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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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

While significant progress has been made, the path to true interoperability remains complex but there are promising developments on the horizon. Legacy EHR systems, reliant on traditional HL7 interfaces, are struggling to meet modern interoperability demands. This approach naturally promotes better interoperability by design.

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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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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This profile shows how to build a Document Sharing Exchange using IHE profiled FHIR® standard, rather than the legacy IHE profiles that is dominated by XDS and HL7® v2. This profile will assemble profiles and define a Document Registry. The actor that is specific to this profile is a Document Registry. 3 - Section 4.0

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2025

An EHR system needs to make a 360-degree view of patient data accessible in a secure manner that can be made available using standard interfaces like FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) APIs for structured data exchange and DICOM for imaging.

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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. 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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

Key initiatives include implementing AI for imaging and pathology interpretation – starting with a pilot in cardiac point-of-care ultrasound, deploying AI scribes to streamline documentation, and integrating AI-powered clinician assistants for real-time patient data summaries turning complex patient data into actionable insights.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Customizing the view of an individual’s workflow, along with the use of voice recognition templates, greatly aids in minimizing documentation time. Implementing advanced features like predictive text, AI-driven decision support, and voice recognition can streamline documentation and enhance efficiency.

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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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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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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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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Healthcare groups are largely supportive of a federal draft strategy to reduce clinician burden revolving around entering information into EHRs, but are calling for ONC and CMS to focus on usability, improved interoperability and better alignment of workflow and documentation requirements.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

AI is becoming an essential tool in healthcare and is being leveraged to create new efficiencies this includes better documentation, streamlined data extraction, and predictive modeling that contribute to enhanced clinical efficiencies and higher-quality care. However, a strong foundation is crucial before leveraging such innovations.

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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. And time, money, and talent will all be wasted. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Based on Twilio’s Programmable Video API, the service will give healthcare professionals the ability to launch video visits with patients and to update clinical documentation and review patient histories within Epic EHR workflows. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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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. 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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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

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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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.

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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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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

JANUARY 3, 2025

Kim Boyd, Regulatory Resource Center Lead, NCPDP Board of Trustee Member at Point-of-Care Partners The focus on Pharmacy interoperability will grow. In 2024, the HITAC subcommittee on pharmacy interoperability made critical recommendations.

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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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Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 7, 2023

a large regional health authority, will be one of the first health systems globally to deploy generative AI to assist with clinical documentation in MEDITECH’s Expanse EHR, using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI and large language models (LLMs). .–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Fraser Health Authority (Surrey, B.C.),

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

A Look at Epic Culture and Interoperability with Brendan Keeler. Part 1 of the interview focused on what it was like to work at Epic , as well as what opportunities exist to improve interoperability systems today. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.

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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

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 Today

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Ken Romo at ETHERFAX talked to John about building a secure exchange network while also supporting fax – an effort that includes being part of the DirectTrust Interoperable Secure Cloud Fax standards body. Read more… Supporting the Complete Path of Incoming Healthcare Documents.

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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 News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2020

The company is encouraging organizations to share COVID-19 information through Epic’s interoperability network, saying providers can share travel-screening documentation and infection-status information with both Epic and non-Epic organizations through Care Everywhere, Epic’s interoperability network.

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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

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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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

CAQH CORE and Health Level Seven International (HL7) announce a collaboration to address long-standing healthcare industry challenges by accelerating automation and improving interoperability between administrative and clinical systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

" Nicklaus Children's Hospital developed a technology roadmap and implemented telehealth platform enhancements with a focus on interoperability and integration with its EHR. "Data collection and integration of documentation also help measure important outcomes such as improvements in access to care."

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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

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

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

John connected with Angie Bass at Velatura to discuss why interoperability is about finding value in data and not just exchanging data. Also of note: Efforts to improve the speed of documentation and increased use of visual displays. Read more… The Value of Health Data for Business Intelligence.

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