Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jolie Ritzo, VP of Strategy and Network Engagement at Civitas Networks for Health Health data management in 2024 is both intricate and complex. Here are some of the most exciting and challenging aspects of both exchanging and using comprehensive health data this year and ahead.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

That speaks to Steve’s phrase, “ecosystem of ecosystems,” because that’s not just “digital” health — that’s now the true nature of health/care, and what is driving connectivity toward interoperability, cloud computing, and the adoption of APIs to enable health data liquidity.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

The IHE IT-Infrastructure committee continues to produce new and improved specifications for HIE interoperability. Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) Health Data Locator and Revoke Option - Rev. Health IT Vendors should review this supplement and determine if the capabilities within meet their interoperability needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Health data utility is still a fairly new concept in the world of healthcare. How are health data utilities evolving? Lindsey Ferris, DrPH, Senior Interoperability and Public Health Director at PointClickCare – I think we’re at the very early stages.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC).

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2023

Information will be moving more freely, to be sure – but the providers on the receiving end may not be able to make much use of the data they get. Read more… Turning Health Data Sharing Into Meaningful Outcomes. Storing data and achieving interoperability hasn’t helped most health care organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

1upHealth’s FHIR®-native platform designed for interoperability and modern computing is used by over 75 enterprise organizations including leading national and regional health plans, the highest performing CMS ACOs, international clinical research organizations, and over 20 state Medicaid agencies. Our customers are ready.

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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. Originally announced September 26th, 2023

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

T he 2023 BDO Clinician Experience Survey “takes on” clinician burnout, connecting the strategic dots between the clinician experience and the patient experience. And third, investing in clinician mental health resources garnered 42% of clinicians’ interest in the BDO survey. BDO notes that only 2 in 3 U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 28, 2023

Read more… Exploring ECRI’s Top Healthcare Hazards for 2023. The intersection of home health and medical devices is prominent in ECRI’s annual list of healthcare hazards , Colin Hung noted. Read more… The Value of an Interoperability and Integration Partner. One of his favorite features was the 4.3″

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Read more… Discussing TEFCA, QHINs, HDUs, and Interoperability With Civitas Health. CEO Lisa Bari sat down with John to discuss why state efforts to address interoperability are as important as national efforts. They also touched on the role of health data utilities as the evolution of the state HIE.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Optimize Health Data Sharing to Enhance the Patient Experience. Simply collecting patient data and giving it to providers isn’t enough any more. Read more… Make Last-Mile Interoperability a Reality. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week. per share.

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Redox

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This year, I invited Redox experts Alex Peitz , Garrett Rhodes , and Nick McKenzie (internally dubbed the Redox “Interopistas”) to help me reflect on what happened in 2022, and what we should be prepared for in 2023 (spoiler alert, it’s probably going to be pretty weird too). Nick McKenzie.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2023

Who better to talk to the Healthcare IT Today community about interoperability than the National Coordinator himself? Read more… Understanding Where EHRs Are Headed in 2023. Colin Hung asked executives at seven leading EHR companies two questions: What can customers expect in 2023, and where is the market headed?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Read more… How Will Data Utilities Evolve ? Experts agreed that health data utilities are in their early stages but will start to see additional value when they engage with government agencies in their communities and enable data sharing across state lines.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2023

Health Gorilla and LexisNexis Risk Solutions are working to make SDoH data actionable , John found out in an interview with Avery Haller (Health Gorilla) and Diana Zuskov (LexisNexis). Read more… Hearing From Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill. Read more… How Were the Spring Health IT Conferences ?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

This means if a person visits multiple facilities, they must use different portals to access their health data. There is a risk of unauthorized access to or breaches of patients' personal health information (PHI). A lack of interoperability is hindering effective care.

