Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Allison Combs, Head of Product, Payer, Clinical Effectiveness at Wolters Kluwer Health In 2024, Medicare Advantage faced decreasing reimbursement rates alongside surging enrollment, and both trends are likely to continue into and beyond 2025. Our enterprise systems have been monolithic EHRs recreating paper charts with near-zero automation.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Medicare Advantage costs are 12% lower than similar beneficiaries covered under fee-for-service Medicare, according to research from Inovalon and Harvard Medical School. Also, Oracle Health is collaborating with Valeos , providing access to EHR data and cloud infrastructure to modernize the organ transplant system.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 21, 2022

Code, test and maintain electronic clinical quality measures using Clinical Quality Language (CQL) and Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR). Applies health data standards and interoperability such as HL7 FHIR Accelerator activities and the Office of National Coordinator certification regulations and policies. SPECIAL SKILLS.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Research from Inovalon and Harvard Medical School found that Medicare Advantage has 70% fewer readmissions and 24% fewer preventable hospitalizations than fee-for-service Medicare. Partnerships EHR workflow automation tool Clinical Data Connector from Odesso Health is now available on the athenahealth and Appian marketplaces.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Wolters Kluwer Health announces its Health Language Platform , a FHIR Terminology Server that will work with Microsoft Azure Health Data Services. Reproductive care decision support technology from Fairtility is now integrated with four leading EHRs for fertility. Voice-enabled AI technology from Suki now supports inpatient care.

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Digital Health Global

JUNE 3, 2024

Statistical non-inferiority to traditional methods when staging glaucoma using Medicare definitions. EHR Integration : Seamlessly integrates with existing Electronic Health Records systems, adhering to DICOM conformance standards and supporting FHIR connect HL7 and DICOM Modality Worklist (DMDL).

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2024

John chatted with Dr. Don Rucker, now at 1upHealth, about why TEFCA isn’t ideal for real-time data access and how FHIR APIs will help do the job – and allow payers and even employers to access data, too. Numerous obstacles hinder true data accuracy in the EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

News The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule continues many telehealth flexibilities first adopted during the public health emergency, such as an expanded scope of originating sites an expanded definition of qualified practitioners. of the Common Agreement and committed to having TEFCA support FHIR-based exchange within 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This is due in large part to increased expenses (from 25$ for labor to 90% for maintenance) and revenue reductions from denials (more than 20% from commercial plans and nearly 60% from Medicare Advantage plans). Cybersecurity tops the list of investment priorities, followed by EHR modernization, virtual / digital care, and AI.

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Redox

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Top stories Health systems will increase 2024 IT budgets More than 85% of health systems are boosting next year’s spend on digital health and IT projects, with cybersecurity and EHR modernization topping the list. Build an HL7 ® FHIR ® data store for your health system, minus the missteps. Healthcare IT leaders weigh in.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We combine a Medicare ACO, virtual and in-home doctors’ office, and a digital health platform to equip our network of physicians with everything they need to be successful in caring for their patients and staying ahead in a rapidly changing healthcare system.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Medicare and a supplemental plan) to receive care from multiple providers (e.g., Interoperability is essential in healthcare because it allows providers to access and use relevant patient information from different sources, such as electronic health records (EHRs), lab results, psychological testing, and radiology images.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 20, 2025

To address this, he led a team to implement the first API on an Epic-based electronic health record (EHR) that used the emerging FHIR standard, with the goal of helping patients, clinicians, and researchers easily access health-record data. There, he discovered a problem worth solving: health data interoperability.

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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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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

I discussed the current state of the EHR with Michael Nissenbaum of Aprima. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

I discussed the current state of the EHR with Michael Nissenbaum of Aprima. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 23, 2018

This requires a variety of technical strategies and ongoing collaboration for the industry to converge and embrace emerging standards for healthcare data interoperability, such as HL7 FHIR and the Argonaut Project. I got involved with the FHIR community early when I wrote the first open-source FHIR server.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

I discussed the current state of the EHR with Michael Nissenbaum of Aprima. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

I discussed the current state of the EHR with Michael Nissenbaum of Aprima. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

I discussed the current state of the EHR with Michael Nissenbaum of Aprima. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2019

In another step in fleshing out its interoperability efforts, CMS has announced plans to launch a pilot program giving clinicians access to claims data. During the pilot, which is called “Data at the Point of Care” or DPC, clinicians will be able to access the claims data from CMS’s Blue Button 2.0 functionality. The idea […].

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 6, 2018

The VA was an early adopter of electronic health records or EHRs.) "It's the variety of EHR systems and interfaces, data sources, and uniformity in workflows," he said. "It's EHR vendors still use proprietary protocols to corner their respective markets, meaning not all data is shared equally.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Additionally, with this certification, Canvas customers are now eligible for value-based payment models in Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as many commercial value-based programs. . Founded in 2015, Canvas is reimagining the EMR for the future of healthcare.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

HL7 , which has been setting standards for health care since 1987, leapt into the modern age of computer standards by adopting the FHIR standard. One of the FHIR standards, conveniently enough, is a digital insurance card. A payer such as Medicare could just put a card on its web site for each patient to download. Version 2.0

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Many want to target drug costs and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has mandated hospitals to post a list of their standard charges by diagnostic-related group, in an effort for consumers to have transparent cost options. Epic CEO Judy Faulkner on Apple, docs who actually like their EHRs and Warren Buffett. " News.

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Redox

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

HL7 ® , HL7 ® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources or FHIR ® ). Increasingly, machines are much less discriminating between a finely structured FHIR document and a poorly scanned PDF—and the latter may be richer than the former. And, nowadays, those regulatory requirements are heavy-handed with FHIR interoperability.

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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. Helping clinicians troubleshoot within the EHR can improve workflows and job satisfaction , Bill Lewkowski at HCTec pointed out. million in seed funding.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

Supporting organizations include Epic, the HIMSS EHR Association and HCA Healthcare. The most notable approval is USCDI v3, and others include two implementation guides from CMS for Quality Reporting Document Architecture and three HL7 standards (for C-CDA, FHIR, and QRDA).

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Inflation will push Payers back into the Public Marketplace whether Statewide and Federal Health Exchanges, Medicaid and Medicare Before the pandemic, many payers left statewide health exchanges as they found more ways to become profitable outside of the public market. Overall, consumers are charting the way forward in healthcare.

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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

“Integration of Sensor, Smartphone, and Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data for Patients and Clinicians. That said, integration with the electronic health record (EHR) is currently extremely challenging and costly. 44 FHIR allows external third-party apps to integrate into the EHR workflow.

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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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HIStalk Weekender

MARCH 8, 2019

Northwestern Memorial Hospital fires dozens of employees for looking at the EHR records of actor Jussie Smollett. Newly formed Beth Israel Lahey Health says it will eventually consolidate its multiple EHRs into a single product. FHIR is not going to be a magic bullet either. Best Reader Comments. Best Reader Comments.

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