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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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

APRIL 29, 2020

As part of our Healthcare IT 100 in 100, we asked a wide variety of healthcare interoperability experts to chime in on the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare interoperability. Plus, then we asked them how it will impact health data sharing going forward.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

A new health data interoperability survey by Healthcare IT Today with 82 responses suggests that when it comes to interoperability, healthcare organizations are struggling with many of the same challenges they faced five or even 10 years ago. Their objectives for doing so […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Singh, VP Interoperability Solutions at ELLKAY. How Healthcare Organizations Can Modernize Legacy Data Infrastructure to Power AI, Cloud, and Digital Transformation The Next Era of Healthcare is Data Driven The future of healthcare belongs to organizations that can harness the power of their data.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 12, 2020

Despite the endless efforts healthcare organizations have made to support health data interoperability, the path still remains rocky. However, the pandemic has offered a sharp reminder that problems with patient data sharing can undercut treatment, particularly with the COVID-19 pandemic underway, a new study suggests.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2024

PointClickCare , having promoted interoperability for a long time in a few areas such as senior care, has expanded to include acute care, and particularly to connect it with post-acute care. Husainy says the regulations put “new teeth” into requirements for interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Additionally, prioritizing mobile accessibility and interoperability ensures that clinicians can access and update patient records seamlessly across devices and platforms. Interoperability is enabled through standard data and information representation.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2020

Healthcare interoperability has always been a hot topic, but it’s become even more interesting amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. In many ways, the pandemic has highlighted some of the challenges healthcare faces in sharing health data between providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

I recently came across an article by Verto which identified 3 fundamental problems with interoperability and care coordination in healthcare as follows: Data Integration and Aggregation Sub-Set of the Data Relevant to a Particular Care Step Data Governance and Patient Transitions The article was spot on in identifying these problems.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC).

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The response to my article asking the question “Are we at the end of the healthcare interoperability tunnel?” I think some people thought that I was hammering on all the work that’s being done on healthcare interoperability. ” was quite interesting.

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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 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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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Health Equity and SDoH. Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. And now, check out our community’s healthcare analytics and interoperability predictions. Jean Drouin, Co-Founder and CEO at Clarify Health. Big data platforms go mainstream. Healthcare Workforce. Telehealth and RPM. Healthcare Consumerism.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Improved Patient Experience Through Interoperability Over the years, Dr. Davis has come to realize that when patient data is made more portable and sharable, patient experience improves.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2025

Products EMR vendor Canvas Medical launched Hyperscribe , an open source AI copilot that uses ambient audio to write clinical documentation and orders. Connecticut-based Middlesex Health chose CipherHealth to implement a medication affordability program.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The topic of healthcare interoperability is one that it feels like we’ve been talking about ad nauseam for nearly the entire 15 years I’ve been writing about healthcare IT. In fact, I’m sure the discussion started well before I started in health IT.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The AI models of tomorrow will be fueled by a complete picture of each individual patient this is powered by a responsible infrastructure with an output of safe, and secure interoperable data. AI-assisted coding ensures the correct diagnosis and procedure codes are accurately documented.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As mentioned previously, we’re taking part on the Virtual AHIMA conference this week. Exploring how things work in the virtual world, we tried something new today and did a text based chat interview with Rita Bowen, VP of Privacy, Compliance and HIM Policy from MRO. In this wide ranging text interview, we talked with Rita […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

There has been tremendous progress in healthcare IT interoperability, but this video is a stark reminder of how much more we need to do to better support patients, caregivers, and their providers. Being a patient, especially one with complex health issues, can be overwhelming enough.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

If you’re running an HIE, you’re always hoping to see your participants step up their interoperability game. The thing is, few HIEs go the extra mile to make it happen, in many cases because they just don’t have the resources to tackle the problem. Given this fact, I was interested to see the recent announcement […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Several trade groups focused on healthcare issues have come together to publish a letter urging the ONC to rethink aspects of its proposed interoperability rule tackling health data sharing, privacy and information blocking.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 5, 2024

While many in the Healthcare IT Today community likely know Altera, Sunrise, and dbMotion from their work in the US, it’s great to learn the work they’re doing to address the health IT issues in Canada. For example, how are they addressing interoperability of health data across the provinces in Canada.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This is a big step forward for QHINs who can now start sharing health data. We’ll see how effective it is at solving the healthcare interoperability problem. Developers of certified health IT will also have the ability to move to USCDI v3 sooner.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 19, 2021

New research data from KLAS suggests that while providers generally feel comfortable with their preparations for complying with new information blocking rules, they’re not sure their efforts will be much help in winning their ongoing interoperability battles.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Each day in healthcare, data becomes more valuable, more useful, and more important to a healthcare organization. It’s easy to see that the future of healthcare rests on the back of data. The problem is that data in and of itself isn’t useful.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 15, 2020

For Health IT companies, it’s so tempting to just dive in and build the point-to-point data integration that you need to get the job done. If you do that too many times, however, you’ll suddenly realize you have a mess of spaghetti on your hands that will hamper future development. The co-founders of Datica believe […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

On October 6, 2022, the healthcare and health IT community woke to a new reality – one in which electronic health information (EHI) included far more than it did the day before. . Equally important is the tremendous potential for innovation that comes with greater access to health data. Why was that so important?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Yesterday, we shared a number of the insights into the health data and interoperability needs in healthcare. A HIMSS statistic cited the average healthcare system as having 18 EMRs. Until that data is more centralized and secure, it can create challenges for HIM teams, clinicians, and patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 4, 2021

” We’re inundated with healthcare standards and always hearing buzzwords like “interoperability” and “information […]. This week’s chat will be hosted by Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser (@KAWickenhauser) from @DirectTrust on the topic “How Connected Is Our Care?”

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Unfortunately, however, these idiosyncrasies are one of the obstacles that stand in the way of better interoperability, according to an article by Corepoint Health. Given that clinicians have different styles, it’s hardly surprising that they document care in different ways.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Putting patients first means that health systems, their government partners, and regulators need to look at companies’ security and interoperability track records to ensure the technologies being adopted keep patients’ private records safe and usable across providers. million patients’ data.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

If you’ve been watching stop-and-start efforts toward health data interoperability over the last several years, many of which have netted little progress, you might be surprised to hear a top-drawer consulting firm argue that we’re moving ahead into an era of radical interoperability in the healthcare and life science industries.

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