Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For those not familiar with the healthcare interoperability space, you may not know that a major portion of health data exchange happens on open source software called OSS Mirth Connect. For many organizations, OSS Mirth Connect is like the “Intel Inside” of their healthcare interoperability efforts.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2022

For the 87th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about The Business of Giving Patients Control of Their Health Data. It’s easy to say that patients should have access to their data. ONC and other legislation have made it clear that patients have a right to their data.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The content of this article is taken from a panel Kno2 hosted as part of the recent Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference , in collaboration with DirectTrust™ within a track dedicated to the sharing of health data to advance health equity.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 13, 2024

Our lineup includes a deep dive into Europe’s current regulatory landscape, including the AI Act, the European Health Data Space and the European Recovery and Resilience Fund. We’ll also help you make sense of all today’s trends in health technology—from machine learning to digital maturity and telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

Director at NTT DATA On February 8, 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1) Final Rule in the Federal Register, which took effect on March 11, 2024. The following is a guest article by Nitin Kunte, Sr.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

On October 6, 2022, the healthcare and health IT community woke to a new reality – one in which electronic health information (EHI) included far more than it did the day before. . The expanded definition of EHI now includes virtually any health information tied to an individual that is used in decision making.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Remote patient monitoring: Telecom companies are developing remote patient monitoring solutions that allow patients to track their health data from home and share it with their healthcare providers. HealthTech Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors - Industry Insights & Analysis for Founders, Owners & Investors.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For federal agencies and state and regional exchanges, this is an excellent time to demonstrate leadership in interoperability by joining a network that will likely provide a ready on-ramp to TEFCA. Currently, perhaps 99% of health data exchange is initiated to support treatment. The Case for Federal Agencies.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONCHIT). Dr. Halamka is President of CHAI, and Dr. Brian Anderson was appointed the CEO this month following many years of leadership in responsible AI work.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The PHTI notes many benefits from using digital health, organized in this second chart captured from the report: For patients, the ability to self-care at home, more timely and convenient access to services (both primary and specialty care), improving medication management, and enhancing the healthcare experience (when well-designed).

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Healthcare stakeholders need the patient data that healthcare providers possess. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. Here is one example of how payer exchange is being automated today.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2023

.” All three managers interviewed in the video below stress the importance of preparing data (also known as curation) before trying to use it. Furthermore, all data sources must be integrated so they can be shared and fed into analytics that combine data from many sources.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

For example, the definition of EHI and how it applies to various data isn’t clear and how the 8 exceptions apply is also confusing to many. Not to mention guides to protect sensitive health records such as substance abuse disorder, adolescent, mental health, and reproductive information.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

Prioritizing SDoH at the point of care can unintentionally reinforce our health equity blind spots. Without data on the full population, you could be missing the impact of SDoH on the most vulnerable, as shown by the example below on homelessness. Quality of data matters. What SDoH data do you have today?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

Philips and Executives for Health Innovation released a report describing stark inequities in cancer care and highlighting three global examples of success: Mobile screenings in Australia, awareness campaigns for immigrants in Germany, and new cancer care pathways in the United States.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2023

Health Gorilla is devoted to deriving insights from a combination of traditional clinical data and SDoH. Specific needs assessment data which is typically provided by the patient. The goal of this partnership is to supplement longitudinal health assessments with “longitudinal social care.”

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Data can both call out SDoH and help to address its effects. An example of calling out SDoH was cited by Dr. Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They use claims data to track use of emergency rooms, medical equipment, and generic versus brand medications. ” The U.S.

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

We heard from the Mace family, a couple who experienced first hand the difficulties with health data exchange after Tristan (26 yo M) had to undergo an emergency heart transplant after experiencing a catastrophic cardiac event.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As this year is going to be a lot about making the most with the resources you have, automating data security is also freeing precious engineering time for more valuable work. Technologies like AI and ML have a big role to play in data-digitization, prediction-analytics and interoperability of digital healthcare data.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

APRIL 27, 2020

By way of example, there have been reports recently of clinicians’ email inboxes running out of space due to the deluge of new guidance and emails, with concerns that they won’t receive new emails as a result. More thought leadership. This in turn restricts how responsive services and systems can be to patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

The benefits of this can have a cascading impact, ultimately helping to ensure that more patients are willing to provide personal health data and engage with public health programs more of the time – leading to better health data acquisition, knowledge, and potentially better health outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I’ll give one of my favorite examples to demonstrate. Examples include many types of medication refills, pre-authorization requests, preventive maintenance screenings, remote monitoring, and even management of mild urgent and chronic conditions. Lastly, data analytics resolves remaining duplicates and checks for overlays.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 1, 2023

The types and amount of data cleansing they need depends on how they’ll use the data: to track high-risk patients, measure quality, etc. Noshay illustrated the toll of poor quality by using “friction between payers and providers” as an example. How much is it costing your organization?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

For example, organizations have the option to interface with a user-friendly graphical interface or an embedded data solution that puts information directly into the workflow. All this makes a tremendous difference in what sort of health data you need to track and how you track it. .

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

For example, CRMs don’t do great with anonymous users and really only focus on the known, logged in patients. CRMs also have never solved well for digital data and thus have a limited view, so they don’t have enough data to drive real use cases that change the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

The other thing that I found intriguing was Ellison’s comments about who would benefit from this single database of all our health records. He gave the example of going to the ER and the ER doctor having access to your full records. First was patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

Christian Hardahl, Global Health Care Solutions Manager at SAS Patients push to own their health data. Patients will increasingly demand to own their health and social data and only make it available to the resources they choose. I see this gaining more traction in 2024.

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