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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

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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. View our Solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The best document management systems drive improvements by not only storing digital healthcare data, but by also ensuring data is easily accessible enterprise-wide. Learn more about preparing your organization for enterprise content management and the adoption of a document management and imaging (DMI) platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Read more… EMR and RCM in the Cloud Providing Value to HealthNet. Read more… Why EMR Optimization Is a Continuous Process. Document exchange and interoperability vendor Concord Technologies acquired Opero , which develops business process improvement applications for Salesforce.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2025

Products EMR vendor Canvas Medical launched Hyperscribe , an open source AI copilot that uses ambient audio to write clinical documentation and orders. The Sequoia Project launched the Pharmacy Workgroup as part of its Interoperability Matters program.

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American Well

APRIL 22, 2020

In part one of our interview with Intermountain Healthcare, we discussed the health system’s approach to telehealth interoperability from the perspective of the patient. Did you launch Connect Care with any type of electronic medical record (EMR) integration in place? There was a lot of back-end work after the initial encounter.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2022

The Sequoia Project has released additional documentation support the implementation of TEFCA , the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement for health IT interoperability. The organization also named Kate Merton, Ph.D., as executive director.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Given that clinicians have different styles, it’s hardly surprising that they document care in different ways. Unfortunately, however, these idiosyncrasies are one of the obstacles that stand in the way of better interoperability, according to an article by Corepoint Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

In a fast-paced exchanged with John Lynn of Healthcare IT Today, Rucker covers regulations and evolving data exchange standards that foster interoperability and data analytics. “The real point of interoperability is continuous, real-time computing,” according to Rucker.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2025

Greenway Clinical Assist is helping providers reclaim 1-2 hours per day by reducing documentation burdens. Were seeing real benefits in areas like ambient documentation and revenue cycle automation. Greenway is using AI to improve documentation accuracy, reduce duplicate data entry, and streamline prescription workflows.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2025

Blackman promoted an “automated healthcare practice” that benefits from ambient documentation, but he said that AI is not yet ready for clinical decision-making, but it can be used for decision support. He pointed out that AI-designed models depend on being fed lots of patient data, and therefore depend on interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

They have advanced the current TEFCA implementation which is based on the 1990’s IHE document exchange protocols with a brokerage model (QHIN) overlay. Today TEFCA only supports document exchange and frankly largely within legacy EHR vendors who have familiarity with the IHE protocols.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2024

The study documented an impressive increase in the viewing of external records, with nearly 22,920 additional views per week. A Shift in Focus: From Compliance to User-Centric Design This study also shifts the conversation from one of mere compliance with federal interoperability mandates to a focus on user-centric design.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

As electronic health record (EHR) systems become nearly universal and interoperability initiatives gain momentum, many healthcare providers assume their revenue cycle challenges are solved. The following is a guest article by Frank Forte , CEO at EnableComp The healthcare revenue cycle has never been more complex.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Helping Providers in Ontario Adopt AI and Improve EMRs. Colin Hung sat down with Rob Fox at OntarioMD about the organization’s work collaborating with vendors to give physicians a role in shaping EMR enhancements as well as helping physicians decide which AI innovations will work best for them.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

State documents define rules for collecting, storing, processing, and transmitting medical information. Unlike EMRs, requests for access to EHR records can be made by other medical centers. Healthtech providers can adopt HL7 (Health Level Seven) or FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources).

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 11, 2024

In addition, Greenway has taken all their internal documentation (30 years worth) as well as documentation found in the product code itself and used it to train an internal version of ChatGPT. Their internal support teams are now using it to get answers quickly for clients.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

This type of document will require not only top-notch billing tools but also new levels of contractual collaboration between separate provider entities. The AHA’s aim was to reduce unnecessary documentation and streamline the coding process.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The following is a guest article by Jim Cropper, Director of Sales at Brother International Healthcare technology development and modern security needs are continually evolving, calling for a shift toward digitization and interoperability to facilitate easier access to information, and more efficient and effective healthcare delivery.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2024

In fact, the growing use of EHRs has increased the burden of faxing, because sending documents using this method is so easy and reliable. Most records that come in from other institutions arrive as faxes—even other clinical sites that use EHRs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

