Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The large insurance companies, hospitals, and healthcare systems have signed on to health information exchange and will mandate that any business conducted with them will require vendors to use the data exchanges they support. That said, we are already seeing a Walmart-style model being deployed.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But when dealing with all of the many things that providers do and the highly important health information about patients, something as simple as selecting a communication platform becomes a very tricky situation. How do you maintain the security and privacy of your patient’s health information as cyberattacks continue to climb?

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Redox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Consequences for non-participation are currently unclear, although providers may be cited for non-compliance with federal information blocking regulations which, according to the recent HHS proposed rule could be up to $1 million per violation. Of note, the XCPD, XCA, and XDR profiles do not currently support FHIR natively.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Hearing about these pain points from stakeholders is why I’d “repackage HIPAA” if I were a regulator for a day. In that manner, businesses that remained “outside of the purview of HIPAA” would be impacted. With more funding acquired for the LTPAC space and investment in health information technology, care delivery will be secure.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 5, 2023

As part of my advisory position on SHIFT Shift (formerly Protecting Privacy to Promote Interoperability PP2PI) was founded in 2018 and formalized in 2020 with a mission to advance safe, equitable, and patient-empowered sharing of health information. It should be by the time they finish their comments.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 3, 2016

Some examples where BPPC are used: Connecticut HIE: For release of Privileged Care information, a consent document SHALL be registered with HITE-CT in the form of a BPPC conformant document using the Opt-in for Legally Protected Data (ALL) policy. One can't simply have a code "HIPAA" which is understood everywhere as meaning the same thing.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Now we’ll see how Real Time responded and look at the new burdens that AI is placing on health care as revealed by the case. One of the key goals of health care reform, going back to HIPAA in 1996 and particularly the HITECH act of 2009, is to allow the free flow of patient data in a secure and privacy-preserving way.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 6, 2018

The Patient is NOT the center of existing Health Information Exchange. Yet, the Health Information Exchange exists for the sole purpose of treating that Patient. The Health Information Exchanges today have an existing Architecture. These two factual statements are completely opposite. What did they ask for?

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

I have worked closely with product development teams working on small medical devices, big medical devices, health information systems, and cloud workflows combining all. I am especially excited about the latest standard from HL7 - FHIR. The FHIR standard leverages modern platforms and interaction models.

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Redox

JANUARY 12, 2021

Second, Redox transforms the myriad of data specifications in use today—such as FHIR, HL7v2, CDA/CCD, X12, XML, custom CSVs—into a standard set of JSON data models. Redox has worked with the major EHR vendors, CRMs, and Health Information Exchanges. Further, Redox ensures that data is normalized to standard value sets.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

During the past year, PointClickCare certified their service as an EHR with the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), which allows the company to demonstrate compliance with laws and standards such as HIPAA. ” The certification turns out to have other legal consequences examined in a later article in this series. PointClickCare.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In search of clarification on these complications, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to ask what role does health information management play in improving the accuracy and accessibility of patient information across different healthcare systems? The following are their answers.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

The whole concept of Health Information Exchanges , that I have been involved with, is there to improve Health outcomes for the Patient. There is a bright future for the Health Information Exchange too. This item is inclusive of the older concept of a PHR, but is also inclusive of newer health Apps.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 6, 2018

Blockchain's interoperability could underpin data exchange, serving as an alternative to today's health information exchanges (HIEs); essentially, it would act as a mesh network for transmitting secure, near real-time patient data for healthcare providers, pharmacies, insurance payers and clinical researchers, according to IDC.

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HIStalk Interviews

AUGUST 8, 2018

My background throughout my entire professional services career, outside of running the global analytics business, was healthcare — life sciences, domestic government work, international healthcare work, providers in health insurance. We are very pro consumers getting their health information. It simplifies those things.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

The most notable approval is USCDI v3, and others include two implementation guides from CMS for Quality Reporting Document Architecture and three HL7 standards (for C-CDA, FHIR, and QRDA). Health information network Availity was awarded Compliance Leader Verification by the Ethisphere Institute.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Sonja Tarrago, MD, Director of Commercial Strategy at DexCare The future of healthcare hinges on achieving true interoperability, defined as the seamless exchange of patient health information across health systems in a way that improves patient care quality and clinician efficiency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Telehealth technology, such as virtual nurse assistants and chatbots, facilitate self-service pre-screenings, automate health-information sharing, and assist with diagnostics, freeing up provider time to focus on more patients. Transformation of healthcare data into FHIR format is a key process to enable interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As such, as a regulator for a day, I’d implement critical clarification and updates of HIPAA, its scope and classification when it comes to medical guidance from AI-powered tools, outline the responsibility and liability of AI, and explore the selling of data for profit without transparency and consent.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

At eHealth Exchange, which is one of the first Qualified Health Information Networks™ (QHINs™) under TEFCA, we have a front-row seat to the framework’s ongoing implementation. Currently, eHealth Exchange is one of seven Designated QHINs exchanging health information via TEFCA. But we believe that is a mistake.

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