Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Read more… An Interoperability and EHR API Deep Dive with Brendan Keeler. In part two of their conversation, John and Brendan touched on the challenges and opportunities of interoperability , particularly from the perspective of prior authorization, along with what to make of information blocking court cases.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2024

First up was a look at how AI, NLP, LLMs, and automation improve health information management. Read more… Integrating AI and Machine Learning into EHR Systems. The Healthcare IT Today community also weighed in how to get this done. Read more… Is Your EHR Improving Patient Access to Technology Equitably ?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As the next phase in the evolution of interoperability, SDC allows for the secure and near real-time sharing of health data between devices at the point of care, regardless of the manufacturer. Traditionally, we think about interoperability as HIEs (health information exchanges), but in 2024 I expect to see new models emerge.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

On today's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock talks to Kajeet's Director of Strategy, Dominic Marcellino, about some of the different roadblocks to secure, reliable connectivity and how to approach tackling them. The current state of health data interoperability. How to maintain security in IoT connectivity.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 12, 2022

Over dinner we had a great discussion about healthcare interoperability and standards. While many of us know ELLKAY from their work in EHR conversion, it’s really amazing how much ELLKAY has done when it comes to healthcare interoperability and also making that interoperability data useful.

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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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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. It takes a real expert with the right connections to make interoperability a reality for healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 18, 2023

" These providers' most serious problems used to be how to keep opioid-use disorder patients in treatment, along with how they are monitored taking medications when they could not visit physician offices. "Our software developers then furiously went to work to create this innovative platform and to interface with EHRs."

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

For HHM Health , an FQHC serving the Dallas area, interoperability and access to medical records is vital for establishing trust with their patients and saving lives. Interoperability saves lives. He was ever so grateful and still comes to our clinic now for his follow-up appointments.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Before I dive into the specifics of these new requirements from CMS, let’s consider what this means for EHR vendors: more work and increased investment on top of what’s waiting when the next regulatory shoe drops. For more information on how to prepare for the ONC HTI-1 rule , read the first article in our Regulatory Talk series.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

doctors, driven by turnover and understaffing, compassion fatigue, and challenges using digital tools — think EHRs. Getting to interoperability of systems and data is key, and BDO provides a helpful sidebar int he report speaking to getting more of your EHR system. How to move forward? BDO asks and answers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. And now, check out our community’s healthcare analytics and interoperability predictions. Healthcare providers will be facing IT pressures: how to enable more people to make use of more sensitive data in a secure and compliant way, while also being economically efficient.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

There’s a collective holding of breath right now in health IT as the ONC appears likely to issue its final HTI-1 rule with new data standards for the next stage of healthcare interoperability soon. How effectively can the industry innovate while navigating new standards that may add complexity along with frustration?

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Redox

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

2 Seamless interoperability and integration management will be critical to this hybrid approach. 3 In healthcare, there may be even deeper complexities as organizations are seeking to extract value from the cloud without disrupting patient care and the day-to-day operations of their legacy electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

How to take a “patient-first” approach with GenAI – learning from the World Economic Forum At the annual conference of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2024, WEF heavily focused in on AI and its implications and prospects for society and many vertical markets, including health care. But how to bake in “patient-first-ness?”

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

However, given that the facilities are already stretched to the breaking point in staffing and funding, they need outside incentives to install EHRs and other digital technologies. The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal.

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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. ” The company has made particular progress as a provider for skilled nursing facilities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2020

IT teams have worked tirelessly to ensure the EHR is accessible at every point of care. This new scenario has highlighted the lack of interoperability between the public and private healthcare systems in Spain. A situation that “will be fixed in the near future” according to David Vidal. Telemedicine: a life-saving tool.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2024

But many providers just enter into the databases and EHRs whatever the patient put down on a form during intake. They work mostly with vendors of EHRs and other tools used in health care, such as billing and intake systems. It can improve patient engagement because everyone will know how to reach the patient.

