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New HIE hook-up, telemedicine transform care at LA clinic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Practically overnight, the LANES platform eliminated faxing at CSC altogether, and connected CSC electronically to community providers also using the HIE. “The HIE technology was both HIPAA- and ePHI privacy-compliant. “The HIE technology was both HIPAA- and ePHI privacy-compliant.

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TEFCA, QHINs, HDUs, and Interoperability with Civitas CEO Lisa Bari

Healthcare IT Today

Of course, we couldn’t pass up the chance to hear Bari’s thoughts on Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) and QHINs, the importance of both state and national efforts to improve interoperability, and how health data utilities (HDUs) are expanding and drawing in both public and private organizations.

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Ensuring Precision in Patient Identity: Modern Approaches to Master Data Management

Healthcare IT Today

It’s always interesting to see how an HIE is approaching their exchange of data. Of course, one of the biggest problems they faced was how do you handle identity across all of these various sources, functions, and services? First up was an intro to Healthix, one of the largest public HIEs out there that serves New York.

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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The hope, of course, is that the galvanizing technology innovations that have emerged from the stress and disruption of the past year will be foundational to a better, brighter world in 2021 and beyond. But, of course, more immediate events took priority.) There are challenges for providers, vendors and HIEs on the ONC front too.

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HIMSS CEO: How to capitalize on an 'exponential growth' in digital innovation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" A key must-have toward that pop health goal, of course, is interoperability. We've done a great job, the United States, of developing components of HIE. " "People are recognizing that information has been changing so rapidly and this is not something you can wait six months to take a course on.

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Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

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Of course, it seems crazy that the health IT incentives and Meaningful Use didn’t mandate interoperability; and the last few years of health IT development might have gone differently if interoperability were required before the 21st Century Cures Act mandated it and made data blocking illegal, but we are now looking forward, not backward.

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TEFCA Real Talk

Healthcare IT Today

If #TEFCA is going to invite people in and achieve critical mass, of course we are going to do it.” – Matthew Doyle, Epic on why they decided to join TEFCA. HIMSS23 #HITsm #healthit @CommonWell pic.twitter.com/yLIq8NBs9m — Healthcare IT Today (@hcittoday) April 18, 2023 FHIR APIs are wonderful, but they’re not sufficient on their own.