Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Tom Liddell, CEO at Harmony Healthcare IT A successful career in health IT leadership requires a unique blend of technical expertise, regulatory knowledge, and strong communication skills. Familiarity with interoperability standards is also essential, as is the need to stay abreast of evolving compliance requirements.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

Certainly AI us currently doing that in health IT, but in the world of interoperability TEFCA and QHINs are grabbing all of the attention. There are a lot of views on TEFCA, but the one thing that’s certain is that it’s grabbing a lot of the interoperability focus from government regulators and the industry.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The project has been successful in developing and implementing a number of standards, including the Argonaut FHIR Data Exchange Standard and the Argonaut FHIR API Standard. HealthTech Thought Leadership from Nelson Advisors - Industry Insights & Analysis for Founders, Owners & Investors.

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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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American Well

APRIL 13, 2020

As a healthcare innovator, Intermountain has worked diligently to put in place both patient-facing and back-end integrations needed for successful enterprise-wide telehealth interoperability. When we embarked on developing this initiative, it was critical to have support, guidance, and advocacy from our leadership.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2023

Drawing from this experience on both sides of the equation, I believe the next generation of EHRs can better meet the needs of all involved with better usability, interoperability, and flexibility. Enhancing Interoperability In addition to greater usability, EHRs need better data-sharing capabilities to bring real value to the clinical space.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Data interoperability is a critical component of a hybrid adoption strategy. I advise healthcare organizations to seek an interoperability partner who meets them where they are today and into the future, offering multiple deployment options including the ability to deploy on-premises, in a private cloud or in a public cloud.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 13, 2016

There is renewed discussion, much like back in January, around the need to go beyond testing just the FHIR Resource 'interoperability'. Testing Interoperability is not easy, and there are struggles with getting this first level testing done right. This is more than just a selection of FHIR Resources. A complete system.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

For health information technology (HIT) and electronic health record (EHR) vendors, new regulations that promote interoperability and transparency for PA workflows are an opportunity to significantly improve the experience for providers and the patients they serve.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Partnerships Darena Solutions, Leidos, and SLI Compliance unveiled a verification process for AI applications built using SMART on FHIR standards. In addition, AVIA published its Top Interoperability Companies Report , with Andor Health topping the list. Home care EMR software maker Smartcare Software rebranded as Aaniie.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

We are fully invested in using Networked Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) for connecting with payers. With this knowledge, we successfully leveraged the viability of Networked FHIR for prior authorization with UC Davis Health, Regence, and other eHealth Exchange participants.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We talk a lot about sharing data and how it will improve patient outcomes and interoperability, but do we talk enough about how to do it safely? Healthcare is going to be rapidly advancing as patient data becomes more interoperable and effectively used across traditional organizational boundaries. So many good answers here!

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

We won’t see accelerated adoption of interoperability standards (e.g., FHIR, HL7). Ultimately, this will help improve payer-provider relations. In this challenging climate, it’s become even more clear that something’s got to give.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 25, 2022

Instead of talking about building personal resilience, leadership needs to make it both safe and easy for clinicians to have candid and confidential conversations about the problems they face. Read more… Where Are We At With FHIR? Finally, the 1upHealth executives address whether we can expect another standard to follow FHIR.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

For new components to be deployed, they must be interoperable with legacy systems to some degree, guaranteeing that the flow of traffic is sustained, and vital services aren’t interrupted. What’s further, an incremental approach to technological advancement will allow leaders to stay on task and build out their strategy carefully.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 29, 2019

Standards are both critical and frustrating. Health care standards may be where Web browsers were around 1995, as Internet access was growing explosively and new extensions to Web standards were being proposed right and left. In those years, getting your Web page to show up in readable form on every browser was a challenge that […].

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

While the key components of privacy (administrative, uses and disclosures, individual rights, and general security) are all necessary today, I would put privacy, security, breach – and relevant 21 Century Cures Interoperability topics – all together and make sure everyone handling any type of sensitive information be subject to these rules.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

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. Healthcare stakeholders need the patient data that healthcare providers possess.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Interoperability: TIEs facilitate interoperability between different healthcare systems, enabling seamless data exchange and collaboration. Interoperability Standards: The lack of standardized data formats and terminologies can hinder interoperability and data exchange.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

2022 Predictions for Healthcare Interoperability – A third predictions post doing so well. Does this mean people cared about RPM and Healthcare Interoperability the most in 2022? Where Are We At With FHIR? The State of Interoperability – COVID and Beyond. Big Bet on FHIR Pays Off.

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Redox

JULY 6, 2023

These products, such as Google Cloud’s Healthcare API and Healthcare Data Engine, require data to be based in the FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard to enable interoperability at scale. Healthcare API and HDE are primarily based in the FHIR standard, and first require data to be transformed into FHIR.

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Redox

APRIL 28, 2023

While there were not overt themes (or if there were, I missed them), a few certainly emerged – the application of AI in healthcare, health equity, the future of healthcare (in a post-COVID world), and our personal favorite, interoperability. Sessions like “ Interoperability. What’s Taking So Long?”

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

I seek to be considered for an Interop Architect, Interop Program Manager, Standards Developer, Privacy Architect, or other similar leadership position that allows me to continue to engage with International Standards development while directing one or more teams in the implementation of those standards.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Interoperability as the key to making a perfect vision an effective and trusted reality. While the envisioned future still calls for brick-and-mortar hospitals, much care provision outside of procedure delivery could shift away from this setting and be delivered in the community and enabled through interoperable data, and digital delivery.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As we approach 2023 it is amazing that interoperability, true broad-based connectivity between healthcare systems, looks like the Verizon heatmap back in 2005 when there was as much white on the map as there was red. She says of Kno2, “We enable interoperability and the magic happening on the edge.”

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2024

Kristen Valdes, Founder and CEO at b.well I think we’re going to see a rush towards people moving into platforming on FHIR using open standards. We’re seeing that the new prior auth rule that just dropped in January that there’s people already running pilots on DaVinci implementation guides which run on FHIR and CQL.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Healthtech providers can adopt HL7 (Health Level Seven) or FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). The main difference lies in FHIR’s use of RESTful web services and open web technologies like XML, JSON, and RDF, while HL7 supports only XML. HL7 has various versions, with CDA being the most widespread.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 30, 2017

The good news is that FHIR has a Document model, and the FHIR Document model has a directly convertible data model A FHIR Document travels an HIE easily CDA will fade, but never disappear. This first step is critical to Interoperability. This first step is critical to Interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2020

New research has concluded that healthcare CIOs see analyzing social determinants of health data as a top priority going forward, along with tackling data interoperability and cybersecurity. The focus group study, which was conducted by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, involved bringing together a group of CIOs who were members of CHIME.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Vijay Verma, VP of Product Strategy at TeleVox A common shortcoming in healthcare communication systems is interoperability. Additionally, inter-organizational communication between providers and business associates remains a challenge, with EHR and other IT vendors lacking seamless interoperability between platforms.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As cases are automated on communication platforms, there is a growing need to interoperably share care plans for patients/persons beyond the case worker team and out within the community’s ecosystem of stakeholders. However, there have been some promising indicators that FHIR-enabled care coordination could be changing the game.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Consensus Cloud Solutions released Consensus Conductor , an integration platform for sharing fax via Direct Messaging or FHIR APIs. Cancer care navigation tool Jasper Health selected Particle Health for clinical data interoperability. Nomi Health launched the Connect fintech platform for real-time payments.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

I think we all know the answer to that and FHIR and all these other standards won’t get us there either. Can Oracle really create a full longitudinal record of all patients? To simplify the question, is Epic going to give Oracle Cerner access to all their health records?

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 30, 2020

You will see businesses who have demonstrated real agility in leadership, strategy, market engagement and most importantly the tech capability to establish a C19 proposition quickly with the end customer in mind.Goldilocks in size, we need scale-ups not startups. So from what we have seen, what can we expect over the next six months?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The following is a guest article by Gary Meyer, Assistant Vice President at Cognizant. As they say in the Marvel cinematic universe, what if… What if providers had a current, comprehensive view of their patients’ clinical and administrative health history available at the point of care?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

We asked our talented Healthcare IT Today Community – in the context of interoperability, what challenges and barriers exist in achieving standardized and secure data exchange across different healthcare systems, and how can these obstacles be addressed? The following are their answers. However, this rule is only the first step.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

This month we’ve had an added focus on Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and all it’s nuances and features. No doubt a month still isn’t enough to fully understand this quickly changing area of health IT.

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