Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2025

An EHR system needs to make a 360-degree view of patient data accessible in a secure manner that can be made available using standard interfaces like FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) APIs for structured data exchange and DICOM for imaging.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2025

New guidelines for health care privacy and consent, extending data sharing to new types of organizations, ensuring the clinical usability of data, and just lots and lots of growththese are on the agenda of The Sequoia Project in the upcoming year.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2020

CMS has released a proposed rule that will require Medicaid managed care plans and other insurers offering products on the ACA Exchanges to support the sharing of patient data amongst themselves.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In a recent interview with Healthcare IT Today , Aidan Lee, Director of the Certification Program at OntarioMD , and Matt LaDuke, Director of Products, Integrations, and Service Management, shed light on the evolving landscape of electronic medical records (EMRs) and the state of interoperability in the healthcare sector.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

One is aimed at helping Electronic Medical Record (EMR) users in Ontario drive down costs and have a bigger voice with vendors. In the past, OntarioMD has been responsible for Certifying EMRs. The organization has evolved and now is a champion for interoperability, data standards, analytics, eForms, and other technologies.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In order to truly improve healthcare, we need to have seamless interoperability and data sharing between different healthcare providers. Getting your necessary medical data across providers in these scenarios can be time-consuming and mentally taxing for both patients and providers. The following are their answers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2024

MED connects EMR via cloud Telemedicine service My Emergency Doctor can now provide systems interoperability to enable hospitals to conduct virtual board rounds. According to a media release, the said hospital preferred to interoperate its systems with MED's EMR system through its existing HL7 messaging standard.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

First, a well-designed interface can streamline workflows by removing redundant steps and enabling intuitive data sharing within the clinicians existing processeliminating unnecessary clicks. Interoperability is enabled through standard data and information representation.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We wrap up this interview series withBrendan Keeler, Interoperability Practice Lead at HTD Health , with a look at his time workin with Jonathan, Bush, a discussion of the EHR market including Epic’s rise to dominance, a discussion of whether Epic is a monopoly, and finally a look at patient access to health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2020

As part of our Healthcare IT 100 in 100, we asked a wide variety of healthcare interoperability experts to chime in on the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare interoperability. Plus, then we asked them how it will impact health data sharing going forward.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2022

Dr. Katharine Smart, President of the Canadian Medical Association believes interoperability is key to reducing physician burnout. An EMR is supposed to make your life easier and there are really powerful things about EMRs, but inadvertently they have actually increased the amount of time physicians spend on paperwork.”.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As the next phase in the evolution of interoperability, SDC allows for the secure and near real-time sharing of health data between devices at the point of care, regardless of the manufacturer. Hospitals want to use devices of their choosing and have them connect to one another so they can act on clinical data more easily.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 25, 2024

MEDITECH is helping to address interoperability in Canada with their Traverse solution. Unlike an HIE, Traverse does not store any health data. Instead, it uses a federated approach where the data remains in the source system. Traverse Exchange is our interoperability strategy in Canada,” said Molloy. “It

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Maxim Abramsky, AVP Product Management at Edifecs Benefits: AI improves decision-making by analyzing patient data to support accurate diagnoses and personalized treatment. Additionally, this innovation must address challenges such as data accuracy, patient privacy, and interoperability. Below are their answers.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 12, 2020

Despite the endless efforts healthcare organizations have made to support health data interoperability, the path still remains rocky. However, the pandemic has offered a sharp reminder that problems with patient data sharing can undercut treatment, particularly with the COVID-19 pandemic underway, a new study suggests.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2023

University of Adelaide uses Sunrise EMR for practical exams The University of Adelaide has started adopting the Sunrise EMR system for practical examinations of fifth-year medical students. Sunrise EMR is the primary medical record system in all major public hospitals in metropolitan SA.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

A new health data interoperability survey by Healthcare IT Today with 82 responses suggests that when it comes to interoperability, healthcare organizations are struggling with many of the same challenges they faced five or even 10 years ago. Without a doubt, respondents are still interested in fostering health data sharing.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

I recently came across an article by Verto which identified 3 fundamental problems with interoperability and care coordination in healthcare as follows: Data Integration and Aggregation Sub-Set of the Data Relevant to a Particular Care Step Data Governance and Patient Transitions The article was spot on in identifying these problems.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Dr. Davis is also the founder of BluByrd , a software company that automates surgical case data and provides a better way to schedule surgical cases. Improved Patient Experience Through Interoperability Over the years, Dr. Davis has come to realize that when patient data is made more portable and sharable, patient experience improves.

