Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 17, 2021

The following is a guest article by Jaime Bland, DNP, RN-BC, Chief Executive Officer at CyncHealth, the health data utility for the Midwest, and Kat McDavitt, Principal Advisor and Head of Public Affairs for Innsena and advises organizations including PointClickCare on external affairs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 4, 2021

I often talk to patients who wonder why their healthcare data isn’t following them. Many patients just assume that the healthcare interoperability problem has been solved and that the data from their doctor or a lab or imaging center is going to be shared between doctors, specialists, and whomever needs it in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Health data utility is still a fairly new concept in the world of healthcare. How are health data utilities evolving? Lindsey Ferris, DrPH, Senior Interoperability and Public Health Director at PointClickCare – I think we’re at the very early stages.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jolie Ritzo, VP of Strategy and Network Engagement at Civitas Networks for Health Health data management in 2024 is both intricate and complex. Here are some of the most exciting and challenging aspects of both exchanging and using comprehensive health data this year and ahead.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

For more than a decade, healthcare has struggled with sharing data. We have not achieved data interoperability despite an abundance of technology, standards, and legislation. They share their data using open standards and common platforms because they share a common goal – to make the world a better place.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

TEFCA aims to create one unified technical framework to exchange data across the country between healthcare providers, health plans, public health agencies, and individuals. . For many of us in health IT communications, TEFCA has been greeted with both excitement and skepticism. There will be a shakeout period.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Use cases described by the Healthcare IT Today community included incorporating public health data, improving behavioral health, peering into patient registries, and focusing on n=1 health. Read more… The Value of Health Data for Business Intelligence.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

John Blair, III, MD, CEO at MedAllies It’s been well-documented for years that the healthcare industry has an interoperability problem. The commercial efforts to date to push interoperability forward have made true advances. This new regulation has delivered a unique opportunity for the U.S.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC).

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

A Look at Epic Culture and Interoperability with Brendan Keeler. The former Epic employee, now at HTD Health, talked to John Lynn for more than two hours. Part 1 of the interview focused on what it was like to work at Epic , as well as what opportunities exist to improve interoperability systems today.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2020

OCR (Office for Civil Rights) inside of HHS which is in charge of HIPAA enforcement has issued another notice of enforcement discretion. Roger Severino, OCR Director, announced that OCR will exercise it’s enforcement discretion and not impose penalties for violations of certain HIPAA provisions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Health Equity and SDoH. Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. And now, check out our community’s healthcare analytics and interoperability predictions. Jean Drouin, Co-Founder and CEO at Clarify Health. Big data platforms go mainstream. Healthcare Workforce. Telehealth and RPM. Healthcare Consumerism.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

Buckle also shares her experience at the Interop Showcase and details of the recent CommonWell FHIR Connectathon where CommonWell members leveraged FHIR to improve interoperability. FHIR, the API for automated data sharing, is mature and being adopted. This more recent standard makes trust automatable as well.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2022

The second graphic from the report breaks out the health consumer/health citizen from the health/care industry and ecosystem: Being that intelligent guardian for our health and fitness, including partnering with third parties for digital health tools and apps, and. health care, with the latest read from the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2025

In this video, President Jay Nakashima explains the role they play, particularly in public health, scaling FHIR and TEFCA. eHealth Exchange is working with the industry and with regulators to improve response rates so public health agencies can get the data they need to protect Americans health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Because penalties for information blocking – that is, any practice that interferes with access, exchange, or use of electronic health data – are tied to the definition of EHI. Equally important is the tremendous potential for innovation that comes with greater access to health data.

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The Healthcare Guys

JANUARY 28, 2016

Murali and Peter (along with Medecision and Amida) are right in the middle of intersection of data, interoperability, hardware, software and services for IoT in healthcare; they were kind enough to share with me what they’re seeing as the major opportunities in the space. In the case of health care they cost lives and money.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis. This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Chris Anello, Director of Digital Platforms at iTech AG The COVID-19 pandemic pushed healthcare organizations to the edge and exposed both challenges and opportunities related to public health data.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis. This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it.

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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? Most of the data that we are looking to share is highly sensitive health information, the kind of information that cybercriminals love to hold for ransom.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This is a big step forward for QHINs who can now start sharing health data. We’ll see how effective it is at solving the healthcare interoperability problem. Developers of certified health IT will also have the ability to move to USCDI v3 sooner.

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Clear Arch Health

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

OVERVIEW: This webinar examines specific ways that EHR interoperability and electronic health records systems integration can deliver a range of benefits to remote patient monitoring (RPM) for driving improved care coordination.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2024

News ONC released HTI-2 , the second proposed rule for Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability. Interoperability platform 1upHealth earned HITRUST Implemented, 1-year (i1) Certification.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

Each of the teams with whom we collaborated did a stellar job with their pitch desks, business model articulation, and deployment of the latest technology – for example, chatbots working toward mental health and FHIR standards toward interoperability. What makes a good hack, anyway?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2024

The government and many healthcare leaders are pushing for more interoperability and data sharing in healthcare. First up was an intro to Healthix, one of the largest public HIEs out there that serves New York. When you look at how much data is passing through Healthix, it’s kind of hard to comprehend.

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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. However, having the data alone isn’t enough – we need to be able to share our data between healthcare entities. eHealth Exchange is proud to be one of the first Designated QHINs.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2021

I had the opportunity to attend the session, and want to share the health and wellness-related insights David shared in his fast-paced view on the role of color in bolstering wellbeing and community looking out to 2022/23. For context, Pantone plays a role in your life you might not realize.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Due to the collective ethos in the community, gun safety has been addressed as a public health issue, and the health care system and employers are committed to assuring cybersecurity and the protection of individuals’ health data. The community accepts some cost-tiering based on personal preferences.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2023

"By acting as a health data utility, it provides a central hub for clinical data that can advance compatibility across networks and promote use cases, such as the stroke registry." In 2019, the NC HealthConnex modernized , combining the InterSystems HealthShare HIE with SAS’s health analytics.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2021

Rapid exchange of patient data is crucial not only for coordinating care, but for research and public health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2020

BIDI, which is under the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) in Thailand, is a 240-bed tertiary care hospital with 1000 staff under normal circumstances, Dr Sirikwin explained. Unfortunately, the data was in an information silos and couldn’t flow one system to another easily so the staff have to copy or re-enter the data manually.”

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Colby Takeda, Co-Founder and CEO at Pear Suite As the healthcare industry recognizes the critical role of social determinants of health, new providers are emerging as key partners in providing quality care, including community health workers (CHWs).

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

The second group to benefit from this National EHR Database was public health. Ellison highlighted how public health didn’t have a way to look across the health of a population. Of course, he highlighted the privacy area here by saying that the data would be anonymized.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For federal agencies and state and regional exchanges, this is an excellent time to demonstrate leadership in interoperability by joining a network that will likely provide a ready on-ramp to TEFCA. Currently, perhaps 99% of health data exchange is initiated to support treatment. The Case for Federal Agencies.

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