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. Are they replacing current interoperability efforts? I think that’s what our interoperability landscape is going to evolve to be and I would like to see us think about TEFCA in that sense.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are improving the quality of their data to further increase their value. Higher quality data means they can help healthcare organizations understand their region more clearly, allowing them to allocate their resources in the areas that need it.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 24, 2023

.” This is true whether you’re a provider organization, an HIE, a vendor, or pretty much anyone in healthcare. One area where we have seen this front and center is when it comes to how healthcare organizations approach interoperability and integration. We cannot do this alone. We need to work with partners.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

But as we talk about it, more and more HIE organizations have started to use it and the concept has been embraced by many. Lindsey Ferris, DrPH, Senior Interoperability and Public Health Director at PointClickCare – I think we’re at the very early stages. I think it’s kind of HIE plus certain new characteristics.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

Ben Hsieh, Vice President of Product, says that Discern Health works with payers, providers, and Health Information Exchanges (HIE). View the video with Discern Health for details about interoperability, making data work for patient improvement, and more. Their service concentrates currently on care management for value-based care.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For federal agencies and state and regional exchanges, this is an excellent time to demonstrate leadership in interoperability by joining a network that will likely provide a ready on-ramp to TEFCA. State and regional HIEs are critical to our nation’s goal of comprehensive interoperability. The Case for Federal Agencies.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The response to my article asking the question “Are we at the end of the healthcare interoperability tunnel?” I think some people thought that I was hammering on all the work that’s being done on healthcare interoperability. ” was quite interesting.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In addition, AVIA published its Top Interoperability Companies Report , with Andor Health topping the list. Laudio and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership will produce biannual reports and insights from the perspective of nursing leadership. Home care EMR software maker Smartcare Software rebranded as Aaniie.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 17, 2021

The following is a guest article by Jaime Bland, DNP, RN-BC, Chief Executive Officer at CyncHealth, the health data utility for the Midwest, and Kat McDavitt, Principal Advisor and Head of Public Affairs for Innsena and advises organizations including PointClickCare on external affairs.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

Buckle also shares her experience at the Interop Showcase and details of the recent CommonWell FHIR Connectathon where CommonWell members leveraged FHIR to improve interoperability. FHIR, the API for automated data sharing, is mature and being adopted. This more recent standard makes trust automatable as well.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 25, 2021

In a recent message I got from EHNAC, they had this great image at the start of their email: Then, they had this line below it which really caught my attention: Interoperability has been an important topic in healthcare for over a decade. Are we there yet? Are we closer than we were? Absolutely. No […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

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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Lloyd Price

APRIL 13, 2024

The importance of data and interoperability in digital health As healthcare becomes more digital, it's increasingly important to be able to share data seamlessly between different systems. Expect to hear about the challenges and opportunities of data sharing in healthcare. For: Innovators who want to improve outcomes with data.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Two-thirds of of healthcare cybersecurity decision makers said senior leadership teams continues to underestimate cyberthreats to their organization , according to a survey from Google subsidiary Mandiant. Montana HIE Big Sky Care Connect chose Lyniate ‘s Rhapsody Interoperability Suite for data classification and cleansing.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2020

The following is a guest article by Daniel Cidon, Chief Technology Officer, NextGate. The COVID-19 crisis has exposed a painful number of deficiencies in our nation’s healthcare system, including just how severe the lack of an interconnected health infrastructure has hampered response efforts.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2023

News and Studies Amid the push for interoperability, data gaps persist, according to the inaugural State of Interoperability report from Health Gorilla , a health information network. People RPM solution provider Clear Arch Health made two additions to its business development leadership team.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2023

About 75% of hospitals are members of regional HIE organizations, and 35% participate in regional and national HIEs. The Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability is partnering with eHealth Exchange in anticipation of the exchange being named a Qualified Health Information Network.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As the next phase in the evolution of interoperability, SDC allows for the secure and near real-time sharing of health data between devices at the point of care, regardless of the manufacturer. Traditionally, we think about interoperability as HIEs (health information exchanges), but in 2024 I expect to see new models emerge.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

