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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. We met up last week at the DIA Europe 2022 meeting (Drug Information Association) in the cool SQUARE Conference Center in Brussels, Belgium (my current home base for work and life). That’s why Seqster calls this solution “patient-centric interoperability.”.

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Redox unwraps interoperability in 2024

Redox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Here are some specific reflections: FHIR adoption: We missed the mark on our HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) growth prediction. It certainly is growing, but FHIR has not picked up the steam we had hoped for in 2023. We reflected on that in our recap of 2023 FHIR DevDays. Sadly, he was wrong.

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Fax As An On-Ramp for Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

The journey to achieve interoperability in healthcare has been too long and too expensive. To address this, companies have put effort into creating interoperability tools and platforms designed to make it easier to exchange data. To accelerate interoperability efforts, however, creating more technology may not the answer.

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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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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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Featured Health IT Job: eCQM/dCQM Measure Developer – CORE

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 21, 2022

They will additionally source solutions from, and contribute to, relevant open-source projects and participate in community events such as Health Level Seven (HL7) Connectathons. The duties of this position can be carried out remotely if this meets the business needs of CORE.

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Lyniate Merges with CareCom, Further Extending Capabilities of Interoperability Leader

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2022

Semantic Interoperability Pioneer, CareCom, Improves Clinician Experience with Advanced Healthcare Terminology Mapping and NLP Conversion of Unstructured Data. Around the globe, healthcare organizations rely on HealthTerm to support data quality governance and health information exchange.

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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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Prior Authorization Takes a Leap Forward in CMS Regulation

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Because every health plan has unique payment rules and medical policies, the process currently lacks the kinds of automated checks that other systems have, and that would ensure that information submitted by the practice meets plan requirements for a pre-approval evaluation. Henck says that the regulations will affect half of the U.S.

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IHE IT-Infrastructure Spring 2023

Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

The IHE IT-Infrastructure committee continues to produce new and improved specifications for HIE interoperability. Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) Health Data Locator and Revoke Option - Rev. Health IT Vendors should review this supplement and determine if the capabilities within meet their interoperability needs.

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Health Data Cloud Leader 1upHealth Raises $40 Million Series C led by Sixth Street Growth

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

1upHealth’s FHIR®-native platform designed for interoperability and modern computing is used by over 75 enterprise organizations including leading national and regional health plans, the highest performing CMS ACOs, international clinical research organizations, and over 20 state Medicaid agencies. Our customers are ready.

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HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer. Here’s what I wrote. That was tweeted ten years ago.

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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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Weekly Roundup – September 30, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Read more… Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy. Digital health developers shouldn’t have to learn the hundreds of flavors of FHIR implementations and APIs to share data , Patrick Schiess at Darena Solutions told John. Read more… Operational Teams Drive Optimal Health IT System Adoption.

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Smile Digital Health Closes $30 Million in Series B Funding to Progress Innovation as World-Leading Health Data Fabric

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The increasing need for interoperability in healthcare has driven significant growth and demand for the company’s data fabric platform and continued innovation in this area. “Our vision for better global health becomes more achievable when we focus on the inherent value of finding innovative ways to efficiently share and use data.

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Trust In Data Stewardship Is Healthcare Providers’ To Lose

Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

This chart illustrated data from that survey, showing that trust, authenticity and satisfaction were the top three drivers among consumers looking to engage for health. The cloud and FHIR standards are fostering a new era of interoperability in health care.

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Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Health Equity and SDoH. Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. Jean Drouin, Co-Founder and CEO at Clarify Health. Elizabeth A.

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Three FHIR myths that hold back digital health enterprises

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. Let’s dive in.

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Weekly Roundup – December 2, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Colin Hung attended the vendor’s User Group Meeting and provided a recap of the event, where NextGen discussed an AI-powered ambient voice assistant and a Luma Health partnership to power patient self-scheduling. Read more… The Health IT Issues That Not Enough People Are Talking About.

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

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Particularly for risk adjustment (RA) reviews, even the slightest gaps in reporting leaves health plans at risk for drops in quality ratings and subsequent revenue loss. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges.

