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Concord Technologies Supports the Complete Path of Incoming Healthcare Documents

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Concord Technologies , which started in 1996, focuses on secure document exchange, counting three of the world’s five largest healthcare payers as customers. One client reported a 25% improvement in document scan rate. Concord is also participating in DirectTrust’s Interoperable Secure Cloud Fax initiative.

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Surescripts Makes Interoperability Official

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

Surescripts recently announced its intention to become a QHIN , firmly positioning the company a player in the interoperability space. Surescripts is Actually an Interoperability Company According to Surescript’s 2022 National Progress Report , 1.23 We really are an interoperability company,” said McMartin.

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Fax As An On-Ramp for Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

The journey to achieve interoperability in healthcare has been too long and too expensive. To address this, companies have put effort into creating interoperability tools and platforms designed to make it easier to exchange data. To accelerate interoperability efforts, however, creating more technology may not the answer.

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Enhancing Interoperability and Data Sharing with Innovative Technologies and Standards

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

There are a lot of components to consider and talk about in regards to interoperability and data sharing. The inventive ideas and possibilities of where it can go and what it could do, the rules and regulations surrounding this area of healthcare, the privacy and concerns, etc. The following are their answers.

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Mission Critical: Utilizing Technology to Advance Healthcare Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 2, 2024

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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Rochester Regional Health is Achieving Interoperability One Practical Byte at a Time

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. However, there was an unintended benefit of their interoperability efforts. They achieved both.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. This type of document will require not only top-notch billing tools but also new levels of contractual collaboration between separate provider entities.

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

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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Too Many QHINs Could Hinder Progress Toward Nationwide Health IT Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Many smart, dedicated people have relentlessly pursued nationwide healthcare interoperability, and the arrival of TEFCA represents both a major milestone and a significant opportunity for the industry to pause and carefully consider our next steps based on past attempts and current endeavors. About Zach Finn.

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Policy Ingredients for Real-Time Improvements in Health Care, Prior Auth, and Claims

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. Tell us what you think.

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ETHERFAX and DirectTrust Guiding Security Standards for Cloud Fax Providers

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Romo is highly concerned with interoperability and sees DirectTrust as a way to form a “federation” with their competitors to ensure easy document exchange. Learn more about ETHERFAX: [link] Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT.

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Concord Technologies Acquires Top-Rated Salesforce App Provider, Opero

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Acquisition Powers Expansion of Salesforce Apps For Intelligent Document Processing Concord Technologies has acquired Opero , one of the top-rated developers of business process improvement apps in the Salesforce AppExchange. It has long been a strategic goal at Concord to more closely integrate our Cloud Fax solution into Salesforce.

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Interoperability with COVID – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

This week’s chat will be hosted by Richard Bagdona (@richardbagdonas) on the topic “Interoperability with COVID“. Many health tech workers at facilities providing COVID vaccinations are being asked to create HL7 documents with vaccination […].

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Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Or are there areas in healthcare where past regulations are now too restrictive and are holding us back? In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update regulations. The following is what they had to say.

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Bonus Features – July 10, 2022 – Sequoia Project releases TECFA identity verification documentation, IBM Watson Health is now Merative, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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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Is it Time to Lean into Fax for Provider-Provider Interoperability?

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2021

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

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Fax Today: Fictions and Facts

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2024

The ASTP is right about digitized, integrated data being the key to 21st-century healthcare quality and efficiency — but wrong to lump fax technology in with CD-ROMs, paper records, and manual data entry. Many of today’s cloud fax applications also are using AI to automatically extract and integrate data into core healthcare workflows.

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Variances In Clinician EHR Use Can Hold Back Interoperability Efforts

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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AI Ambient Scribes are poised to become indispensable tools for healthcare providers in 2025

Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Here's a glimpse of what we can expect: Enhanced Accuracy and Efficiency: Advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP): AI scribes will continue to refine their ability to understand and interpret complex medical terminology, leading to more accurate and comprehensive documentation.

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Weekly Roundup – November 23, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. A Look at Epic Culture and Interoperability with Brendan Keeler. Read more… How Healthcare AI Automation Improves Accuracy and Trust.

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Weekly Roundup – October 19, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. The Top Technologies For Improving Healthcare’s Security Posture. This was our latest question for the Healthcare IT Today community.

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Bonus Features – June 30, 2024 – 56% of organizations say shortage of IT talent is a key challenge, 87% of physicians say at-home testing improves access to diagnostic services, plus 22 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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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The Evolving Role of Fax in Interoperability in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2020

From that analog origin to enterprise-scale cloud fax, we have seen the evolution of fax from simple point to point document exchange to something extremely powerful and capable. The origin of the modern fax machine dates back to the 1960’s. Some pundits see fax […].

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Weekly Roundup – November 2, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. John connected with Angie Bass at Velatura to discuss why interoperability is about finding value in data and not just exchanging data.

