Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Patient education is just one example of many where pharmacists could take a more active role in the healthcare system and we could all benefit from pharmacists’ expertise. Another area where we haven’t enabled pharmacists has to do with pharmacy interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But despite the availability of FHIR and of APIs from many vendors, interoperability is often described as “difficult and “not frictionless” according to Loyd Bittle, CEO and Founder at Innovar Healthcare. Most IT organizations have the tech chops to be interoperable. They don’t want to buy another tool.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

It’s one thing to talk about interoperability in healthcare and it’s another to talk about where sharing of health data is really happening. In this video interview, Dr. Jain shares where healthcare organizations are really asking him to help with interoperability. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2024

PointClickCare , having promoted interoperability for a long time in a few areas such as senior care, has expanded to include acute care, and particularly to connect it with post-acute care. Husainy says the regulations put “new teeth” into requirements for interoperability. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth , shows us in this video how current regulations and FHIR standards will actually make that happen. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Grace Cordovano, PhD, Founder of Enlightening Results , co-Founder of Unblock Health , and a devoted patient advocate, says that administrative burdens and failures at data sharing affect more than clinicians and administrators: These glitches in the healthcare systems also contribute to burn-out among patients and their families.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) was followed recently by the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) Final Rule. Patients will have access to data and can share it across healthcare systems. .”

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2024

It’s reasonable for a company like MRO to have a chief interoperability officer. According to their chief interoperability officer, Anthony Murray, the company has spent 22 years building tools to “exchange data seamlessly” in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

For the 123rd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are discussing the recent Epic UGM and Civitas Conferences! Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks so much for listening!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The symposium, which was hosted in partnership with the Digital Medicine Society, convened federal officials and industry partners to discuss the most pressing issues facing the agency – and healthcare as a whole. One such issue is interoperability. National Coordinator for Health IT. is, we've failed."

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

At HIMSS, we sat down to talk with CommonWell Health Alliance to learn about their passion for interoperability and some of the latest happenings with the CommonWell community. Plus, Buckle shares with us a bit about how they’re approaching FHIR and what role that’s going to play for CommonWell going forward.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. It’s not just web analytics and ads that are an issue but even things like maps and videos hosted on a website. The following is what they had to say.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Check out the video below to hear the full story and to learn more about the KERI standard that has been used in other industries and now Jeffery and his team are bringing to healthcare. Check out the video below to learn more about Jeffery’s personal journey to becoming a health IT entrepreneur and his company healthKERI.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2023

In a recent video interview, Therasa Bell, President and CTO at Kno2 , revives the term “meaningful” in health care technology. However, in this case she is talking about establishing meaningful connectivity to drive individual outcomes for patients and healthcare organizations. Tell us what you think.

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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

MARCH 20, 2024

View the video with Discern Health for details about interoperability, making data work for patient improvement, and more. Learn more about Discern Health: [link] Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Chakri Toleti, Founder and CEO at care.ai

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

And in an era where over six billion people have smartphones, incorporating the tool in healthcare makes sense. The following article shows four practical use cases for QR codes within the healthcare IT landscape. Managing Medical Equipment Healthcare facilities use a diverse range of equipment to deliver effective care to patients.

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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. Healthcare Data Interoperability. Data in healthcare is siloed. Inspiration From Outside of Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

clinicians, as estimated by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance. Many other health IT firms have joined CommonWell since then. In the video interview below, Wilder and Liz Buckle, Director of Product, discuss CommonWell’s vision, achievements, and plans for the future.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 22, 2022

While many would like to eschew fax in healthcare, the reality is that faxes are still an extremely important part of data sharing that happens in healthcare. At least in the current environment, if you want to solve the healthcare interoperability problem, you’re going to have to include some faxing.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At the Civitas Conference, there was a lot of talk about TEFCA and QHINs and what their impact will be on healthcare and interoperability. What do they mean for healthcare organizations and how will they be participating in them? Are they replacing current interoperability efforts? When will they be implemented?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

These developers wanted to spend time on their application versus spending time figuring out the hundreds of flavors of FHIR implementations and APIs that are required to get data from the hundreds of EHRs and health IT solutions on the market. Darena Solutions is a proud sponsor of Healthcare Scene. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But having learned some difficult lessons this pandemic year, it's worth taking stock of that hard-won wisdom – and forecasting how it might be put to work in the next 12 months as healthcare organizations chart a path forward to help a " shocked system emerge stronger " (as PwC puts it).

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2022

No doubt those of you in the world of health IT and interoperability saw the news that Epic plans to apply to join TEFCA as an inaugural QHIN (Qualified Health Information Network). Plus, we ask him how the data differs between Epic’s 3 main healthcare interoperability efforts: CareEverywhere, Carequality, and now TEFCA.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2023

Data sharing and interoperability are spreading too slowly in health care, and even if a doctor manages to get all the data, its varied formats make it hard to draw insights from. In this brief video, Jose M. Watch the video to see how First Choice Neurology exploits the integrated data offered by PRISMA inside their eCW EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 26, 2023

However, this can sometimes be overwhelming for healthcare provider organizations that are now getting larger and larger volumes of requests from payers which inundate their systems. Weitnauer also talks about bidirectional exchange, so that interoperability also adds value to clinicians for better patient care or operations.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But these facilities are afterthoughts in our health care system, and were excluded in particular from the huge digitization of health care triggered in the United States by the 2009 HITECH act and 2010 Affordable Care Act. The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

We gathered up some of our brilliant members of the Healthcare IT Today Community to get their perspective. How are health data utilities evolving? We’ve compiled their answers in this video below! Michael Gagnon, Executive Director at HealtHIE Nevada – I see HIEs really evolving to be health data utilities.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2023

” All three managers interviewed in the video below stress the importance of preparing data (also known as curation) before trying to use it. ” Learn more about Clearsense: [link] Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Much like the rest of the healthcare industry, at the start of the pandemic, the patient load was overwhelming. "Virtual care required a recast in strategy to address interoperability, patient experience, provider experience and cost," said Gerard Frunzi, director of virtual care at Centura Health. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2024

MediQuant has been providing health data management and active archiving since 1999. In this video, CEO Jim Jacobs describes how they seek “one patient, one record” so that providers have complete and accurate data for the patients they serve. The answer to that is a well-designed application rationalization and archiving strategy.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2023

They now offer tools for managing and taking advantage of healthcare organizations’ multi-cloud strategy. And they have a whole division devoted to healthcare. In this video, Michael Robinson, VP of Healthcare, says that even five years ago, the health care industry was resistant to the cloud.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Ensuring the efficient flow of information is fundamental to advancing interoperability. In our conversation, Alderman sheds light on their recent decision to partner with Secure Exchange Solutions (SES) for Direct messaging and Health Information Service Provider (HISP) services.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

We previously shared ONC’s big QHIN announcement which shared the names of five officially designated QHINs as part of TEFCA: eHealth Exchange Epic Nexus Health Gorilla KONZA MedAllies No doubt, the timing of this announcement was planned to coincide with the ONC Annual Meeting in Washington DC.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2024

In fact, I’d seen it first hand when I was at the HIMSS 2024 conference where I filmed a demo of Interlace Health’s product which streamlines patient forms and consents. In the demo video, Silver demonstrated these principles in action when she showed a workflow for a patient to sign a consent form for a procedure.

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