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Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Reps Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (MATCH IT) Act of 2024 , which would standardize the way demographic information is entered into certified health IT products and ensure more precise patient matches.

FHIR

FHIR Digital Health Telemedicine EHR

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Redox

AUGUST 1, 2023

Providers, payers, pharma, and even health technology organizations are challenged to make their healthcare data transformative because it is deeply sensitive, highly regulated, and lives in silos that are not interoperable. But, if you have been to the doctor lately, you probably know that it is not that simple.

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FHIR HIPAA EHR Interoperability

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2019

Christian Dameff and colleagues from UC-San Diego answer the question by saying, yes, PHRs are indeed more promising in this smartphone era with the advancement and adoption of FHIR standards that help make electronic health records more inter-operable.

Digital Health

Digital Health FHIR Connected Health Telehealth

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Redox

MARCH 14, 2024

Up first: Using bulk FHIR. What is bulk FHIR? Like many aspects of HL7 ® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR ® ), there has been a lot of hype about the potential of using bulk FHIR to get large amounts of data out of EHRs. That’s where bulk FHIR comes in.

FHIR

FHIR Interoperability EHR Patient Experience

Bonus Features – January 28, 2024 – 49% of orgs likely to invest in RCM tech in the next 18 months, v2 drafts of TEFCA Common Agreement and QHIN Technical Framework out, plus 27 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 28, 2024

The Gemini Coder Platform and Gemini AutoCode solutions from Aidéo Technologies have been integrated with MedEvolve Effective Intelligence. Codeless platform Unqork launched a new patient portal in partnership with Spacial Health , a specialty health technology marketplace.

RCM

RCM FHIR Healthcare IT Mental health

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

The first is a standard special enrollment period for those who lose Medicaid or CHIP coverage , and the second is guidance for states to apply for Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration to provide coverage to those being released from incarceration , with a key role for care coordination technology that leverages FHIR.

FHIR

FHIR Primary Care Healthcare IT Interoperability

Lyniate Merges with CareCom, Further Extending Capabilities of Interoperability Leader

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2022

In addition, the solutions support FHIR terminology management and mapping, value set management, and converting unstructured data, such as notes fields, into discrete interoperable information. Around the globe, healthcare organizations rely on HealthTerm to support data quality governance and health information exchange.

Interoperability

Interoperability Life Science FHIR Patient Experience

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

On behalf of the State, NYeC leads the Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SHIN-NY), a network connecting healthcare providers statewide, develops policies and standards that support the utilization of health technologies, and assists healthcare providers in adopting and effectively using electronic health records.

Health IT

Health IT eHealth Interoperability Healthcare IT

Redox unwraps interoperability in 2023

Redox

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A few things seemed to proceed as expected, including the adoption of FHIR standards across the EHR market base, but much was rather unexpected. Antiquated methods will be kicked to the curb in favor of APIs, FHIR, nationwide networks, patient authorized retrieval, and more.” The short answer from all of them was “not exactly.”

Interoperability

Interoperability FHIR EHR Digital Health

How to TEFCA with Redox

Redox

MARCH 7, 2024

Many use cases will continue to need direct integration with EHRs, digital health technologies, HIEs, payer source systems, and more to enable the truly seamless end-to-end workflows needed to improve patient, clinician, and administrative experiences.

FHIR

FHIR Interoperability eHealth HIE

Lean Digital: How Tracking Feeds Into Behavior Change for Weight Loss

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2024

DATAcc’s goal is to “break down silos in industry around how physical activity is measured using sensor-based digital health technologies,” for easy consumption by EHRs and digital apps. But the two standards aim to be compatible.

EHR

EHR FHIR Digital Health Health Technology

Amwell Releases Open Platform for Integrating Multiple Virtual Care Applications

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2021

Telehealth vendor Amwell has released a platform allowing providers to integrate multiple types of virtual health services using a single infrastructure. Amwell’s Converge platform is designed to integrate with existing workflows, EHRs, patient portals and consumer digital health technologies. Its goal is to […].

FHIR

FHIR EHR Digital Health Telehealth

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

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.

Psychiatry

Psychiatry Digital Health Healthcare IT Mental health

A guide to telehealth vendors in the age of COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Since the data is integrated with the EHR using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) protocols, the provider also receives the data in a way that is usable and actionable. VitalTech’s mission is to develop and support emerging health technologies through integrated software platforms.

Telehealth

Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Nursing

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HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 21, 2019

A group of health and technology organizations develops open source cancer data standards and specifications that can be incorporated into EHRs via FHIR. A private equity firm acquires EHR/PM vendor Nextech for $500 million. Change Healthcare increases the amount of its IPO again, this time to $1.2

EHR

EHR EMR FHIR Nursing

Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

That said, integration with the electronic health record (EHR) is currently extremely challenging and costly. 44 FHIR allows external third-party apps to integrate into the EHR workflow. With this new ability to combine EHR and mobile health data, iOS mobile health apps may become more useful and effective.

Mobile Health

Mobile Health mHealth EHR FHIR

The Digital Health Hype Cycle 2018

Lloyd Price

JUNE 26, 2018

HL7 FHIR - Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR, pronounced "fire") is a draft standard describing data formats and elements (known as "resources") and an application programming interface (API) for exchanging electronic health records. What is a Hype Cycle?

Digital Health

Digital Health FHIR Interoperability Telehealth

AWS physician expert talks new use cases for telehealth, machine learning, cloud

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

During the pandemic, a health technology company provided IoT devices to people's homes that monitored COVID-19 symptoms, along with a platform for data collection. This results in data that is digitally available but not accessible to the right providers, creating an incomplete view of a patient's health history.

Telehealth

Telehealth FHIR Interoperability Telemedicine

Connected Health Pulse

Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

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