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FHIR, Quality Measurement and Value-Based Care: What NCQA’s Ed Yurcisin Wants CIOs to Know

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 31, 2025

In a recent interview, Ed Yurcisin, Chief Technology Officer of the National Committee for Quality Assurance ( NCQA ), shed light on key advancements that aim to streamline quality measurement, improve interoperability, and accelerate the shift toward value-based care (VBC). FHIR Isnt Complex. No different than JSON.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

Turbocharging, really inspiring that bold statement is the love of a son for his parents coupled with tech-innovation chops that could, indeed, eventually bring that audacious claim of being health care’s OS to fruition. That’s why Seqster calls this solution “patient-centric interoperability.”.

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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

Health information technology professionals charged with selecting, implementing, updating, and paying for health IT in hospital and care delivery settings are essentially the first-line consumers of health IT specifically, electronic health records. Im not against vendors — some of our top vendors are fantastic.

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Sharing medical records won’t work

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Central to this goal is the implementation of fast health care interoperability resources (FHIR). FHIR allows one EHR to directly query and pull information from another EHR, and is based on the belief that medical charts […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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Predictive AI FHIR Integration Contest – Win $25k in Prizes

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2025

One of our most common questions we ask health IT startups is how they integrate with the EHR. One of the answers to this question for startup companies is FHIR. Certainly the FHIR standard is still maturing to include more data, but the data in the current FHIR standards can solve a lot of data access challenges for startup companies.

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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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VA still facing interoperability, scaling challenges amidst COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

One such issue is interoperability. National Coordinator for Health IT. "We've talked about FHIR and interoperability and APIs," said Gregory Moore, corporate vice president of Microsoft health and life sciences. "FHIR is table stakes," he said. Now's the time to lean in."

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Data Readiness: The Key to Healthcare’s Digital Future

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Singh, VP Interoperability Solutions at ELLKAY. With innovations like AI, predictive analytics, and digital health solutions transforming patient care, success hinges on having a strong, interoperable data foundation. As Tressa Springmann, SVP & CIDO of LifeBridge Health, puts it: Data is our new currency.

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Meanwhile at HLTH2024: Other Interesting and Important Stories

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2024

1upHeatlh Recommends a Pragmatic Approach to Interoperability One of the questions we get asked a lot by new digital health entrepreneurs here at Healthcare IT Today is whether building on top of FHIR will mean a solution will be interoperable. The answer, sadly, is no. Healthcare remains a mishmash of data formats.

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MeldRx Is Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Or maybe they hear about this new more modern FHIR standard that will give them access to that data. Once they dive into the details associated with accessing health data from the EHR, they realize there is a whole lot more to it than most expect. Schiess noted how most systems only support read access and not write access.

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

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

At HIMSS, we sat down to talk with CommonWell Health Alliance to learn about their passion for interoperability and some of the latest happenings with the CommonWell community. 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

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Back to the Basics: Implications of Interoperability – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

This month’s chat will be hosted by Erica Olenski Johansen ( @thegr8chalupa ) on the topic “ Back to the Basics: Implications of Interoperability. ”. When #HITsm first began , the initial conversations were rooted in a mission to invite health IT professionals to the larger industry conversation.

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This Week’s Health IT Jobs – September 25, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Do you have an open health IT position that you are looking to fill?

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

Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Membership will drive continued innovation in interoperability, foster collaboration with industry leaders and ensure understanding of current regulations and standards for clients leveraging the dbMotion Solution , Altera’s data platform that aggregates and harmonizes data from multiple systems to improve patient outcomes.

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Understanding Healthcare Interoperability Testing

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

“Interoperability is not something you can buy, and not something you can sell,” according to Mario G. AEGIS offers testing for interoperability, helping companies ensure that they have interpreted health data standards such as U.S. Hyland, founder and senior vice president of AEGIS.

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FDA FHIR Pilot Automates Adverse Events Reporting and Validation with Cedars-Sinai and the VA Through eHealth Exchange

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

To make this happen, the FDA partnered with eHealth Exchange, a non-profit health information network, and multiple health systems. The decision to leverage HL7’s FHIR Release 4 is important for the long-term viability of this project as it expands to include reporting for other drugs and use cases.