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Redox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I called 2021 weird , then 2022 just as weird , but 2023? 2023: the year where nothing changed, and yet everything changed Reflecting on our predictions from last year, we are quite baffled why we didn’t say anything about AI. Garrett thought record retrieval would rid itself of the fax machine in 2023. Decidedly weirder.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We caught up with her at the 2023 American Health Information Management Association annual conference (AHIMA23). One area where Mueller believes HIM professionals can make a significant difference is interoperability. There were 14 volunteers that would file papers. Within 10 years, we had no more paper records.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2024

The following is a guest article by Shannon West, Chief Product Officer at Datavant Since the dawn of electronic medical records, American healthcare delivery systems have traced a winding path toward the dream of seamless and timely health data interoperability. For personal health records, this may be possible.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

Plus, Wilder shares what he was hearing about the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) at the HIMSS 2023 annual conference and offers up a few takeaways. FHIR, the API for automated data sharing, is mature and being adopted.

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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. Taking the Road Less Traveled Heath data interoperability is hard.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2023

At the recent HIMSS23 Conference in Chicago, Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture – a company that provides solutions for healthcare data quality, interoperability, and clinical documentation – delivered a spotlight session that highlighted the work of Babbage and his important lesson.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

While the health care industry in general commands a somewhat higher level of trust among Americans than some other sectors do, there is variation in trust-equity across various segments of the U.S. health care ecosystem. The 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer gauged U.S. The 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer gauged U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2023

As hospitals and health systems seek to dig out from particularly tough couple years for their bottom lines, the large majority are planning to boost spending on technology the next year as they continue their efforts toward digital transformation.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

HCA Healthcare , one of the leading providers of care in 20 states and in the United Kingdom, has smartly been investing to improve the quality of the health data they collect. That is a much more complex data quality challenge.” With good data quality, HCA was able to implement an innovative sepsis detection application.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2023

News and Announcements from NextGen UGM 2023. Colin Hung attended the vendor’s User Group Meeting and provided a recap of the event, where NextGen discussed an AI-powered ambient voice assistant and a Luma Health partnership to power patient self-scheduling. Read more… Health Data Exchange Moves to the Cloud.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 25, 2023

2023: State of U.S. The paper, 2023: State of U.S. Healthcare’s National Network Data Exchanges , analyzes not only quantitative comparisons of the data currently exchanged on HINs but also the work that still needs to be done in order to spread the true value of the networks across all stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Lastly, we wrap everything up by discussing what a health data utility (HDU) is. Here’s a preview of the topics and questions we discuss in this episode: What were the big announcements at Epic UGM 2023? What’s a health data utility (HDU)? Are TEFCA and QHINs real or are they memorex?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 31, 2023

According to Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture , even if we solve the interoperability challenge in healthcare, we will still have to work to refine the data to make it useful. The quality of that data needs to be improved and the resolution of the picture it paints of a patient needs to increase.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

DirectTrust and the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) today announced an agreement to merge EHNAC with and into DirectTrust, effective January 4, 2023. DirectTrust is a non-profit healthcare industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of protected health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

AVIA added RUSH, MUSC Health, and United Regional Health Care System to its network. Health Plan Alliance selected 1upHealth as its preferred health data interoperability vendor. Products Consensus Cloud Solutions launched Clarity Clinical Documentation , which routes unstructured data into patient records.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2023

Malware attacks targeting cloud-based applications (as opposed to the web) increased from 38% of all attacks in March 2022 to 42% in February 2023 – albeit down from a high of 50% in November – according to the latest Netskope Threat Labs Report. Among all physicians, pay actually decreased 2.4% from 2021 to 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 1, 2023

Avaneer Health , a company created by a consortium of major payers and health care providers, is trying to solve these problems and other administrative inefficiencies once and for all. Two of the biggest billing problems in U.S. healthcare involve coverage, eligibility and claims.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2023

Overall, the organization recommended taking a community-based approach to ensuring that PHI isn’t shared and used improperly while avoiding duplicative regulations or unnecessary restrictions on data sharing that’s directly tied to patient care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2021

I had the opportunity to attend the session, and want to share the health and wellness-related insights David shared in his fast-paced view on the role of color in bolstering wellbeing and community looking out to 2022/23. For context, Pantone plays a role in your life you might not realize. See an iconic one at the end of the post, below).

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2023

If we can’t achieve the Zen of reliable data in the short term, the next best thing is ensuring the data we receive from someone else is semantically correct. If you receive data that is not semantically interoperable, the best you can do is make it a readable document. What are you excited for at ViVE2023?

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