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. For personal health records, this may be possible.

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Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2025

Health information technology professionals charged with selecting, implementing, updating, and paying for health IT in hospital and care delivery settings are essentially the first-line consumers of health IT specifically, electronic health records. I also started to see the downsides of doing this.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We talk a lot about sharing data and how it will improve patient outcomes and interoperability, but do we talk enough about how to do it safely? Most of the data that we are looking to share is highly sensitive health information, the kind of information that cybercriminals love to hold for ransom.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Te Toka Tumai Auckland launching FHIR-driven PAS Te Toka Tumai Auckland, formerly Auckland District Health Board, will be launching a new patient administration system that runs on the new FHIR-based National Health Index API. It will also make data more updated, consistent, and reliable, he added.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2025

eHealth Exchange , a non-profit started by Health & Human Services and now a separate non-profit, helps health care institutions exchange over two billion records a month. In this video, President Jay Nakashima explains the role they play, particularly in public health, scaling FHIR and TEFCA.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange An FDA project aims to make it as easy as possible for clinicians to report adverse drug events and share important clinical data with public health agencies to investigate the event. The new process proved faster and easier for everyone involved.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 23, 2023

I already have one proposal for the transition from the current Federated Health Information Exchange to supporting FHIR, that is based on a transition from CDA to FHIR-Documents. Federated FHIR Resource Servers In this article I am going to add another step to the smooth transition. I will get to those later.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 31, 2019

CARIN, a nonprofit dedicated to consumer-directed exchange of health information, has unveiled its Blue Button HL7 FHIR API model and draft guidance implementation guides.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2019

With increasing buzz around population health and social determinants of health, those two forces are poised to change philosophies around care delivery and how a hospital or health system works to keep the surrounding community healthy. But we have not adjusted our thinking about data to how the bad guys think of it.

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Streamlining Data for Better Care Chelmsford, MA – October 29, 2024 –AMD Global Telemedicine, a pioneer and industry leader in telehealth technology solutions for over 30 years, today announced a strategic partnership with Carefluence , an innovator in interoperability solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The SMART-on-FHIR open platform allows clinicians to offer third-party apps in a standard manner. Xealth is also integrated with Epic and Cerner, so the clinician can record data on third-party content if desired. Watch this short video demo for more details about how Xealth connects hospitals and health systems to patients at home.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 22, 2019

Health Level Seven International (HL7), the global authority for interoperability in health information technology, and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the only medical society devoted solely to primary care, are pleased to announce that the Gravity Project is now part of the HL7 FHIR Accelerator Program.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 21, 2023

FOCUS data products are designed to streamline data by delivering comprehensive, simplified, and organized patient health information across seven disease states: Diabetes, Cardiology, Oncology, Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), Pulmonology, Orthopedics, and Gastroenterology.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

1upHealth’s FHIR®-native platform designed for interoperability and modern computing is used by over 75 enterprise organizations including leading national and regional health plans, the highest performing CMS ACOs, international clinical research organizations, and over 20 state Medicaid agencies. Our customers are ready.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

One of the most significant applications of healthcare information technology is the exchange of health information among disparate clinical information systems and otherwise unaffiliated care providers. Giving credit where it is needed, and providing critical context for the fine grain data.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The increasing need for interoperability in healthcare has driven significant growth and demand for the company’s data fabric platform and continued innovation in this area. “Our vision for better global health becomes more achievable when we focus on the inherent value of finding innovative ways to efficiently share and use data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

– Microsoft has announced advancements in cloud technologies for healthcare and life sciences with the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. The goal of Azure Health Data Services is interoperability that drives better patient outcomes and clinical advances.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This is quoted from a forthcoming publication from Dr. Eric Sutherland, senior health economist with the OECD. Digital health encompasses four dimensions: analytic readiness (analytics and use), data readiness (linking data across domains/integration), technology readiness (e.g., and Germany ranking in the bottom three.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

