Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Health IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

Health IT 60

Health IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

Health IT 60

Health IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

Health IT 60

Health IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. Another arena in which CHIME is seeking to be a convener is in designing health IT approaches to address the opioid epidemic. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Health IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

The most notable approval is USCDI v3, and others include two implementation guides from CMS for Quality Reporting Document Architecture and three HL7 standards (for C-CDA, FHIR, and QRDA). ONC has approved six standards as part of its annual annual Standards Version Advancement Process.

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HIPAA Digital Health EHR Healthcare IT 94

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Healthtech providers can adopt HL7 (Health Level Seven) or FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). AWS solutions require software compatible with HIPAA standards.

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HIPAA EMR FHIR EHR 113

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

National Coordinator for Health IT. "We've talked about FHIR and interoperability and APIs," said Gregory Moore, corporate vice president of Microsoft health and life sciences. "FHIR is table stakes," he said. "I really believe we're at an opportunity with cloud-enabled virtual care.

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Interoperability FHIR Life Science HIPAA 154

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2024

the journey to TEFCA and QHIN designation, the CommonWell approach to FHIR, and AI’s role in supporting data exchange. Dr. Rishi Sarna at Backline and Jackie Rice at Frederick Health outlined the benefits of HIPAA-compliant communication for transmitting large amounts of data or reaching multiple providers.

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Healthcare IT Nursing FHIR HIPAA 89

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon HealthLake, which AWS describes as “HIPAA-eligible,” was launched during Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference. Amazon Web Services is rolling out a new tool designed to make it simpler for healthcare organizations to work with their data.

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Life Science HIPAA FHIR EMR 145

Redox

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Healthcare software vendors prioritize projects that use HL7 ® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR ® ) over those built on other standards for many reasons. Because FHIR resources have a defined structure, they can be accessed, manipulated, and exchanged in ways that other standards aren’t today.

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FHIR Digital Health EHR Interoperability 69

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Colin talked to Eduard de Vries at Axia Women’s Health about leveraging their EHR to reduce administrative burdens on patients and present up-to-date information to physicians. Read more… The Health IT Issues That Not Enough People Are Talking About. Read more… Best Practices for Securing Healthcare Data in AWS.

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Healthcare IT EHR FHIR HIPAA 71

Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

Seeing AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Google Cloud in large booth spaces on the exhibitor floor space was a visual confirmation that health care IT is now more about data than technology. The cloud and FHIR standards are fostering a new era of interoperability in health care.

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FHIR Interoperability Telehealth Health Information 255

Lloyd Price

AUGUST 23, 2018

Today, as health IT community leaders get together at the CMS Blue Button 2.0 This requires a variety of technical strategies and ongoing collaboration for the industry to converge and embrace emerging standards for healthcare data interoperability, such as HL7 FHIR and the Argonaut Project. Please join the conversation.

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Interoperability FHIR EHR Health Data 43

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

2022 Predictions for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and In Home Care – I know not everyone enjoys predictions, but the fact that last year’s prediction did so well means that people like them more than I realized which is good since we just started our 2023 Health IT Predictions. Where Are We At With FHIR?

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Healthcare IT Interoperability FHIR EHR 92

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. I hear patients discouraged and disgusted when they can’t get access to their own data even in 2023!

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Healthcare IT Interoperability HIPAA Nursing 133

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Moving beyond health system-wide or regional interoperability has been a challenge due to several financial and operational hurdles. However, there have been some promising indicators that FHIR-enabled care coordination could be changing the game.

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HIPAA Health Information Interoperability EHR 71

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Outcomes4Me found that more than half of healthcare organizations are non-compliant with HIPAA and don’t honor individuals’ right to access their health records. PEP Health showed that patient experience scores are on the rise for hospitals in Texas , with Stars Ratings steadily increasing since 2019.

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Psychiatry Digital Health Healthcare IT Mental health 91

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

.” OECD found that over 90% of the countries studied reported introducing legislation to require standards for interoperability, and (wonk-alert) with two-thirds adopting HL7-FHIR, and 42% adopting SMART on FHIR. So with the U.S. This scoring is based on the Index using data from June 2023, as prepared by Tortoise Media.

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Interoperability Digital Health FHIR EHR 212

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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Healthcare IT Interoperability HIPAA EMR 125

Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

APIs, Internet of (Healthy) Things, and AR/VR among the others are getting deployed in retail channels and at home to support peoples’ health in the real world, in real time outside of the clinical setting. For health care, the application of FHIR standards helps mobilize data for better health, turbocharging this trend.

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