly this June that #FHIR exists to serve patient needs. This is a cross-post from my personal blog.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Read more… Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy. Digital health developers shouldn’t have to learn the hundreds of flavors of FHIR implementations and APIs to share data , Patrick Schiess at Darena Solutions told John. Read more… Operational Teams Drive Optimal Health IT System Adoption.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

Our desire for data liquidity has eluded us across the health/care ecosystem for too long, notwithstanding American taxpayers’ $35 bn investment in EHRs dating to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that embedded the HITECH Act funding EHR adoption for hospitals and physician practices.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

The Sequoia Project, a spinoff of a prior EHR network, was chosen as the governing body for TEFCA. Today TEFCA only supports document exchange and frankly largely within legacy EHR vendors who have familiarity with the IHE protocols. Current TEFCA proponents offer several value propositions which are worth investigating.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Now that the integration work is done it is being rolled out on a limited basis.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Now that the integration work is done it is being rolled out on a limited basis.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Now that the integration work is done it is being rolled out on a limited basis.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Now that the integration work is done it is being rolled out on a limited basis.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Now that the integration work is done it is being rolled out on a limited basis.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Now that the integration work is done it is being rolled out on a limited basis.

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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 25, 2022

Is Larry Ellison’s Vision of a National EHR Database Even Possible? John Lynn decided to let the dust settle a bit before offering his thoughts on what the Oracle CEO called a “National EHR Database.” Read more… Where Are We At With FHIR? Read more… Is Healthcare AI Essential or Nice to Have?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

HL7 , which has been setting standards for health care since 1987, leapt into the modern age of computer standards by adopting the FHIR standard. One of the FHIR standards, conveniently enough, is a digital insurance card. To be federally certified, an EHR has to support that framework. Version 2.0

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Health Intersections

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The Board of HL7 Australia invites you to join a free Webinar on Tuesday 5 October 2021 at 09:00 AEDT to hear from key thinkers and implementors of SMART Health Cards and FHIR resources. Come and listen to the panel of key thinkers and implementors for this work, including leaders from the Health IT community in USA.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2024

As we move away from sharing whole charts to the modern FHIR API, organizations can extract particular elements needed by the person requesting data. Murray shares some of the solutions MRO has put in place to navigate around these challenges. Plus, he shares how healthcare standards are impacting these efforts.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

Large health systems have invested the time and cost to make their systems more interoperable. So too have Health IT vendors. However, rather than jump from fax all the way to electronic data exchange through FHIR or APIs, Turicchi suggests that we should leverage the inherent network effect that fax still enjoys. “We

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

As someone who has covered the health IT industry for 17 years, I’m always fascinated when I see something really grab the attention of the health IT community. There’s no one solution that will solve the health data sharing problem. It will include TEFCA, FHIR, HIEs, Direct Messages, APIs and much more.

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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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