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

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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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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Continue Education Journal

DECEMBER 30, 2021

BIR can include the costs of a provider verifying that a patient is eligible for services, prior authorization procedures on both provider and payer side, submitting bills and appropriate documentation, addressing denied claims, and remitting payment. of BIR is unnecessary. We will go through them in detail below.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2021

There is a lot of valuable information lying dormant in paper and electronic documents in healthcare. Fax continues to be a common method for sharing health information between providers. Although EHRs have almost eliminated the use of paper charts, the same cannot be said for faxes.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 10, 2021

In the USA and elsewhere, there are Document Sharing based Health Information Exchanges. This model is used at the state level, and has three flavors at the national level, with interoperability between them. The International Patient Summary (IPS) is a FHIR Document that covers the same need as the C-CDA Medical Summary.

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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

AUGUST 10, 2023

Rochester Regional Health is using a measured and practical approach to data interoperability. Starting Simple with Interoperability RRH began integrating external lab data into their Epic EMR to elevate interoperability. Our clinicians needed that information so it was our job to get it to them.”

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) standards profiling organization has developed a collection of profiles which can be leveraged for use by healthcare communities for the purposes of document sharing. The clinicians will find that this paper recognizes their interests in being properly recognized as authors of documentation.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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. The following are their answers.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

The IHE IT-Infrastructure committee continues to produce new and improved specifications for HIE interoperability. The first is the ability to exchange a list of health data locations, which enables Record Locator Services to interoperate with consumers wishing to discover the location of patient records within a health information exchange.

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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. 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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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 Today

DECEMBER 21, 2024

First up was a look at how AI, NLP, LLMs, and automation improve health information management. John was there to hear Micky Tripathi’s farewell address, along with many thoughts on TEFCA, QHINs, interoperability, and data security. That said, there wasn’t much news on the information blocking rule, HTI-2.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2023

The following is a guest article by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director, CommonWell Health Alliance. When it was announced on March 4, 2013, CommonWell was still just a concept, but by December of 2013, a pilot program was in place to test its interoperability services at four provider sites across Illinois, North Carolina and South Carolina.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Effective content management can help hospitals, health systems, and large ambulatory groups turn piles of paper and digital content into actionable data. The best document management systems drive improvements by not only storing digital healthcare data, but by also ensuring data is easily accessible enterprise-wide.

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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.

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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 Qualified Health Information Networks, or QHINs, are the actual networks that are Qualified to operate under the rules of TEFCA and move health information between exchange participants.

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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 Exchange Standards

MAY 27, 2015

There is much talk on the blogs about the USA government trepidation around Health Information Exchange interoperability. We will keep you up to date with WISHIN activities, news on health information exchange (HIE) and new product developments. per patient per year.

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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. Additionally, we’ll be able to continue our combined focus on interoperability initiatives to assist the healthcare ecosystem meet industry initiative timelines.”.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Jim Jirjis, Chief Health Information Officer at HCA to discuss the value of data quality in healthcare and find out more about the link between their sepsis project and better emergency preparedness. This information was used to arrange for proper transportation during the evacuation.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 4, 2018

Mostly they keep trying because the most basic query is just asking for all documents available for a given Patient. These are useful, just not very primary for a general purpose Document Consumer. Where these classifications are useful to a Document Consumer. Thus one can ask for documents covering treatment prior to 1998.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 10, 2017

How does one put a FHIR Document into XDS? How does one find a FHIR Document in XDS? XDS, more broadly the whole Document Sharing family, including XDS , XCA , XDR , XDM , and MHD. Initially Document Sharing was about 'historic' documents. Thus the Document is "Shared". FHIR has a Document model.

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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? Without a robust methodology for data management, analysis, and utilisation, the potential of wearable health trackers to improve health outcomes will remain untapped.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

About NYeC 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

AUGUST 29, 2019

In the past two weeks I have been in large audience discussions where there is a very different kind of topic being discussed around Health Information Technology. The topic is about a vision of how things could/should be at the point of care because of successful interoperability. It is not explicitly said that way.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2024

The following is a guest article by Chris Larkin, CTO at Concord Technologies In 2018, faxing patient records was deemed part of healthcare’s “ 1990s time warp ” by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (now the ASTP, or Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy ).

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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. We’ve made some great strides in improving interoperability, in no small part due to the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA).

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 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 IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

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. He has been practicing in this field for over 15 years.

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