Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Health Commons Project , a leading nonprofit dedicated to improving healthcare access and quality through technology and innovation, today announced it has completed the acquisition of OneHealthPort , Washington State’s Health Information Exchange (HIE) and prominent provider of health data solutions.

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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. QHIN or not, everyone has a role.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 21, 2024

Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Do you have an open health IT position that you are looking to fill?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 13, 2023

Ford, VP of Health Information Technology at California Medical Association (CMA). With the big spring CMA Health IT Conference coming up on May 22nd, Ford kicks the episode off with sharing what he expects the hot topics to be. Then, we take a look at the future of health IT to talk about what we’re most excited about.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 12, 2020

For example, they’ve announced previously an effort to expand LOINC to support public health needs and grants to expand HL7 standards related to the public health […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

At the conference, we’ve been asking some of the top companies, executives, and health IT leaders to share some of their perspectives and insights on a wide variety of topics including AI, Security, workforce, leadership and more. Plus, we’re asking health IT vendors what announcements they are making at the event.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 18, 2020

The following is an interview with Jaime Bland, CEO of Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NEHII). Tell us about the new COVID-19 Data Monitoring Platform that NEHII launched. What does it accomplish and how does it work? NEHII partnered with KPI Ninja to develop the COVID-19 Data Monitoring Platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

Infrastructure is available nationally for states to leverage and customize locally for their unique Health Information Exchange needs. But establishing an HIE and finding success can be a tremendous challenge for some states to establish in large measure because they require complex and expensive technical infrastructure.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

If you’re running an HIE, you’re always hoping to see your participants step up their interoperability game. The thing is, few HIEs go the extra mile to make it happen, in many cases because they just don’t have the resources to tackle the problem. Given this fact, I was interested to see the recent announcement […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Health data utility is still a fairly new concept in the world of healthcare. But as we talk about it, more and more HIE organizations have started to use it and the concept has been embraced by many. Michael Gagnon, Executive Director at HealtHIE Nevada – I see HIEs really evolving to be health data utilities.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Another ASTP/ONC post found only 20% of HIE organizations are using HL7 FHIR APIs to send and receive data. Darena Solutions received certification under the ONC Health IT Certification Program from Drummond Group for MeldRx , its FHIR-based healthcare data platform for decision support.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Here’s a quick summary of what everyone had to say in the video: Deven McGraw, Head of Data Stewardship and Data Sharing at Invitae – It’s not a replacement for Community HIE but I think it’s an essential tool for making sure that there’s nationwide exchange.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 11, 2019

A recent study by the HHS Office of Inspector General suggests that Medicare ACOs coordinate care more effectively when they have the right health IT tools in place, particularly when ACO members share one EHR platform and have access to a robust HIE. Folks, I know that reading OIG reports can be about as exciting […].

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 6, 2018

Adrian Gropper MD has been a medical device and medical software entrepreneur and advocates for patient control of health data. Adrian has also devised a mechanism to enable patient control of health data, which he calls The HIE of One Trustee. Health Care Law and Consulting.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 6, 2018

Adrian Gropper MD has been a medical device and medical software entrepreneur and advocates for patient control of health data. Adrian has also devised a mechanism to enable patient control of health data, which he calls The HIE of One Trustee.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 25, 2024

Unlike an HIE, Traverse does not store any health data. For years they have been helping provider organizations across the country with different digital health solutions. Healthcare IT Today recently had the opportunity to catch up with the MEDITECH team at Canada’s largest health IT conference – eHealth 2024 in Vancouver, BC.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Traditionally, we think about interoperability as HIEs (health information exchanges), but in 2024 I expect to see new models emerge. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

After years of evolving and struggling to find a solid business model, HIEs have finally found a reasonably secure place in the healthcare system. The thing is, the job they’ve learned to do – serving as an exchange point for any and all data coming their way – may already be outmoded, according to Claudia […].

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2025

Hamad Husainy, DO, Chief Medical Officer at PointClickCare Philip Beckett, CEO at Texas Health Services Authority (Statewide HIE) Ronn Berrol, Emergency Medicine Specialist at Sutter Health Dean A. And a special shoutout to Shereese Maynard for hopping on camera as a special Healthcare IT Today correspondent at the event.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2020

The following is a guest article by Andrea Tait, VP of Client Value, Orion Health. Patient-Generated Data’s Place in Patient Care Today, health systems have increasingly recognized the need to be patient-centered, with a focus on empowering and engaging patients to assist them in maintaining their own health.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Civitas Networks for Health is a non-profit consortium that brings together a broad community of organizations interested in health data exchange. Many members are HIEs, but a number of other organizations in health care including community organizations are members as well.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2024

50 million patients with 105+ million inbound data is a lot of health data. It’s always interesting to see how an HIE is approaching their exchange of data. Plus, be sure to check out the slide that illustrates the various levels of EMPI (Enterprise Master Patient Index) maturity.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2025

Additionally, IPeoples tools unlock siloed data, making it accessible to Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and Analytics platforms, as well as enterprise archives.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis has exposed a painful number of deficiencies in our nation’s healthcare system, including just how severe the lack of an interconnected health infrastructure has hampered response efforts. The following is a guest article by Daniel Cidon, Chief Technology Officer, NextGate.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

As a board-certified physician in clinical informatics working for the second-largest municipal health system in the U.S., He currently serves on the California Health and Human Services Data Exchange Framework Stakeholder Advisory Group. Prior to LANES, Modaressi was a health IT leader at L.A. Care Health Plan.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

On October 6, 2022, the healthcare and health IT community woke to a new reality – one in which electronic health information (EHI) included far more than it did the day before. . Actors include healthcare providers, developers of certified health IT, health information exchanges (HIEs), and health information networks (HINs).

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

If it felt like we just attended a massive health IT conferece and now we’re about to attend another one, then you’d be right. ViVE 2025 is now in the rear view mirror and next week we’ll be attending the HMSS conference where we’ll do our best to bring you some of the best health IT content from the event.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2025

We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to ask How can health IT solutions improve interoperabilitybetween healthcare providers and systems to enhance care coordination and data sharing ? Interoperability is the key to solving this problem. The following is what they had to share. Philipp von Gilsa, CEO at Kontakt.io

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Susan Clark, Principal Health IT Consultant at Briljent – Usability workflow – what happens in real life, on the ground, and the people who are interacting. Justin Villines, MBA, HIT Policy Director at SHARE HIE – I think listening to our customers and our participants.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

clinicians, as estimated by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance. Many other health IT firms have joined CommonWell since then. Wilder also dove into his experience with HIEs and how connectivity is key to public health and in preparation for future pandemics or other emergencies.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Healthcare Information Exchanges (HIEs) will continue to evolve in 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

Importantly, communities most impacted by poor health outcomes need to be at the table to inform interventions and initiatives. However, the deployment of AI in health care necessitates vigilant oversight to prevent biases and ensure data integrity.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

Ben Hsieh, Vice President of Product, says that Discern Health works with payers, providers, and Health Information Exchanges (HIE). Pinho would also like Discern Health’s analytics to help patients; families, decreasing their financial, physical, and emotional burdens.

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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. Health IT Vendors should review this supplement and determine if the capabilities within meet their interoperability needs. There are no functional changes in this update. Document Sharing Across Network Topologies- Rev.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2025

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

Of course, it seems crazy that the health IT incentives and Meaningful Use didn’t mandate interoperability; and the last few years of health IT development might have gone differently if interoperability were required before the 21st Century Cures Act mandated it and made data blocking illegal, but we are now looking forward, not backward.

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