Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2025

Many of the speakers at conferences last year pleaded with audiences to put more effort into adopting modern approaches to better solve healthcares challenges like patient experience, interoperability, administrative burden, and improved outcomes. At the 2024 RSNA annual conference (RSNA24), this message was loud and clear.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The pressures for data exchange and interoperability have converged on the concept of a health data utility. At the DirectTrust conference, Angie Bass, Chief Strategy Officer at Velatura , describes this as a “unifying force” that is “supported like a public utility” to exchange data among health care facilities.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2022

If you’ve followed our coverage of health IT conferences for any amount of time, you know that we love to attend user conferences. This has been exactly my experience at the first day of the eClinicalWorks (eCW) national conference. Absolutely packed house for the kickoff of the @eClinicalWorks user conference.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

This month’s chat will be hosted by Erica Olenski Johansen ( @thegr8chalupa ) on the topic “ Back to the Basics: Implications of Interoperability. ”. At that time, the chats were inspired by advancements in interoperability, including some rather niche healthcare standards discussions, including HL7 v2, HL7 v3, CDA, and eventually FHIR.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2024

At the recent DirectTrust conference, Ken Romo, Global Director at ETHERFAX , shares with us that they are not just a fax company: He describes them as a cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) company offering a “secure exchange network” that also includes fax.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2024

“Every innovation from Greenway going forward is going to be based on AI” That was just one of several bold statements made by Pratap Sarker, CEO of Greenway Health at the company’s user group conference (ReEngage) last week in Arlington, TX. How was the ReEngage conference? Overall, ReEngage was well attended.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2021

Still, the lack of interoperability remains a barrier hindering clinicians from using digital health tools. The annual 2021 HIMSS Global Conference will be meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, the week of August 15th. Security, too, remains a block with 41% of clinicians still concerned over the security of patient data.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2023

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. At the recent Civitas Conference, we took the time to ask various members of our talented Healthcare IT Today Community to see where their thoughts were on this subject.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2025

At the conference, were talking with top companies, executives, and health IT leaders to get their insights on AI, security, workforce challenges, leadership, and more. With 30,000+ attendees, 1,000+ exhibitors, and hundreds of speakers, its the place to be for the latest in health IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

A few weeks back, we shared that we were going to attend what we termed the Woodstock of Healthcare Interoperability which was the annual conference hosted by DirectTrust and Civitas. Was great to briefly talk #healthequity with @EricaGalvez CEO of @ManifestMedEx at the #Together4Health2022 conference.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In this short video, CEO Lisa Bari describes the most interesting aspects of Civitas’s recent conference. That was on full display at the conference as each of these organizations connected and learned the unique approaches organizations we’re taking across the country.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The cornucopia that is the annual HIMSS conference and tradeshow – healthcare technology’s biggest event – is behind us, but what’s left in the wake is wonderful, inspiring even, if not a bit overwhelming. Interoperability in the form of data sharing and a ban on […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Innovation on Full Display at AdvaMed’s MedTech Conference. Colin Hung shared his learnings from the conference focused on advancing medical device technology. The limitations of interoperability has made value-based care more complex , said Ashay Thakurat Cedar Gate Technologies.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Healthcare loves to talk about the challenge that is data and interoperability in healthcare. Indeed, healthcare faces a major challenge when it comes to data and interoperability. I realized this when talking with ELLKAY as they prepare for the upcoming ViVE and HIMSS conferences. As I saw […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2024

While we were at the 2024 HLTH Conference #HLTH2024, we spoke with many companies that had interesting stories and announcements. Andrea Kowalski, Chief Product Officer at 1upHealth , shares this pragmatic view on the state of interoperability. However, more often, the truly interesting stuff bubbles under the radar.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The HIMSS conference serves as a barometer of the current state of the health IT industry, and this year’s event seems strategically focused on themes around interoperability, patient engagement and consumerism

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

I attended the annual 2019 HIMSS conference in February for nearly a week of meetings, interviews, education sessions, company private salons, and social media check-ins with my fellow and sister HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors. This week, HIMSS published my retrospective thoughts on the Conference.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

We have not achieved data interoperability despite an abundance of technology, standards, and legislation. Healthcare Data Interoperability. Only recently have EHR vendors begun rolling out APIs, adopting standards, and developing tools to make their data more interoperable. Data in healthcare is siloed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2024

Many government leaders come to both the global and the European conferences. Plus, one of the important topics is how to make the patient’s record interoperable if a French citizen is visiting Italy for example. In European countries, patients are treated as citizens which changes their approach.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In this video at the DirectTrust conference, we hear about the use of AI and what the company calls straight-through processing from Chike Okeke, JR, Chief Information Security Officer, and Mike Stover, Director of Product Management. Concord is also participating in DirectTrust’s Interoperable Secure Cloud Fax initiative.

