Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

These perspectives reinforce each other as she works to improve the regulatory landscape shaping security and interoperability in her role at CHIME overseeing congressional engagement efforts focused on effective use of health IT. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

These perspectives reinforce each other as she works to improve the regulatory landscape shaping security and interoperability in her role at CHIME overseeing congressional engagement efforts focused on effective use of health IT. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

My philosophy is that Interoperability Standards are not a destination, they are a catalyst that enables something far greater to happen. I have over 30 years of experience with IT communications, including 18 years of expertise in Healthcare Interoperability Standards and the application of Privacy.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer. A few of my favorite comments were: “Jim Cramer needs a crash course in FHIR standards” from the wonkier section of peanut gallery. The fact is that HIPAA may not cover all of these data flows.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Interoperability for better outcomes and clinical advances. The goal of Azure Health Data Services is interoperability that drives better patient outcomes and clinical advances. The health industry generates an overwhelming amount of data, much of which is unstructured and inaccessible.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Hearing about these pain points from stakeholders is why I’d “repackage HIPAA” if I were a regulator for a day. In that manner, businesses that remained “outside of the purview of HIPAA” would be impacted. With more funding acquired for the LTPAC space and investment in health information technology, care delivery will be secure.

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Redox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Consequences for non-participation are currently unclear, although providers may be cited for non-compliance with federal information blocking regulations which, according to the recent HHS proposed rule could be up to $1 million per violation. Of note, the XCPD, XCA, and XDR profiles do not currently support FHIR natively.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Among the many aspects we could explore in Health Populi , I’ve chosen two that are most top-of-mind for my work these days: interoperability and AI, comparing US to the peer OECD nations. In health care, we have a plethora of standards for linking health information from disparate data sets. So with the U.S.

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HIStalk Interviews

AUGUST 8, 2018

My background throughout my entire professional services career, outside of running the global analytics business, was healthcare — life sciences, domestic government work, international healthcare work, providers in health insurance. We are very pro consumers getting their health information. It simplifies those things.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As such, as a regulator for a day, I’d implement critical clarification and updates of HIPAA, its scope and classification when it comes to medical guidance from AI-powered tools, outline the responsibility and liability of AI, and explore the selling of data for profit without transparency and consent.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 6, 2018

In essence, blockchain could help reshape healthcare interoperability by serving as a next-generation middleware that couples health data with decentralized, distributed, and immutable qualities, according to a new report by IDC Health Insights. "It's a big conundrum."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By eliminating barriers and providing greater visibility into a patient's medical history and then providing bespoke recommendations or materials to support their care, interoperability and tech stand to provide a better patient experience anywhere as well as empower patients to take greater control over their healthcare journey, he said.

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