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TEFCA Real Talk

Healthcare IT Today

Certainly AI us currently doing that in health IT, but in the world of interoperability TEFCA and QHINs are grabbing all of the attention. There are a lot of views on TEFCA, but the one thing that’s certain is that it’s grabbing a lot of the interoperability focus from government regulators and the industry.

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FHIR as the Catalyst for Data Access with 1upHealth CEO, Ricky Sahu

Healthcare IT Today

For those not familiar with 1upHealth, the provide a FHIR platform for payers, providers, and developers. At the HLTH conference last month, I had a chance to talk with Ricky Sahu, CEO at 1upHealth.

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Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce issue joint statement for healthcare interoperability

Lloyd Price

Interoperability is an overlapping set of technical and policy challenges, from data access to common data models to information exchange to workflow integration – and these challenges often pose a barrier to healthcare innovation. Microsoft has been engaged for many years on developing best practices for interoperability across industries.

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Apple Health app will link to your medical records (thanks to FHIR)

Medicine and Technology

Tethered PHRs became available when patient portals were launched by hospitals, health systems, and clinics to meet the CMS Meaningful Use requirements. FHIR is finally allowing true interoperability to become a reality. We can also expect to see some very interesting days ahead as Amazon dives into health care.

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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Of course, that's been the case every year over the past decade since the first meaningful use checks were mailed out, kickstarting the digital healthcare age as we know it. The EHR vendor’s founder also discusses the state of interoperability, cloud computing and today’s sticking points in health IT.

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What is MHD beyond XDS-on-FHIR?

Healthcare Exchange Standards

This happened to be the same timeframe that Grahame was fanning the FHIR flames. So we joined forces and brought the concepts needed for XDS into FHIR®. So now, I take those FHIR based Resources and re-write the profile. Retrieve Document – This transaction is used to get documents. The basics are shown here.

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314e Transforming from Services to Products

Healthcare IT Today

During the boom that was meaningful use and adoption of EHR software, consulting companies played an integral role in almost every large healthcare organization when it came to rolling out EHR software. One of the most interesting evolutions in healthcare IT has been the evolution of healthcare IT staffing and consulting companies.