EHR, FHIR and Survey - Connected Health Pulse

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.

EHR

EHR Interoperability FHIR Digital Health

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

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.

FHIR

FHIR Digital Health Telemedicine EHR

Bonus Features – March 3, 2024 – 75% of healthcare leaders expect widespread implementation of AI in 3 years, 78% of orgs lack knowledge on how to train employees to use AI, plus 18 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 3, 2024

Studies Roughly 75% of healthcare leaders expect widespread implementation of AI within three years , according to a BRG survey. Cost savings are the top priority for 63% of healthcare supply chain leaders , a survey from symplr found. Additionally, 60% believe current AI regulations provide adequate safety measures.

FHIR

FHIR EHR Healthcare IT Primary Care

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

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Studies and Reports So far in 2023, only 24% of healthcare organizations were able to disrupt a ransomware attack before attackers encrypted their data , according to a Sophos survey. Partnerships EHR workflow automation tool Clinical Data Connector from Odesso Health is now available on the athenahealth and Appian marketplaces.

RCM

RCM Medicare EHR FHIR

Bonus Features – November 12, 2023 – 93% of clinicians use RPM in cardiac care rehab, telehealth flexibilities remain in place until the end of 2024, plus 25 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

of the Common Agreement and committed to having TEFCA support FHIR-based exchange within 2024. Studies More than 9 in 10 (93%) of clinicians use RPM technology in cardiac care rehab , according to a survey from Vivalink. People Community health EHR maker CPSI announced Vinay Bassi as Chief Financial Officer , effective Jan.

Telehealth

Telehealth RCM Public Health EHR

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

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

While 57% of doctors think patients miss appointments due to insurance issues , and 34% think it’s lack of access to appointments, a Tebra survey found the real reasons that patients skip appointments are work conflicts, not feeling well, and facing transportation issues.

Medical Billing

Medical Billing EHR Medicare BioTech

Onramp to the Cloud Faster with Redox + Google

Redox

JULY 6, 2023

In fact, in a recent Redox report , 97% of surveyed provider organizations shared they’ve encountered significant challenges when attempting to ingest data into the cloud. Healthcare API and HDE are primarily based in the FHIR standard, and first require data to be transformed into FHIR.

FHIR

FHIR Interoperability Leadership EHR

Group Brings SDOH Coding Effort To HL7 FHIR Program

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In fact, survey results published in early 2018 concluded that 80% of the organizations they surveyed had begun to track and use SDOH data. For the last few years, a growing number of healthcare organizations have been integrating information on social determinants of health into their population health management efforts.

FHIR

FHIR Interoperability EMR Health Data

Bonus Features – August 13, 2023 – 75% of executives thing generative AI has reached the point where it will reshape healthcare, 64% of patients would trust AI over a doctor to make a diagnosis, and more,

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2023

Studies More than half (53%) of adults prefer an in-person only care model , according to a recent Morning Consult survey. Meanwhile, 64% of adults would trust a diagnosis made by AI over a diagnosis by a doctor , according to a survey from Innerbody. Partnerships Epic users can now run the EHR on Microsoft Azure Large Instances.

Pain management

Pain management HIE EHR Healthcare IT

IT preparedness is key to managing outbreak of COVID-19, says CIO of SNUBH

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

Electronic Health Record (EHR). With the advanced EHR, we were able to electronically manage and monitor all medical records of COVID-19 patients. Integration of Government-provided airport quarantine system into EHR. Telemonitoring System for Community Recovery Center through RRS, PHR and Electronic Survey System.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine EHR Primary Care Digital Health

Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

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).

HIPAA

HIPAA Digital Health EHR Healthcare IT

Weekly Roundup – November 25, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Here’s what he learned about SMART Health, FHIR, registries, EHR integrations, and other technology that could support digital insurance cards in the not-too-distant future. TT Capital Partners announced an investment in Cantata Health Solutions , which makes EHR and RCH software for post-acute care and behavioral health.

Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT EHR FHIR Health Information

Provenance use in AI

Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 31, 2024

Within FHIR, the FHIR Provenance works fine. Outside of FHIR, the W3C PROV model works fine. User questionnaire, Survey, Synthetic, Combination, Subset, etc Is there a regulation covering this data? Thus, one can't look to Provenance to embody the "AI Output", that AI output would be encoded in some other artifact.

FHIR

FHIR HIPAA EHR

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

Healthcare organizations are only using 57% of their data to drive decision-making , according to a survey from Arcadia. Only 45% of consumers are fully satisfied with their health insurance , according to a survey from HealthEdge, and 40% blame insurers for the high cost of care. Disease detection company Viz.ai

Digital Health

Digital Health HIE eHealth Life Science

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. CDA can be utilized in numerous medical applications.

HIPAA

HIPAA EMR FHIR EHR

TEFCA Real Talk

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

23% know of TEFCA, but aren’t sure if they are going to participate, 25% were not aware of TEFCA and only 1% of those surveyed were aware of TEFCA and planned not to participate. It will include TEFCA, FHIR, HIEs, Direct Messages, APIs and much more. ✅FHIR APIs alone are not a silver bullet.

Interoperability

Interoperability FHIR Healthcare IT Health Data

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

Health IT EHR RCM HIPAA

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

Announcements from HIMSS Lack of staff is the top barrier to robust cybersecurity for 61% of healthcare organizations, according to the HIMSS 2022 Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey Report. Partnerships Epic and Microsoft expanded their partnership , with generative AI powered by Azure OpenAI Service now available in the Epic EHR. (We

FHIR

FHIR Primary Care Healthcare IT Interoperability

5 Digital Health Predictions for 2018 by Lloyd Price

Lloyd Price

JUNE 14, 2018

App Orchard, for its part, lets developers use a FHIR-based API to access an Epic development sandbox. Source : Bots in healthcare: interview with Thomas Schulz, Organiser of Botscamp [link] ) 2018 Digital Health Prediction 4 : Mobile phone manufacturers will follow Apple's lead on connecting to hospital EHRs using FHIR.

Digital Health

Digital Health FHIR Life Science EMR

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. Our Nova product accelerates the translation and normalization of data to FHIR for easy ingestion and maximum usability in the cloud. Request a demo , today.

Interoperability

Interoperability FHIR EHR Connected Health

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

A joint study by Omada Health, Rock Health, and the Digital Medicine Society, based on a survey of employers, payers and benefit consultants, found that 90% of purchasers view virtual care as a high priority , and the majority are willing to adopt innovative approaches, but few have a real understanding of what virtual care is.

eCare

eCare BioTech Primary Care Life Science

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. EHR training is biggest predictor of user satisfaction, experts say. Digital transformation: Healthcare making progress but much work remains. by May 10, 2019. The system is digitized. Time to look at what comes next.

Nursing

Nursing Leadership Patient Experience EHR

Bonus Features – October 22, 2023 – 57% of patients accessed portals or medical records in 2022, 21 orgs make Level 10 in the 2023 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Survey, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 22, 2023

CHIME named 21 healthcare organizations to Level 10 in the 2023 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Survey , the most in the 24-hear history of the survey. Wolters Kluwer Health announces its Health Language Platform , a FHIR Terminology Server that will work with Microsoft Azure Health Data Services. to its clinical advisory board.

Digital Health

Digital Health EHR FHIR Healthcare IT

Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

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. This will further endeavor to cement FHIR as the data standard to support future information exchange. Clay Ritchey, CEO at Verato.

Interoperability

Interoperability Health IT FHIR EMR

HIStalk Interviews Grahame Grieve, FHIR Architect and Interoperability Consultant

HIStalk Interviews

MARCH 25, 2019

Grahame Grieve is a principal with Health Intersections of Melbourne, Australia and was the architect-developer of HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR, pronounced “fire”) specification that allows EHRs to exchange information. Was it weird to see FHIR as the only universal topic of HIMSS19? Not so much weird.

