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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. Let’s dive in.

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Redox unwraps interoperability in 2024

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Here are some specific reflections: FHIR adoption: We missed the mark on our HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) growth prediction. It certainly is growing, but FHIR has not picked up the steam we had hoped for in 2023. We reflected on that in our recap of 2023 FHIR DevDays. Sadly, he was wrong.

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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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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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This Week’s Health IT Jobs – August 28, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 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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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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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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This Week’s Health IT Jobs – July 10, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 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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Sharing medical records won’t work

KevinMD

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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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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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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The Argonaut Project: 10 Year Anniversary in 2024 for HealthTech open interoperability initiative

Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The Argonaut Project is a collaborative effort between the healthcare industry and the technology industry to develop and implement standards for exchanging electronic health information (EHI). It was launched in 2014 by a group of leading health IT vendors and provider organizations, and is now supported by over 200 organizations.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Evolution of How Provider Organizations Share Data with Payers

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2024

It’s reasonable for a company like MRO to have a chief interoperability officer. According to their chief interoperability officer, Anthony Murray, the company has spent 22 years building tools to “exchange data seamlessly” in healthcare. Plus, he shares how healthcare standards are impacting these efforts.

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Prior Authorization Takes a Leap Forward in CMS Regulation

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Presently, physicians bear the burden of understanding each health plan’s requirements for utilization review. A Process in Urgent Need of an Upgrade Clearly, prior authorization is crying out for standardization and interoperability. The release of FHIR in the mid-2010 decade changed everything. population.

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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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Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Reps Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (MATCH IT) Act of 2024 , which would standardize the way demographic information is entered into certified health IT products and ensure more precise patient matches.

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

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

1upHealth’s FHIR®-native platform designed for interoperability and modern computing is used by over 75 enterprise organizations including leading national and regional health plans, the highest performing CMS ACOs, international clinical research organizations, and over 20 state Medicaid agencies. Our customers are ready.

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The Role of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) in Facilitating Seamless Data Sharing Among Healthcare Entities

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2024

High-quality, reliable data is crucial to getting most things done in healthcare, especially for healthcare interoperability. We’ve made some great strides in improving interoperability, in no small part due to the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA).

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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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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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Greenway Uses AI Internally to Accelerate Development

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2024

Interoperability In addition to his Greenway duties, Cohen also serves on the board of Commonwell Health Alliance. He has a unique perspective on what is and isn’t working when it comes to interoperability across the US healthcare ecosystem. Cohen believes we are at an interoperability inflection point.

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I Helped Accelerate FHIR, It’s Time to Scale

What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

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

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

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Understanding Healthcare Interoperability Testing

Fax As An On-Ramp for Interoperability

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

Three FHIR myths that hold back digital health enterprises

Redox unwraps interoperability in 2024

A New FHIR Analytics Tool from SAS Health

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VA still facing interoperability, scaling challenges amidst COVID-19

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Sharing medical records won’t work

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

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

The Argonaut Project: 10 Year Anniversary in 2024 for HealthTech open interoperability initiative

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

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

Queensland begins telestroke pilot and more briefs

Lyniate Merges with CareCom, Further Extending Capabilities of Interoperability Leader

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

Innovar Healthcare Knows How to Make Last Mile Interoperability a Reality

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

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

2022 Predictions for Healthcare Interoperability

Featured Health IT Job: Enterprise Architect

What Health IT In the Cloud Means To Providers

The Evolution of How Provider Organizations Share Data with Payers

Prior Authorization Takes a Leap Forward in CMS Regulation

Just Get Connected Already

Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

#FHIR and the Gartner Hype Cycle

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

The Role of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) in Facilitating Seamless Data Sharing Among Healthcare Entities

TEFCA Real Talk

CMS Releases Proposed Rule Expanding Health Data Interoperability Requirements For Payers

Greenway Uses AI Internally to Accelerate Development

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