FHIR, Health IT, Interoperability and Leadership

Key Skills and Qualifications for a Successful Career in Health IT and How They’ve Evolved with Advancements in Healthcare Technology

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having a career in Health IT requires a lot of skills and qualifications, even more so if you want that career to be successful – but what are those skills and qualifications? Familiarity with interoperability standards is also essential, as is the need to stay abreast of evolving compliance requirements.

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Understanding Healthcare Interoperability Testing

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

“Interoperability is not something you can buy, and not something you can sell,” according to Mario G. AEGIS offers testing for interoperability, helping companies ensure that they have interpreted health data standards such as U.S. Hyland, founder and senior vice president of AEGIS.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

But in a time when our industry is facing high staff overtime and burnout, there’s simply no way that we can be aware of everything happening in health IT. What should be trending right now in health IT? We won’t see accelerated adoption of interoperability standards (e.g., FHIR, HL7).

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The Argonaut Project: 10 Year Anniversary in 2024 for HealthTech open interoperability initiative

Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The Argonaut Project is a collaborative effort between the healthcare industry and the technology industry to develop and implement standards for exchanging electronic health information (EHI). HealthTech Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors - Industry Insights & Analysis for Founders, Owners & Investors.

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Policy Ingredients for Real-Time Improvements in Health Care, Prior Auth, and Claims

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth , shows us in this video how current regulations and FHIR standards will actually make that happen. In a fast-paced exchanged with John Lynn of Healthcare IT Today, Rucker covers regulations and evolving data exchange standards that foster interoperability and data analytics.

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From Information Blocking to Information Sharing – A Look at HTI-1 and TEFCA

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) was followed recently by the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) Final Rule. ” Patients are a major source of pressure for interoperability and data sharing.

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Just Get Connected Already

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

clinicians, as estimated by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance. Many other health IT firms have joined CommonWell since then. FHIR, the API for automated data sharing, is mature and being adopted. This is the burden still faced by three quarters of U.S.

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TEFCA Real Talk

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

As someone who has covered the health IT industry for 17 years, I’m always fascinated when I see something really grab the attention of the health IT community. Certainly AI us currently doing that in health IT, but in the world of interoperability TEFCA and QHINs are grabbing all of the attention.

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These Three Things Can Bring EHRs to the Next Level

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

As a former ER physician and current digital health professional, I’ve dealt with these challenges firsthand—and see the enormous potential EHRs hold to change care experiences for the better. Enhancing Interoperability In addition to greater usability, EHRs need better data-sharing capabilities to bring real value to the clinical space.

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Post-pandemic HIMSS v1.0 – 2023’s event unwrapped

Redox

APRIL 28, 2023

Last week was the biggest event/spectacle in health IT, the “World’s Fair of Healthcare”, also known as HIMSS. Sessions on how AI, data standards, and interoperability will help propel us to a more equitable landscape filled me with enthusiasm for what comes next. Sessions like “ Interoperability. What’s Taking So Long?”

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Weekly Roundup – June 25, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 25, 2022

Geri Lynn Baumblatt offers a recap of the American College of Physicians (ACP) conference, where there was a clear focus on shifting the conversation on burnout and moral distress among health professionals. Read more… Where Are We At With FHIR? Read more… Is Healthcare AI Essential or Nice to Have? with CIO Steve Hess.

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So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. Automated chart retrieval is performed at scale, leveraging modern HL7 FHIR APIs. With a master’s degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H.

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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Healthtech providers can adopt HL7 (Health Level Seven) or FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). The main difference lies in FHIR’s use of RESTful web services and open web technologies like XML, JSON, and RDF, while HL7 supports only XML. HL7 has various versions, with CDA being the most widespread.

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Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

For the month of April, we'll look at this trend from a variety of angles, including how hospitals, pharma organizations and payers can treat patients as customers, and how these healthcare consumers are cutting out traditional intermediaries through new D2C health and wellness businesses. Health IT implementation best practices.

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What Does Remote Patient Monitoring and Chronic Care Management Really Take to Be Successful?

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

No doubt a month still isn’t enough to fully understand this quickly changing area of health IT. This month we’ve had an added focus on Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and all it’s nuances and features.

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Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed

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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Top Healthcare IT Today Resources, Articles, Videos, and Podcasts

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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Public Cloud, Private Cloud, or Multi-Cloud? The Benefits and Challenges of Each One

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Data interoperability is a critical component of a hybrid adoption strategy. I advise healthcare organizations to seek an interoperability partner who meets them where they are today and into the future, offering multiple deployment options including the ability to deploy on-premises, in a private cloud or in a public cloud.

