Healthcare IT Today

MAY 4, 2024

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Kristin Quinlan at Certified Languages International noted how HIPAA-compliant virtual services can serve many more patients. requires support for FHIR API exchange.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by Natalie Tkachenko, Healthcare Software Solutions Consultant at NIX To obtain test results today, there’s no need to visit the hospital. In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2024

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. the journey to TEFCA and QHIN designation, the CommonWell approach to FHIR, and AI’s role in supporting data exchange. Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Mostly being scared at how good it is, laughing at the mistakes, and having it write FHIR code. I will continue to write blog articles myself. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets strict guidelines for how and when personal medical information can be shared.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

HIPAA), and healthcare data and interoperability standards (Ex., Standards like FHIR are enabling interoperability which delivers healthcare data exchange between different systems. Thank you to everyone who took the time out of their day to submit a quote in to us and to all of you for taking the time to read this article!

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

health care system should be concerned about the points made in this article, because companies are fighting over our personal information, and the repercussions affect our health outcomes. ” The certification turns out to have other legal consequences examined in a later article in this series. Every person in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The previous article in this series explained how Real Time Medical Systems, Inc. One of the key goals of health care reform, going back to HIPAA in 1996 and particularly the HITECH act of 2009, is to allow the free flow of patient data in a secure and privacy-preserving way. raised the ire of PointClickCare Technologies, Inc.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. John and Colin highlight some of the top regulatory changes in store for 2024, including FHIR being part of TEFCA and information blocking penalties going into effect.

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GlobalMed

JANUARY 5, 2021

Cybercrime has been on the rise in healthcare and introducing video tools that aren’t secure or even HIPAA compliant has opened a door to attacks. Today’s patients are savvy consumers as well, and looking for providers who can assure them of a HIPAA-compliant virtual experience that protects their sensitive data. Evidence-based care.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Hearing about these pain points from stakeholders is why I’d “repackage HIPAA” if I were a regulator for a day. In that manner, businesses that remained “outside of the purview of HIPAA” would be impacted. Let us know either in the comments down below or through sharing this article on social media!

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Outcomes4Me found that more than half of healthcare organizations are non-compliant with HIPAA and don’t honor individuals’ right to access their health records.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 3, 2016

I will be writing a few articles about these efforts. One can't simply have a code "HIPAA" which is understood everywhere as meaning the same thing. I will explain this in another article. This article is all about IHE Document Sharing, and not about FHIR. Yet the same lesson needs to be recognized in FHIR.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

A few of my favorite comments were: “Jim Cramer needs a crash course in FHIR standards” from the wonkier section of peanut gallery. The fact is that HIPAA may not cover all of these data flows. Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2021

The following is a guest article by Doug Clayton from WestFax. In recent years, we have watched as healthcare providers have migrated away from their costly and inefficient on-premise fax servers to more flexible, secure, and reliable cloud fax services.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

There is some strong discussion going on at HL7 around privacy concerns, especially now that HL7 FHIR has enabled easy application writing. The discussion started with an article " Warning mHealth security fears are opening doors to app and device innovation " summarizing a study done by Ketchum.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2020

The following is a guest article by Doug Clayton from WestFax. The origin of the modern fax machine dates back to the 1960’s. From that analog origin to enterprise-scale cloud fax, we have seen the evolution of fax from simple point to point document exchange to something extremely powerful and capable. Some pundits see fax […].

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability. Comments […] article in more detail was originally published. Join the conversation on Twitter at #HarlowOnHC. David Harlow. The Harlow Group LLC.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability. Comments […] article in more detail was originally published. Join the conversation on Twitter at #HarlowOnHC. David Harlow. The Harlow Group LLC.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

FHIR-based API usage by Payers (Government and Commercial) in the next few years will usher in enriched datasets to TEFCA networks. There is a need for partnership between public-private players to develop patient engagement applications (SMART on FHIR) for better access to data. Data-sharing and interoperability are key.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

But that is the last article. Where a PHR was a system that would copy the patient data and give the patient the ability to connect apps to that copy of the data; now we are looking to use FHIR as a way to connect these Apps directly to the data. Even HIPAA acknowledged the need for the Patient to 'Amend" their data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. The most notable approval is USCDI v3, and others include two implementation guides from CMS for Quality Reporting Document Architecture and three HL7 standards (for C-CDA, FHIR, and QRDA).

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 17, 2019

Healthcare data is complex, and while advancing FHIR will help, the fact is healthcare organizations need to invest in an enterprise healthcare data strategy and platform to really leverage the power of data. I encourage you to please visit ARHQ.gov or HBR.org and review the numerous articles showing positive outcomes.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

For health care, the application of FHIR standards helps mobilize data for better health, turbocharging this trend. in 2016 was foreign-born, this JAMA article published in December 2018 attested. One in four physicians practicing in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As such, as a regulator for a day, I’d implement critical clarification and updates of HIPAA, its scope and classification when it comes to medical guidance from AI-powered tools, outline the responsibility and liability of AI, and explore the selling of data for profit without transparency and consent. So many good ideas here!

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