Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Redox

MAY 6, 2024

To that end, when I talk with prospective customers of Redox, I often describe Carequality as the fastest way to go live with meaningful interoperability— measured in days rather than weeks or months. new test results) or you need to be able to write data back to their charts in EHRs. Carequality requires reciprocity.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2024

High-quality, reliable data is crucial to getting most things done in healthcare, especially for healthcare interoperability. We’ve made some great strides in improving interoperability, in no small part due to the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA).

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Prior to the Meaningful Use incentives in 2005, only 20% of medical records were stored electronically. One area where Mueller believes HIM professionals can make a significant difference is interoperability. The era of rolling shelves, paperclips, and Dictaphones ended less than 20 years ago. A lot has changed. “I

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015. We need EHRs which are clinically oriented with good user interfaces.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Government Regulations – Meaningful Use. Data Blocking & Interoperability. Here's a summary of some of the top topics we discuss: Last Decade. Cloud Acceptance. Cybersecurity Explosion. Healthcare Consolidation. Physician Burnout. * Big Tech Entering Healthcare. Legal Cases & Violations

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2024

NextGen’s Investments in Mobile, Cybersecurity, and Interoperability. Their conversation touched on Ambient Assist in the mobile EHR, making Mirth Connect GDPR compliant, and partnering with CrowdStrike on zero trust. Read more… Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This seems to me a reasonable way to identify duplicates, although one can question what happens when an EHR automatically generates text. Most hospitals are not set up share their records; interoperability is still limited. Several respondents pointed out that the primary purpose of EHRs is billing, not treatment.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 23, 2018

Interoperability is an overlapping set of technical and policy challenges, from data access to common data models to information exchange to workflow integration – and these challenges often pose a barrier to healthcare innovation. Microsoft has been engaged for many years on developing best practices for interoperability across industries.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Having a certified EMR qualified physician practices for government incentive dollars to digitize medical records (similar to the meaningful use program in the US, just on a smaller scale). The organization has evolved and now is a champion for interoperability, data standards, analytics, eForms, and other technologies.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

During the boom that was meaningful use and adoption of EHR software, consulting companies played an integral role in almost every large healthcare organization when it came to rolling out EHR software. Now that we’re […].

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Docnotes

MAY 31, 2017

EHR purchase / deployment / optimization is a multi-year initiative. You don’t want your patients / competitors / peers to know that your EHR doesn’t work as expected. The argument is that ONC has no place creating certification criteria for capabilities that aren’t part of “meaningful use.”

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 17, 2018

Federal healthcare organizations, such as CMS, have spent billions of dollars over the years trying to bridge the gap between medical data and quality patient care with interoperability requirements and data integration, the mesh used to try and bridge the gap. Many government rules have been written to address the […].

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Chilmark Research

JANUARY 17, 2014

For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and interoperability. Each of these use cases brings with it a unique set of programmatic and technical components.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

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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. Michael sees the persisting lack of interoperability as something that harms the patient, harms the provider, and raises cost. Inovalon has been around for about 20 years.

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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. Michael sees the persisting lack of interoperability as something that harms the patient, harms the provider, and raises cost. Inovalon has been around for about 20 years.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

government introduced the meaningful use program as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, LTPAC organizations – notably nursing homes – and the vulnerable patients they serve have been left behind. Since the U.S.

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HIStalk Interviews

JUNE 4, 2018

Expanse for us represents the development over several years of an EHR that we designed for the post-Meaningful Use era. We saw an opportunity in 2011 and 2012 to build a brand new EHR, and in particular, emphasize the provider experience. There are major established players in the EHR space. Very different.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Whether you’re looking at CMS compliance, population health efforts, Payer to Payer APIs, or EHR connectivity, they can help make sharing […]. For those not familiar with 1upHealth, the provide a FHIR platform for payers, providers, and developers.

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Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 12, 2014

Tavenner: 2014 is your last chance for a hardship exemption for Meaningful Use 2 (Feb. DeSalvo: True EHR interoperability – and a national HIE – is possible by 2017 (Feb. Interoperability Showcase uses car crash to show how connected data really can improve patient care (March 5).

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Medicine and Technology

JANUARY 30, 2018

Apple recently announced that its mobile Health app will link to electronic health record (EHR) systems. While companies like Microsoft launched PHR platforms such as HealthVault a number of years ago, most of these PHRs were not linked to EHRs. FHIR is finally allowing true interoperability to become a reality.

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Docnotes

APRIL 26, 2024

The impact of the work of ONC therefore can’t be overstated, despite the single thread with which ONC is sometimes conflated: the 1st five years of HITECH and the meaningful use incentive programs. c) And what’s next for ONC? Three stages? Five years? We are too-optimistic.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 7, 2013

Stage 2 of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs. The next step on the path of meaningful adoption of health information technology (HIT) for providers—will launch later this year for hospitals and next year for eligible professionals. By Patrick Conway, MD, MSc. Achieves Electronic Data Reporting.

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Health Blawg

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Oscar and the Clinic collaborated and created an interoperability solution that yielded better analytics leading to improved ability of clinicians to manage patients and improved patient engagement. Everything doesn’t need to be on the same platform but everything needs to interoperate, communicate, share data.

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Health Blawg

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Oscar and the Clinic collaborated and created an interoperability solution that yielded better analytics leading to improved ability of clinicians to manage patients and improved patient engagement. Everything doesn’t need to be on the same platform but everything needs to interoperate, communicate, share data.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 5, 2013

Is it the switch to ICD-10 that will enable us to capture information more accurately? The widespread adoption and use of electronic health records (EHRs) to provide an infrastructure for electronic data exchange? The process can sometimes seem chaotic, even to those of us who are intimately involved in effecting the outcome.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Up to now we have focused on getting EHR to publish or simply make available the data they have. This first step is critical to Interoperability. It is just way too hard to get right. The future will be more about automating the consumption. The good news is that FHIR is a fantastic API for consuming data.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 27, 2012

The transport identified in Meaningful Use 2 as (b) is NOT a transport, it is a functional specification for a service that converts Direct to/from XDR. This specification shows how interoperability can be achieved when one system is using purely the secure e-mail of “The Direct Project” and another system is using IHE-XDR.

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Redox

APRIL 13, 2023

Just from what you’ve said so far, I imagine there’s a lot of integration of your many EHR vendors that I’m sure exist across the practices as well as external systems. One, right now, I have eight EHRs, eight separate. And so the goal is I need all those integrated systems, and I think that EHR is secondary.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Exhibit 2: SDHN Structural and Funding Diagram. Social Care Data Interoperability Exchange. The program(s) – often described as the “Meaningful Use Incentive Programs” – or “MU,” provided incentive dollars for medical providers who made meaningful use of certified EHR technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Of course, that's been the case every year over the past decade since the first meaningful use checks were mailed out, kickstarting the digital healthcare age as we know it. Epic CEO Judy Faulkner on Apple, docs who actually like their EHRs and Warren Buffett. How FHIR 4 will drive interoperability progress in healthcare.

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