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I Helped Accelerate FHIR, It’s Time to Scale

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2024

The following is a guest article by Shannon West, Chief Product Officer at Datavant Since the dawn of electronic medical records, American healthcare delivery systems have traced a winding path toward the dream of seamless and timely health data interoperability. According to a 2023 study , some use cases could take years.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

First, consider: the lack of interoperability between health data, resulting in silos, has plagued our ability to “operate” (that “O” in “OS”) in a smooth fashion across the care continuum, from clinical trials and research to patients’ self-care driving optimal outcomes. Now, let’s ponder one particular patient whose name is Eric Topol, MD.

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Te Toka Tumai Auckland rolling out FHIR-ed-up PAS and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Te Toka Tumai Auckland launching FHIR-driven PAS Te Toka Tumai Auckland, formerly Auckland District Health Board, will be launching a new patient administration system that runs on the new FHIR-based National Health Index API. The CARe-MED study, which has received A$1.4

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These Three Things Can Bring EHRs to the Next Level

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

This familiar scene exemplifies the unnecessary burdens traditional EHRs have placed on providers, patients, and the overall healthcare system. As a former ER physician and current digital health professional, I’ve dealt with these challenges firsthand—and see the enormous potential EHRs hold to change care experiences for the better.

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Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. The 29 members of the EHR Association shared concerns with ONC about upcoming deadlines for Certified EHR Technology deadlines given the complexity of needs specified in HTI-1 and beyond.

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Bonus Features – April 28, 2024 – 22% of employers fully trust chronic condition management vendors, Common Agreement v2.0 requires support for FHIR API exchange, plus 29 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Interoperability vendor Innovar Healthcare released an OSS Mirth Connect plugin that’s now available on AWS Marketplace. News ONC released Common Agreement 2.0.

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Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. And now, check out our community’s healthcare analytics and interoperability predictions. The interoperability community has been waiting for the updated Prior Authorization proposal after the late 2020 proposal was withdrawn due to concerns about costs and deadlines.

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How Can Health IT Help Reform the CDC?

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In January, a comprehensive group of about 40 public health experts released recommendations for rebuilding the CDC under the auspices of the Center for Strategic & international Studies. For data reporting, Diameter Health improved lab data to adhere to standard and interoperable formats. This article summarizes their responses.

Health IT

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Open Source Software in HealthTech: Hype today or Hope for the future?

Lloyd Price

JULY 10, 2023

In addition to these benefits, open source software is also becoming increasingly interoperable. A recent study by the Linux Foundation found that 75% of healthcare organizations are using open source software. These EHRs offer a number of benefits, including vendor independence, flexibility, and interoperability.

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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Epic CEO Judy Faulkner on Apple, docs who actually like their EHRs and Warren Buffett. The EHR vendor’s founder also discusses the state of interoperability, cloud computing and today’s sticking points in health IT. Epic, Cerner and others reveal just how their EHRs are interoperable. needs a plan.

Healthcare IT

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Microsoft and Redox team to provide data-backed guidelines for smarter clinical analytics

Redox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Despite vast seas of data from EHRs, devices, labs, and imaging systems, data that is truly useful for decision-making is hard to come by. Interoperability is the key as it can aggregate and normalize data across silos, creating the foundation for clinical analytics at scale. This only adds to the growing burnout problem.

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Top Healthcare IT Today Resources, Articles, Videos, and Podcasts

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

Healthcare IT and EHR Conferences and Events. DoJ Joins False Claims Whistleblower Suit Against EHR Vendor Modernizing Medicine – Everyone seems to flock to judgments and lawsuits like this one. 2022 Predictions for Healthcare Interoperability – A third predictions post doing so well. Where Are We At With FHIR?

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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

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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Impractical or Inadequate: Is Your Virtual Care Solution Good Enough?

GlobalMed

JANUARY 5, 2021

With information trapped in dead-end silos, virtual health consultation data is left out of population health strategies and other initiatives likeCMS data sharing and interoperability requirements. Integrating virtual visits into the EHR helps providers view a patient’s medical history and make informed decisions.

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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

AUGUST 20, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Health Plan Alliance selected 1upHealth as its preferred health data interoperability vendor. Arkansas-based Conway OB-GYN Clinic implemented eClinicalWorks EHR.

