Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The ONC Cures Act APIs and the companion CMS Access APIs all require these modern FHIR-based technologies and are fundamentally designed to grow a vibrant digital health economy providing choice and value to consumers. These API protocols are known and used by hundreds of thousands of developers.

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Redox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

A few features of the CA DxF set it apart from traditional health information exchanges (HIEs) and networks (HINs). CA DxF expands upon this, requiring participants to fulfill data requests for Treatment, Payment, Health Care Operations, and Public Health activity purposes. An intermediary can help.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces that five cooperative agreements to health information exchange organizations (HIEs) to help support state and local public health agencies in their efforts to respond to […]. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Leveraging technology to modernize, digitize, connect, and consolidate data will prove critical to the nation’s ability to address major public health needs both present and future, including preparing for the next global health crisis. Federal Citizen Services at Maximus.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

But the administrative costs for providers to share this information keep escalating. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. Automated chart retrieval is performed at scale, leveraging modern HL7 FHIR APIs.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2023

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Personalized care company Surgo Health launched as a Public Benefit Corporation.

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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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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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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 IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

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

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 26, 2018

Medical Records on iPhone - Apple already allows iPhone users to store health information gathered by the Apple Watch and other connected devices in its Health app, but this is the first time a system for retrieving records from a variety of medical providers has been launched on a smartphone.

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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 IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

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 IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

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 IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In health care, we have a plethora of standards for linking health information from disparate data sets. ” OECD found that over 90% of the countries studied reported introducing legislation to require standards for interoperability, and (wonk-alert) with two-thirds adopting HL7-FHIR, and 42% adopting SMART on FHIR.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Note: In case you missed the other 12 Days of #HITChristmas, you can start with the first day here along with the story behind #HITChristmas or read all 12 days here as they are published. On the 9th Day of #HITChristmas we’re excited to feature, Keith Boone, Enterprise Architect at Audacious Inquiry.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Teladoc Health and Ovation Medical are among the organizations that will utilize these new capabilities. Meditech will use Google Health's technologies to build a longitudinal health data output that combines data from multiple sources using standard FHIR format.

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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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