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One Way to Improve U.S. Healthcare, Lower Costs and Drive Outcomes? “Unvendor,” Asserts Dr. Harm Scherpbier in His New Book

Health Populi

Given that Harm recently participated in the annual 2025 HIMSS conference , I was keen to know how his collegial physicians and health IT professionals were reacting to the idea of unvendoring. We have to start using these standards like FHIR, which part of our evolving toward more open, flexible systems.

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Weekly Roundup – January 11, 2025

Healthcare IT Today

They also discuss how FHIR and TEFCA are helping the cause. Tellingly, 60% of recommended imaging isn’t followed up on , and panelists said the one-two punch of limited interoperability and poor engagement play a big part in that. Read more… 2025 Health IT Predictions: Staffing Shortages and Burnout.

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Predictive AI FHIR Integration Contest – Win $25k in Prizes

Healthcare IT Today

One of the answers to this question for startup companies is FHIR. Certainly the FHIR standard is still maturing to include more data, but the data in the current FHIR standards can solve a lot of data access challenges for startup companies. The contest is pretty simple.

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Data Readiness: The Key to Healthcare’s Digital Future

Healthcare IT Today

Singh, VP Interoperability Solutions at ELLKAY. With innovations like AI, predictive analytics, and digital health solutions transforming patient care, success hinges on having a strong, interoperable data foundation. The following is a guest article by Gurpreet (G.P.)

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HealthEC and VirtualHealth Unite to Launch Elligint Health: Redefining the Future of Healthcare with Intelligent Solutions

Healthcare IT Today

By leveraging connectivity and interoperability, HealthEC enables data-driven collaboration between payers and providers, streamlining care coordination and translating insights into actionable strategies to improve quality metrics and close care gaps. Originally announced January 9th, 2025 Learn more at virtualhealth.com.

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ŌURA Appoints Ricky Bloomfield, MD as Chief Medical Officer

Digital Health Global

There, he discovered a problem worth solving: health data interoperability. To address this, he led a team to implement the first API on an Epic-based electronic health record (EHR) that used the emerging FHIR standard, with the goal of helping patients, clinicians, and researchers easily access health-record data. .

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From Security to Regulation: Exploring the Hidden Challenges of the Digital Health Revolution

Healthcare IT Today

By 2025, that figure is expected to reach 36%. For new components to be deployed, they must be interoperable with legacy systems to some degree, guaranteeing that the flow of traffic is sustained, and vital services aren’t interrupted. The same goes for regulation.