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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. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Health Equity and SDoH. Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. Jean Drouin, Co-Founder and CEO at Clarify Health. Elizabeth A.

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EHR Innovations That Should Be Happening But Aren’t

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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Fax As An On-Ramp for Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

The journey to achieve interoperability in healthcare has been too long and too expensive. To address this, companies have put effort into creating interoperability tools and platforms designed to make it easier to exchange data. To accelerate interoperability efforts, however, creating more technology may not the answer.

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Innovating EHR Systems to Improve Interoperability and Seamless Data Sharing Between Different Healthcare Providers

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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A New FHIR Analytics Tool from SAS Health

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Thus, SAS Health Solutions offers a common data model, ingesting data from disparate sources of FHIR data into the appropriate fields for analysis. Gail Stephens, VP, Health and Life Sciences, explains the uses for SAS Health in this video, her goal being to “get patients to better health, more quickly.”

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ONC awards $2.7M in new funding for interoperability innovation initiatives

Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Chesapeake Regional Information System, MedStar Health Research Institute and other LEAP in Health IT awardees will launch new projects focused on use of FHIR and other exchange specs across a variety of use cases.

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HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer. Here’s what I wrote. That was tweeted ten years ago.

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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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CMS Releases Proposed Rule Expanding Health Data Interoperability Requirements For Payers

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The announcement follows the release of the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule in July, which requires all health plans doing business with the […].

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

But in a time when our industry is facing high staff overtime and burnout, there’s simply no way that we can be aware of everything happening in health IT. What should be trending right now in health IT? We won’t see accelerated adoption of interoperability standards (e.g., FHIR, HL7).

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Queensland begins telestroke pilot and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Home care visit verification platform leverages FHIR Health tech startup didgUgo is set to provide IT system interoperability to its partners who use its care visit verification solution. The company partnered with InterSystems to adopt the IRIS for Health platform to offer interoperability based on FHIR standards.

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What Health IT In the Cloud Means To Providers

Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If there’s a topic in healthcare IT that has absorbed more ink over the past decade than “interoperability,” I can’t imagine what it would be. The article What Health IT In the Cloud Means To Providers appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. By John Kelly, chief technology officer, PatientKeeper, Inc. Well, going […].

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Enhancing Interoperability and Data Sharing with Innovative Technologies and Standards

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

There are a lot of components to consider and talk about in regards to interoperability and data sharing. 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. The following are their answers.

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A Look At DirectTrust’s Work in Healthcare Interoperability

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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Featured Health IT Job: Enterprise Architect

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

About the Role NYeC is seeking an Enterprise Architect with an in-depth understanding of healthcare data exchange standards such as HL7 and FHIR, and the ability to use that understanding to design world class enterprise healthcare systems.

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Key Skills and Qualifications for a Successful Career in Health IT and How They’ve Evolved with Advancements in Healthcare Technology

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having a career in Health IT requires a lot of skills and qualifications, even more so if you want that career to be successful – but what are those skills and qualifications? Familiarity with interoperability standards is also essential, as is the need to stay abreast of evolving compliance requirements.

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How health apps are chipping away at interoperablity hurdles

Mobi Health News

MAY 10, 2018

Dan Gottleib, who leads the Smart Health IT project at Boston Children's, and Verily's Josh Mandel talk about FHIR, SMART and the concept of "substitute ability" as a means to improve interoperability.

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#FHIR and the Gartner Hype Cycle

Health Intersections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

On a forum for FHIR Foundation members, I raised the subject of where FHIR is on the Gartner Hype Cycle (see Gartner write up , or Wikipedia ). FHIR Foundation member Wes Rishel ( @wrishel ), who’s a FHIR user, and also was a Gartner Analyst before he retired, graciously made this contribution that I could post here.

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2022 Predictions for Healthcare Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2022

Be sure to check out all our Health IT Predictions. If it seems like we’ve been talking about interoperability forever, […]. As we head into 2022, we asked the Healthcare IT Today community to share some predictions for the new year. I always find it interesting to learn what people think is coming down the road.

