Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

This familiar scene exemplifies the unnecessary burdens traditional EHRs have placed on providers, patients, and the overall healthcare system. As a former ER physician and current digital health professional, I’ve dealt with these challenges firsthand—and see the enormous potential EHRs hold to change care experiences for the better.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Today we are going to focus on the role of EHR systems in this goal of improving interoperability and seamless data sharing between different healthcare providers. ASTP needs to keep going and specifically require EMRs to allow authorized 3rd parties to add or update information in their systems, not just read data out.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

For health information technology (HIT) and electronic health record (EHR) vendors, new regulations that promote interoperability and transparency for PA workflows are an opportunity to significantly improve the experience for providers and the patients they serve. In other words, you are going to need that much time.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

Much has been written about Larry Ellison’s vision of what he called a “National EHR Database.” To be clear, I’m not sure if this was Ellison’s goal with a “National EHR Database” or not. The second group to benefit from this National EHR Database was public health.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This article discusses the service provided by Health Note , which illustrates the capabilities of modern patient interaction using AI and integration with the EHR. Health Note digs into the EHR, using AI, and combines the information found with its own medical knowledge to ask the questions a doctor would normally ask during a visit.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

The alliance was a bold gesture made ten years ago by leading EHR vendors to demonstrate their commitment to data sharing. Buckle also shares her experience at the Interop Showcase and details of the recent CommonWell FHIR Connectathon where CommonWell members leveraged FHIR to improve interoperability.

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Clear Arch Health

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

OVERVIEW: This webinar examines specific ways that EHR interoperability and electronic health records systems integration can deliver a range of benefits to remote patient monitoring (RPM) for driving improved care coordination.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

The Sequoia Project, a spinoff of a prior EHR network, was chosen as the governing body for TEFCA. Today TEFCA only supports document exchange and frankly largely within legacy EHR vendors who have familiarity with the IHE protocols. Current TEFCA proponents offer several value propositions which are worth investigating.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

September 05, 2023 News Indonesia officially requires its healthcare facilities to implement EMRs The country enacted a Health Minister regulation on medical records in late August.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth , shows us in this video how current regulations and FHIR standards will actually make that happen. Watch the video for more details about pressures on Medicare Advantage plans, rules about prior authorization, FHIR APIs, and more.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2021

Amwell’s Converge platform is designed to integrate with existing workflows, EHRs, patient portals and consumer digital health technologies. It offers access to single sign-on technology and its APIs leverage FHIR. Its goal is to […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Storage of Information in Various Systems While serving diverse medical institution needs, Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) parallel existence complicates information access and exchange between doctors, patients, and different medical centers.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 14, 2018

App Orchard, for its part, lets developers use a FHIR-based API to access an Epic development sandbox. This will allow the developers to address issues in connecting their apps to the Epic EMR. Previously, Epic wouldn’t let mobile app developers connect to its EMR until a customer requested permission on their behalf.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

. “The Zus partnership will drastically accelerate Elation’s ability to build out market-leading EHR solutions to support population health and value-based care initiatives,” said Kyna Fong , Co-Founder and CEO at Elation Health.

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AMD Telemedicine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Integration With EMRs Efficiency and accuracy are paramount in healthcare technology for virtual care, and AGNES Connect® recognizes this. This process significantly simplifies the documentation for virtual visits and enhances data integrity.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2022

Recently, we shared news about the growing feature set under development as part of Google Health’s Care Studio, most recently its “Conditions” feature which summarizes patient conditions and uses NLP to link related information like labs or medications to those condition listings.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2024

As we move away from sharing whole charts to the modern FHIR API, organizations can extract particular elements needed by the person requesting data. Murray shares some of the solutions MRO has put in place to navigate around these challenges. Plus, he shares how healthcare standards are impacting these efforts.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Epic) to real-time patient journey optimization systems that are EMR-agnostic and fueled by far more comprehensive data than what sits in EMRs today. The CMS proposed ruling requires impacted payers to build and maintain a FHIR API, starting January 1st, 2026, in effort to improve the cumbersome and costly prior authorization process.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

If you’re not sure whether you’re participating in TEFCA, contact your health information exchange (HIE), QHIN, or electronic health record (EHR) provider. We are fully invested in using Networked Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) for connecting with payers. The exact process varies from QHIN to QHIN.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2024

“CCDAs are cumbersome to work with, but I am excited about where the industry is going with the FHIR expansion that is coming. Cohen and his team at Greenway are working to ensure the company is well positioned relative to FHIR so that their clients can be ready to be fully interoperable with other members of the healthcare ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

Healthcare IT and EHR Conferences and Events. DoJ Joins False Claims Whistleblower Suit Against EHR Vendor Modernizing Medicine – Everyone seems to flock to judgments and lawsuits like this one. Plus, it illustrates how much the EHR still impacts so many in health IT. Where Are We At With FHIR? Healthcare GIS.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

For the last few years, a growing number of healthcare organizations have been integrating information on social determinants of health into their population health management efforts. In fact, survey results published in early 2018 concluded that 80% of the organizations they surveyed had begun to track and use SDOH data.

