Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

But the administrative costs for providers to share this information keep escalating. 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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Ensuring the efficient flow of information is fundamental to advancing interoperability. One of the HIPAA-compliant solutions CyncHealth uses to exchange information is Direct Secure Messaging. He shares why they chose SES and some of the business impacts resulting from the change.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Interoperability as the key to making a perfect vision an effective and trusted reality. With Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) becoming a reality as an essential ingredient of the NHS Long Term Plan, the need to ensure that data and information flows readily and securely between central, regional, and local care settings is vital.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Challenges and considerations: Technical complexity: Implementing and integrating SSI technology across diverse healthcare systems can be challenging due to technical complexities and interoperability issues. This transparency builds trust and fosters informed consent.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 7, 2023

HealthTech Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors - Industry Insights & Analysis for Founders, Owners & Investors. For example, clinical workflow automation can help to reduce the time it takes to schedule a patient appointment, improve the accuracy of clinical documentation, and reduce the number of medication errors.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

If you’re familiar with the 21st Century Cures Act, then you know that October 6th is a major deadline that requires healthcare providers, health IT developers, HIEs, HINs, and others to share all ePHI (electronic protected health information) in the DRS (Designated Record Set). And the next chapter begins!

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 8, 2023

For example, an app might partner with a hospital to offer patients a way to message their doctors and nurses directly. HealthTech Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors - Industry Insights & Analysis for Founders, Owners & Investors. link] HealthTech M&A Advisory by Founders for Founders, Owners & Investors.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) final HTI-1 rule will bring major compliance hoops for EHR developers to jump through as they carry the next stage of interoperability forward. For more information on how to prepare for the ONC HTI-1 rule , read the first article in our Regulatory Talk series.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2023

Established interoperability standards will facilitate health information and data sharing across outsourced platforms. Being able to designate the geography and obtain better performance for cost allows faster processing power for MRI results or AI components, for example.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

The following is a guest article by Sonia Chambers, Executive Director at West Virginia Health Information Network. Infrastructure is available nationally for states to leverage and customize locally for their unique Health Information Exchange needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

government introduced the meaningful use program as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, LTPAC organizations – notably nursing homes – and the vulnerable patients they serve have been left behind. Since the U.S.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 27, 2018

Patrick Ndimubanzi, Honorable Minister of State, Public Health and Primary Health Care, Rwanda Digital Health Innovation in Rwanda Let's explore 5 examples of Digital Health innovation in Rwanda ranging from artificial intelligence and machine learning to blood delivery by drones and telemedicine.

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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

JUNE 1, 2023

The following is a guest article by Preston Duren, Vice President of Cybersecurity Operations at Fortified Health Security The need for adequate cybersecurity has never been higher for the nation’s hospitals and health systems. An example of this would be ensuring you are logging Event 4104, Powershell Script Block Logging.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

To seamlessly obtain information from various systems, healthcare data exchange standards are essential. Healthtech providers can adopt HL7 (Health Level Seven) or FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). HL7 has various versions, with CDA being the most widespread.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 6, 2016

Call to action I recommend hospital leadership sit-down with the "Security" Office and "Privacy" Office; walk through this simple 8 pages. This fact-sheet should be viewed by hospital leadership just like a contracted penetration report, except this is more well written. There is NOTHING in this 8 pages that should be surprising.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Across a range of examples including mutual aid requests for police forces, improving fire and rescue services, delivering city clean air zones, sustainably managing our land assets and learning from patient safety incidents, common themes emerge. For example: How are they using health services? Interoperability as the key.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2023

For example, using automation with AI to replace manual data entry, lengthy progress note writing, phone calls (and faxes – still!) As an example, we can look at vulnerability management. ultimately empowering consumers to take control of their digital health journey.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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.

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CMS.gov

MAY 31, 2018

Leadership. Rural health. For example, we reviewed many of the MIPS requirements and developed policies for 2018 that continue to reduce burden, add flexibility, and help clinicians spend less time on unnecessary requirements and more time with patients. Quality Payment Program Exceeds Year 1 Participation Goal. keya.joy-bush@….

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But when dealing with all of the many things that providers do and the highly important health information about patients, something as simple as selecting a communication platform becomes a very tricky situation. How do you maintain the security and privacy of your patient’s health information as cyberattacks continue to climb?

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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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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Lack of a consistent and accurate way to link patients to their health information is a significant contributor to an average duplicate record rate that runs as high as 18% in the typical facility. Only 18% reporting spending less than $250,000 a year. The cost of poor patient matching goes beyond financial.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2023

An example of calling out SDoH was cited by Dr. Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). An oft-cited statistic estimates that 80% of health outcomes can be attributed to SDoH.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Kno2’s passion to enable health information exchange for all includes connecting and representing the needs of historically overlooked healthcare segments including post-acute, therapies, EMS, vision, dental, behavioral health, specialty providers and others. Post-Acute Providers for the Win!

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HIStalk Interviews

OCTOBER 3, 2018

How do you see the company fitting into the interoperability landscape? I’m not sure I would even classify what we do as carte blanche interoperability. Interoperability is principally concerned with moving data from Point A to Point B. Virginia is a perfect example. Interoperability is the base layer.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

Both HIPAA and related state laws create strict guidelines and restrictions on collecting, using, and maintaining patient-protected health information. For example, if there is bias inherent in tools being used for hiring, the EEOC will step in and change the requirements.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As stakeholders within the healthcare ecosystem, we must be very mindful of how we use AI to help organizations gather the data and insights they need without mismanaging patients’ personal health information or sacrificing their privacy rights.

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