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What Healthcare Interoperability Topic Are Not Enough People Talking About?

Healthcare IT Today

We don’t even have the time or word count to cover it all in this article, so instead we will be focusing on healthcare interoperability. What isn’t being talked about enough when it comes to sharing health data? So many topics to cover in healthcare but tragically so little time!

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

Health plans are designed to provide a range of medical services, preventive care, and financial protection against the costs of healthcare. Neither of these explanations satisfies my current view of where I see the industry at this moment, and especially as I work through my forecast to 2030.

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GIS Data Sharing – A Model for Healthcare Data Interoperability?

Healthcare IT Today

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. Healthcare Data Interoperability. Data in healthcare is siloed.

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Too Many QHINs Could Hinder Progress Toward Nationwide Health IT Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

TEFCA aims to create one unified technical framework to exchange data across the country between healthcare providers, health plans, public health agencies, and individuals. . For many of us in health IT communications, TEFCA has been greeted with both excitement and skepticism. Getting It Right from the Beginning.

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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

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. Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S. public health, as well.

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It’s Time to Get Patient Addresses Straight

Healthcare IT Today

I talked recenly with Brent Francom, senior product manager at Smarty , about efforts to get the health care field to adopt the standard and tools for making it work smoothly. Smarty creates tools for address standardization used by many industries, such as real estate and retail. Mail order medications will clearly benefit.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 3 of 5 – Apple as “Intelligent Health Guardian”

Health Populi

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.