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Milliman IntelliScript Acquires OneRecord

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The purchase of OneRecord positions Milliman IntelliScript to better serve clients who depend on the company’s delivery of digital health and consumer data to mitigate applicant risks, meet customer demand for a faster application process, and extend coverage to more people. More information is at milliman.com. About OneRecord, LLC.

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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. Currently, ChatGPT does not meet HIPAA standards.

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Bonus Features – November 20, 2022 – 90% of healthcare buyers prioritize virtual care but want a clear roadmap, wearable data helped predict COVID-19 infections 12 days before the CDC, and more

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

ONC published a blog post highlighting how to meet the 2015 Edition Cures Update requirements for ONC certification. Specifically, certified health IT developers have a Dec. 31 deadline for meeting requirements for FHIR-based API standardization.

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Wolters Kluwer Health Language Platform to Maximize the Value of Health Data for Organizations Using Microsoft Azure

Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Wolters Kluwer Health Language Platform, a FHIR Terminology Server, enables interoperability to ensure quality healthcare data is leveraged across health plans, providers, and HIT vendors for analytics applications WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS

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Featured Health IT Job: EHR Applications Analyst

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2023

As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with analyzing EHR applications! If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply.

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

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

You need to train users on how each system should be used so they are using the resources in the way that best meets their needs. Data interoperability is a critical component of a hybrid adoption strategy. Vickey Chen, Senior Data Architect at Excella Facilitating user adaption to a cloud environment is key to cloud migration.

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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.

Digital Health

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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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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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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. These platforms facilitate faster and more effective communication among providers, reducing the need for time-consuming meetings, manual note-taking, and cumbersome portals.

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After A Troubled Start, Can Telstra Health Be Australia’s First Digital Health Unicorn?

Lloyd Price

MAY 14, 2019

GPs were the healthcare system hub, where all these other products needed to meet and connect and transact. Best Practice wasn’t far behind MD, and so was also courted by Telstra Health at the time. And Telstra Health was back. She says Telstra Health is “on the inside moving out”.The It has embraced FHIR.

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How Can Health IT Help Reform the CDC?

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health. Paths to Interoperability A recent article exposes the woeful silo-ing of public health: Data often has to be faxed and re-entered into new systems manually. This article summarizes their responses.

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Weekender 3/8/19

HIStalk Weekender

MARCH 8, 2019

Carestream Health sells its health IT business to Philips. FDA Commissioner and digital health advocate Scott Gottlieb, MD resigns. Newly formed Beth Israel Lahey Health says it will eventually consolidate its multiple EHRs into a single product. There is no long road to interoperability. Weekly News Recap.

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Connected Health Pulse

What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Redox unwraps interoperability in 2024

Trending Sources

Fax As An On-Ramp for Interoperability

Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

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

Featured Health IT Job: eCQM/dCQM Measure Developer – CORE

Lyniate Merges with CareCom, Further Extending Capabilities of Interoperability Leader

Just Get Connected Already

Prior Authorization Takes a Leap Forward in CMS Regulation

IHE IT-Infrastructure Spring 2023

Health Data Cloud Leader 1upHealth Raises $40 Million Series C led by Sixth Street Growth

HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

These Three Things Can Bring EHRs to the Next Level

Weekly Roundup – September 30, 2023

Smile Digital Health Closes $30 Million in Series B Funding to Progress Innovation as World-Leading Health Data Fabric

Trust In Data Stewardship Is Healthcare Providers’ To Lose

Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Three FHIR myths that hold back digital health enterprises

Weekly Roundup – December 2, 2023

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

Milliman IntelliScript Acquires OneRecord

Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Bonus Features – November 20, 2022 – 90% of healthcare buyers prioritize virtual care but want a clear roadmap, wearable data helped predict COVID-19 infections 12 days before the CDC, and more

Wolters Kluwer Health Language Platform to Maximize the Value of Health Data for Organizations Using Microsoft Azure

Featured Health IT Job: EHR Applications Analyst

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

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

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

Patient Engagement through Communication Platforms

After A Troubled Start, Can Telstra Health Be Australia’s First Digital Health Unicorn?

How Can Health IT Help Reform the CDC?

Weekender 3/8/19

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