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I Helped Accelerate FHIR, It’s Time to Scale

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. Rate limiting is not inherent to the FHIR standards.

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One Way to Improve U.S. Healthcare, Lower Costs and Drive Outcomes? “Unvendor,” Asserts Dr. Harm Scherpbier in His New Book

Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2025

Harm responded that these health IT professionals should ask more from their single-source vendor such as demanding interoperability that is user-experience grade. This could translate into the health IT customer demanding the use of standards such as FHIR, to enable greater interoperability and appification of the EHR (my word).This

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EHR Innovations That Should Be Happening But Aren’t

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2025

An EHR system needs to make a 360-degree view of patient data accessible in a secure manner that can be made available using standard interfaces like FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) APIs for structured data exchange and DICOM for imaging.

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OntarioMD is Making Interoperability a Priority for Ontario

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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Data Readiness: The Key to Healthcare’s Digital Future

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Digital Health Expansion & Patient-centric Care The rise of virtual care, remote monitoring, and wearable devices is generating massive data streams. However, legacy systems often fall short of integrating this data into core healthcare operations.

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CMS Releases Proposed Rule Expanding Health Data Interoperability Requirements For Payers

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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Just Get Connected Already

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

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. FHIR, the API for automated data sharing, is mature and being adopted. This more recent standard makes trust automatable as well.

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Policy Ingredients for Real-Time Improvements in Health Care, Prior Auth, and Claims

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

Many of us look forward to digital interactions in health care that work as simply as a retail sale or airline reservation. Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth , shows us in this video how current regulations and FHIR standards will actually make that happen.

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5 Digital Health Predictions for 2018 by Lloyd Price

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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MEDITECH To Integrate Google Health Data Tools Into Its EHR

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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Zus Health Closes Financing, Signs Partnership with Elation Health, to Accelerate Growth of its Data Service to Provide Connective Tissue for Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

Zus Health , (pronounced “Zoose”), a next-generation shared health data platform bringing distributed patient data directly to the point of care, announced today that the company has closed a $40 million financing.

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Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

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. This will further endeavor to cement FHIR as the data standard to support future information exchange. Gary Hagmueller, CEO at Arcion. Clay Ritchey, CEO at Verato.

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Innovar Healthcare Knows How to Make Last Mile Interoperability a Reality

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Patients, regulators, and payers are insisting on data exchange in health care. 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.

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A Few #HealthPolicyValentines

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Less fragmented health data. healthpolicyvalentines @ONC_HealthIT — Grace Vinton (@HITeaWithGrace) February 11, 2024 Roses are red, Violets are blue, I went to the CHPL, & found a FHIR endpoint for you! What does that mean for patients? The promise of holistic, informed care makes my ❤️ pitter-pattah!

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How EHR Interoperability Benefits Remote Patient Monitoring (webinar)

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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Group Brings SDOH Coding Effort To HL7 FHIR Program

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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Bonus Features – August 20, 2023 – Healthcare orgs only use 57% of their data to drive decision-making, digital health is well represented on the Inc. 5000 list, and more

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

AVIA added RUSH, MUSC Health, and United Regional Health Care System to its network. Health Plan Alliance selected 1upHealth as its preferred health data interoperability vendor. Products Consensus Cloud Solutions launched Clarity Clinical Documentation , which routes unstructured data into patient records.

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Top Healthcare IT Today Resources, Articles, Videos, and Podcasts

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

What the EMR Industry Can Learn From Facebook – Seems like people care about Facebook and Healthcare. Where Are We At With FHIR? Big Bet on FHIR Pays Off. Clean, Usable Health Data and the Impact of Sharing Data with Partners. Although, this article is from 2012. Are Blogs Still Worthwhile?

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Zus Health Lands $40M, Elation Partnership

Digital Health Wire

MARCH 20, 2023

Zus Health is the latest company to set off on a quest for the Holy Grail of healthcare – a universal patient record – and it just landed a $40M venture round to help it in its pursuit. The first time a provider uses Zus to “get up to speed” on a patient, Zus charges $4 to pull the data and plug it into the EHR.

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Larry Ellison’s Vision of a National EHR Database as Part of Cerner Acquisition

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

To simplify the question, is Epic going to give Oracle Cerner access to all their health records? I think we all know the answer to that and FHIR and all these other standards won’t get us there either. From a public health perspective, it begs the question of whether you need all the health records like Ellison envisions.

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Milliman IntelliScript Acquires OneRecord

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The purchase of OneRecord positions Milliman IntelliScript to better serve clients who depend on the company’s delivery of digital health and consumer data to mitigate applicant risks, meet customer demand for a faster application process, and extend coverage to more people. More information is at milliman.com. About OneRecord, LLC.

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Healthcare CIOs Speeding Up Social Determinants Of Health Efforts

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2020

New research has concluded that healthcare CIOs see analyzing social determinants of health data as a top priority going forward, along with tackling data interoperability and cybersecurity. Focus group leads asked the […].

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Amazon Launches New Service Simplifying Healthcare Data Search and Analysis

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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A Look At DirectTrust’s Work in Healthcare Interoperability

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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Google’s Effort To Help Healthcare Organizations Meet Interoperability Standards

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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What Does Remote Patient Monitoring and Chronic Care Management Really Take to Be Successful?

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

No doubt a month still isn’t enough to fully understand this quickly changing area of health IT. This month we’ve had an added focus on Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and all it’s nuances and features.

Health IT

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CMS To Run Pilot Giving Providers Access To Medicare Claims Data

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.

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Emerging Technologies in Healthcare IT and Their Regulatory Considerations

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Additionally, improving data interoperability and the seamless exchange of health information across different healthcare systems and providers has been a focus of policymakers. For example, the CMS-0057-P proposed rule requires the use of FHIR APIs and essentially builds upon previous regulations.

Healthcare IT

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TEFCA Is Live – Clarifying Common Misperceptions

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This means you will need to maintain your existing connections to ensure broad access to patient health data for some time even after you begin participating in TEFCA. But until that happens, maximizing access to patient records hinges on maintaining your existing health data connections. The Common Agreement (CA) 2.0

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Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt: Regulatory Mandates for HIT and EHR Vendors Loom for Prior Authorization – Regulatory Talk Series

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability ( HTI-2 ) proposed rule was released in July 2024, and the newly renamed Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP) is expected to issue the final rule late in 2024.

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A Few #HealthPolicyValentines

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Amazon Launches New Service Simplifying Healthcare Data Search and Analysis

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