Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Although 90% of health systems face turnover rates of greater than 10% for roles in RCM and patient experience, only 25% of executives are looking at AI or workflow improvements to improve efficiency , an Experian Health survey found. Mississippi-based Southland Recovery selected eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR.

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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 News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Enhancing the patient experience with technology. This month, our coverage will continue a special focus on the patient experience. We'll talk to the thought leaders and first-movers reimagining the how and where of patient-friendly tech, and report on ways to activate, if not delight, the people they treat.

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Redox

MARCH 14, 2024

Our solutions effectively launch them into the future, to a world where data flows seamlessly, workflows are optimized, and patient experiences are delightful. Up first: Using bulk FHIR. What is bulk FHIR? But they aren’t optimized for retrieving the problem list and medication list for thousands of patients in one go.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

Supporting organizations include Epic, the HIMSS EHR Association and HCA Healthcare. HCA was in the news for other reasons, too – hackers got their hands on HCA patient data and put it up for sale in an online forum. Patient experience vendor Vital surpassed 1 million users across more than 100 hospital clients.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

FHIR, HL7). The combination of evolving data lakehouse architectures and powerful generative AI unlocks unprecedented value in loosely structured and unstructured data and, increasingly, machines are much less discriminating between a finely structured FHIR document and a poorly scanned PDF—and the latter may be richer than the former.

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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. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

What is more a business problem rather than only an IT challenge, payer organizations need to address prior authorization collaboration workflows and payment processes, EHR integration, and adopt technologies like artificial intelligence, including machine learning and natural language processing, and FHIR® Standards.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

31 deadline for meeting requirements for FHIR-based API standardization. Mobile engagement platform Gozio Health expanded its integration with Artera , a patient outreach tool. Primary care EHR Elation Health has integrated with Ribbon Health , a provider data management platform.

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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. Practicing empathy can improve patient experience even when it happens someplace consumers don't see directly, says Fortune Magazine Senior Editor at Large Geoff Colvin. by May 10, 2019. The system is digitized.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 5, 2023

.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– CharmHealth , a leading provider of healthcare technology solutions, today announced three breakthroughs to improve patient care. CharmHealth’s EHR platform has always been powerful and compelling, but users now benefit from a new level of intelligence,” said Pramila Srinivasan, Ph.D.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Within that data lies the power to deliver better patient care and outcomes, provide further clinical advances and accelerate research breakthroughs, Microsoft said. Microsoft took a step to address health data interoperability with Azure API for FHIR in 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2024

DATAcc’s goal is to “break down silos in industry around how physical activity is measured using sensor-based digital health technologies,” for easy consumption by EHRs and digital apps. The consortium includes digital tech developers, patient advocates, pharma representatives, academic researchers, and other stakeholders.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Epic) to real-time patient journey optimization systems that are EMR-agnostic and fueled by far more comprehensive data than what sits in EMRs today. The CMS proposed ruling requires impacted payers to build and maintain a FHIR API, starting January 1st, 2026, in effort to improve the cumbersome and costly prior authorization process.

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Redox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I felt like I had to re-learn how to use the EHR at each organization I parachuted into, as the screens were so customized that I was able to carry little knowledge between sites. Citiizen allows consumers to consolidate their medical data in once place, enabling patients to be the brokers of their own information.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

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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Redox

MARCH 7, 2024

Over time, it will undoubtedly make data more accessible and more useful in improving care coordination and patient experiences. Use FHIR now: TEFCA does not yet require FHIR, and many QHINs will not offer services in FHIR for some time.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2021

After hearing about DirectTrust passing the 2 billion message mark, we thought it would be valuable for readers to learn more about DirectTrust and the healthcare interoperability work their non-profit is doing. Plus, they have their DirectTrust Summit coming up on June 9-10, 2021 which might be of interest to many of our readers as […].

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Redox

APRIL 27, 2023

These new products enable everyone from healthcare product teams, to EHRs, payers and providers to use a composable healthcare digital strategy to grow and adapt in the face of sustained market uncertainty. Redox FHIR and RESTful APIs allow health tech builders to delight their users, modernize their tech stack, and scale with confidence.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

One example of leveraging AI as a tool to integrate new information sources could be by integrating natural language processing to both recognize audio, visual, and written communications and provide additional context or patient information from their EHR in real-time.

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HIStalk Interviews

JULY 23, 2018

Do EHR vendors make it easy for customers to integrate their products with those sold by other companies? Most of the major EHR platforms have API or developer programs. A lot of regulatory requirements have been placed on EHR vendors over the last 10 years. We are seeing more rapid adoption of that in healthcare, too.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2021

Amwell’s Converge platform is designed to integrate with existing workflows, EHRs, patient portals and consumer digital health technologies. It offers access to single sign-on technology and its APIs leverage FHIR. Its goal is to […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The modern health information API, FHIR, includes the Gender Harmony taxonomy developed by HL7. Rahul Sharma, CEO of HSBlox, says that EHRs have few fields dedicated to SDoH, and that these are usually peripheral issues such as tobacco use. Instead, SDoH data such as food and transportation needs are normally found in free-text notes.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

PEP Health showed that patient experience scores are on the rise for hospitals in Texas , with Stars Ratings steadily increasing since 2019. Smart Meter reported that 51% of patients with Type 2 diabetes have trouble using Bluetooth-connected glucose monitoring devices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Amwell offers a suite of APIs, web services and SDKs to seamlessly embed telehealth into an organization’s existing digital assets, such as Cerner, Epic and other EHRs, in order to enable providers to work directly in the EHR for a streamlined experience. Mend has customers across the spectrum of healthcare specialties.

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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Let’s just start by letting Patients use the tools of our time to share their information with their Doctors , and let Doctors use these tools to move beyond the 2000 year old office visit only model of care. “Integration of Sensor, Smartphone, and Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data for Patients and Clinicians.

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