Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Canvas Medical, the EMR that enables clinicians and developers to power the future of care delivery, has raised $24MM in Series B funding led by M13 with participation from Haystack and previous investors Inspired Capital, IA Ventures, Upfront Ventures, and Irongrey. Founded in 2015, Canvas is reimagining the EMR for the future of healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In the world of health IT and healthcare policy, this is the day we love to share our love (and some disdain) for healthcare in what we call #HealthPolicyValentines. Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you! May your lives be filled with love this day.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2024

As we move away from sharing whole charts to the modern FHIR API, organizations can extract particular elements needed by the person requesting data. Murray shares some of the solutions MRO has put in place to navigate around these challenges. Plus, he shares how healthcare standards are impacting these efforts.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2024

“CCDAs are cumbersome to work with, but I am excited about where the industry is going with the FHIR expansion that is coming. Cohen and his team at Greenway are working to ensure the company is well positioned relative to FHIR so that their clients can be ready to be fully interoperable with other members of the healthcare ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2024

Kristen Valdes, Founder and CEO at b.well I think we’re going to see a rush towards people moving into platforming on FHIR using open standards. NCQA is already starting to run pilots to receive this data not only on medial billing data but also closer to the bedside on EMR data in order to get quality data reporting through.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

There have been public statements from ONC and to extent from the Sequoia Project that TEFCA will be modernized to computable data – i.e. FHIR data. FHIR has been around for over 10 years so it is worth pondering why it was not incorporated into TEFCA from the start.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Patients, regulators, and payers are insisting on data exchange in health care. But despite the availability of FHIR and of APIs from many vendors, interoperability is often described as “difficult and “not frictionless” according to Loyd Bittle, CEO and Founder at Innovar Healthcare.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 14, 2018

App Orchard, for its part, lets developers use a FHIR-based API to access an Epic development sandbox. This will allow the developers to address issues in connecting their apps to the Epic EMR. Previously, Epic wouldn’t let mobile app developers connect to its EMR until a customer requested permission on their behalf.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

Rhode Island-based Care New England selected Kyndryl to manage its EMR consolidation. Awards HHS announced two 2023 LEAP in Health IT awardees : Western New York’s HIE, HEALTHeLINK, for its use of Advanced FHIR capabilities, and Boston Children’s Hospital for identifying data quality improvements for USCDI data elements.

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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. Concierge care platform Gradia Health secured $4.2 million in seed funding.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The organizations created a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources ( FHIR ) -based implementation leveraging the existing eHealth Exchange infrastructure as the central network to send and receive FHIR messages about adverse events.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

As more solutions adhere to standards like the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources ( FHIR ) and enable connections to the networks like Carequality, data will flow more effectively and efficiently through the healthcare continuum.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. Experts from across the health IT field will share insights about everything from AI and cloud computing to telemedicine and population health. Health IT implementation best practices. How FHIR 4 will drive interoperability progress in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

They use “every means that they can” to extract and store data: FHIR where available, proprietary APIs, and other methods provided by each EHR. Particular regions or neighborhoods may call for specific questions about such issues as HIV status or illicit drug use. Integration with the EHR, according to Rau, was difficult.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Health Equity and SDoH. This will further endeavor to cement FHIR as the data standard to support future information exchange.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

An ongoing lawsuit between two health IT companies raises questions that call for more discussion. has led independent observers to predict a shake-up in health care and the potential for future lawsuits. Already, the judge’s preliminary injunction in the case ( Real Time Medical Systems, Inc. PointClickCare Technologies, Inc. )

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

In 2023, ModMed we will be focusing on the following deliverables for our customers: Interoperability/FHIR and better communication between systems and healthcare participants. Check out all of our 2023 Health IT Predictions. ModMed – Dr. Michael Rivers, Sr. Medical Director of Ophthalmology.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2022

OneRecord is the leader in FHIR interoperability with integrations to provider and payer organizations across the United States and Europe. More information is at milliman.com. About OneRecord, LLC. Its data network powers healthcare tools that people and developers rely on.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

No doubt a month still isn’t enough to fully understand this quickly changing area of health IT. This month we’ve had an added focus on Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and all it’s nuances and features.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Now we’ll see how Real Time responded and look at the new burdens that AI is placing on health care as revealed by the case. One of the key goals of health care reform, going back to HIPAA in 1996 and particularly the HITECH act of 2009, is to allow the free flow of patient data in a secure and privacy-preserving way.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

2022 Predictions for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and In Home Care – I know not everyone enjoys predictions, but the fact that last year’s prediction did so well means that people like them more than I realized which is good since we just started our 2023 Health IT Predictions. Where Are We At With FHIR?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The announcement follows the release of the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule in July, which requires all health plans doing business with the […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

. “Together, Elation and Zus are optimizing how external health data is synthesized within the EHR platform, which will support many of our key goals, such as reducing clinician burden, strengthening the patient-physician relationship, and driving primary care success.”

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon Web Services is rolling out a new tool designed to make it simpler for healthcare organizations to work with their data. Amazon HealthLake, which AWS describes as “HIPAA-eligible,” was launched during Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2022

Recently, we shared news about the growing feature set under development as part of Google Health’s Care Studio, most recently its “Conditions” feature which summarizes patient conditions and uses NLP to link related information like labs or medications to those condition listings.

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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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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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Lloyd Price

MAY 14, 2019

All the acquisitions were a string of pearls and MD was to be the string that tied them all together …hospital EMR products, aged care management products, pharmacy script dispensing products and so on. And Telstra Health was back. She says Telstra Health is “on the inside moving out”.The It has embraced FHIR.

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HIStalk Interviews

JULY 23, 2018

We knew that the next generation of digital health solutions would require data liquidity. We thought we had an innovative way of providing advanced data exchange between health IT applications. Then we will handle the nuances of getting the data out and putting the data back into the EMR.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2019

In another step in fleshing out its interoperability efforts, CMS has announced plans to launch a pilot program giving clinicians access to claims data. During the pilot, which is called “Data at the Point of Care” or DPC, clinicians will be able to access the claims data from CMS’s Blue Button 2.0 functionality. The idea […].

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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

JUNE 23, 2022

To simplify the question, is Epic going to give Oracle Cerner access to all their health records? I think we all know the answer to that and FHIR and all these other standards won’t get us there either. Can Oracle really create a full longitudinal record of all patients?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Additionally, improving data interoperability and the seamless exchange of health information across different healthcare systems and providers has been a focus of policymakers. For example, the CMS-0057-P proposed rule requires the use of FHIR APIs and essentially builds upon previous regulations.

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