Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2025

Hark and Todd Goughnour, VP, Health Information Management, discuss the value of data quality in this video. Even more important than correct billing, Goughnour says, is making informed decisions for patients. And many non-clinical staff, such as billing and legal departments, need good data.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Open and well-documented APIs are a must-have. Dr Tim Davis has been successful because his chosen EHR platform, Dr. Chrono, has open and well-documented APIs which has allowed the team at BluByrd to build a solution that is designed specifically for the needs of pain and surgical centers. DrChrono has been supportive of BluByrd.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

Three-fourths of healthcare providers experienced a data breach in 2017, according to the HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey. Health data insecurity is the new normal. I explain th e current state of cybersecurity and health data insecurity in a new HIMSS blog linked here. You can read the full HIMSS blog here.

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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. Document Sharing Across Network Topologies- Rev.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2025

We’ll see the emergence of ‘trusted AI networks’ where healthcare organizations share validated clinical algorithms and outcomes data, creating a foundation for true interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2025

Currently, all notifiable conditions (an instance of a communicable illnesses) go through eHealth Exchange electronically, but we are working to further role out case investigations to allow public health agencies to query for additional information when they receive a notification rather that using old-fashioned phone calls or faxes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Before dissolving , MAeHC had assigned its contract with the New England Healthcare Exchange Network to the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. Greater Lawrence Family Health Center , which intends to make systematic changes in the way healthcare is delivered through the innovative use of electronic health information technologies.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2018

These concerns fall into the buckets of health insurance coverage, or lack thereof; insurance denials; affordability for the breakthrough therapies; and, potential risks of future denials for insurance based on the patient’s personalized genomic or other health data. They are certainly inter-related.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The content of this article is taken from a panel Kno2 hosted as part of the recent Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference , in collaboration with DirectTrust™ within a track dedicated to the sharing of health data to advance health equity. Post-Acute Providers for the Win!

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This fall, The Sequoia Project began accepting applications for potential qualified health information networks (QHINs), the entities tasked with operationalizing the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) established by the 21st Century Cures Act. Reducing the Inevitable Impacts of Interpretation and Assumptions.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

HCA Healthcare , one of the leading providers of care in 20 states and in the United Kingdom, has smartly been investing to improve the quality of the health data they collect. Good Quality Data According to Dr. But poor quality data also happens when every facility uses a different term for a social security number.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2024

New data standards announced last December by the Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare Technology (ONC) are an extraordinarily significant expansion of regulations around health IT and could hijack product roadmaps for years to come.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 3, 2017

I propose that “The most technically advanced” document format be considered the Prime, with all of the other formats considered Transforms (XFRM) from that prime document. Thus if the Document Source can create a C-CDA 2.1; Yet if a Document Source only can create a C32 and PDF, then the C32 would be the prime.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

DirectTrust is a non-profit healthcare industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of protected health information. EHNAC is a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body for organizations that electronically exchange healthcare data. About DirectTrust.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2023

Just a few weeks ago, CommonWell was announced as one of six applicants—along with eHealth Exchange, Epic TEFCA Interoperability Systems, Health Gorilla, Kno2 and Konza— accepted to continue in the onboarding process to become a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) under TEFCA. billion documents to date.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. health care for privacy legislation and work flows that prioritize patient rights over their data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2023

There has been a lot of activity and news coverage of Qualified Health Information Networks, or QHINs, recently. The Trusted Exchange Framework is the technical standard that governs the actual sharing of data, and the Common Agreement is the legal agreement that governs the obligations of those sharing the data.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2023

We’re thrilled to join forces with PointClickCare as we march toward our collective goal of helping clinicians better predict and document risk, close care gaps, and improve patient outcomes. The marriage of an integrated care management platform with population health data will prove to be a major differentiator for us.”

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

John Blair, III, MD, CEO at MedAllies It’s been well-documented for years that the healthcare industry has an interoperability problem. Yet despite the promise, data exchange among providers today remains spotty at best. Data usability : A tremendous amount of health data is being exchanged, but the value of that data remains limited.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2023

Colin Hung interviewed Charlie Harp at Clinical Architecture about how Qualified Health Information Networks will shine a light on data quality issues. Information will be moving more freely, to be sure – but the providers on the receiving end may not be able to make much use of the data they get.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

The FTC announcement clarified that email addresses constitute personally identifiable health information because email addresses identify visitors as people seeking mental health care. “Personal information” may be “health information” simply due to the nature of the product or service.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 19, 2023

It was also well documented that Watson, IBM medical AI, was affected in many cases by bias, recommending therapies not accessible to the population using the software. Given the growing use of cardiac remote monitoring, an increasing volume of patient data is being gathered from connected devices.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

scheduling, billing, documentation) Reimbursement models: How do you ensure providers are adequately reimbursed for telehealth services? Wearable Health Trackers: Technology (King): Smartwatches and fitness bands that collect data on activity levels, sleep patterns, heart rate, and more.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2024

Brian Kalis, Managing Director at Accenture Health An AI topic that really needs more focus, attention, effort is around the area of responsible AI. I don’t think sufficient focus is being placed on how to leverage AI to summarize data from different disparate sources like unstructured data, structured data, and scan documents.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 2, 2024

The following is a guest article by Dan Torrens , CEO at eHealth Technologies Health information management teams everywhere are constantly doing more, but somehow it always feels like playing catch up. Notably, between 30 and 47 percent of U.S. hospitals still rely on fax or mail to send and receive patient records.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Which does not help for Data Segmentation nor Privacy. The recommendation I give here is restricted to the gross level: for Document Sharing at the XDS/XCA/DocumentReference metadata level; for FHIR REST at the returned Bundle.meta.security level, but not on each Resource in the Bundle; and for CDA at the CDA header, but not on each element.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2024

With TEFCA, Designated QHINs are the dynamic force in the seamless sharing of health data among healthcare industry providers and organizations to improve patient outcomes. Fragmented systems are a major hurdle, as diverse EHR systems often lack compatibility, making seamless data sharing difficult.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 12, 2018

In Healthcare space there is a fresh cry from Clinicians around their frustration at seeing duplicate data. On the bright side, this means that they are now getting data. So we in the Interoperability space MUST be succeeding with all the efforts to create Health Information Exchanges, and to enable Patient to access their data.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2023

Data-driven solutions that present an engagement roadmap for patients during admission will enhance the experience while preparing the patient and family for a smooth care transition. Through open communication, patients can have better experiences and health outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2023

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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Redox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Consequences for non-participation are currently unclear, although providers may be cited for non-compliance with federal information blocking regulations which, according to the recent HHS proposed rule could be up to $1 million per violation. The CA DxF includes both clinical and social determinants data. Is this just another HIE?

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

OCTOBER 7, 2024

That’s where Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Real-Time Health Data Streaming come in. These technologies are revolutionizing modern healthcare, making it easier to manage chronic health conditions through EHR data integration. Learn more about how disease management programs streamline this process.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 3, 2016

There are many standards efforts to develop support for Patient directed Authorization to their health data. All Opt-in documents SHALL include an expiration date. 1 Patient Privacy Policies Patient Privacy Policy Identifier OID Use Consent Document to be Filed 1.3.6.1.4.1. Table 10.2.3-1 38571.2.1.3.1 38571.2.1.3.2

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