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Digital Health Wire

MARCH 20, 2023

Founded in 2021 by healthcare veteran Jonathan Bush, Zus originally planned on creating a “Build-a-Bear for EMR, patient relationship management, and CRM” by offering a shared data record and software development kit that other companies could use to build their own tools.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Canvas Medical, the EMR that enables clinicians and developers to power the future of care delivery, has raised $24MM in Series B funding led by M13 with participation from Haystack and previous investors Inspired Capital, IA Ventures, Upfront Ventures, and Irongrey. Founded in 2015, Canvas is reimagining the EMR for the future of healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

What You Will Do Design, implement, and optimize the schemas and data dictionaries across a broad ecosystem of platforms and vendors Manage the data lifecycle for all source, derived, and exported data ensuring accuracy and consistency Manage the systems that clean, normalize, and translate various data flows in HL7, FHIR, and other common healthcare (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

During the past year, PointClickCare certified their service as an EHR with the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), which allows the company to demonstrate compliance with laws and standards such as HIPAA. They write to me, “More than 1.2 million patients and collaboratively share clinical data.”

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

For instance, a friend told me that a recent conversion to a new EHR by her provider permanently wiped out years of email exchanged between her and her doctors. Keeler and Lisa Bari, CEO of Civitas Networks for Health , say that many other firms have similar axes to grind in relation to EHRs. Progress has been slow.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

Arkansas-based Conway OB-GYN Clinic implemented eClinicalWorks EHR. Rhode Island-based Care New England selected Kyndryl to manage its EMR consolidation. Disease detection company Viz.ai received De Novo FDA approval for its hypertrophic cardiomyopathy detection algorithm.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But despite the availability of FHIR and of APIs from many vendors, interoperability is often described as “difficult and “not frictionless” according to Loyd Bittle, CEO and Founder at Innovar Healthcare. Patients, regulators, and payers are insisting on data exchange in health care.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The OneRecord consumer application will remain in operation with its free EHR consolidation service. OneRecord is the leader in FHIR interoperability with integrations to provider and payer organizations across the United States and Europe. More information is at milliman.com. About OneRecord, LLC.

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HIStalk Interviews

JULY 23, 2018

Do EHR vendors make it easy for customers to integrate their products with those sold by other companies? Most of the major EHR platforms have API or developer programs. A lot of regulatory requirements have been placed on EHR vendors over the last 10 years. We are seeing more rapid adoption of that in healthcare, too.

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HIStalk Interviews

APRIL 24, 2019

Systems can talk to each other in many ways — FHIR, APIs, app stores, and traditional vendor interfaces. We have focused on meeting our customer at the spec their core system uses, whether it’s FHIR, HL7, API REST, SOAP, or a on-premise server solution. Bridge Connector is extremely secure, as well as the EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2020

CMS has released a proposed rule that will require Medicaid managed care plans and other insurers offering products on the ACA Exchanges to support the sharing of patient data amongst themselves.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon Web Services is rolling out a new tool designed to make it simpler for healthcare organizations to work with their data. Amazon HealthLake, which AWS describes as “HIPAA-eligible,” was launched during Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2021

After hearing about DirectTrust passing the 2 billion message mark, we thought it would be valuable for readers to learn more about DirectTrust and the healthcare interoperability work their non-profit is doing. Plus, they have their DirectTrust Summit coming up on June 9-10, 2021 which might be of interest to many of our readers as […].

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HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 21, 2019

A private equity firm acquires EHR/PM vendor Nextech for $500 million. A group of health and technology organizations develops open source cancer data standards and specifications that can be incorporated into EHRs via FHIR. I’m thinking of a time-based layout, for example [for EHR information]. EMR vendor ).

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 29, 2019

Standards are both critical and frustrating. Health care standards may be where Web browsers were around 1995, as Internet access was growing explosively and new extensions to Web standards were being proposed right and left. In those years, getting your Web page to show up in readable form on every browser was a challenge that […].

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