Many facets of healthcare remained in a state of flux at the close of 2022, as care practices that started during the pandemic found their way into the mainstream, and enthusiasm for new data sources and interoperability outpaced the realities of implementation. We’re excited to see where this goes.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

There are a lot of components to consider and talk about in regards to interoperability and data sharing. Today we are going to focus on the innovative technologies and standards that are currently being employed to make our dreams of a better system of interoperability and data sharing a reality.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Products Inovalon announced several new and updated products , including Eligibility Verification Pro for patient insurance verification and Converged Outreach Connectors for sharing member data using FHIR APIs. EHR data network Truveta announced Truveta Tru , a research assistant powered by generative AI.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 18, 2016

Meaning we can't put sensitive information there. We can't put data there that needs to be corrected. Thus putting healthcare information onto the blockchain is just not going to happen. The chain would assert (signature) the authenticity and pseudo-provenance of the data. All the attributes that bitcoin leverage.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

However, all of these different systems make it difficult to securely and reliably exchange data. Creating a standard for data exchange would make our lives significantly easier, but creating that standard isn’t going to be easy. Lance Reid, CEO at Telcion There is a lot of activity in healthcare related to data sharing.

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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 became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. When it comes to managing medical information, we go even further.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) Health Data Locator and Revoke Option - Rev. The Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) Health Data Locator and Revoke Option Supplement enhances the existing IHE XCPD Integration Profile by adding two new capabilities.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Most use of FHIR today is as an API to an organizations health information (EHR). However what is being asked latey is how does one scale FHIR to a nation. I have plenty of articles on how a Nationwide Health Information Exchange (HIE) could be built with the IHE XD* family of profiles.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: Director Informatics – The Doctors Company Clinical Systems Specialist-HIMS (Remote) – ChristianaCare IT Applications FHIR Developer – ZOLL Cardiac Management Solutions Analyst III, Epic – DaVita Kidney Care Experienced Healthcare Business Analyst – Wellnecity (..)

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Wolters Kluwer Health Language Platform, a FHIR Terminology Server, enables interoperability to ensure quality healthcare data is leveraged across health plans, providers, and HIT vendors for analytics applications WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This profile shows how to build a Document Sharing Exchange using IHE profiled FHIR® standard, rather than the legacy IHE profiles that is dominated by XDS and HL7® v2. The MHDS Profile specifies how a collection of IHE profiles can be used by communities for exchanging health information. 3 - Section 4.0 3 - Section 4.0

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Risk management vendor CorVel unveiled a data and service hub for its customers in managed care.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2024

High-quality, reliable data is crucial to getting most things done in healthcare, especially for healthcare interoperability. However, having the data alone isn’t enough – we need to be able to share our data between healthcare entities. eHealth Exchange is proud to be one of the first Designated QHINs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

It feels like every company has a health cloud offering these days. Microsoft's Azure health cloud includes a data service that brings together clinical, imaging, medical devices, and other datasets. Salesforce has announced that it will improve its Salesforce Customer 360 for Health product, adding new features.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

in January , according to the latest data from Syntellis. A survey published in JAMIA found 73% of digital health vendors are using standards-based FHIR APIs when integrating with EHR systems. Partnerships Instacart is now integrated with Pack Health , the patient engagement program from Quest Diagnostics.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 23, 2024

ABAC: data has "attributes" (elements), that may be summarized into "sensitivity tags" (SLS) that are also attributes. Policies indicate "classifications" of data that indicate how data are to be protected based on some attributes (may be sensitivity tags, but can be any attributes). The SLS must understand FHIR.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

Two requirements in particular are critical to that goal: “APIs without special effort” and a requirement to share data on behalf of the patient (“information blocking prohibited”). FHIR has been around for over 10 years so it is worth pondering why it was not incorporated into TEFCA from the start.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 30, 2024

The FHIR security tag `VIP` is used to indicate that a patient's health information is considered to be highly confidential and requires heightened security measures. VIP is a designation of a person, not a designation of the data. All accesses to VIP patient data often will trigger stricter scrutiny of accesses.

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