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Digital Health Today

JANUARY 10, 2022

Health equity took center stage at the HLTH Conference in Boston last year. None of these questions have easy solutions, but conference speakers and participants proposed a number of ideas: Do better in the existing construct while working to change it. How can we make interoperability a reality between social and medical services?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 1, 2022

This week was the HFMA Annual conference in Denver. I’d say the hottest topic at the conference was the lack of workforce available and the impact that is having on organizations. I didn’t expect to see a healthcare interoperability session at HFMA, but Diane Mchalec from UPMC was there doing just that.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

To start this week, I was lucky to be able to attend the DirectTrust conference in St. This was a really great event because it had basically everyone on the full continuum of interoperability and identity all in one place. Patients Susannah Fox was really the best start to a conference to remind us of the patient perspective.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2024

Plus, they look at how interoperability can help address this problem and provide valuable analytics. In many cases, one of the biggest problem with these devices is that they’re not interoperable. An interoperable platform relieves the clinicians of this duty so they can spend more time with patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

At the 2023 Annual RSNA Conference (RSNA23), Healthcare IT Today arranged for an exclusive interview with Beau Jones, President & CEO at DataFirst and Jeff Emery, CIO/CTO at Envision Radiology to learn more about their deep collaboration. With DataFirst’s Silverback platform and close partnership, they achieved their goal. Here’s how.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Ken Romo at ETHERFAX talked to John about building a secure exchange network while also supporting fax – an effort that includes being part of the DirectTrust Interoperable Secure Cloud Fax standards body. Read more… Healthcare IT Today Podcast : HLTH 2024 Conference Preview.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As mentioned previously, we’re taking part on the Virtual AHIMA conference this week. Exploring how things work in the virtual world, we tried something new today and did a text based chat interview with Rita Bowen, VP of Privacy, Compliance and HIM Policy from MRO. In this wide ranging text interview, we talked with Rita […].

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 14, 2023

Equity was at the forefront of Reuters’ value-based health conference in Philadelphia last month. Over two days, executives from accountable care organizations, health systems and payers spoke about interoperability, population health, social determinants, the cost of care and taking on risk.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 13, 2018

Developer Conference here in the White House. WASHINGTON, DC – A broad coalition of technology giants took the stage in an unscheduled session at the Blue Button 2.0

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This work supports broader efforts to modernize healthcare and drives interoperability. This growing public-private collaboration signals progress toward achieving nationwide interoperability. It is the right policy construct for America to use to make sure we get to nationwide interoperability.”

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

We attende a lot of healthcare IT conferences every year, but there’s nothing quite like the nearly back to back conferences of ViVE and HIMSS. After COVID, CHIME created ViVE with HLTH, but HIMSS continued to hold the event for executives the day before the main HIMSS conference.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

John connected with Angie Bass at Velatura to discuss why interoperability is about finding value in data and not just exchanging data. Read more… A Plethora of AI Announcements at the eClinicalWorks Annual Conference. eClinicalWorks announced the healow Genie AI agent at its user conference, which John attended.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Telehealth in the pandemic was, in Philips’ words, “crucial but underused” Interoperability is still an obstacle, and, Digital technology will be pivotal in the next few years. In the first six months of the pandemic, the tale of telehealth as told via media coverage and virtual conference content has been quite bullish.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While at the AHIMA conference, I had a chance to dive deeper into this topic with MRO’s Chief Product Officer, Mo Weitnauer. We start off our interview with asking Weitnauer about what’s required to reconcile the competing requirements of government regulations (CURES Act, Interoperability Regulations, HIPAA, etc).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Interoperability for better outcomes and clinical advances. The goal of Azure Health Data Services is interoperability that drives better patient outcomes and clinical advances. The key to unlocking the data is interoperability across the entire health ecosystem. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. HIMSS22 Coverage.

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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? We asked a number of experts at the conference to chime in with their thoughts on TEFCA and QHINs. When will they be implemented?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2025

Samsung In the company’s CES 2025 opening press conference, Samsung’s Vice Chairman and CEO Jong-Hee (JH) Han presented a talk onAI for All: Everyday, Everywhere.” ” He expounded on Samsungs Home AI, integrating home appliances and devices to simplify life.

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