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Import Immunity

MARCH 23, 2015

But the technologies were in no way appropriate to actually deploy in the real world, so things fell into place nicely — success at the Connectathon allowed EHR vendors to claim high ground on interoperability, but without any risk that it would actually be implemented for real. One issue was technical complexity for sure.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2025

Read more… The Sequoia Project’s Healthcare Interoperability Roadmap for 2025. Read more… What EHR Innovations Should Be Happening, But Arent ? We got plenty of good answers, including collaboration, data visualization, decision support, interoperability, and support for third-party apps.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. Requests are then electronically communicated directly to the provider organization’s EHRs and other systems. Therein lies the rub.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2023

EHR data is a prime target for cyber attackers, as it includes personal data and medical data that can be resold and used to perpetrate financial fraud, extortion, medical billing fraud, and illicit access to medication. In order to have a digital identity that is interoperable across organizational boundaries, you need to have trust.

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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? Healthcare is going to be rapidly advancing as patient data becomes more interoperable and effectively used across traditional organizational boundaries.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 29, 2022

News Data is the new oil, but we need to know how to share and use it responsibly This HIMSS22 Asia-Pacific conference speaker believes a framework for responsible sharing of data. By Adam Ang | June 29, 2022.

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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. Through our research with our partners at Sage Growth, we found that only 62% of providers and 38% of payers have adopted the FHIR standard for their data interoperability use cases.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2024

Europe also has a “resiliency program” to help sites adopt EHRs and digital infrastructure generally. HIMSS measures hospitals in many countries through the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) and advise the hospitals on how to improve. .” These initiatives have impacts on the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

” Device and EHR integration are another key facet of that system flexibility, he added. “Look for solutions that offer direct or API-enabled integration with your health system’s EHR.” ” Adaptability is key. Integration for a better user experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2024

The following is a guest article by Shannon West, Chief Product Officer at Datavant Since the dawn of electronic medical records, American healthcare delivery systems have traced a winding path toward the dream of seamless and timely health data interoperability.

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Redox

MARCH 7, 2024

As such, it provides a foundation for healthcare to overcome many of the interoperability challenges that plague it. While TEFCA is well-positioned to solve many interoperability challenges, it will not solve them all. The post How to TEFCA with Redox appeared first on Redox. If you are not a Redox customer, contact us.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Deploying LLMs integrated with EHRs helps alleviate this pressure by scheduling appointments or renewing prescriptions. Read more… How to Get Patient-Centered Mobile Imaging Done. Rehab therapy EHR vendor Raintree Systems acquired Yoomi Health , which builds AI tools for rehab therapy.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2025

The only way around this is more meticulous planning, so you can foresee the challenges before they happen and plan out how to mitigate the effects. Integrating AI platforms with large systems like EHRs can also expose vulnerabilities and lead to compliance issues with regulations such as HIPAA.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Healthcare IT Today received a demo from Rajat Mukherji at Spectrum Enterprise on how to monitor network traffic in the hospital and at home – including temperature and humidity sensors in key locations. That’s the value of platforms that connect to otherwise disparate EHRs and other FHIR data sources.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Automation is in many ways the connector and I believe care automation will be what moves the needle on healthcare even more than the EHR revolution. All groups reported a lack of integration and interoperability as a major pain point. Looking ahead at 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2025

Colin also caught up with Caregility’s Mike Brandofino and Susan Krisiniak and learned how virtual nursing supports the nurse working in the hospital , such as speeding up admissions and discharge processes. Read more… Reframing the Benefits of Interoperability. The Future of Enterprise Data Management.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2025

To address mounting expenses, rural healthcare providers are turning to specialized EHR systems and AI assistants to maximize the efficiency of in-person patient visits. Rather, its that many people dont know what trial options are available to them or how to get involved.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Machine learning and AI can help with this, but the actual test for health IT professionals is how to see through the pie-in-the-sky promises from so many AI solutions to recognize the practical and proven solutions using AI to optimize data and prevent patient harm. We won’t see accelerated adoption of interoperability standards (e.g.,

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