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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

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Updates that require support for FHIR-based APIs should allow TEFCA participants to more easily exchange information directly, and enable individuals to more easily access their own information. In other news, Quantum Health launched Premier Oncology , a cancer care navigation tool. News ONC released Common Agreement 2.0.

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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

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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. A survey published in JAMIA found 73% of digital health vendors are using standards-based FHIR APIs when integrating with EHR systems.

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Bonus Features – September 24, 2023 – 72 percent of patients say affordability is the biggest challenge for paying medical bills

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News and Studies The American Telemedicine Association released three tools aimed at addressing disparity and inequity in care : Digital Infrastructure Disparities Score and Map, Economic and Social Value-Added Calculator, and a toolkit including all previously released resources.

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Featured Health IT Job: eCQM/dCQM Measure Developer – CORE

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They will also contribute to the design and development of novel software tools to support measure calculation and data validation. The ideal candidate should be eager to become an expert in quality measurement and quality measurement digital tools. Assists CORE staff in specifying and testing eCQMs and other digital measures.

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Bonus Features – November 5, 2023 – Only 24% of healthcare organizations have successfully disrupted ransomware attacks, 83% of healthcare leaders say AI is or will be an essential skill, plus 20 more

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Research from Inovalon and Harvard Medical School found that Medicare Advantage has 70% fewer readmissions and 24% fewer preventable hospitalizations than fee-for-service Medicare. Partnerships EHR workflow automation tool Clinical Data Connector from Odesso Health is now available on the athenahealth and Appian marketplaces.

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Data Quality Scrutiny, SDoH, Value-Based Care…What are the New Healthcare Truths of 2023?

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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. Medicare saved $1.6

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Weekly Roundup – March 9, 2024

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John chatted with Dr. Don Rucker, now at 1upHealth, about why TEFCA isn’t ideal for real-time data access and how FHIR APIs will help do the job – and allow payers and even employers to access data, too. Numerous obstacles hinder true data accuracy in the EHR.