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!’”

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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!’”

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Health IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The SMART-on-FHIR open platform allows clinicians to offer third-party apps in a standard manner. Furthermore, a wealth of home-based solutions are being offered by a range of IT companies. Xealth boosts the clinicians’ ability to take advantage of remote digital therapeutics.

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Health Information FHIR Healthcare IT Interoperability 114

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2021

Amwell’s Converge platform is designed to integrate with existing workflows, EHRs, patient portals and consumer digital health technologies. It offers access to single sign-on technology and its APIs leverage FHIR. Its goal is to […].

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FHIR EHR Digital Health Telehealth 81

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2021

The National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved, a nonprofit organization geared toward advancing health equity and economic viability, recently launched a new platform aimed at building actionable insights from social determinants of health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 2, 2024

What Health IT Trend Has You Most Excited ? Read more… Featured Health IT Job: Tier 2 Epic Ambulatory Analyst , a remote position with a California-based client of Stoltenberg Consulting, posted to Healthcare IT Central. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.

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Life Science RCM Healthcare IT FHIR 117

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.

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HIE FHIR Telemedicine Healthcare IT 101

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Colin Hung connected with CEO Robert Krayn to talk about how the telemedicine service connects psychiatrists with patients and handles the many types of mental health referrals using eCW EHR, which Talkiatry chose based on its flexibility. Read more… Reimagining Health IT on the Cusp of ONC’s Final HTI-1 Rule.

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EHR Healthcare IT Interoperability FHIR 112

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. Healthtech providers can adopt HL7 (Health Level Seven) or FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). Doctors remotely manage patient data without being tied to a specific medical facility.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

By leveraging wearable devices and cloud-based telemedicine platforms, healthcare professionals can now monitor patients in real-time, ensuring timely interventions and personalized care. Advanced imaging techniques are also revolutionizing diagnostic procedures, offering invaluable insights into disease progression and treatment efficacy.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

A joint study by Omada Health, Rock Health, and the Digital Medicine Society, based on a survey of employers, payers and benefit consultants, found that 90% of purchasers view virtual care as a high priority , and the majority are willing to adopt innovative approaches, but few have a real understanding of what virtual care is.

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eCare BioTech Primary Care Life Science 52

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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EHR Interoperability Digital Health Patient Experience 115

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

What is more a business problem rather than only an IT challenge, payer organizations need to address prior authorization collaboration workflows and payment processes, EHR integration, and adopt technologies like artificial intelligence, including machine learning and natural language processing, and FHIR® Standards.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 23, 2018

FHIR is a standards framework featuring a RESTful API designed to enable the exchange of health care information between applications and systems. Argonaut Project participants are working together to modernize nationwide health care interoperability through the increased adoption and development of the HL7 FHIR framework and API.

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Health Data FHIR Interoperability EHR 93

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

JANUARY 2, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and Colin’s 2024 Healthcare IT Predictions And now, check out our community’s Health Equity predictions.

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Health IT Healthcare IT FHIR Digital Health 117

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2022

The following is a guest article by Mike Noshay, MSE, Founder and Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at Verinovum. This time last year, we healthcare leaders were excited to be looking ahead to 2021 and leaving 2020 firmly behind us. But our dreams of putting the pandemic in the past were put on pause. Now, […].

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Healthcare Cybersecurity FHIR Interoperability Telemedicine 145

Chilmark Research

JUNE 11, 2014

With Samsung’s recent announcement of the SAMI platform, their S-Health app on the S4 and S5, and other recent activity in health IT, they too have arrived to the party. Healthcare software has decidedly shifted in a mobile-friendly direction, from a wellspring of APIs from major HIT vendors to emergence of standards like HL7’s FHIR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. Experts from across the health IT field will share insights about everything from AI and cloud computing to telemedicine and population health. Health IT implementation best practices. How FHIR 4 will drive interoperability progress in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2022

Remote patient monitoring devices from different manufacturers rarely talk to each other. There are standards for device data exchange, but no incentives or penalties for device makers to adopt them. Instead, most manufactures pair their devices with their own proprietary smartphone app.

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FHIR Interoperability Healthcare IT Telemedicine 71

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2024

DATAcc also collaborates with the Physical Activity Alliance , which created a FHIR standard for the clinical reporting of physical activity. DATAcc aims its core set of digital measures of physical activity at digital health technology developers, care providers, and clinical researchers, while FHIR is aimed at EHRs and other clinical uses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

We'll also look at how those healthcare workforces are changing – and how they ought to be changing – in the face of automation, value-based reimbursement, telemedicine, consumerism and other emerging trends and new technologies. Interoperability: Health IT's hardest problem is (finally) at an inflection point.

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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. Read more… How Telehealth Can Democratize Healthcare.

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