Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2024

Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange We continue to move closer to realizing the dream of complete interoperability, and TEFCA is a big part of that. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange Keeping patient data safe and private is our top priority. We address the privacy and security of sensitive health data in two ways. TEFCA proposes that the adoption of FHIR access with OAuth2.0 will help in providing secure access through third-party entities/applications.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The ONC Cures Act APIs and the companion CMS Access APIs all require these modern FHIR-based technologies and are fundamentally designed to grow a vibrant digital health economy providing choice and value to consumers. These API protocols are known and used by hundreds of thousands of developers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 17, 2023

At HIMSS, John tuned into a TEFCA panel headlined by CommonWell, Epic, Health Gorilla, and MEDITECH. The main takeaway: Exchanging healthcare data is going to include multiple layers of policy and technology , not just TEFCA but also FHIR, HIEs, Direct Messages, APIs, and much more. Healthcare needs to treat data as a strategic asset.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2023

Andy Oram discussed how adopting FHIR should be a no-brainer for better public health data collection and sharing – and how that must be followed up with standards for what data should be collected and shared. Read more… Can a Modern Approach to Data Collection Save the CDC ?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

Only 45% of consumers are fully satisfied with their health insurance , according to a survey from HealthEdge, and 40% blame insurers for the high cost of care. That said, 66% trust their health plan more that the government or non-traditional entities such as Amazon or Walmart to their health insurance.

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Redox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Here are some specific reflections: FHIR adoption: We missed the mark on our HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) growth prediction. It certainly is growing, but FHIR has not picked up the steam we had hoped for in 2023. We reflected on that in our recap of 2023 FHIR DevDays. Sadly, he was wrong.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Organizations that have a trust relationship can exchange data on a bulk basis (e.g.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Organizations that have a trust relationship can exchange data on a bulk basis (e.g.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Organizations that have a trust relationship can exchange data on a bulk basis (e.g.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Organizations that have a trust relationship can exchange data on a bulk basis (e.g.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Organizations that have a trust relationship can exchange data on a bulk basis (e.g.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Organizations that have a trust relationship can exchange data on a bulk basis (e.g.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Answers to our latest question for the Healthcare IT Today experts included utilizing FHIR and HL7 standards, emphasizing user-friendly interfaces, and integrating EHRs with patient management platforms. Read more… Interoperability Perspectives and Insights From the eHealth Exchange Annual Meeting.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

John Lynn spoke to Mo Weitnauer at MRO about using FHIR-based APIs to automatically fulfill the vast majority of requests in minutes or seconds – not weeks. Read more… Public Health Transparency Improves Outcomes in San Bernardino County.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 2023

Don Rucker, currently at 1up Health, expressed concerns that TEFCA is based on outdated ways of thinking , whether it’s emphasizing data exchange among EHR systems, leveraging proprietary security protocols, or limited recognition of the well-established FHIR standard.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2024

This week I had a chance to attend the eHealth Exchange Annual meeting to learn more about what’s happening with their network along with a wide variety of inteorperability topics. The conference covered a wide range of topics from public health to TEFCA and everything in between. Plus, I couldn’t resist the FHIR pun.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange Change is scary. At eHealth Exchange, which is one of the first Qualified Health Information Networks™ (QHINs™) under TEFCA, we have a front-row seat to the framework’s ongoing implementation. eHealth Exchange is embracing both use cases.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

APIs, Internet of (Healthy) Things, and AR/VR among the others are getting deployed in retail channels and at home to support peoples’ health in the real world, in real time outside of the clinical setting. For health care, the application of FHIR standards helps mobilize data for better health, turbocharging this trend.

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