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Prior Authorization Takes a Leap Forward in CMS Regulation

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A Process in Urgent Need of an Upgrade Clearly, prior authorization is crying out for standardization and interoperability. The federal government has been haranguing vendors and clinicians to make interoperable systems since the HITECH act was passed in 2009. A CMS fact sheet offers more details on CMS’s thinking and plans.

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IHE IT-Infrastructure Spring 2023

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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Maximize Value and Efficiencies with Effective Content Management

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The following is a guest article by Tom Romeo, General Manager of Healthcare IT at Quest Diagnostics. The best document management systems drive improvements by not only storing digital healthcare data, but by also ensuring data is easily accessible enterprise-wide. Or click on the titles below for highlights. .

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Bonus Features – June 23, 2024 – 5 in 6 patients open to hospital at home monitoring, 94% of health systems face at least one data integration challenge, plus 23 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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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This Week’s Health IT Jobs – August 7, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 7, 2024

Note: These jobs are listed by Healthcare IT Today as a free service to the community. Healthcare IT Today does not endorse or vouch for the company or the job posting. Do you have an open health IT position that you are looking to fill? We encourage anyone applying to these jobs to do their own due diligence.

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CommonWell Marks its 10th Anniversary as TEFCA Gets Underway

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2023

Nationwide Interoperability: It’s been a concept, a term bandied about for a while in various forms, but for those of us who have worked in health IT for more than a few years, we know that it has taken a long time for transformational change to be felt by the providers and the individuals they serve. billion documents to date.

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The Balance Between Promoting Data Sharing and Ensuring the Privacy and Security of Sensitive Health Information

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We talk a lot about sharing data and how it will improve patient outcomes and interoperability, but do we talk enough about how to do it safely? Tracking vendors that are not willing to sign a BAA creates a huge risk for healthcare providers before a patient even walks into a care facility.

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The Role of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) in Facilitating Seamless Data Sharing Among Healthcare Entities

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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How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes

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. With good data quality, HCA was able to implement an innovative sepsis detection application.

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CEO of Greenway sets Company on a Bold Path

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 11, 2024

Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down with Sarker shortly after his opening keynote to dive deeper into the promises he made. 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.

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Suki Secures $70M Series D Funding as Demand Surges, Expands Strategic Partnership with MedStar Health

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The healthcare industry is clamoring for AI and we are proud to offer a suite of full-featured solutions that seamlessly interoperate with existing tools. Health systems experience completion of notes up to 72% faster while increasing documentation quality, improving clinician well-being, and enhancing revenue capture.

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Weekly Roundup – October 26, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. In the wrong hands, LLMs can generate false or exaggerated medical documentation in an instant. Read more… Breaking Down Healthcare’s Data Walls.

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Bringing the Fax into the 21st Century at MedPeds

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. Learn more about MedPeds: [link] Learn more about eClinicalWorks: [link] Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT.

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Weekly Roundup – July 27, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Understanding OpenText’s Moves in Healthcare. Read more… Healthcare IT Today Podcast : Do Penalties Motivate Change in Healthcare ?

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CMS issues guidance for new telehealth eCQM reporting in 2020 and 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has put together further detailed guidance for how healthcare providers should be documenting and reporting electronic clinical quality measures for telehealth encounters. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Weekly Roundup – October 5, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Healthcare IT Today Podcast : Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal. Read more… Harness Ambient Listening to Revolutionize Documentation.

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Weekly Roundup – January 13, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Not surprisingly, we got a lot of good responses from the Healthcare IT Today community on this topic. CHIME 2023 Edition.

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The Tension in TEFCA

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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Bonus Features – April 28, 2024 – 22% of employers fully trust chronic condition management vendors, Common Agreement v2.0 requires support for FHIR API exchange, plus 29 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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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Weekly Roundup – November 16, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Healthcare IT Today Podcast : RSNA 2024 Conference Preview. More Insights From the Experts at HLTH 2024.

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Surescripts Makes Interoperability Official

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

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

Too Many QHINs Could Hinder Progress Toward Nationwide Health IT Interoperability

Policy Ingredients for Real-Time Improvements in Health Care, Prior Auth, and Claims

ETHERFAX and DirectTrust Guiding Security Standards for Cloud Fax Providers

Concord Technologies Acquires Top-Rated Salesforce App Provider, Opero

Interoperability with COVID – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed

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Is it Time to Lean into Fax for Provider-Provider Interoperability?

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Variances In Clinician EHR Use Can Hold Back Interoperability Efforts

AI Ambient Scribes are poised to become indispensable tools for healthcare providers in 2025

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Prior Authorization Takes a Leap Forward in CMS Regulation

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CommonWell Marks its 10th Anniversary as TEFCA Gets Underway

The Balance Between Promoting Data Sharing and Ensuring the Privacy and Security of Sensitive Health Information

The Role of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) in Facilitating Seamless Data Sharing Among Healthcare Entities

How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes

CEO of Greenway sets Company on a Bold Path

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