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From Security to Regulation: Exploring the Hidden Challenges of the Digital Health Revolution

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

For new components to be deployed, they must be interoperable with legacy systems to some degree, guaranteeing that the flow of traffic is sustained, and vital services aren’t interrupted. What’s further, an incremental approach to technological advancement will allow leaders to stay on task and build out their strategy carefully.

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Taking Advantage of Next-Gen Regulations at the Point of Care

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As they say in the Marvel cinematic universe, what if… What if providers had a current, comprehensive view of their patients’ clinical and administrative health history available at the point of care? The following is a guest article by Gary Meyer, Assistant Vice President at Cognizant.

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Kno2’s Unique Perspective on Why TEFCA is Different as They Pursue QHIN Designation

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As we approach 2023 it is amazing that interoperability, true broad-based connectivity between healthcare systems, looks like the Verizon heatmap back in 2005 when there was as much white on the map as there was red. She says of Kno2, “We enable interoperability and the magic happening on the edge.”

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The Ins and Outs of Healthcare Communication Platforms

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As cases are automated on communication platforms, there is a growing need to interoperably share care plans for patients/persons beyond the case worker team and out within the community’s ecosystem of stakeholders. However, there have been some promising indicators that FHIR-enabled care coordination could be changing the game.

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Patient Engagement through Communication Platforms

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Vijay Verma, VP of Product Strategy at TeleVox A common shortcoming in healthcare communication systems is interoperability. Additionally, inter-organizational communication between providers and business associates remains a challenge, with EHR and other IT vendors lacking seamless interoperability between platforms.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Defining and Sharing

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The modern health information API, FHIR, includes the Gender Harmony taxonomy developed by HL7. Sharing SDoH CRISP Shared Services is a nonprofit health data utility (HDU) that integrates data between health information exchanges (HIEs).

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Larry Ellison’s Vision of a National EHR Database as Part of Cerner Acquisition

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

To simplify the question, is Epic going to give Oracle Cerner access to all their health records? I think we all know the answer to that and FHIR and all these other standards won’t get us there either. Can Oracle really create a full longitudinal record of all patients?

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Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – November 15, 2022 – News from Amwell, Epic, Google, MEDITECH, Microsoft, and more, plus the dates for HLTH Europe

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Consensus Cloud Solutions released Consensus Conductor , an integration platform for sharing fax via Direct Messaging or FHIR APIs. Nomi Health launched the Connect fintech platform for real-time payments. Cancer care navigation tool Jasper Health selected Particle Health for clinical data interoperability.

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Emerging Technologies in Healthcare IT and Their Regulatory Considerations

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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Connected Health Pulse

Key Skills and Qualifications for a Successful Career in Health IT and How They’ve Evolved with Advancements in Healthcare Technology

Understanding Healthcare Interoperability Testing

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

The Argonaut Project: 10 Year Anniversary in 2024 for HealthTech open interoperability initiative

Policy Ingredients for Real-Time Improvements in Health Care, Prior Auth, and Claims

From Information Blocking to Information Sharing – A Look at HTI-1 and TEFCA

Just Get Connected Already

TEFCA Real Talk

These Three Things Can Bring EHRs to the Next Level

Post-pandemic HIMSS v1.0 – 2023’s event unwrapped

Weekly Roundup – June 25, 2022

So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

What Does Remote Patient Monitoring and Chronic Care Management Really Take to Be Successful?

Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed

Top Healthcare IT Today Resources, Articles, Videos, and Podcasts

Public Cloud, Private Cloud, or Multi-Cloud? The Benefits and Challenges of Each One

From Security to Regulation: Exploring the Hidden Challenges of the Digital Health Revolution

Taking Advantage of Next-Gen Regulations at the Point of Care

Kno2’s Unique Perspective on Why TEFCA is Different as They Pursue QHIN Designation

The Ins and Outs of Healthcare Communication Platforms

Patient Engagement through Communication Platforms

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Defining and Sharing

Larry Ellison’s Vision of a National EHR Database as Part of Cerner Acquisition

Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – November 15, 2022 – News from Amwell, Epic, Google, MEDITECH, Microsoft, and more, plus the dates for HLTH Europe

Emerging Technologies in Healthcare IT and Their Regulatory Considerations

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