Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Studying the data from our customers' patients allows us to have access to somewhere between 100 million and 200 million patients right now. EHRN is looking at that data and trying to find out, especially with COVID-19 right now, what is there that we should share. And that's what interoperability is able to do.

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Interoperability Telehealth Meaningful Use FHIR 197

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Thanks to the regulations included as part of meaningful use, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), every healthcare provider using certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT) has access to Direct Secure Messaging.

Interoperability 98

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Health Information 98

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Since its founding in 2005, MAeHC has worked to improve the safety, efficiency and quality of healthcare delivery in the state by guiding organizations in the implementation and meaningful use of health IT. It has also spearheaded interoperability, standards development and HIT policy initiatives.

eHealth 167

eHealth Meaningful Use Leadership Health Data 167

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

They are no longer paper pushers (literally) and are now stewards of healthcare data. Prior to the Meaningful Use incentives in 2005, only 20% of medical records were stored electronically. We are collecting so much data now,” continued Mueller. It’s now up to us to ensure that data is accurate, timely, and useful.

Health Information 134

Health Information Meaningful Use Interoperability Healthcare IT 134

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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Interoperability eHealth FHIR EHR 78

Redox

MAY 6, 2024

In the first two posts, I covered how Redox is overcoming current limitations with bulk FHIR and translating data between HL7 ® v2 and HL7 ® FHIR ®. Carequality is a nonprofit organization that has developed a framework for trusted, standards-based data exchange between healthcare organizations. Let’s dive in. What is Carequality?

Interoperability 59

Interoperability Digital Health FHIR EHR 59

Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

Interoperability 113

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 113

Society for Participatory Medicine

JUNE 27, 2018

These regulations are a big deal for participatory medicine – they’re the successor to the Meaningful Use rules that have governed patient access to their chart, among other things. The regulations do this by altering how a hospital gets paid based on how well their data moves out of their computers.

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Interoperability Meaningful Use Health Information Health Data 63

Mobile Health Matters

APRIL 26, 2018

Each provider may use a separate IT system, with each system pulling from various data sources. Rather, the person’s care history and data are in disparate pieces. This leaves patient data sprinkled across systems, and physicians may find it difficult or impossible to access data at a crucial time – the point of care.

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EMR Meaningful Use Nursing Interoperability 129

Import Immunity

MARCH 23, 2015

My plan was to just go quietly into the night, but looking through the recently-released Meaningful Use 3 requirements convinced me that I really ought to put this out there. They defined some technical specs for sharing data (at the time, IHE profiles) and got together in a room to show that the technology “worked”.

Interoperability 68

Interoperability EHR Meaningful Use HIPAA 68

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Government Regulations – Meaningful Use. Data Blocking & Interoperability. Here's a summary of some of the top topics we discuss: Last Decade. Cloud Acceptance. Cybersecurity Explosion. Healthcare Consolidation. Physician Burnout. * Big Tech Entering Healthcare. Legal Cases & Violations

Healthcare IT 65

Healthcare IT Meaningful Use Health IT Interoperability 65

Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 17, 2018

Federal healthcare organizations, such as CMS, have spent billions of dollars over the years trying to bridge the gap between medical data and quality patient care with interoperability requirements and data integration, the mesh used to try and bridge the gap. By Thanh Tran, CEO, Zoeticx.

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Federal healthcare Interoperability Meaningful Use EHR 87

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Having a certified EMR qualified physician practices for government incentive dollars to digitize medical records (similar to the meaningful use program in the US, just on a smaller scale). The organization has evolved and now is a champion for interoperability, data standards, analytics, eForms, and other technologies.

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EMR Meaningful Use Healthcare IT Interoperability 131

Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Keith asks A theory of interoperability Definitions of interoperability surround us, but all the attention in the world to definitions make very little difference in the end. What is your theory of interoperability? Without this use-case driving interoperability you are just talking technical capabilities.

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Interoperability Meaningful Use 40

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2024

NextGen’s Investments in Mobile, Cybersecurity, and Interoperability. Read more… Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024. Read more… Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients. Read more… Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients.

