Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

Many of us look forward to digital interactions in health care that work as simply as a retail sale or airline reservation. Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth , shows us in this video how current regulations and FHIR standards will actually make that happen.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2024

Healthcare organizations use b.well’s scalable, FHIR-based platform to put consumers at the heart of every interaction, derive more value from their technology investments, and surface their services as part of a growing number of digital healthcare ecosystems.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

The video gets into a number of details that can be helpful to all these health care systems. For instance, DeGraff distinguishes TEFCA from FHIR-based APIs, which offer important features such as “push” notifications. (A A FHIR Roadmap for TEFCA Exchange has also been released, though.)

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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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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. There’s no one solution that will solve the health data sharing problem. It will include TEFCA, FHIR, HIEs, Direct Messages, APIs and much more.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

John Lynn spoke to Mo Weitnauer at MRO about using FHIR-based APIs to automatically fulfill the vast majority of requests in minutes or seconds – not weeks. Read more… Public Health Transparency Improves Outcomes in San Bernardino County. Read more… Healthcare Needs More Gender Diversity in Leadership.

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Redox

APRIL 28, 2023

Last week was the biggest event/spectacle in health IT, the “World’s Fair of Healthcare”, also known as HIMSS. Shereese Maynard (HIT Like a Girl Pod), Redox CEO Luke Bonney, and Redox Chief People Officer, Chloe Drew during the Advancing Gender Equity in Healthcare Leadership: The Role of Men as Allies discussion at HIMSS.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

With this commentary on IT companies trying to promise data sharing as a turn-key solution or package, Hyland lays out in this video his vision of “point-in-time interoperability,” which would allow bidirectional data exchange among multiple organizations while the patient is undergoing a health care episode.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The Connected Health Conference is still a Health IT conference, owned by HIMSS, spruced up by pre-conference Voice Health summit , task forces , and even onstage singing by health tech folk that may wish they were in show business. ? Held each year – but has much changed?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

As more solutions adhere to standards like the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources ( FHIR ) and enable connections to the networks like Carequality, data will flow more effectively and efficiently through the healthcare continuum.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

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. Chan School of Public Health, Mo formerly served in leadership roles for Cotiviti, FinThrive, and McKinsey & Company.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 14, 2018

App Orchard, for its part, lets developers use a FHIR-based API to access an Epic development sandbox. Source : Bots in healthcare: interview with Thomas Schulz, Organiser of Botscamp [link] ) 2018 Digital Health Prediction 4 : Mobile phone manufacturers will follow Apple's lead on connecting to hospital EHRs using FHIR.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2023

Personalized care company Surgo Health launched as a Public Benefit Corporation. Cardiac remote monitoring company Implicity released a SMART on FHIR App that reports directly to Epic. Clinical data network OM1 expanded its mental health offering to include schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

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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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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 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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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 Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 9/18 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Stephanie Guadian (@StephanieG_ECG) and Alexia Severson (@AlexiaS_ECG) from @ElectronicCare on the topic of “The Role of AI Technology in Healthcare and the Changes It Will Bring“.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 9/4 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Mich Parker, CISO (@mitchparkerciso) on the topic of “Rethinking Healthcare Security as a Cost Center“. Healthcare Information Security has been considered a nice-to-have.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 9/11 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Sarah Bennight (@SarahBennight) from @StericycleComms on the topic of “Losing Connection with Patients During COVID-19“.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

She goes on to explain that Kno2 has provided leadership, volunteering resources, including early, lasting and active participation in the Common Agreement Workgroup , which helped to shape the vision and proposed execution for TEFCA. Their early involvement as one of the initial implementers of Carequality serves as a precursor to TEFCA.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Eden Avraham-Katz, VP of Legal & Compliance at 1upHealth While I appreciate the efforts to simplify the prior authorization process with FHIR APIs, the underlying issues with prior authorization are fundamentally systemic. This data monitoring will allow leadership to clearly evaluate transformation, patient safety, and reliability.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

As the healthcare sector gravitates towards interoperability with standards like FHIR, it’s imperative to opt for a cloud strategy that accommodates these integrations smoothly. So much to think about here!

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

When it comes to legacy systems and interoperability, standards such as Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) are being adopted to ensure diverse systems can communicate effectively – not just within the organization, but across the entire industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Progress is being made on that last point as the 21st Century Cures Act aims to address some of these issues by establishing FHIR as the standard format for data sharing, but there is still work to be done to enhance communication both within and across healthcare organizations.

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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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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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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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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. Commure released CommureOS , a platform for sharing and reusing data as well as deploying healthcare applications.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

For example, the CMS-0057-P proposed rule requires the use of FHIR APIs and essentially builds upon previous regulations. Elaina McMillan, Director of Product Marketing at Edifecs Mandates require technology infrastructure that builds on each other.

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