In 2023, ModMed we will be focusing on the following deliverables for our customers: Interoperability/FHIR and better communication between systems and healthcare participants. In 2023, I foresee EHR vendors paying more attention to interoperability. ModMed – Dr. Michael Rivers, Sr. Medical Director of Ophthalmology.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2022

They also showed a number of interesting interoperability options they’d integrated into the eCW software. It certainly raises a lot of questions about the quality of the data and the sources, but it really is amazing to hear EHR vendors talking about interoperability and embedding it in their software.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

Health Plan Alliance selected 1upHealth as its preferred health data interoperability vendor. Products Consensus Cloud Solutions launched Clarity Clinical Documentation , which routes unstructured data into patient records. Rhode Island-based Care New England selected Kyndryl to manage its EMR consolidation.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Documents between different organizations were incompatible, even if the organizations claimed to comply to standards such as HL7. A few years ago, the federal government decided to attack a more blatant barrier to interoperability, which they characterized as deliberate “information blocking.” Progress has been slow.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2024

So whether it’s a fast healthcare interoperability resource and layering another open standard of clinical quality language (CQL) on top of that, as the government is actually pushing people towards these open standard technologies I think we’re going to see it for two reasons.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The American Medical Informatics Association began a project to reduce patient documentation to 25% of its current volume by 2025. Most hospitals are not set up share their records; interoperability is still limited. Doctors must follow strict rules about what documents to fill out, and when.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In particular, certification demonstrating interoperability, which the company describes as “central to this litigation” and “a key driver for PointClickCare.” I learned this from Lisa Bari, CEO of Civitas Networks for Health , and Brendan Keeler, Interoperability and Data Liquidity Practice Lead at HTD Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2024

The doctor can also sign it at that time too or the consent document can be routed to the physician sign queue where they doctor can easily retrieve and sign it later. Then, when the staff member gets the tablet back, they can go back to staff view mode where they’re able to sign it using their pre-configured signature.

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HIStalk Interviews

APRIL 24, 2019

It is focused on solving the business workflow aspect of healthcare and creating interoperability between systems and ease of communication without the need for code. It’s unusual for someone with no healthcare or IT background to be diving deep into the technical aspects of interoperability. How did that come about?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

That’s quite an ambitious question. It’s a sentiment I’ve heard over and over from people who think that Google or Apple could enter healthcare and finally make the software a joy.

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HIStalk Interviews

JULY 23, 2018

Then we will handle the nuances of getting the data out and putting the data back into the EMR. Examples of what we allow for writing data to the EHR would be discrete observations, documents, and notes. How does FHIR fit into the overall needs for interoperability? Pretty straightforward stuff, but important.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 26, 2020

We are writing you today to ask that you hear our point of view as decisions are made on the Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator Proposed Rule to Improve the Interoperability of Health Information. . When she got to the new hospital, she brought a printout of the information from her prior hospital’s EMR.

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HIStalk Weekender

AUGUST 10, 2018

This is the great golden spike moment for interoperability – except with the Carequality Railroad traversing the entire continent to connect CommonWell San Francisco trolley network. Theresa Brown, RN, PhD notes that doctors generally ignore those feelings as documented in the EHR’s nurse notes. Vaporware? ). Brian Too ).

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Michael Sherling, Cofounder and Chief Medical and Strategy Officer at ModMed AI integration is the key to unlocking a future with less administrative burden and more streamlined clinical workflows, particularly documentation. Additionally, this innovation must address challenges such as data accuracy, patient privacy, and interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

We expect a majority of health systems will be engaged with AI (NLP, Gen AI) use in clinical documentation and conversational AI either in pilot or some level of scale form. As sponsors adopt new tools, they will increasingly seek strategies that enable a harmonized, interoperable ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

For health information technology (HIT) and electronic health record (EHR) vendors, new regulations that promote interoperability and transparency for PA workflows are an opportunity to significantly improve the experience for providers and the patients they serve.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2025

The creation of the not-for-profit CommonWell Health Alliance in 2013 was a turning point for data use and interoperability in the U.S. They talk about the increase in the size of health care documentation, the Alliance’s increasing integration of payers, the importance of patient access to records, and more. health care market.

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