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!’”

Health IT 60

Health IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

He also tweets his own comments on Twitter @EricTopol , which have become must-click insights into the COVID-19 pandemic from the inception of the public health crisis.

Interoperability 436

Interoperability Life Science EHR Health Data 436

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

News The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule continues many telehealth flexibilities first adopted during the public health emergency, such as an expanded scope of originating sites an expanded definition of qualified practitioners. of the Common Agreement and committed to having TEFCA support FHIR-based exchange within 2024.

Telehealth 109

Telehealth RCM Public Health EHR 109

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.

Healthcare IT 79

Healthcare IT eHealth Leadership RCM 79

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 24, 2020

The project is an open source effort to create an HL7 FHIR API that shares […]. A few weeks ago, I first heard about this project from my friend Keith Boone who is leading the SANER project while working at Audacious Inquiry.

FHIR 56

FHIR Public Health Interoperability Healthcare IT 56

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2023

Andy Oram discussed how adopting FHIR should be a no-brainer for better public health data collection and sharing – and how that must be followed up with standards for what data should be collected and shared. Read more… The Key to Retaining Patients – and Employees.

eHealth 83

eHealth Healthcare IT FHIR Primary Care 83

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2023

News and Research With the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency due to end on May 11, the Drug Enforcement Administration has proposed restrictions on the remote prescription of controlled substances , with only buprenorphine and Schedule III-V non-narcotic controlled medications available via telemedicine, and available only in 30-day supplies.

HIE 86

HIE FHIR Healthcare IT Telemedicine 86

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. This will further endeavor to cement FHIR as the data standard to support future information exchange.

Interoperability 103

Interoperability Health IT FHIR EMR 103

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.

Life Science 80

Life Science Health Information EHR Leadership 80

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.

HIPAA 86

HIPAA Digital Health EHR Healthcare IT 86

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 5, 2021

The following is a guest article by Scott Afzal, President of Audacious Inquiry. This past year, Americans in nearly every community had to face the prospect that there may not be an ICU bed or ventilator available for them in the nearby hospital if they got sick with COVID. It was a stunning illustration of […].

FHIR 114

FHIR Public Health Healthcare IT Health IT 114

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. The second group to benefit from this National EHR Database was public health.

EHR 99

EHR Life Science Public Health FHIR 99

HIStalk Interviews

MAY 8, 2019

Are views changing on our expensive system of providing healthcare services vs. funding social programs and public health projects that might reduce the need for them? Those are all things that are measurable and that health IT could take an active role in bringing forth. Despite that, we still had good outcomes.

Health science 58

Health science Interoperability Public Health Private practice 58

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Note: In case you missed the other 12 Days of #HITChristmas, you can start with the first day here along with the story behind #HITChristmas or read all 12 days here as they are published. On the 9th Day of #HITChristmas we’re excited to feature, Keith Boone, Enterprise Architect at Audacious Inquiry.

HIE 54

HIE Public Health FHIR Health Information 54

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Many clinical data records can be exchanged between providers and regional public health agencies through health information exchanges. Moving beyond health system-wide or regional interoperability has been a challenge due to several financial and operational hurdles.

HIPAA 71

HIPAA Health Information Interoperability EHR 71

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.

Interoperability 212

Interoperability Digital Health FHIR EHR 212

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.

Health IT 102

Health IT Public Health Interoperability FHIR 102

Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

In health care, this is an underlying tectonic trend with implications for research, translation to therapies, individual treatment plans, population and public health. For health care, the application of FHIR standards helps mobilize data for better health, turbocharging this trend.

eHealth 264

eHealth mHealth Public Health FHIR 264

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 2023

Eric Bacon at AMD Global Telemedicine said providers need to engage patients and improve health literacy to ensure telehealth sufficiently addresses health inequity. Read more… How Consumers are Putting Pressure on Health Plans.

RCM 95

RCM eHealth Healthcare IT FHIR 95