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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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Focus on Data and Analytics: Companies with robust data analytics capabilities and insights into patient behaviour will be well-positioned. Healthcare Technology Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors – Market Insights, Analysis & Predictions.

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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

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. Many members are HIEs, but a number of other organizations in health care including community organizations are members as well. Check out our interview with Bari from Civitas below to learn more.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Interoperability and HIE Forum Keynote – Brendan Keeler (separate registration required) – Venetian | Level 3 | Lido 3101, Mon 3/3 8:30-9:00 AM They couldn’t have made a better choice for the keynote, Brendan Keeler , for the Interoperability and HIE Pre-conference forum.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Along the way, we almost inevitably uncover challenges surrounding the quality of the patient data transferred to the new and existing EHR. Or, the organization can leverage an outsourced clinical data team to augment the abstraction efforts of the internal clinical staff. Healthcare organizations have two options for this.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2020

As the need for collaboration and access to quality data for tracking […]. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 15, 2025

Defining trust To join eHealth Exchange, all participants must adhere to the same terms through a standardized agreement for trusted exchange called the Data Use and Reciprocal Support Agreement (DURSA). As part of this commitment, we dont store patient data, track patient movements, or use or disclose patient data for secondary purposes.

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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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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Focus on AI and Data Analytics: US companies will prioritise acquisitions of companies with advanced AI and data analytics capabilities to gain insights into patient data and improve decision-making. Healthcare Technology Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors – Market Insights, Analysis & Predictions.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2023

What isn’t being talked about enough when it comes to sharing health data? Gregg Church, President at 4medica – Data quality and patient identification. Justin Villines, MBA, HIT Policy Director at SHARE HIE – I think listening to our customers and our participants.

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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

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

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Researchers at MIT have found that de-identified patient data runs an extremely low risk of being re-identified in the event of a data breach. Study authors concluded that that the potential risk to patient privacy in sharing de-identified data is greatly outweighed by the gains for patients through medical research.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Surveys A survey of 2,600 AHIMA members found that about 80% of healthcare organizations are collecting social determinants of health data. The bad news: Organizations face multiple challenges in collecting, coding, and using SDOH data. Hawai’i HIE chose 4medica to assist with data quality improvement.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Because penalties for information blocking – that is, any practice that interferes with access, exchange, or use of electronic health data – are tied to the definition of EHI. Equally important is the tremendous potential for innovation that comes with greater access to health data. Why was that so important? Key policy considerations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2023

News and Studies Amid the push for interoperability, data gaps persist, according to the inaugural State of Interoperability report from Health Gorilla , a health information network. This is despite the fact that 65% of survey respondents saying they believe patients should own their data.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For federal agencies and state and regional exchanges, this is an excellent time to demonstrate leadership in interoperability by joining a network that will likely provide a ready on-ramp to TEFCA. Currently, perhaps 99% of health data exchange is initiated to support treatment. The Case for Federal Agencies.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 30, 2017

It happens that the framework for explaining why the future is bright for HIE comes from the Wisconsin HIE (WISHIN) fall summit. They used the following diagram to show what they viewed as the HIE future. Up to now we have focused on getting EHR to publish or simply make available the data they have.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2024

You must trust the data that trains the AI, and ensure that it can integrate into your systems. Before Guidewell DCMG implemented the Prisma AI service from eClinicalWorks , intake on a patient could take two days when the office was busy. Why this long? He says that the costs of AI are low, so trying it is well worthwhile.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2023

News Three Democratic Senators have introduced legislation to expand protections for Americans’ personal health data privacy. The latest data brief from ONC shows that 87% of office-based physicians used telemedicine in 2021 , compared to just 15% in 2018 – though the majority (53%) used if for less than 25% of their total visit volume.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2023

News and Studies HLTH Foundation formed the Techquity for Health Coalition , with a mission to help organizations consider health equity in health technology innovation and data practices. ONC’s latest data brief indicated that, as of the end of 2021, more than 60% of hospitals are actively engaged in sharing health information.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 6, 2018

Yet, our healthcare leadership keeps looking for a new technical architecture to solve this problem. Patients controlling use of their data Provide the ability of the Patient to set rules for how their data can be used. Control of the data also includes allowing the patient to engage their data in use beyond treatment.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2023

To kick things off, Pageler shares some of the unique challenges that exist with data privacy for children. Looking forward, we move on to the areas that healthcare organizations need to work on to ensure patient data privacy. What are some areas that healthcare organizations need to work to ensure privacy of their patient data?

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

—Matt Doyle @EpicShares #HIMSS23 #RealTalk #TEFCA pic.twitter.com/NtV2inP8Bq — CommonWell Health Alliance (@CommonWell) April 18, 2023 It’s become clear to me that exchanging healthcare data is going to include multiple layers. There’s no one solution that will solve the health data sharing problem.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2022

According to 57% of survey respondents, the most important consideration when choosing a provider is how well they understand you as an individual, and not just though the patient data they have about you. Partnerships. Consultancy Forward Advantage collaborated with MEDITECH to develop a white-labeled patient-facing mobile app.

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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 Today

AUGUST 17, 2021

The following is a guest article by Jaime Bland, DNP, RN-BC, Chief Executive Officer at CyncHealth, the health data utility for the Midwest, and Kat McDavitt, Principal Advisor and Head of Public Affairs for Innsena and advises organizations including PointClickCare on external affairs.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Madaket Health has collaborated with Licentiam to add state medical licensing and credentialing services to its data management platform. PointClickCare is partnering with the Michigan Health Information Network to help post-acute providers and case managers exchange data with MiHIN.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

For example, the definition of EHI and how it applies to various data isn’t clear and how the 8 exceptions apply is also confusing to many. The organizations do suggest they support HHS’ efforts to “advance health data exchange and interoperability while advancing health equity for all.” What do you think?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 21, 2022

HIE infrastructure provider CRISP Shared Services is the first partner for eHealth Exchange’s planned Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN). Connectivity service provider MedAllies selected the Lyniate Enterprise Master Patient Index by NextGate for identity data management. Clinical data platform MRO made the Inc.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

An ONC blog post described how the tool works: Developers answer questions about the type of health data the app will collect, the intended use of the app, and the type of entity developing the app to determine whether the app is subject to HIPAA, the information blocking rule, or other federal laws.

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Chilmark Research

MARCH 6, 2014

We have been sold on the transformative promise of more proactive patient populations, fueled with education, armed with their own data, and empowered to become interactive with a connected fleet of software and hardware. HIEs Look Backward. Mobile Players Look Forward. that folks have started to pick up on.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This is essential for providing telemedicine services, remote patient monitoring, and other healthcare services that rely on data sharing. This data can be used to monitor patients' health remotely and to provide them with personalized health recommendations.

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