Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere. The industry now has the means to deliver that same level of care in a much more accessible way, bringing it to patients wherever they may be.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

For more than a decade, healthcare has struggled with sharing data. We have not achieved data interoperability despite an abundance of technology, standards, and legislation. As an industry, we often point at the banking industry as a model to aspire to, but perhaps a better exemplar is the GIS community.

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Redox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Here are some specific reflections: FHIR adoption: We missed the mark on our HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) growth prediction. Through our research with our partners at Sage Growth, we found that only 62% of providers and 38% of payers have adopted the FHIR standard for their data interoperability use cases.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Exec Summary: Self-sovereign identity (SSI) holds immense potential to revolutionize the future of health data, empowering individuals to take control of their information and fostering a more secure, transparent, and patient-centric healthcare ecosystem. Overall, SSI presents a transformative opportunity for the future of health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

1upHealth will use this latest investment to expand product development and customer growth teams and accelerate efforts to lead the digital transformation of the healthcare industry in the cloud. Over the past decade, industries ranging from manufacturing to retail have all undergone digital transformation and now it’s healthcare’s turn.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

For many of us in health IT communications, TEFCA has been greeted with both excitement and skepticism. To date, nearly ten entities have announced their intentions to apply to become a QHIN, including prominent software vendors, existing national networks, and regional health information exchanges (HIEs). About Zach Finn.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 12, 2023

1upHealth will use this latest investment to expand product development and customer growth teams and accelerate efforts to lead the digital transformation of the healthcare industry in the cloud. Over the past decade, industries ranging from manufacturing to retail have all undergone digital transformation and now it’s healthcare’s turn.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Exec Summary: The Argonaut Project 10 Year Anniversary in 2024 will be a significant milestone for the project and for the digital health industry as a whole. The project has been successful in developing and implementing a number of standards, including the Argonaut FHIR Data Exchange Standard and the Argonaut FHIR API Standard.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 30, 2023

At the recent ViVE2023 conference a lot of industry experts stopped by for quick discussions on a variety of interesting topics. Here are some of those recorded conversations with Divurgent , Laurel Road , Santa Clara Valley Health System , 314e Corporation , and Clinical Architecture. Now we are drowning in it.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Datavant also announces completing its acquisition of Healthjump , the leader in health data exchange for value-based care organizations, which has built connections to more than 1,500 healthcare organizations participating in risk-bearing arrangements. Learn more about Datavant at datavant.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2022

Joint technology solution will deliver an integrated data interoperability platform that streamlines data acquisition and delivers clean, actionable, and intelligent data. Fueled by Diameter’s technology, Availity will create the nation’s preeminent data acquisition and interoperability platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The increasing need for interoperability in healthcare has driven significant growth and demand for the company’s data fabric platform and continued innovation in this area. “Data fabrics open up many new ways of leveraging and working with health data. . Smile CDR Inc.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 24, 2023

One area where we have seen this front and center is when it comes to how healthcare organizations approach interoperability and integration. In the past, interoperability and integration were kind of an afterthought. This is just one of many reasons why interoperability and integration are important in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 18, 2022

The topic of TEFCA and QHINs has been an extremely important one in the world of healthcare IT and particularly when it comes to healthcare interoperability. In many ways, it’s setting the national infrastructure for healthcare interoperability going forward. So, we should be paying attention.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

As someone who has covered the health IT industry for 17 years, I’m always fascinated when I see something really grab the attention of the health IT community. Certainly AI us currently doing that in health IT, but in the world of interoperability TEFCA and QHINs are grabbing all of the attention.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Even when data is exchanged smoothly, the systems often lacks “semantic interoperability” and the clinicians have to re-enter the data manually into their system. He praises the data sharing promoted by the federal government, including TEFCA and recent rulings on prior authorization.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 27, 2020

Big tech giants Apple and Microsoft are joining health IT vendors and health plans to meet with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today to voice strong support for efforts to give patients access to their health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

