Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Health Commons Project , a leading nonprofit dedicated to improving healthcare access and quality through technology and innovation, today announced it has completed the acquisition of OneHealthPort , Washington State’s Health Information Exchange (HIE) and prominent provider of health data solutions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

– and the wherewithal of the information systems and digital data that keep them running – been put to the test quite like it was in 2020. Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data.

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JUNE 14, 2021

Healthcare organizations responsible for managing and analyzing large amounts of clinical data have experienced unusual challenges due to the pandemic. In this podcast, expert speakers will discuss: Challenges the pandemic created for organizations aggregating and managing large amounts of data.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Senior Solutions Architect – HIE position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Here’s a description of the position: Company: TransForm Shared Service Organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2024

The government and many healthcare leaders are pushing for more interoperability and data sharing in healthcare. When you look at how much data is passing through Healthix, it’s kind of hard to comprehend. 50 million patients with 105+ million inbound data is a lot of health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 18, 2020

Tell us about the new COVID-19 Data Monitoring Platform that NEHII launched. NEHII partnered with KPI Ninja to develop the COVID-19 Data Monitoring Platform. The COVID-19 platform ingests data from multiple […]. The following is an interview with Jaime Bland, CEO of Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NEHII).

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

General were not participating in data sharing. As data sharing initiatives gain momentum, including TEFCA nationally and the Data Exchange Framework in California, it’s an important reminder that data sharing advancement is more than a policy or technological discussion.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Such was the case at the first ever collaborative conference for health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, public health, and health equity. The four-day summit focused on the evolving role of HIE, new interoperability successes and the valuable implications of harnessing data to advance health equity.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Health data utility is still a fairly new concept in the world of healthcare. But as we talk about it, more and more HIE organizations have started to use it and the concept has been embraced by many. We gathered up some of our brilliant members of the Healthcare IT Today Community to get their perspective.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jolie Ritzo, VP of Strategy and Network Engagement at Civitas Networks for Health Health data management in 2024 is both intricate and complex. Here are some of the most exciting and challenging aspects of both exchanging and using comprehensive health data this year and ahead.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

A New York HIE has concluded that it’s having the impact supporters of data sharing have always hoped for – generating a substantial level of healthcare savings.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 25, 2024

Unlike an HIE, Traverse does not store any health data. Instead, it uses a federated approach where the data remains in the source system. MEDITECH has long been a part of the Canadian healthcare landscape. It is a network where we can share and exchange patient data…in particular, patient summaries or CCDAs.”

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Civitas Networks for Health is a non-profit consortium that brings together a broad community of organizations interested in health data exchange. Learn more about Civitas Networks for Health: [link] Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

After years of evolving and struggling to find a solid business model, HIEs have finally found a reasonably secure place in the healthcare system. The thing is, the job they’ve learned to do – serving as an exchange point for any and all data coming their way – may already be outmoded, according to Claudia […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

Health information exchanges (HIEs) are well-situated to help healthcare organizations achieve three core goals of value-based care: providing better care for individuals, reducing healthcare costs, and improving population health management strategies. Resources for All States. Agile Technology Tools.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2020

Patient-Generated Data’s Place in Patient Care Today, health systems have increasingly recognized the need to be patient-centered, with a focus on empowering and engaging patients to assist them in maintaining their own health. The following is a guest article by Andrea Tait, VP of Client Value, Orion Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As health data sharing continues to evolve, the mere collection of patient data is no longer sufficient; it’s imperative that the data collected have tangible value for overburdened clinicians increasingly being requested to gather more data. Tell us what you think. Contact us here or on Twitter at @hcitoday.

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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 Today

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Here’s a quick summary of what everyone had to say in the video: Deven McGraw, Head of Data Stewardship and Data Sharing at Invitae – It’s not a replacement for Community HIE but I think it’s an essential tool for making sure that there’s nationwide exchange.

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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. We’ll be sharing a number of short videos on LinkedIn from the event, so be sure to follow me and Healthcare IT Today on LinkedIn to get the latest updates.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

If you’re running an HIE, you’re always hoping to see your participants step up their interoperability game. The thing is, few HIEs go the extra mile to make it happen, in many cases because they just don’t have the resources to tackle the problem. Given this fact, I was interested to see the recent announcement […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

Ben Hsieh, Vice President of Product, says that Discern Health works with payers, providers, and Health Information Exchanges (HIE). View the video with Discern Health for details about interoperability, making data work for patient improvement, and more. Their service concentrates currently on care management for value-based care.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2023

That’s why I had to sit down with Jared Jeffery, Founder at healthKERI , to learn more about his pathway to starting his new health data exchange company. He also shares who the target customers are for healthKERI and we discuss whether healthcare organizations really want to solve the data interoperability problem.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

The optometrist printed his report that I would bring to my next PCP exam, because otherwise my optometrist had no reliable way to transfer the data. The alliance was a bold gesture made ten years ago by leading EHR vendors to demonstrate their commitment to data sharing. This is the burden still faced by three quarters of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. 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

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. What isn’t being talked about enough when it comes to sharing health data? Gregg Church, President at 4medica – Data quality and patient identification.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Enable easier data sharing across care settings, via patient portals, secure messaging and HIEs. Enable EHRs to segment patient data consistent with organizational policies, patient requests and state and federal laws and regulations. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. ON THE RECORD. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2023

"By connecting to NC HealthConnex, data from a provider's electronic health records can be leveraged to support chronic disease intervention and be used as a valuable tool for the public good," said Burris in a statement.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

I’m happy to say that it’s lived up to billing with an incredible group of people who understand the challenges of health data exchange. Their discussion was prompted by this paper that was published on “Health Data Federalism.” Plus, in healthcare there are also regulatory options.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2024

Guidewell operates in Florida and many patients come from out-of-state and their records are scattered among various HIEs and other healthcare organizations. You must trust the data that trains the AI, and ensure that it can integrate into your systems. eClinicalWorks is a proud sponsor of Healthcare Scene. Why this long?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis has exposed a painful number of deficiencies in our nation’s healthcare system, including just how severe the lack of an interconnected health infrastructure has hampered response efforts. As the need for collaboration and access to quality data for tracking […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2023

For the 54th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Natalie Pageler, MD, CMIO at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health to talk about patient information privacy! To kick things off, Pageler shares some of the unique challenges that exist with data privacy for children.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Interoperability has to be improved and expanded, with data silos broken down and easier cross-system communication. I want to make sure that all the data that needs to be associated with me is being associated," Wolf added. We've done a great job, the United States, of developing components of HIE.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Data Scientist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Evaluate the statistical methods and procedures used to obtain data to ensure validity, applicability, efficiency, and accuracy.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

TEFCA aims to create one unified technical framework to exchange data across the country between healthcare providers, health plans, public health agencies, and individuals. . For example, the specifications might codify the name of a data element, but the data a provider captures within that element can vary.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 21, 2024

We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Note: These jobs are listed by Healthcare IT Today as a free service to the community. Healthcare IT Today does not endorse or vouch for the company or the job posting.

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