I seek to be considered for an Interop Architect, Interop Program Manager, Standards Developer, Privacy Architect, or other similar leadership position that allows me to continue to engage with International Standards development while directing one or more teams in the implementation of those standards.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The organizations do suggest they support HHS’ efforts to “advance health data exchange and interoperability while advancing health equity for all.” This is a big change from the requirement to share USCDI.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Ensuring the efficient flow of information is fundamental to advancing interoperability. Network connectivity is essential to aggregating the data required to build a complete patient record while addressing often forgotten treatment areas, such as adverse medication interactions and provider event notifications.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

"We've had plenty of successes and accomplishments prior to the pandemic, the focus and agility of the entire leadership structure resulted in faster decisions, and alignment between multiple teams focused on the same outcomes. Moreover, we incorporated mobility data from Facebook and Google into these predictive models for accuracy."

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

of the Data Usability Workgroup Implementation Guide , which is meant to cover high-priority information exchange use cases that can be readily adopted within HIE vendors, governance frameworks, testing programs, and more. He has held previous leadership positions with clinical AI vendor Jvion and the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 27, 2018

The first phase is focused on the maternal healthcare domain, and the main objectives are to: Complete an Implementation Science/Research Project to present the impact of a Health Information Exchange (HIE) on the maternal healthcare delivery system in Rwanda.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 16, 2023

Whichever path forward an HIE chooses, support of patient access must remain a priority. 1, 2023, enforcement of the 21st Century Cures Act Information Blocking Rule goes into effect, putting teeth into the much-celebrated law that enables patients to have full access to their personal health data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Interoperability has to be improved and expanded, with data silos broken down and easier cross-system communication. " A key must-have toward that pop health goal, of course, is interoperability. "The problem is at the point of care, and this is where interoperability becomes so significantly important.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 30, 2017

It happens that the framework for explaining why the future is bright for HIE comes from the Wisconsin HIE (WISHIN) fall summit. They used the following diagram to show what they viewed as the HIE future. This first step is critical to Interoperability. Note slide decks are now available.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Current staffing levels are barriers to accessing care at a time when the industry is focusing important thought leadership on health equity. Through interoperability via low-code integrations, improved accuracy on patient information and documentation will be available for more patients and people with access rights.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

As part of our Interoperability Matters Initiative , The Sequoia Project convened a diverse and dedicated workgroup to consider the practical challenges of implementing the information blocking rule from a wide variety of angles. The rules against information blocking apply to any “actor” as defined in the Cures Act.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As we approach 2023 it is amazing that interoperability, true broad-based connectivity between healthcare systems, looks like the Verizon heatmap back in 2005 when there was as much white on the map as there was red. She says of Kno2, “We enable interoperability and the magic happening on the edge.”

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The following is a guest article by Andy Aroditis, CEO, NextGate. The COVID-19 pandemic is continuing to accelerate across the United States, with record-breaking infection rates and a tragically high death count.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The Sequoia Project published an implementation guide for HIE technology for vendors, networks, and testers. Frost & Sullivan recognized MEDITECH with the 2022 North America Enabling Technology Leadership Award , citing the EHR vendor’s work on clinical decision support.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 21, 2022

HIE infrastructure provider CRISP Shared Services is the first partner for eHealth Exchange’s planned Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN). Mental health collaboration tech provider Resilience Lab announced three additions to its leadership team.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 21, 2022

HIE infrastructure provider CRISP Shared Services is the first partner for eHealth Exchange’s planned Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN). Mental health collaboration tech provider Resilience Lab announced three additions to its leadership team.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Diana Zuskov, associate vice president for healthcare strategy at LexisNexis Risk Solutions , says that the ONC’s United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) recently published standards for sharing data from healthcare records. The modern health information API, FHIR, includes the Gender Harmony taxonomy developed by HL7.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 13, 2016

There is renewed discussion, much like back in January, around the need to go beyond testing just the FHIR Resource 'interoperability'. Testing Interoperability is not easy, and there are struggles with getting this first level testing done right. This does prove that there is connectivity, but not Interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). You have to know how you will share data with the people who can act on it, roping in questions of formats, conformance, and data interoperability that are familiar to professionals in health IT.

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