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The Future of Healthcare: Integrated Data for Integrated Care

Healthcare IT Today

The siloed nature of such data repositories can be attributed to various factors, including using different EHR systems, varying data capture standards, and a historical lack of emphasis on system interoperability. The solution to these challenges lies in the adoption of interoperable data systems.

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Health Privacy and Security in the Time of TEFCA: Raising the Bar for Trusted Exchange

Healthcare IT Today

As with many things, there are degrees – and when it comes to health data, you can never be too private or too secure. By creating an on-ramp for the superhighway of nationwide health data exchange, TEFCA makes sure patient records follow the patient wherever they go.

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HTI-1 Final Rule: Implications for Healthcare Providers – Focus on DSI and Algorithmic Transparency

Healthcare IT Today

Director at NTT DATA On February 8, 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1) Final Rule in the Federal Register, which took effect on March 11, 2024. The following is a guest article by Nitin Kunte, Sr.

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

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Bonus Features – July 9, 2023 – Providers spend 11% less time writing clinical notes than they did three years ago, 54% of surgeons unsure about first-to-market products, and more

Healthcare IT Today

News and Research The Connected Health Initiative released recommendations for state-level policymakers to strike a balance between protecting personal health information and supporting the use of digital health tools.

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Featured Health IT Job: eCQM/dCQM Measure Developer – CORE

Healthcare IT Today

They will also contribute to the design and development of novel software tools to support measure calculation and data validation. They will additionally source solutions from, and contribute to, relevant open-source projects and participate in community events such as Health Level Seven (HL7) Connectathons.

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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

Sands: I trained in clinical informatics because of my belief that we needed to better empower healthcare professionals with information technology so they could take better care of patients, and spent many years creating and implementing these tools. Health Informatics Trend #1: Interoperability. Here are three of them.