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Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition – April 18, 2023 – Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI dominate the headlines, plus news from Oracle, Orion Health, Salesforce, Surescripts, WebMD, and more

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Partnerships Epic and Microsoft expanded their partnership , with generative AI powered by Azure OpenAI Service now available in the Epic EHR. (We

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FHIR Primary Care Healthcare IT Interoperability

Bonus Features – November 20, 2022 – 90% of healthcare buyers prioritize virtual care but want a clear roadmap, wearable data helped predict COVID-19 infections 12 days before the CDC, and more

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. News and Studies. 31 deadline for meeting requirements for FHIR-based API standardization. Specifically, certified health IT developers have a Dec.

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Healthcare CIOs Speeding Up Social Determinants Of Health Efforts

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2020

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. The focus group study, which was conducted by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, involved bringing together a group of CIOs who were members of CHIME.

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HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

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. A few of my favorite comments were: “Jim Cramer needs a crash course in FHIR standards” from the wonkier section of peanut gallery. I found this tweet of mine from 2009 about Apple and Epic’s collaboration for a mobile EHR.

Health IT

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Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – November 15, 2022 – News from Amwell, Epic, Google, MEDITECH, Microsoft, and more, plus the dates for HLTH Europe

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. COTA and Google Cloud will partner to develop algorithms to extract unstructured oncology data from EHRs. Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features.

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The Digital Health Hype Cycle 2018

Lloyd Price

JUNE 26, 2018

Immuno-Oncology - the study and development of treatments that take advantage of the body’s immune system to fight cancer. These neural networks learn to mimic human behavior by iteratively improving their performance on hundreds of training examples Captology -the study of computers as persuasive technologies.

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How to decide the right EPR for your staff and patients

Healthcare Innovation Consortium

JANUARY 8, 2024

They originally developed PPM+ as a cancer information system, that evolved into a Trust-wide EHR. Managing diverse IT needs and supplier contracts can drive up costs, despite advancements in interoperability standards like FHIR. What are the potential barriers to EPR implementation?

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Weekender 5/17/19

HIStalk Weekender

MAY 17, 2019

A large survey of clinicians finds that the #1 predictor of positive EHR experience is training, with EHR personalization also being a major contributor. The EHR is just not that platform. EHR vendors built their systems to suit their health system masters and use their size anti-competitively, just like health systems do.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

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. EHR training is biggest predictor of user satisfaction, experts say. by May 10, 2019. The system is digitized. The new frontier?

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Nursing Leadership Patient Experience EHR

Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

“Integration of Sensor, Smartphone, and Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data for Patients and Clinicians. That said, integration with the electronic health record (EHR) is currently extremely challenging and costly. 44 FHIR allows external third-party apps to integrate into the EHR workflow.

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A Digital Health Checkup for the US – #1 in AI, Meh in Interoperability – An OECD Update

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Among the many aspects we could explore in Health Populi , I’ve chosen two that are most top-of-mind for my work these days: interoperability and AI, comparing US to the peer OECD nations. ranking near-bottom for interoperability, America ranks top for AI in the OECD’s Global AI Index. So with the U.S.

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Connected Health Pulse

I Helped Accelerate FHIR, It’s Time to Scale

What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

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Te Toka Tumai Auckland rolling out FHIR-ed-up PAS and more briefs

These Three Things Can Bring EHRs to the Next Level

Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

Bonus Features – April 28, 2024 – 22% of employers fully trust chronic condition management vendors, Common Agreement v2.0 requires support for FHIR API exchange, plus 29 more stories

Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

How Can Health IT Help Reform the CDC?

Open Source Software in HealthTech: Hype today or Hope for the future?

2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Microsoft and Redox team to provide data-backed guidelines for smarter clinical analytics

Top Healthcare IT Today Resources, Articles, Videos, and Podcasts

Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Impractical or Inadequate: Is Your Virtual Care Solution Good Enough?

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

Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition – April 18, 2023 – Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI dominate the headlines, plus news from Oracle, Orion Health, Salesforce, Surescripts, WebMD, and more

Bonus Features – November 20, 2022 – 90% of healthcare buyers prioritize virtual care but want a clear roadmap, wearable data helped predict COVID-19 infections 12 days before the CDC, and more

Healthcare CIOs Speeding Up Social Determinants Of Health Efforts

HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – November 15, 2022 – News from Amwell, Epic, Google, MEDITECH, Microsoft, and more, plus the dates for HLTH Europe

The Digital Health Hype Cycle 2018

How to decide the right EPR for your staff and patients

Weekender 5/17/19

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

Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

A Digital Health Checkup for the US – #1 in AI, Meh in Interoperability – An OECD Update

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