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Enhancing Interoperability and Data Sharing with Innovative Technologies and Standards

Healthcare IT Today

There are a lot of components to consider and talk about in regards to interoperability and data sharing. Today we are going to focus on the innovative technologies and standards that are currently being employed to make our dreams of a better system of interoperability and data sharing a reality.

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Mission Critical: Utilizing Technology to Advance Healthcare Interoperability

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While many healthcare systems have moved away from mail, phone, and fax for medical records transfer, it’s clear that not enough have taken advantage of available technologies to maximize healthcare interoperability. A secure, streamlined process also builds all-important patient trust.

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Healthcare Interoperability is Falling Short. How Do We Address It?

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John Blair, III, MD, CEO at MedAllies It’s been well-documented for years that the healthcare industry has an interoperability problem. The commercial efforts to date to push interoperability forward have made true advances. The following is a guest article by A.

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Too Many QHINs Could Hinder Progress Toward Nationwide Health IT Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

For many of us in health IT communications, TEFCA has been greeted with both excitement and skepticism. With any document this complex, there is significant room for interpretation and assumptions. . 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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Diversity, Evolving Relationships, Understanding Healthcare & Getting More from Health Data at ViVE2023

Healthcare IT Today

Getting More From Health Data – Clinical Architecture It wasn’t that long ago that we were lamenting that we did not have enough electronic data in healthcare. Before we can leverage that data, it needs to be of sufficient quality to be useful. Now we are drowning in it.

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How Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients

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Guillermo Diaz, Chief Medical Information Officer at Los Angeles Department of Health Services – Ambulatory Care Network , and Ali Modaressi, CEO at Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services (LANES) When Alex was brought into L.A.

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ETHERFAX and DirectTrust Guiding Security Standards for Cloud Fax Providers

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Romo is highly concerned with interoperability and sees DirectTrust as a way to form a “federation” with their competitors to ensure easy document exchange. This goes to the idea that ETHERFAX is a secure exchange network that can transfer a multitude of messages in a variety of formats and not just fax.