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Continue Education Journal

DECEMBER 30, 2021

These parts are 1) establishing a clearinghouse for bill submission, 2) simplifying prior authorizations, 3) harmonizing quality reporting, and 4) enhancing data interoperability in the health-care system. We will go through them in detail below. This would contribute to the harmony of reporting metrics nationwide.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

News Interoperability: Where it's headed, and where IT leaders will be investing Five CIOs, a COO and a CMIO chart a course for the complex demands of data exchange, and discuss. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) By Bill Siwicki | November 15, 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2023

Rochester Regional Health is using a measured and practical approach to data interoperability. They have focused their efforts on data that clinicians want to use, that fits their workflow, and can be seamlessly incorporated into their Epic system. When the work was done, the lab data seamlessly appeared within Epic.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

There has been tremendous progress in healthcare IT interoperability, but this video is a stark reminder of how much more we need to do to better support patients, caregivers, and their providers. Access to critical health data shouldnt be an additional stress. Instead, the data should just be there.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Another area where we haven’t enabled pharmacists has to do with pharmacy interoperability. In our discussion, we talk about early approaches to ePrescribing and how those efforts have led us to where we are at today including pharmacy interoperability (or lack thereof).

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2024

PointClickCare , having promoted interoperability for a long time in a few areas such as senior care, has expanded to include acute care, and particularly to connect it with post-acute care. Husainy says the regulations put “new teeth” into requirements for interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2024

It’s reasonable for a company like MRO to have a chief interoperability officer. According to their chief interoperability officer, Anthony Murray, the company has spent 22 years building tools to “exchange data seamlessly” in healthcare. Plus, he shares how healthcare standards are impacting these efforts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Home care visit verification platform leverages FHIR Health tech startup didgUgo is set to provide IT system interoperability to its partners who use its care visit verification solution. The company partnered with InterSystems to adopt the IRIS for Health platform to offer interoperability based on FHIR standards.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2021

After hearing about DirectTrust passing the 2 billion message mark, we thought it would be valuable for readers to learn more about DirectTrust and the healthcare interoperability work their non-profit is doing.

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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. It’s a problem of scale.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Acute Care EMR (Large Hospital/IDN: >200 Beds). Acute Care EMR (Community Hospital: ≤200 Beds). Interoperability Platforms. Ambulatory EMR (>75 Physicians). Ambulatory EMR (11–75 Physicians). Ambulatory Specialty EMR. Small Practice Ambulatory EMR/PM (≤10 Physicians). Zynx Health.

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AMD Telemedicine

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

For many, the most obvious solution has been to rely on a third-party vendor to provide telehealth services and then work to make that service interoperable with existing electronic health records (EHR). Research has shown that telemedicine interoperability often results in a fragmented, redundant, and costly mess.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Rapid and Flexible Interoperability Silverback is an enterprise-grade imaging interoperability, integration, and workflow solution that helps healthcare organizations easily connect/manage the inflow and outflow of images. The platform also allows them to quickly adapt to changes in those data connections.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2020

Healthcare interoperability has always been a hot topic, but it’s become even more interesting amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. In many ways, the pandemic has highlighted some of the challenges healthcare faces in sharing health data between providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 5, 2024

They partner closely with clients there to implement their cloud-based Sunrise EHR , their dbMotion data integration platform, and more. For example, how are they addressing interoperability of health data across the provinces in Canada.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Doctors remotely manage patient data without being tied to a specific medical facility. They also handle large volumes of data effortlessly within their hospitals. This includes personal data, medical histories, laboratory results, insurance numbers, and more. Simply open a mobile app and download the report to your smartphone.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. And now, check out our community’s healthcare analytics and interoperability predictions. Big data platforms go mainstream. Epic) to real-time patient journey optimization systems that are EMR-agnostic and fueled by far more comprehensive data than what sits in EMRs today.

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