Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Singh, VP Interoperability Solutions at ELLKAY. With innovations like AI, predictive analytics, and digital health solutions transforming patient care, success hinges on having a strong, interoperable data foundation. The following is a guest article by Gurpreet (G.P.)

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Another area where we haven’t enabled pharmacists has to do with pharmacy interoperability. In our discussion, we talk about early approaches to ePrescribing and how those efforts have led us to where we are at today including pharmacy interoperability (or lack thereof).

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Once I had the idea, I knew the perfect person to try out this long form interview: Brendan Keeler, Interoperability Practice Lead at HTD Health. He then went on to work at Redox doing interoperability and then followed that up working with Jonathan Bush at Zus Health. And be sure to check back each week for part 2 and part 3.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

While significant progress has been made, the path to true interoperability remains complex but there are promising developments on the horizon. Legacy EHR systems, reliant on traditional HL7 interfaces, are struggling to meet modern interoperability demands. Legacy EHR systems, heavily reliant on the 36+ year-old HL7 2.x

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2025

While they have gotten a lot of attention for being the TEFCA RCE, The Sequoia Project has almost a dozen healthcare interoperability projects they are working on. For example, privacy and consent have been hot topics in the world of healthcare interoperability with new regulations popping-up across the country.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2025

Many of the speakers at conferences last year pleaded with audiences to put more effort into adopting modern approaches to better solve healthcares challenges like patient experience, interoperability, administrative burden, and improved outcomes. At the 2024 RSNA annual conference (RSNA24), this message was loud and clear.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

To keep staff operational, meet remotely with patients and maintain the functionality of the organization, COPE turned to Health Information Management Systems (HiMS, no relation to HIMSS, parent company of Healthcare IT News ) for a rapid-response solution that included both hardware and software implementation. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In a recent interview with Healthcare IT Today , Aidan Lee, Director of the Certification Program at OntarioMD , and Matt LaDuke, Director of Products, Integrations, and Service Management, shed light on the evolving landscape of electronic medical records (EMRs) and the state of interoperability in the healthcare sector.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

The journey to achieve interoperability in healthcare has been too long and too expensive. To address this, companies have put effort into creating interoperability tools and platforms designed to make it easier to exchange data. To accelerate interoperability efforts, however, creating more technology may not the answer.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

"About three-and-a-half years ago, we were looking to further scale our business across myriad, diverse markets, and were searching for a cloud-based EHR for multiple reasons," said Scott Parks, president and co-founder of CareTeam. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. THE PROBLEM. " Scott Parks, CareTeam.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

However, amidst the IT infrastructure responses we received a number of health IT experts talking about the importance of health data and interoperability infrastructure. Here’s a look at the insights our community shared when it comes to health data and interoperability infrastructure. Parth Shah, Head of Product at AssureCare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Based on Twilio’s Programmable Video API, the service will give healthcare professionals the ability to launch video visits with patients and to update clinical documentation and review patient histories within Epic EHR workflows. Kaiser Permanente already uses the company to optimize patient communications. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

While progress offers clear advantages for providers, many still suffer from archaic, interoperable electronic health record (EHR) systems. With technology advances, healthcare organizations gain access to improved tools and better information.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2025

In our panel at CES 2025 brainstorming “Health at Home: Where Health Meets Smart Living,” Dr. Ricky Choi who leads Samsung Health further detailed the company’s experience in connecting health. This will address, to begin, over 350 consumer-facing devices — wearables, smart watches, fitness trackers, and so on.

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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 News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

"Virtual care required a recast in strategy to address interoperability, patient experience, provider experience and cost," said Gerard Frunzi, director of virtual care at Centura Health. "Interoperability issues resulted in many manual steps to get information between systems and tasks completed. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Read more… Integrating AI and Machine Learning into EHR Systems. Read more… Key Takeaways From The Sequoia Project and Carequality Annual Meeting. John was there to hear Micky Tripathi’s farewell address, along with many thoughts on TEFCA, QHINs, interoperability, and data security.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2025

The company offers payers, providers, and pharmaceutical companies the ability to transform claims and EHR datasets into analytics-ready data tables via an open-source data model with built-in normalization, data quality testing, and enrichment. Tuva does that, and is aligned to Oscars vision to turn healthcare into a consumer-driven market.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Finally, the technology is integrated with the EHR, ensuring all clinically relevant data is captured for a holistic view of patient care. Many of these lessons are transferable to other healthcare IT change management processes, offering versatile lessons for attendees.

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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 Today

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Healthcare providers are well aware that the interoperability demands imposed by the 21st Century Cures Act are barreling down the pike rapidly and will soon slam their organizations.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Interoperability for better outcomes and clinical advances. The goal of Azure Health Data Services is interoperability that drives better patient outcomes and clinical advances. The key to unlocking the data is interoperability across the entire health ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

" To make progress, healthcare provider organizations will need telehealth data-driven and EHR-based clinical research, databases and tools, she contended. " Nicklaus Children's Hospital developed a technology roadmap and implemented telehealth platform enhancements with a focus on interoperability and integration with its EHR.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Electronic Health Records (EHRs): Technology (King): Digital systems that store and manage patient health information. Methodology (Queen): Interoperability: How do you ensure that EHRs can seamlessly exchange information between different healthcare providers and systems?

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Introducing GlobalMed’s New Interoperability Tools. Often vendors will assure you they can integrate with your EHR and workflows. Then the telemedicine solution is deployed and you discover the vendor’s version of integration is limited to their video platform, allowing you to launch a video consult from your EHR. It’s great….

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

" PROPOSAL In January 2023, Memorial began working with KeyCare, an Epic-based virtual care company (Memorial uses Epic for its EHR). MEETING THE CHALLENGE Memorial was an early adopter of Keycare and became the first site to go live with pediatrics.

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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. Both will require EHRs to redevelop different aspects of their roadmap simultaneously. And then what?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2025

Since both organizations wanted seamless patient engagement across all channels, interoperable imaging, and reduced staff administrative work (so they could have more time to focus on patients), there was general agreement during the entire project.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

As electronic health record (EHR) systems become nearly universal and interoperability initiatives gain momentum, many healthcare providers assume their revenue cycle challenges are solved. In 2008, 9% of hospitals and 17% of office-based physicians used EHR systems.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. As I approach my 20-somethingth HIMSS, having been a member of the organization for most of my professional life, I’ll be focusing on the mainstreaming health IT Zeitgeist as I meet with innovators and experts this week in Orlando.

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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. With compliance the immediate concern for many EHR vendors, when and where is the industry prepared to lead? There’s no time to waste.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Furthermore, the growing volume of electronic health records and the need for interoperability between different systems can make it challenging to ensure compliance with all relevant regulations. Meeting the demands of this wider regulatory scope is challenging, particularly as regulations constantly evolve and vary by jurisdiction.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2025

We’ll see the emergence of ‘trusted AI networks’ where healthcare organizations share validated clinical algorithms and outcomes data, creating a foundation for true interoperability.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 12, 2024

This ecosystem enables users to make CharmHealth’s EHR platform truly their own, offering a wide array of tools designed to augment and customize the functionality of the EHR system according to individual needs. CharmHealthApps allows EHR vendors to register and create accounts on the platform.

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