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Mental health Meaningful Use Healthcare Cybersecurity Medical Billing 96

Lloyd Price

AUGUST 23, 2018

Interoperability is an overlapping set of technical and policy challenges, from data access to common data models to information exchange to workflow integration – and these challenges often pose a barrier to healthcare innovation. Today, as health IT community leaders get together at the CMS Blue Button 2.0

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Interoperability FHIR EHR Health Data 43

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

Health IT 97

Health IT EHR Interoperability Health Information 97

Health System CIO

APRIL 9, 2013

Kentucky HIE — “They’re doing a good job matching patient data” Working with UK to connect schools with primary care clinics Why telehealth is “sputtering” Dividing & conquering MU Meditech in the hospital & medical group Partnering with Bon Secours on an ACO – “We’re just starting down that path.” McCleese also talks about St.

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HIE Meaningful Use Primary Care Health Information 68

The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015. Relevant clinical patient management data workflow was not a priority and remains a major pain point for clinicians today. From a provider standpoint. Clinical trials. Personalized medicine.

Digital Health 87

Digital Health EHR Interoperability Health Information 87

Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 60

Chilmark Research

JANUARY 17, 2014

For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and interoperability. Outfits like ATA, HIMSS and others are lobbying for full inclusion of patient-monitoring and home-health data.

Meaningful Use 60

Meaningful Use EHR Health Data HIPAA 60

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

Shelby Chamberlain, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Patient Discovery To effectively raise capital in the healthcare space requires delivering to investors a product that has a clear market fit, solves a meaningful need, and delivers the proof points required to establish a concrete path to profitability. Since the U.S.

Healthcare Innovation 121

Healthcare Innovation Life Science Meaningful Use Health Information 121

Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

This selection focuses on collecting and understanding data, using it to create information that can be used to improve health and healthcare. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. Eric Sullivan – SVP, Innovation & Data Strategies, Inovalon.

EHR 60

EHR Interoperability Life Science FHIR 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

This selection focuses on collecting and understanding data, using it to create information that can be used to improve health and healthcare. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. Eric Sullivan – SVP, Innovation & Data Strategies, Inovalon.

EHR 60

EHR Interoperability Life Science FHIR 60

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

At the HLTH conference last month, I had a chance to talk with Ricky Sahu, CEO at 1upHealth. For those not familiar with 1upHealth, the provide a FHIR platform for payers, providers, and developers.

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FHIR EHR Meaningful Use Interoperability 69

Docnotes

MAY 31, 2017

Recently, there have been renewed calls for scaling back the certification program and its many criteria, citing the maturation of the EHR incentive programs (meaningful use) and the fact that some of the certification criteria define capabilities that are not invoked by the incentive programs. ” I disagree.

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EHR Meaningful Use Public Health Health IT 75

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Most hospitals are not set up share their records; interoperability is still limited. And they charge what they consider a “reasonable” fee for handing the patient their own data. Clinical sites often have different systems and often must enter the same data in each system. Follow the money. Multiple record systems.

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EHR Nursing Meaningful Use Health IT 105

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

During the boom that was meaningful use and adoption of EHR software, consulting companies played an integral role in almost every large healthcare organization when it came to rolling out EHR software. One of the most interesting evolutions in healthcare IT has been the evolution of healthcare IT staffing and consulting companies.

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Meaningful Use EHR Healthcare IT FHIR 52

Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 12, 2014

NantHealth launches Clinical Operating System – biggest of big data startups – with $1B (Feb. Tavenner: 2014 is your last chance for a hardship exemption for Meaningful Use 2 (Feb. DeSalvo: True EHR interoperability – and a national HIE – is possible by 2017 (Feb. Here are links to all of them, in chronological order.

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Meaningful Use HIE Interoperability EHR 28

Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

My philosophy is that Interoperability Standards are not a destination, they are a catalyst that enables something far greater to happen. I have over 30 years of experience with IT communications, including 18 years of expertise in Healthcare Interoperability Standards and the application of Privacy. Happy birthday to my blog.

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FHIR Interoperability HIE eHealth 40

HIStalk Interviews

JUNE 4, 2018

Expanse for us represents the development over several years of an EHR that we designed for the post-Meaningful Use era. Introducing a system that was built around an environment that had shifted massively because of Meaningful Use has made people sit up and take notice of Meditech. We looked at CMS data.

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EHR Meaningful Use Interoperability 77

Medicine and Technology

JANUARY 30, 2018

Tethered PHRs became available when patient portals were launched by hospitals, health systems, and clinics to meet the CMS Meaningful Use requirements. FHIR is finally allowing true interoperability to become a reality.

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FHIR Interoperability Meaningful Use EHR 32