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Post-pandemic HIMSS v1.0 – 2023’s event unwrapped

Redox

Last week was the biggest event/spectacle in health IT, the “World’s Fair of Healthcare”, also known as HIMSS. I am a HIMSS newbie, so the size and scope seemed huge, even overwhelming at times, but veterans noted a noticeable temperance to this year’s event. Sessions like “ Interoperability. What’s Taking So Long?”

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These Three Things Can Bring EHRs to the Next Level

Healthcare IT Today

Drawing from this experience on both sides of the equation, I believe the next generation of EHRs can better meet the needs of all involved with better usability, interoperability, and flexibility. Enhancing Interoperability In addition to greater usability, EHRs need better data-sharing capabilities to bring real value to the clinical space.

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Hospitals without walls

Digital Leaders HealthTech

Interoperability as the key to making a perfect vision an effective and trusted reality. While the envisioned future still calls for brick-and-mortar hospitals, much care provision outside of procedure delivery could shift away from this setting and be delivered in the community and enabled through interoperable data, and digital delivery.

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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Healthcare IT Today

Healthtech providers can adopt HL7 (Health Level Seven) or FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). The main difference lies in FHIR’s use of RESTful web services and open web technologies like XML, JSON, and RDF, while HL7 supports only XML. HL7 has various versions, with CDA being the most widespread.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Interoperability: Health IT's hardest problem is (finally) at an inflection point. With FHIR 4, Open APIs, Carequality and CommonWell reaching a milestone of sorts and the finalized information blocking rule from Health and Human Services coming, the table is set for notable advancements in health information exchange. Collection.

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End-to-end FHIR testing

Healthcare Exchange Standards

There is renewed discussion, much like back in January, around the need to go beyond testing just the FHIR Resource 'interoperability'. Testing Interoperability is not easy, and there are struggles with getting this first level testing done right. This is more than just a selection of FHIR Resources. A complete system.

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Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed

Healthcare IT Today

While the key components of privacy (administrative, uses and disclosures, individual rights, and general security) are all necessary today, I would put privacy, security, breach – and relevant 21 Century Cures Interoperability topics – all together and make sure everyone handling any type of sensitive information be subject to these rules.