Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

One of the most significant applications of healthcare information technology is the exchange of health information among disparate clinical information systems and otherwise unaffiliated care providers. The Health Information Exchange model presented is an Infrastructure, it is not constraining the content.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

For HHM Health , an FQHC serving the Dallas area, interoperability and access to medical records is vital for establishing trust with their patients and saving lives. It brings together medical records from both Carequality and CommonWell Health Alliance networks as well as from a number of insurance payers.

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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. The following are their answers.

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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. Ashley Basile, Chief Product Officer at Diameter Health (now part of Availity). Healthcare Workforce.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2024

According to a report from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, as of 2021, 96% of non-federal acute care hospitals and 78% of office-based physicians have adopted certified EHR technology. The Importance of Data Accuracy in EHR Many healthcare organizations have jumped on the EHR bandwagon.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

But the administrative costs for providers to share this information keep escalating. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. Here is one example of how payer exchange is being automated today.

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Redox

MARCH 7, 2024

TEFCA outlines a common set of principles, terms, and conditions to enable the nationwide exchange of health information across disparate health information networks (HINs). As such, it provides a foundation for healthcare to overcome many of the interoperability challenges that plague it.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Such was the case at the first ever collaborative conference for health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, public health, and health equity. The four-day summit focused on the evolving role of HIE, new interoperability successes and the valuable implications of harnessing data to advance health equity.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

The IHE IT-Infrastructure committee continues to produce new and improved specifications for HIE interoperability. The first is the ability to exchange a list of health data locations, which enables Record Locator Services to interoperate with consumers wishing to discover the location of patient records within a health information exchange.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 24, 2023

One area where we have seen this front and center is when it comes to how healthcare organizations approach interoperability and integration. In the past, interoperability and integration were kind of an afterthought. This is just one of many reasons why interoperability and integration are important in healthcare.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

And third, investing in clinician mental health resources garnered 42% of clinicians’ interest in the BDO survey. Getting to interoperability of systems and data is key, and BDO provides a helpful sidebar int he report speaking to getting more of your EHR system. How to move forward? BDO asks and answers.

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Redox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Here are some specific reflections: FHIR adoption: We missed the mark on our HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) growth prediction. Through our research with our partners at Sage Growth, we found that only 62% of providers and 38% of payers have adopted the FHIR standard for their data interoperability use cases.

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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.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 29, 2019

In the past two weeks I have been in large audience discussions where there is a very different kind of topic being discussed around Health Information Technology. The topic is about a vision of how things could/should be at the point of care because of successful interoperability. It is not explicitly said that way.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 29, 2024

HHS has not required its use, although they did make it a requirement for clinicians who want to join the Qualified Health Information Networks (QHIN) program. It can improve patient engagement because everyone will know how to reach the patient. But everybody has incentives to get this right.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

Also on its policy agenda for the year ahead: advocating for data standardization, offering input for interoperability rulemaking and engaging with agencies and states to increase telehealth access. What's less clear this time around, Leary said, is how communities that need the assistance access the funding. " Leary said.

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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

MARCH 1, 2023

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Our need as a patient or carer is a simple one to articulate: we want access to care, regardless of our setting (at home, primary or secondary care); we want the health service to have accurate information about us, but we also want control of how that information is managed, secured, and shared.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

We know that “health information” encompasses much more than data stored in a health plan’s claims system or a pharmacy benefit manager’s computer data base. Health is made as much outside of medical care providers’ sites as it is at home, at work, at play, at school.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Health Informatics (HI) is a relatively new, interdisciplinary field. HI (also called Health Information Systems) uses information technology to organize and analyze health records to improve healthcare outcomes. Tools include medical terminology, information and communication systems, and computer technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

About NYeC New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This profile shows how to build a Document Sharing Exchange using IHE profiled FHIR® standard, rather than the legacy IHE profiles that is dominated by XDS and HL7® v2. The MHDS Profile specifies how a collection of IHE profiles can be used by communities for exchanging health information. 3 - Section 4.0 3 - Section 4.0

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

There’s a collective holding of breath right now in health IT as the ONC appears likely to issue its final HTI-1 rule with new data standards for the next stage of healthcare interoperability soon. How effectively can the industry innovate while navigating new standards that may add complexity along with frustration?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In particular, certification demonstrating interoperability, which the company describes as “central to this litigation” and “a key driver for PointClickCare.” Now we should step back from the court case to examine the relatively new role of APIs in health care.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Jim Jirjis, Chief Health Information Officer at HCA to discuss the value of data quality in healthcare and find out more about the link between their sepsis project and better emergency preparedness. With good data quality, HCA was able to implement an innovative sepsis detection application.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 29, 2022

News Data is the new oil, but we need to know how to share and use it responsibly This HIMSS22 Asia-Pacific conference speaker believes a framework for responsible sharing of data. By Adam Ang | June 29, 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2022

The latest CIO Podcast featured Patrick McGill, MD, EVP and Chief Transformation Officer at Community Health Network (Indiana). Dr. McGill talked to John about whether data sharing and interoperability are still priorities for health systems , along with what emerging technology has him excited.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Download our white paper, “ Leading enterprise content strategy with health information management: An executive guide for acquiring a document management and imaging platform.”. Contact us to discover how to improve patient care while also helping to develop your people and processes into digital assets. About Tom Romeo.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2024

First up was a look at how AI, NLP, LLMs, and automation improve health information management. The Healthcare IT Today community also weighed in how to get this done. John was there to hear Micky Tripathi’s farewell address, along with many thoughts on TEFCA, QHINs, interoperability, and data security.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2022

Epic’s Take on TEFCA and Interoperability. Epic has plans to join TEFCA as an inaugural Qualified Health Information Network. Read more… How AI Can Advance Health Equity. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2019

When an approved patient is added to the blockchain, their connected computer devices receive a copy of the blockchain that is updated whenever a new block of transactions is added, and only someone with the private key could access the electronic protected health information in the blockchain. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Read more… Avaneer Health’s Vision for Simplified Data-Sharing. Interoperability only gets more complicated when companies layer more technology on top of antiquated legacy systems. Read more… Too Many QHINs Could Hinder Interoperability Progress.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2023

We asked him what good data quality means, how to measure it, and why it is critical right now to improve it. At ViVE2023, we caught up with Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture , a company that makes a platform that helps healthcare organizations improve the quality of their data.

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