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Lyniate Merges with CareCom, Further Extending Capabilities of Interoperability Leader

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2022

Semantic Interoperability Pioneer, CareCom, Improves Clinician Experience with Advanced Healthcare Terminology Mapping and NLP Conversion of Unstructured Data. Around the globe, healthcare organizations rely on HealthTerm to support data quality governance and health information exchange.

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Just Get Connected Already

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

clinicians, as estimated by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance. Many other health IT firms have joined CommonWell since then. FHIR, the API for automated data sharing, is mature and being adopted. This is the burden still faced by three quarters of U.S.

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Trust In Data Stewardship Is Healthcare Providers’ To Lose

Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

Seeing AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Google Cloud in large booth spaces on the exhibitor floor space was a visual confirmation that health care IT is now more about data than technology. The cloud and FHIR standards are fostering a new era of interoperability in health care.

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

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) was followed recently by the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) Final Rule. ” Patients are a major source of pressure for interoperability and data sharing.

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

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 21, 2022

They will additionally source solutions from, and contribute to, relevant open-source projects and participate in community events such as Health Level Seven (HL7) Connectathons. Code, test and maintain electronic clinical quality measures using Clinical Quality Language (CQL) and Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR).

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

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth , shows us in this video how current regulations and FHIR standards will actually make that happen. 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.

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TEFCA Real Talk

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

As someone who has covered the health IT industry for 17 years, I’m always fascinated when I see something really grab the attention of the health IT community. Certainly AI us currently doing that in health IT, but in the world of interoperability TEFCA and QHINs are grabbing all of the attention.

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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.

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This Week’s Health IT Jobs – June 19, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 19, 2024

Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. If none of these jobs fit your needs, be sure to check out our previous health IT job listings.

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FHIR, Quality Measurement and Value-Based Care: What NCQA’s Ed Yurcisin Wants CIOs to Know

What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

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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

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Sharing medical records won’t work

Predictive AI FHIR Integration Contest – Win $25k in Prizes

I Helped Accelerate FHIR, It’s Time to Scale

VA still facing interoperability, scaling challenges amidst COVID-19

Data Readiness: The Key to Healthcare’s Digital Future

Meanwhile at HLTH2024: Other Interesting and Important Stories

MeldRx Is Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy

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

Back to the Basics: Implications of Interoperability – #HITsm Chat Topic

This Week’s Health IT Jobs – September 25, 2024

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

Understanding Healthcare Interoperability Testing

FDA FHIR Pilot Automates Adverse Events Reporting and Validation with Cedars-Sinai and the VA Through eHealth Exchange

Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability – 2023 Health IT Predictions

EHR Innovations That Should Be Happening But Aren’t

Fax As An On-Ramp for Interoperability

Innovating EHR Systems to Improve Interoperability and Seamless Data Sharing Between Different Healthcare Providers

A New FHIR Analytics Tool from SAS Health

ONC awards $2.7M in new funding for interoperability innovation initiatives

HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

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

CMS Releases Proposed Rule Expanding Health Data Interoperability Requirements For Payers

Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Queensland begins telestroke pilot and more briefs

What Health IT In the Cloud Means To Providers

Enhancing Interoperability and Data Sharing with Innovative Technologies and Standards

A Look At DirectTrust’s Work in Healthcare Interoperability

Featured Health IT Job: Enterprise Architect

Key Skills and Qualifications for a Successful Career in Health IT and How They’ve Evolved with Advancements in Healthcare Technology

How health apps are chipping away at interoperablity hurdles

#FHIR and the Gartner Hype Cycle

2022 Predictions for Healthcare Interoperability

Lyniate Merges with CareCom, Further Extending Capabilities of Interoperability Leader

Just Get Connected Already

Trust In Data Stewardship Is Healthcare Providers’ To Lose

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

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

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

TEFCA Real Talk

eHealth Exchange is Promoting Health Record Sharing, Past and Future

This Week’s Health IT Jobs – June 19, 2024

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