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 12, 2023

News The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule continues many telehealth flexibilities first adopted during the public health emergency, such as an expanded scope of originating sites an expanded definition of qualified practitioners. of the Common Agreement and committed to having TEFCA support FHIR-based exchange within 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

John Lynn spoke to Mo Weitnauer at MRO about using FHIR-based APIs to automatically fulfill the vast majority of requests in minutes or seconds – not weeks. Read more… Public Health Transparency Improves Outcomes in San Bernardino County. Read more… How Help Desk Updates Can Boost Clinician Productivity.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

Supporting organizations include Epic, the HIMSS EHR Association and HCA Healthcare. The most notable approval is USCDI v3, and others include two implementation guides from CMS for Quality Reporting Document Architecture and three HL7 standards (for C-CDA, FHIR, and QRDA).

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Requests are then electronically communicated directly to the provider organization’s EHRs and other systems. Automated chart retrieval is performed at scale, leveraging modern HL7 FHIR APIs. With a master’s degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Staff members, clinicians, and administrative staff can access patient health information and social circumstances while observing the patient from all angles to arrange appropriate treatment while empowering front-line support teams to communicate with and provide an excellent experience for patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2023

Andy Oram discussed how adopting FHIR should be a no-brainer for better public health data collection and sharing – and how that must be followed up with standards for what data should be collected and shared. Mental health and wellbeing platform Spectrum.Life completed a €5 million raise.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

How has the use of digital health helped in dealing with the COVID-19 situation in the context of your organization? Electronic Health Record (EHR). With the advanced EHR, we were able to electronically manage and monitor all medical records of COVID-19 patients. 1) Cooperation with government/public health authority.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

Much has been written about Larry Ellison’s vision of what he called a “National EHR Database.” To be clear, I’m not sure if this was Ellison’s goal with a “National EHR Database” or not. To simplify the question, is Epic going to give Oracle Cerner access to all their health records?

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. Health Care Law and Consulting. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’” Join the conversation on Twitter at #HarlowOnHC.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. Health Care Law and Consulting. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

onramp to eHealth Exchange Wisconsin Provider Directory Wisconsin wide Patient Record Locator Public Health Reporting Hospital Visit report Provider Portal access to all of this Beyond Wisconsin In the slide deck they also look at other nationwide exchanges: CareQuality -- a newer flavor of eHealth Exchange. Very minor mention of FHIR.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’” Join the conversation on Twitter at #HarlowOnHC.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. Health Care Law and Consulting. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’” Join the conversation on Twitter at #HarlowOnHC.

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HIStalk Weekender

JANUARY 4, 2019

Health Level Seven International publishes the FHIR Release 4 standard. Epic says that health system EHR sales have plateaued and the company will move “beyond the walls” to store patient records from dentists, on-site clinics, drugstores, and potentially home and hospice care providers. Weekly News Recap.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Leveraging technology to modernize, digitize, connect, and consolidate data will prove critical to the nation’s ability to address major public health needs both present and future, including preparing for the next global health crisis. Federal Citizen Services at Maximus. Clay Ritchey, CEO at Verato.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Note: In case you missed the other 12 Days of #HITChristmas, you can start with the first day here along with the story behind #HITChristmas or read all 12 days here as they are published. On the 9th Day of #HITChristmas we’re excited to feature, Keith Boone, Enterprise Architect at Audacious Inquiry.

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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. This includes mediums like video, infographics, and even entertainment.

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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. Another system the vendor offers is Teleisolation.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

.” OECD found that over 90% of the countries studied reported introducing legislation to require standards for interoperability, and (wonk-alert) with two-thirds adopting HL7-FHIR, and 42% adopting SMART on FHIR. Here, the U.S. is found to be lagging other nations. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

The health care section of Mary Meeker’s 334-page annual report, Internet Trends 2019 , comprises 24 of those pages (270 through 293). In health care, this is an underlying tectonic trend with implications for research, translation to therapies, individual treatment plans, population and public health.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.

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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. Here are some hard truths: clinical data isn’t shared because it doesn’t profit your doctor and the health system to do so.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 26, 2018

HL7 FHIR - Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR, pronounced "fire") is a draft standard describing data formats and elements (known as "resources") and an application programming interface (API) for exchanging electronic health records.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 2023

Eric Bacon at AMD Global Telemedicine said providers need to engage patients and improve health literacy to ensure telehealth sufficiently addresses health inequity. Read more… How Consumers are Putting Pressure on Health Plans.

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