Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information. As the industry standard, Direct Secure Messaging continues to expand nationally.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Innovar Healthcare, therefore, focuses on converting patient records between different formats and vendors and getting the patient data where it needs to go. The problem most organizations face with health data interoperability is that it is not just about the data or the formats.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

To better address identity management at SCHIO, Dan Chavez, Executive Director of SCHIO (Santa Cruz Health Information Organization), turned to Verato. I also asked Chavez how expanding HIE data to include things like SDoH impacted identity management and whether it made it more challenging.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

Check out this video interview with Paul Wilder from CommonWell to learn more about the need for healthcare organizations to get connected already. There’s no one solution that will solve the health data sharing problem. That is that sharing health data requires commitment and cooperation.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2023

News Three Democratic Senators have introduced legislation to expand protections for Americans’ personal health data privacy. Small practices were less likely to use the technology than larger offices or health systems, though the ONC data saw rural and urban physicians adapting telehealth at similar rates.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This year I’m glad I finally made it happen since we were able to hop on video with all of the officially designated QHINs to get their reaction on the announcement. Check out the video below to see these organizations reaction to becoming a QHIN and the announcement of the officially designated QHINs.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission released an updated Mobile Health Apps Tool created with input from ONC, OCR, and the FDA. Surgical data platform Caresyntax is partnering with Google Cloud to develop the InfluenceOR app for creating and sharing educational videos.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2023

News and Research HHS and the Office of Inspector General released the final rule implementing information blocking penalties , with fines of up to $1 million per violation for vendors and HIE entities. Vital updated its video-based patient education offerings to provide automatic recommendations for patients in ER and inpatient settings.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Some background articles: Healthcare Privacy and Security Classification System (HCS) Data Classification - a key vector enabling rich Security and Privacy controls and other articles on my topics page Recommendation for setting confidentiatlityCode So. See FHIR Demonstration of DS4P (sorry the video is lost).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As health data sharing continues to evolve, the mere collection of patient data is no longer sufficient; it’s imperative that the data collected have tangible value for overburdened clinicians increasingly being requested to gather more data.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They use claims data to track use of emergency rooms, medical equipment, and generic versus brand medications. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE).

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