Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

Interoperability 113

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 113

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).

Interoperability 78

Interoperability eHealth FHIR EHR 78

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.

Health IT 98

Health IT eHealth Meaningful Use Health Information 98

Health System CIO

APRIL 9, 2013

Claire’s journey from best-of-breed to an integrated system, the organization’s three-pronged approach to Meaningful Use, the ACO path it is pursuing with Bon Secours Health System, and its involvement in the Northern Kentucky RHIO and the Kentucky HIE. McCleese: Yes, the Kentucky Health Information Exchange.

HIE 68

HIE Meaningful Use Primary Care Health Information 68

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.

Health IT 94

Health IT eHealth Meaningful Use Health Information 94

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

Health IT 97

Health IT EHR Interoperability Health Information 97

The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

There are hospitals within the same healthcare system in many places with disparate EHRs which do not talk to each other or exchange information. Increasing healthcare consolidation of hospitals has exacerbated the problem of lack of interoperability. From a provider standpoint. Clinical trials.

Digital Health 87

Digital Health EHR Interoperability Health Information 87

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

government introduced the meaningful use program as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, LTPAC organizations – notably nursing homes – and the vulnerable patients they serve have been left behind. Since the U.S.

Healthcare Innovation 121

Healthcare Innovation Life Science Meaningful Use Health Information 121

Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 60

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Finding an EHR Partner Dr. Davis began his search for an EHR solution before the start of the Meaningful Use incentives in 2009. Back then, most of those systems were built for compliance and not built for ease-of-use. Davis needed to find an EHR platform that could meet the practices needs.

Patient Experience 59

Patient Experience EHR Interoperability Healthcare IT 59

Medicine and Technology

JANUARY 30, 2018

Tethered PHRs became available when patient portals were launched by hospitals, health systems, and clinics to meet the CMS Meaningful Use requirements. FHIR is finally allowing true interoperability to become a reality. We can also expect to see some very interesting days ahead as Amazon dives into health care.

FHIR 32

FHIR Interoperability Meaningful Use EHR 32

Docnotes

APRIL 26, 2024

Tomorrow marks the 20th birthday of the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology. There is little disagreement that information technology – well applied – can (will / must) improve the health of the people of the United States. Three stages? Five years? We are too-optimistic.

Meaningful Use 40

Meaningful Use Interoperability EHR Health Information 40

Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

My philosophy is that Interoperability Standards are not a destination, they are a catalyst that enables something far greater to happen. I have over 30 years of experience with IT communications, including 18 years of expertise in Healthcare Interoperability Standards and the application of Privacy.

Interoperability 40

Interoperability FHIR HIE eHealth 40

Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 12, 2014

Tavenner: 2014 is your last chance for a hardship exemption for Meaningful Use 2 (Feb. DeSalvo: True EHR interoperability – and a national HIE – is possible by 2017 (Feb. Interoperability Showcase uses car crash to show how connected data really can improve patient care (March 5).

Meaningful Use 28

Meaningful Use Interoperability HIE EHR 28

CMS.gov

MARCH 7, 2013

Stage 2 of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs. The next step on the path of meaningful adoption of health information technology (HIT) for providers—will launch later this year for hospitals and next year for eligible professionals. By Patrick Conway, MD, MSc.

eHealth 32

eHealth EHR Meaningful Use Accountable Care 32

Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 16, 2015

Security and Privacy As with any Interoperability API dealing with Healthcare information, Security and Privacy are important. But IHE does encourage the use of ATNA, and IUA.This also described on the FHIR Site on the Security page. IHE doesn’t mandate a specific Security or Privacy model, as that would be Policy.

FHIR 40

FHIR Mobile Health mHealth Meaningful Use 40

Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Had PPS been required to have broader governance – including community-based organizations, health plans, faith-based organizations, Health Information Exchanges, and other nonprofits, we would have had more balanced governance decision-making that would have supported the policy goals of the program more consistently statewide.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Telehealth HIE Public Health 52

Society for Participatory Medicine

JUNE 27, 2018

The Trump administration is proposing to use a powerful financial lever to push hospitals into making the patient’s electronic medical record interoperable – that is, readable by other care providers – and easily available to patients to download and organize via an app. What does “health information” mean?

Medicare 64

Medicare Interoperability Meaningful Use Health Information 64