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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Of course, that's been the case every year over the past decade since the first meaningful use checks were mailed out, kickstarting the digital healthcare age as we know it. How FHIR 4 will drive interoperability progress in healthcare. Information blocking rules: Health industry groups call for Congressional oversight.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Thus far, Remedy Partners has been involved in managing about half a million episodes of care, representing $12 Billion in medical spending, in 48 different DRG-based episodes – working with many hospitals, physician groups, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, all of which may bear risk in the program. The Harlow Group LLC.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Thus far, Remedy Partners has been involved in managing about half a million episodes of care, representing $12 Billion in medical spending, in 48 different DRG-based episodes – working with many hospitals, physician groups, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, all of which may bear risk in the program. The Harlow Group LLC.

EHR 60
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Simplifying Security Audit Standards

Healthcare Exchange Standards

This defines the purpose of a security Audit Log, the uses of this audit log information, including how it is used to provide patients with accounting of disclosures. This specification has been leveraged by many regional initiatives including in the USA the Meaningful Use Stage 2. So far there has been little interest.

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Judy Faulkner talks lessons learned from Epic's COVID-19 response

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Care Everywhere will pull in data about the patient from Epic and from any other healthcare system that uses the standards and has signed up with Carequality , and if they have done that, then that data can be pulled in too. On the value of FHIR for data exchange: I think the key to many things is standardization. They were afraid to.

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

mHealth Insight

43 A recent development may offer hope: the federal government’s “meaningful use” requirements for EHR certification are calling for greater interoperability through an emerging data-exchange standard called Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR).