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Microsoft unveils Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, to help with RPM security

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2020

Microsoft is previewing its new Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, an API feature that enables healthcare organizations to scale secure connectivity for an array of devices streaming protected health information. WHY IT MATTERS. "Developers have to build their own secure pipelines from scratch. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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QHINs, Health Data Exchange, FHIR, AI and More with CommonWell Health Alliance

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

Along with these important updates, we also asked Liz Buckle, Director of Product at CommonWell Health Alliance , to talk about their work on CommonWell 2.0 Plus, Buckle shares with us a bit about how they’re approaching FHIR and what role that’s going to play for CommonWell going forward. and their journey to TEFCA.

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MeldRx Is Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

They assume that there must be some easy EHR API they can tap into that will provide them with the data access they need. Or maybe they hear about this new more modern FHIR standard that will give them access to that data. Schiess also shared the wide variety of potential users he sees for this product.

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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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HealthEx Raises $14M Led by General Catalyst to Empower Patients and Health Systems to Do More with Health Data

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The company will scale development to simplify integrating the patient voice across all healthcare activities, while simultaneously automating the manual burden of security and compliance processes needed in the increasingly complex landscape of health data access.

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A New FHIR Analytics Tool from SAS Health

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Most data about patients exists in EHRs or other repositories in a variety of legacy formats. Thus, SAS Health Solutions offers a common data model, ingesting data from disparate sources of FHIR data into the appropriate fields for analysis. Analytics, though, requires you to compare apples and apples.

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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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Where Are We At With FHIR? with Joe Gagnon and Dr. Don Rucker from 1upHealth

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2022

It feels like FHIR has gone through all the hype cycles you can imagine in the decade or so that FHIR’s been around. I’ve heard FHIR described as the solution to healthcare’s woes and heard others describe its limitations.

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eHealth Exchange is Promoting Health Record Sharing, Past and Future

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2025

eHealth Exchange , a non-profit started by Health & Human Services and now a separate non-profit, helps health care institutions exchange over two billion records a month. In this video, President Jay Nakashima explains the role they play, particularly in public health, scaling FHIR and TEFCA. Tell us what you think.

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EHR Innovations That Should Be Happening But Aren’t

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2025

When a lot of people are all focused on one aspect of healthcare it can be really easy to get pulled into that same point of view and forget about other factors and angles. Looking for our answers, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community to ask them what EHR innovation should be happening that isn’t?

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Profile of a New Health Data Exchange Company healthKERI

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2023

When someone confronts potentially fatal health issues in their life, it’s always interesting to see how they react and what they do after that experience. That’s why I had to sit down with Jared Jeffery, Founder at healthKERI , to learn more about his pathway to starting his new health data exchange company.

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Health Data Cloud Leader 1upHealth Raises $40 Million Series C led by Sixth Street Growth

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

1upHealth will use this latest investment to expand product development and customer growth teams and accelerate efforts to lead the digital transformation of the healthcare industry in the cloud. About 1upHealth 1upHealth provides a modern data platform that’s cloud-based, API-enabled, and FHIR-native.

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At HIMSS22, Microsoft and Salesforce expand their healthcare offerings

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

– Microsoft has announced advancements in cloud technologies for healthcare and life sciences with the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. The health industry generates an overwhelming amount of data, much of which is unstructured and inaccessible.

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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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From Information Blocking to Information Sharing – A Look at HTI-1 and TEFCA

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) keeps releasing new rules to address the urgent need for data exchange. In this video, Jill DeGraff, Senior Vice President, Regulatory at b.well Connected Health goes deeply into these new rules and explains their value as well as the demands they place on health care systems.

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Altera Digital Health Joins The Sequoia Project to Advance Nationwide Data Exchange

Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As The Sequoia Project’s initiatives progress and new ones are launched, Altera will partner with and guide clients to support easier access to health information, more informed care decisions and better continuity of care. “As

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

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

Most Visited Healthcare IT Resource Pages. Healthcare IT and EHR Conferences and Events. Healthcare GIS. Most Visited Healthcare IT Today Articles Published in 2022. The Role of Digital Care Journeys in a Health System’s Digital Front Door Strategy. Top Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcasts.

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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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Amazon-powered Data Fusion Center could shed light on who isn't using telehealth – and why

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2021

The National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved, a nonprofit organization geared toward advancing health equity and economic viability, recently launched a new platform aimed at building actionable insights from social determinants of health data. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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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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Understanding Healthcare Interoperability Testing

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

AEGIS offers testing for interoperability, helping companies ensure that they have interpreted health data standards such as U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) and FHIR properly during development, QA, integration, and ultimately at the client site. Tell us what you think.

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TEFCA Real Talk

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

Looking forward to this great panel: Real Talk: TEFCA, Evolution or Revolution in Health Care Interoperability? HIMSS23 #HITsm #healthit @CommonWell pic.twitter.com/yLIq8NBs9m — Healthcare IT Today (@hcittoday) April 18, 2023 FHIR APIs are wonderful, but they’re not sufficient on their own.

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Three FHIR myths that hold back digital health enterprises

Redox

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Healthcare software vendors prioritize projects that use HL7 ® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR ® ) over those built on other standards for many reasons. Because FHIR resources have a defined structure, they can be accessed, manipulated, and exchanged in ways that other standards aren’t today.

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IHE IT-Infrastructure Spring 2023

Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) Health Data Locator and Revoke Option - Rev. The Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) Health Data Locator and Revoke Option Supplement enhances the existing IHE XCPD Integration Profile by adding two new capabilities.

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MediQuant Aims at “One Patient, One Record”

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2024

MediQuant has been providing health data management and active archiving since 1999. In this video, CEO Jim Jacobs describes how they seek “one patient, one record” so that providers have complete and accurate data for the patients they serve.

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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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Patient generated data can be a key factor in reducing health inequity

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2022

Still, experts say that network-wide availability of patient-generated health data is still lacking. Likewise, the standardization of common social determinants and other patient-reported data (thanks to the Gravity FHIR Accelerator Project and similar efforts) are critical to move this forward. Twitter: @kjercich.

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How AI and NLP can boost care via remote patient monitoring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2022

Ronin uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing and electronic health records in its work to manage cancer patients. Its dashboards have explainers on each data point to explain what an AI algorithm is; internal alerts notify users if AI algorithms go off track. Health data is extremely complex.

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Weekly Roundup – September 30, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy. Streamlining Enterprise Network Management and Monitoring.

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b.well Connected Health Secures $40M to Power The Connected Health Ecosystem

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2024

Ryan Howells , Principal at Leavitt Partners and Executive Director of the CARIN Alliance, a bipartisan, multi-sector collaborative dedicated to advancing consumer-directed exchange of health information, has joined the b.well board as an independent director. “The support from Leavitt Equity Partners and the expertise of Dr. .

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ONC Challenge Invites Developers To Improve And Leverage Synthetic Health Data Sets

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 26, 2021

The ONC has announced a challenge inviting developers to build out and leverage solutions based on an engine that generates synthetic health data. Synthea is built […].

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Featured Health IT Job: eCQM/dCQM Measure Developer – CORE

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 21, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the eCQM/dCQM Measure Developer – CORE position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Yale New Haven Health and is in Connecticut.

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DirectTrust is Improving the Directory of Direct Addresses

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Stuewe shared what the team is doing to address the current challenges and how they’re offering a new FHIR based approach to updating the directory while still supporting the current batch updating process that’s in production today. Learn more about DirectTrust: [link]. Tell us what you think.

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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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Enhancing Interoperability and Data Sharing with Innovative Technologies and Standards

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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. Additionally, health information exchanges/networks have also helped in data sharing among chains of hospitals or partner payer/provider entities.

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What Keeps Healthcare from Sharing Data as Nimbly as Financial Services Do?

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Healthcare, like finance, is a huge and highly regulated sector of society with many different types of institutions that have to exchange data.

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Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Healthcare Workforce. Health Equity and SDoH.

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Why Isn’t Health Data Available Where It’s Needed Including Public Health?

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 4, 2021

I often talk to patients who wonder why their healthcare data isn’t following them. Many patients just assume that the healthcare interoperability problem has been solved and that the data from their doctor or a lab or imaging center is going to be shared between doctors, specialists, and whomever needs it in healthcare.

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CommonWell Marks its 10th Anniversary as TEFCA Gets Underway

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2023

We’re building the next generation of FHIR into our services—and looking ahead to create new use cases for care settings that are still untapped. In addition to getting ready for TEFCA, CommonWell will be focused on FHIR, data accuracy, duplication and normalization. billion documents to date. About Paul L.

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Public Cloud, Private Cloud, or Multi-Cloud? The Benefits and Challenges of Each One

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

To get the scoop on all three we reached out to our incredibly wise Healthcare IT Today Community and this is what they have to say on the three types of clouds. Public clouds bring scalability and are ideal for many applications, but the sensitive nature of health data often demands the security depth of private clouds.

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SMART Health Card Emerging As Model For Sharing Covid Vaccine Data

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In recent times, as the demand for proof of COVID vaccination status has climbed, the healthcare industry has scrambled to find effective ways of sharing vaccine data between varied locations.

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What’s Spooky About Health IT This Halloween? – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This week’s chat will be hosted by Julie Maas (@JulieWMaas) from @EMRDirect on the topic “What’s Spooky About Health IT This Halloween?” ” Health data is becoming more and more accessible in a transparent way. […].

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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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Microsoft unveils Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, to help with RPM security

QHINs, Health Data Exchange, FHIR, AI and More with CommonWell Health Alliance

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MeldRx Is Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy

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I Helped Accelerate FHIR, It’s Time to Scale

HealthEx Raises $14M Led by General Catalyst to Empower Patients and Health Systems to Do More with Health Data

A New FHIR Analytics Tool from SAS Health

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

Where Are We At With FHIR? with Joe Gagnon and Dr. Don Rucker from 1upHealth

eHealth Exchange is Promoting Health Record Sharing, Past and Future

EHR Innovations That Should Be Happening But Aren’t

Profile of a New Health Data Exchange Company healthKERI

Health Data Cloud Leader 1upHealth Raises $40 Million Series C led by Sixth Street Growth

At HIMSS22, Microsoft and Salesforce expand their healthcare offerings

Data Readiness: The Key to Healthcare’s Digital Future

From Information Blocking to Information Sharing – A Look at HTI-1 and TEFCA

Altera Digital Health Joins The Sequoia Project to Advance Nationwide Data Exchange

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

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

Amazon-powered Data Fusion Center could shed light on who isn't using telehealth – and why

CMS Releases Proposed Rule Expanding Health Data Interoperability Requirements For Payers

Just Get Connected Already

Understanding Healthcare Interoperability Testing

TEFCA Real Talk

Three FHIR myths that hold back digital health enterprises

IHE IT-Infrastructure Spring 2023

MediQuant Aims at “One Patient, One Record”

OntarioMD is Making Interoperability a Priority for Ontario

Patient generated data can be a key factor in reducing health inequity

How AI and NLP can boost care via remote patient monitoring

Weekly Roundup – September 30, 2023

b.well Connected Health Secures $40M to Power The Connected Health Ecosystem

ONC Challenge Invites Developers To Improve And Leverage Synthetic Health Data Sets

Featured Health IT Job: eCQM/dCQM Measure Developer – CORE

DirectTrust is Improving the Directory of Direct Addresses

MEDITECH To Integrate Google Health Data Tools Into Its EHR

Enhancing Interoperability and Data Sharing with Innovative Technologies and Standards

What Keeps Healthcare from Sharing Data as Nimbly as Financial Services Do?

Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Why Isn’t Health Data Available Where It’s Needed Including Public Health?

CommonWell Marks its 10th Anniversary as TEFCA Gets Underway

Public Cloud, Private Cloud, or Multi-Cloud? The Benefits and Challenges of Each One

SMART Health Card Emerging As Model For Sharing Covid Vaccine Data

What’s Spooky About Health IT This Halloween? – #HITsm Chat Topic

Innovar Healthcare Knows How to Make Last Mile Interoperability a Reality

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