If you’ve been watching stop-and-start efforts toward health data interoperability over the last several years, many of which have netted little progress, you might be surprised to hear a top-drawer consulting firm argue that we’re moving ahead into an era of radical interoperability in the healthcare and life science industries.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

In a fast-paced exchanged with John Lynn of Healthcare IT Today, Rucker covers regulations and evolving data exchange standards that foster interoperability and data analytics. “The real point of interoperability is continuous, real-time computing,” according to Rucker.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? HIPAA’s rules protect data and also protect incumbents’ interests in controlling health data. Ultimately Congressional action is needed to establish meaningful privacy protections for personal data.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

They are no longer paper pushers (literally) and are now stewards of healthcare data. Jennifer Mueller, President of the American Health Information Management Association ( AHIMA ), sees a bright future for the HIM industry. One area where Mueller believes HIM professionals can make a significant difference is interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Thanks to the regulations included as part of meaningful use, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), every healthcare provider using certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT) has access to Direct Secure Messaging.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2023

The following is a guest article by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director, CommonWell Health Alliance. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) is indeed an instance of transformational change. I feel it throughout the industry now.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Harmony Healthcare IT (HHIT) , a leading health data management and platform solution provider, today announced a significant investment from Novacap , one of North America’s premier private equity firms. This strategic partnership will accelerate HHIT’s technological contribution and expansion in health information technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

There’s a collective holding of breath right now in health IT as the ONC appears likely to issue its final HTI-1 rule with new data standards for the next stage of healthcare interoperability soon. How effectively can the industry innovate while navigating new standards that may add complexity along with frustration?

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2022

As the subtitle of the paper suggests, Apple is playing a role to support personal health, research, and medical care across the entire consumer/patient journey: from wellness and fitness (think: hand-washing and Nike Run Club) to managing chronic conditions and enabling clinician research and collaborations across industry silos.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

A few weeks back, we shared that we were going to attend what we termed the Woodstock of Healthcare Interoperability which was the annual conference hosted by DirectTrust and Civitas. In case you missed it, you can see some of our previous coverage: Health Data Federalism vs States Data. . Therasa Bell explains why.??.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

health care overall impacts trust in the AI-health layer This AI/trust lens overlaps Americans falling faith in the American health care system in a compounding way. health care ecosystem. CHAI stands for the Coalition for Health AI, and by March 2024 had over 1,300 representatives from across the industry.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

“Demanding workloads, compounded by increasing administrative responsibilities, are creating industry-wide burnout, which is only worsened by pre-existing staffing shortages. And third, investing in clinician mental health resources garnered 42% of clinicians’ interest in the BDO survey.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 23, 2018

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. Today, as health IT community leaders get together at the CMS Blue Button 2.0

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

One of the biggest networks for sharing health data in the country is CommonWell Health Alliance. After some changes in the industry and some acquisitions, CommonWell was in need of a new technical service provider to continue their interoperability work and to finish their work to become a QHIN under TEFCA.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 9, 2020

Following the Department of Health and Human Services' release of widely anticipated rules that will change how providers, insurers and patients exchange health data, FierceHealthIT Senior Editor Heather Landi will lead this virtual panel of industry experts in a discussion about what they mean. Sign up now.

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E-CareManagement

JANUARY 22, 2020

In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? HIPAA’s rules protect data and also protect incumbents’ interests in controlling health data. Ultimately Congressional action is needed to establish meaningful privacy protections for personal data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2023

The organization’s 5,000+ physicians, who are treating people across the socioeconomic spectrum, believe that comprehensive health information is crucial to deliver high-quality care for their patients. A lot of work remains to make data sharing a reality.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 12, 2023

How health data is created, collected, transmitted, and analyzed in the U.S. That is why Particle was founded with a mission to enable simple and secure access to actionable patient data through its modern API platform. healthcare system must be more cohesive to prevent digital friction.

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