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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

First, consider: the lack of interoperability between health data, resulting in silos, has plagued our ability to “operate” (that “O” in “OS”) in a smooth fashion across the care continuum, from clinical trials and research to patients’ self-care driving optimal outcomes. Now, let’s ponder one particular patient whose name is Eric Topol, MD.

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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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Parker Health Secures $25 Million in Series A Funding to Transform American Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Our proprietary full-stack multi-use Health Management System™, the Parker Suite™, is America’s first FHIR-built, interoperable, affordable, and compliant platform that is revolutionizing the industry with limitless applications for patients, providers, health systems, governments, researchers, and payors.

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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Healthcare IT Today

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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From Security to Regulation: Exploring the Hidden Challenges of the Digital Health Revolution

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare providers, researchers, pharmaceutical companies, and medical technology specialists will all need to take a phased approach to deploying new technologies. Integration and Regulation As with any form of broad-sweeping digital transformation, integration is key. The same goes for regulation.

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Briya Raises $11.5M Series A, Accelerates U.S. Rollout of Blockchain-Secured Data Exchange Platform to Enhance Collaboration Between Hospitals and Life Sciences

Healthcare IT Today

It ultimately enhances interoperability and data quality.” ” The Briya platform connects clinics and hospitals with academic and pharmaceutical research teams, addressing the primary challenges faced by organizations in the collection and exchange of healthcare data.

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The future of Health Startups remain linked to Enterprise-scale players, reports Rock Health

Lloyd Price

However, some of the largest deals so far include Roche’s $1.9bn acquisition of Flatiron Health, Amazon’s $1bn takeover of pharmaceutical startup PillPack and the Teladoc-Advance Medical deal.

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