FHIR, Health IT, Interoperability and Video

QHINs, Health Data Exchange, FHIR, AI and More with CommonWell Health Alliance

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

At HIMSS, we sat down to talk with CommonWell Health Alliance to learn about their passion for interoperability and some of the latest happenings with the CommonWell community. Along with these important updates, we also asked Liz Buckle, Director of Product at CommonWell Health Alliance , to talk about their work on CommonWell 2.0

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MeldRx Is Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Or maybe they hear about this new more modern FHIR standard that will give them access to that data. Once they dive into the details associated with accessing health data from the EHR, they realize there is a whole lot more to it than most expect. Schiess also shared the wide variety of potential users he sees for this product.

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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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A New FHIR Analytics Tool from SAS Health

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Thus, SAS Health Solutions offers a common data model, ingesting data from disparate sources of FHIR data into the appropriate fields for analysis. Gail Stephens, VP, Health and Life Sciences, explains the uses for SAS Health in this video, her goal being to “get patients to better health, more quickly.”

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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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VA still facing interoperability, scaling challenges amidst COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

One such issue is interoperability. 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. Now's the time to lean in."

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The Evolution of How Provider Organizations Share Data with Payers

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2024

It’s reasonable for a company like MRO to have a chief interoperability officer. According to their chief interoperability officer, Anthony Murray, the company has spent 22 years building tools to “exchange data seamlessly” in healthcare. MRO also promotes the two-way exchange of data and quality assurance checks.

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Innovar Healthcare Knows How to Make Last Mile Interoperability a Reality

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Patients, regulators, and payers are insisting on data exchange in health care. But despite the availability of FHIR and of APIs from many vendors, interoperability is often described as “difficult and “not frictionless” according to Loyd Bittle, CEO and Founder at Innovar Healthcare.

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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. In the video interview below, Wilder and Liz Buckle, Director of Product, discuss CommonWell’s vision, achievements, and plans for the future.

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Profile of a New Health Data Exchange Company healthKERI

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Check out the video below to hear the full story and to learn more about the KERI standard that has been used in other industries and now Jeffery and his team are bringing to healthcare. Check out the video below to learn more about Jeffery’s personal journey to becoming a health IT entrepreneur and his company healthKERI.

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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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#FHIR and the Gartner Hype Cycle

Health Intersections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

On a forum for FHIR Foundation members, I raised the subject of where FHIR is on the Gartner Hype Cycle (see Gartner write up , or Wikipedia ). FHIR Foundation member Wes Rishel ( @wrishel ), who’s a FHIR user, and also was a Gartner Analyst before he retired, graciously made this contribution that I could post here.

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MRO Satisfies Payer Medical Record Requests Automatically

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 26, 2023

We recently sat down with Mo Weitnauer, Chief Product Officer at MRO , to talk about their newly announced Payer Exchange product which implements near-frictionless interoperability for payer exchange. Check out this video with MRO to learn more about how you can help alleviate the burden of records requests from payers.

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MediQuant Aims at “One Patient, One Record”

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2024

MediQuant has been providing health data management and active archiving since 1999. In this video, CEO Jim Jacobs describes how they seek “one patient, one record” so that providers have complete and accurate data for the patients they serve. How can they make the data in these systems available to their organization?

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Xealth: Connecting Hospitals and Health Systems to Patient Apps and Health Information

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The SMART-on-FHIR open platform allows clinicians to offer third-party apps in a standard manner. A clinician can recommend a service from the patient portal to a patient: a video, a PDF, or an app to manage their condition. Furthermore, a wealth of home-based solutions are being offered by a range of IT companies.

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Avaneer Health is Building a Digital Ecosystem to Simplify Data-Sharing, Drive Innovation, and Transform the Patient Experience

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Many IT companies have tried to create solutions that advance interoperability in healthcare. While FHIR has made significant headway in creating common protocols and standards for data exchange, there is opportunity to create greater data fluidity among all healthcare stakeholders. Learn more about Avaneer Health: [link].

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“My Data and Me”: Brenda Denzler’s amazing story at #FHIRDevDays

Society for Participatory Medicine

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

This fall Brenda entered her story in a competition for the “DevDays” (Developer Days) for the HL7 FHIR community. Email subscribers, if you can’t see the video, click here to play it on our YouTube channel.) Video here.) If you’re not interested in health data technology, skip this. Here you go.

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DirectTrust is Improving the Directory of Direct Addresses

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In the video interview below, Scott Stuewe, President and CEO at DirectTrust , shared the vision for the DirectTrust directory going forward. He shares how this change will address some of the challenges of the current approach and how the shift to FHIR based updates from batch updates is going to make a difference.

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Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition – April 18, 2023 – Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI dominate the headlines, plus news from Oracle, Orion Health, Salesforce, Surescripts, WebMD, and more

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

You can also visit our HIMSS23 page to see all our coverage of health IT’s biggest event. Real-world evidence company Atropos Health has joined the AWS Partner Network , and its services are available on AWS Marketplace. AWS selected Infor as an Amazon HealthLake Partner with its Infor FHIR Onramp on AWS.

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

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

As we kick off a new year, I thought it would be fun to take a quick look back at some of the top resources, articles, videos, and podcasts we shared in 2022. Final 2022 Health IT Predictions – Looks like people loved the potpurri of predictions too. Plus, it illustrates how much the EHR still impacts so many in health IT.

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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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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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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.” What sets Kno2 apart ? About Kno2.

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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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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. You can watch the full event video embedded below as well. How about a National EHR Database created by Oracle Cerner?

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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

Watch for a video demo coming soon to Healthcare IT Today. 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.

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Connected Health Pulse

QHINs, Health Data Exchange, FHIR, AI and More with CommonWell Health Alliance

MeldRx Is Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy

Trending Sources

Understanding Healthcare Interoperability Testing

A New FHIR Analytics Tool from SAS Health

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

VA still facing interoperability, scaling challenges amidst COVID-19

The Evolution of How Provider Organizations Share Data with Payers

Innovar Healthcare Knows How to Make Last Mile Interoperability a Reality

Just Get Connected Already

Profile of a New Health Data Exchange Company healthKERI

TEFCA Real Talk

#FHIR and the Gartner Hype Cycle

MRO Satisfies Payer Medical Record Requests Automatically

MediQuant Aims at “One Patient, One Record”

Xealth: Connecting Hospitals and Health Systems to Patient Apps and Health Information

Avaneer Health is Building a Digital Ecosystem to Simplify Data-Sharing, Drive Innovation, and Transform the Patient Experience

“My Data and Me”: Brenda Denzler’s amazing story at #FHIRDevDays

DirectTrust is Improving the Directory of Direct Addresses

Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition – April 18, 2023 – Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI dominate the headlines, plus news from Oracle, Orion Health, Salesforce, Surescripts, WebMD, and more

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

Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

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

Weekender 3/8/19

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

The Ins and Outs of Healthcare Communication Platforms

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

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