FHIR

FHIR Interoperability EHR Health Information

HLTH23 Recap and Major Announcements

Digital Health Wire

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Darena Solutions took the lid off its new MeldRx platform-as-a-service that enables the rapid creation of FHIR-compatible healthcare apps, taking much of the guesswork out of app development while ensuring that new tools integrate seamlessly with EHRs.

Digital Health

Digital Health FHIR EHR Connected Health

Join the VA’s “Open API Pledge” session at Health Datapalooza

Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 27, 2018

Leaders in EHR major players, when you say “open up, you’re a closed system, be interoperable” answer is “we’re as open as we need to be.” Notes: this is not intended to be competitive with other FHIR and Argonaut projects, Rather, provide a level of focus, intent, and purpose that hasn’t existed.

FHIR

FHIR Interoperability Health Data BioTech

Weekender 6/21/19

HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 21, 2019

A private equity firm acquires EHR/PM vendor Nextech for $500 million. A group of health and technology organizations develops open source cancer data standards and specifications that can be incorporated into EHRs via FHIR. I’m thinking of a time-based layout, for example [for EHR information]. It’s not a survey.

EHR

EHR EMR FHIR Nursing

Can Industry Outsiders Empower Patients Through Data?

Redox

JULY 18, 2018

Based on the FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard, this app makes it possible for patients and their caregivers to see health records from multiple providers on a single screen. Tech giants Apple and Google have both undertaken major healthcare initiatives aimed at improving patient access to their data.

Interoperability

Interoperability Health Data FHIR EHR

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. Weekly News Recap. Cerner will connect its systems to state prescription drug monitoring databases via DrFirst. Best Reader Comments.

EHR

EHR HIPAA Interoperability FHIR

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

mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

40 In one survey, more than half of users of activity trackers stopped using their device, and a third did so in the first 6 months. “Integration of Sensor, Smartphone, and Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data for Patients and Clinicians. 44 FHIR allows external third-party apps to integrate into the EHR workflow.

Mobile Health

Mobile Health mHealth EHR FHIR

Telemedicine Today: November 2016

American Well

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

A Bright Future for EHRs and Telehealth. Today, most EHRs and telehealth systems integrate data, transporting patient demographic, financial, medical and visit information back and forth between systems using protocols like HL7. Subscribe to Updates. HIT Leaders and News. A Bright Future. Learn More. Healthcare IT News.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine EHR Telehealth mHealth

Connected Health Pulse

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

Trending Sources

Bonus Features – March 3, 2024 – 75% of healthcare leaders expect widespread implementation of AI in 3 years, 78% of orgs lack knowledge on how to train employees to use AI, plus 18 more stories

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

Bonus Features – November 12, 2023 – 93% of clinicians use RPM in cardiac care rehab, telehealth flexibilities remain in place until the end of 2024, plus 25 more stories

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

Onramp to the Cloud Faster with Redox + Google

Group Brings SDOH Coding Effort To HL7 FHIR Program

Bonus Features – August 13, 2023 – 75% of executives thing generative AI has reached the point where it will reshape healthcare, 64% of patients would trust AI over a doctor to make a diagnosis, and more,

IT preparedness is key to managing outbreak of COVID-19, says CIO of SNUBH

Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

Weekly Roundup – November 25, 2023

Provenance use in AI

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

Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

TEFCA Real Talk

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

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

5 Digital Health Predictions for 2018 by Lloyd Price

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

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

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

Bonus Features – October 22, 2023 – 57% of patients accessed portals or medical records in 2022, 21 orgs make Level 10 in the 2023 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Survey, and more

Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

HIStalk Interviews Grahame Grieve, FHIR Architect and Interoperability Consultant

HLTH23 Recap and Major Announcements

Join the VA’s “Open API Pledge” session at Health Datapalooza

Weekender 6/21/19

Can Industry Outsiders Empower Patients Through Data?

Weekender 5/17/19

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

Telemedicine Today: November 2016

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