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

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

JUNE 15, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, the delayed enforcement of the federal Interoperability and Patient Access rule may have prompted a collective sigh of relief among healthcare leaders, but the pandemic demonstrates exactly why interoperability is needed—especially during a public […].

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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 order to better understand more about the current state of healthcare interoperability, I sat down (virtually of […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In order to truly improve healthcare, we need to have seamless interoperability and data sharing between different healthcare providers. Improving interoperability and seamless data sharing is vital as we work towards a better future and there are plenty of different methods to do this. The following are their answers.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Given the relatively recent transition of leadership , I thought it would be a good time to check in with MEDITECH’s Executive Vice President & COO, Helen Waters. In our discussion, we cover a broad range of topics including how the leadership change has gone, the impact of COVID, and where they’re headed in the future.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

If your organization is interested in adopting enterprise content management through a DMI system, it is critical to determine the costs, evaluate the impact, and build an effective business case to share with leadership. Beyond COVID-19: Data considerations when switching your EMR. Or click on the titles below for highlights. .

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2020

As expected, HHS together with CMS and ONC have released the 21st Century Cures Act Final rule that most people have been calling the Information Blocking rule and/or the Interoperability Final rule. You can find the blog post announcing the final rule here and the Cures Act final rule landing page here. You can download […].

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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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American Well

APRIL 13, 2020

As a healthcare innovator, Intermountain has worked diligently to put in place both patient-facing and back-end integrations needed for successful enterprise-wide telehealth interoperability. When we embarked on developing this initiative, it was critical to have support, guidance, and advocacy from our leadership.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In addition, AVIA published its Top Interoperability Companies Report , with Andor Health topping the list. Laudio and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership will produce biannual reports and insights from the perspective of nursing leadership. Home care EMR software maker Smartcare Software rebranded as Aaniie.

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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

MARCH 5, 2024

In a fast-paced exchanged with John Lynn of Healthcare IT Today, Rucker covers regulations and evolving data exchange standards that foster interoperability and data analytics. “The real point of interoperability is continuous, real-time computing,” according to Rucker.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In addition, with Thoma Bravo as a partner, the Company will benefit from increased capital, expertise, and strategic flexibility to accelerate the Company’s leadership in providing healthcare technology solutions,” said David Sides, President and Chief Executive Officer at NextGen Healthcare. Rohde , a Senior Partner at Thoma Bravo. “We

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

We’ll see how effective it is at solving the healthcare interoperability problem. USCDI Version 3 : Adopts the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) Version 3 (v3) as the new baseline standard within the ONC Health IT Certification Program (Certification Program) as of January 1, 2026.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 29, 2019

Standards are both critical and frustrating. Health care standards may be where Web browsers were around 1995, as Internet access was growing explosively and new extensions to Web standards were being proposed right and left. In those years, getting your Web page to show up in readable form on every browser was a challenge that […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

Drawing from this experience on both sides of the equation, I believe the next generation of EHRs can better meet the needs of all involved with better usability, interoperability, and flexibility. Enhancing Interoperability In addition to greater usability, EHRs need better data-sharing capabilities to bring real value to the clinical space.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 27, 2020

In some exciting news for people who have been watching healthcare interoperability for a long time, Carequality has passed an emergency waiver that allows users to access the network and be able to query for records even if the EHR they use is not integrated (this was a requirement before the waiver). For those not […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2022

No doubt those of you in the world of health IT and interoperability saw the news that Epic plans to apply to join TEFCA as an inaugural QHIN (Qualified Health Information Network). Plus, we ask him how the data differs between Epic’s 3 main healthcare interoperability efforts: CareEverywhere, Carequality, and now TEFCA.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Storage of Information in Various Systems While serving diverse medical institution needs, Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) parallel existence complicates information access and exchange between doctors, patients, and different medical centers.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We wrap up this interview series withBrendan Keeler, Interoperability Practice Lead at HTD Health , with a look at his time workin with Jonathan, Bush, a discussion of the EHR market including Epic’s rise to dominance, a discussion of whether Epic is a monopoly, and finally a look at patient access to health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

For health information technology (HIT) and electronic health record (EHR) vendors, new regulations that promote interoperability and transparency for PA workflows are an opportunity to significantly improve the experience for providers and the patients they serve.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 11, 2024

Greenway is Using AI Internally “The executive leadership team at Greenway uses ambient voice solutions to record and summarize our meetings,” shared Sarker. Those insights have helped him motivate his team to use AI to accelerate internal operations and deliver more features to clients.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

What’s needed is: Data connectivity and interoperability between various systems, such as electronic medical records (EMRs), clinical management platforms and telehealth solutions Transparent access to data by a patient’s entire care team, from primary care doctors to specialists and more.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 26, 2024

Therefore, having a sound interoperability strategy in place coupled with an SDOH strategy is critical. SDOH strateg ies and solutions can be enhanced with a predictive next step, meaning clinical users can include the comprehensive member profile generated from EMR information and member behaviors.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2023

Data sharing and interoperability are spreading too slowly in health care, and even if a doctor manages to get all the data, its varied formats make it hard to draw insights from.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

As part of our Interoperability Matters Initiative , The Sequoia Project convened a diverse and dedicated workgroup to consider the practical challenges of implementing the information blocking rule from a wide variety of angles. Practical Resources for all Types of Actors. Accessing Best Practices From your Peers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

Director at NTT DATA On February 8, 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1) Final Rule in the Federal Register, which took effect on March 11, 2024. The following is a guest article by Nitin Kunte, Sr.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2024

There are many healthcare interoperability solutions available that share significant amounts of data between healthcare organizations. I love to see these tangible outcomes resulting from having the right data in the right place at the right time.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For federal agencies and state and regional exchanges, this is an excellent time to demonstrate leadership in interoperability by joining a network that will likely provide a ready on-ramp to TEFCA. State and regional HIEs are critical to our nation’s goal of comprehensive interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

2022 Predictions for Healthcare Interoperability – A third predictions post doing so well. Does this mean people cared about RPM and Healthcare Interoperability the most in 2022? What the EMR Industry Can Learn From Facebook – Seems like people care about Facebook and Healthcare. Although, this article is from 2012.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2024

Moreover, patients expect providers’ platforms and electronic medical records (EMR) to seamlessly accommodate their hyper-personalized data whenever they choose to share it. For example, a provider may have their cloud-based EMR and accounting software serviced by two separate vendors.

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