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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

This could translate into the health IT customer demanding the use of standards such as FHIR, to enable greater interoperability and appification of the EHR (my word).This We have to start using these standards like FHIR, which part of our evolving toward more open, flexible systems. This is one of my books messages, Harm said.

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eHealth Exchange is Promoting Health Record Sharing, Past and Future

Healthcare IT Today

In this video, President Jay Nakashima explains the role they play, particularly in public health, scaling FHIR and TEFCA. He is also looking forward to wider adoption of FHIR, which eHealth Exchange has been working with since 2017.

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How to win physician confidence in remote patient monitoring programs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Adopting FHIR standards for integrating data with a physician's daily workflow. FHIR resources or data packets define the essential resources required to convey data from the devices to FHIR servers and eventually to the receiving systems like an EHR in a standard format.

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Data Readiness: The Key to Healthcare’s Digital Future

Healthcare IT Today

Implementing FHIR standards and API-based integrations is critical for seamless data sharing between digital health tools and core EHR systemsensuring patient-centric, connected care. Digital Health Expansion & Patient-centric Care The rise of virtual care, remote monitoring, and wearable devices is generating massive data streams.

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Bonus Features – November 3, 2024 – 95% of consumers want an easier way to pay medical bills, 90% of medical devices aren’t running anti-malware software, plus 35 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Products Inovalon announced several new and updated products , including Eligibility Verification Pro for patient insurance verification and Converged Outreach Connectors for sharing member data using FHIR APIs. Advisory firm Oxeon welcomed Dr. Reena Pande as Partner and head of its clinical leadership practice.

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FHIR Digital Signatures

Healthcare Exchange Standards

There is a FHIR leadership desire to have the FHIR Data Type "Signature" normative in FHIR R6. The ballots leading to FHIR R6 will give us a chance to test with the community their interest in this Data Type being ready to be called Normative. However so far to date it has not received much attention.

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Featured Health IT Job: Project Director, Healthcare Quality Measurement and Outcome

Healthcare IT Today

They also serve on the CORE Leadership team and aligns project strategic and operational planning with CORE-wide strategies and business plan. Leads a multi-disciplinary team of experts in clinical medicine, epidemiology, statistics, policy, data management and analyses.

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