Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2022

In Arkansas, they’re lucky to have one statewide HIE which is focused on improving patient health outcomes. The Arkansas State Health Alliance for Records Exchange (SHARE) is leveraging […]. When it comes to HIEs, each one is different.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

When I first heard that Civitas and DirectTrust were collaborating to hold the Civitas Networks for Health Annual Conference and the DirectTrust Summit together, I thought that this is likely going to be one of the greatest gathering of healthcare interoperability professionals that has happened.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are improving the quality of their data to further increase their value. Higher quality data means they can help healthcare organizations understand their region more clearly, allowing them to allocate their resources in the areas that need it.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2023

Rochester Regional Health is using a measured and practical approach to data interoperability. Starting Simple with Interoperability RRH began integrating external lab data into their Epic EMR to elevate interoperability. However, there was an unintended benefit of their interoperability efforts.

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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 11, 2023

But despite the availability of FHIR and of APIs from many vendors, interoperability is often described as “difficult and “not frictionless” according to Loyd Bittle, CEO and Founder at Innovar Healthcare. It takes a real expert with the right connections to make interoperability a reality for healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2023

At the Civitas Conference, there was a lot of talk about TEFCA and QHINs and what their impact will be on healthcare and interoperability. Are they replacing current interoperability efforts? I think that’s what our interoperability landscape is going to evolve to be and I would like to see us think about TEFCA in that sense.

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David Chou

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The TEFCA sets standards for healthcare data interoperability that enables healthcare providers, patients, payers, health information exchanges (HIEs), healthcare IT vendors, and other healthcare organizations to securely and effectively share healthcare data.

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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. How are health data utilities evolving? I think it’s kind of HIE plus certain new characteristics.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2022

Be sure to check out all our Health IT Predictions. If it seems like we’ve been talking about interoperability forever, […]. As we head into 2022, we asked the Healthcare IT Today community to share some predictions for the new year. I always find it interesting to learn what people think is coming down the road.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 6, 2018

Adrian has also devised a mechanism to enable patient control of health data, which he calls The HIE of One Trustee. It uses public blockchain, standards and open source software to enable patient-controlled independent health records that can last a lifetime. Comments […] article was originally published on HealthBlawg and.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 6, 2018

Adrian has also devised a mechanism to enable patient control of health data, which he calls The HIE of One Trustee. It uses public blockchain, standards and open source software to enable patient-controlled independent health records that can last a lifetime.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2022

Joint technology solution will deliver an integrated data interoperability platform that streamlines data acquisition and delivers clean, actionable, and intelligent data. Fueled by Diameter’s technology, Availity will create the nation’s preeminent data acquisition and interoperability platform.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2023

.” This is true whether you’re a provider organization, an HIE, a vendor, or pretty much anyone in healthcare. One area where we have seen this front and center is when it comes to how healthcare organizations approach interoperability and integration. We cannot do this alone. We need to work with partners.

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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. 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.

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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 IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The response to my article asking the question “Are we at the end of the healthcare interoperability tunnel?” I think some people thought that I was hammering on all the work that’s being done on healthcare interoperability. ” was quite interesting.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For the health IT community, 2022 has been a big year. . In January, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) became a reality, and in October applications opened for organizations seeking designation as Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs). The Case for Federal Agencies.

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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

JUNE 14, 2023

As someone who has covered the health IT industry for 17 years, I’m always fascinated when I see something really grab the attention of the health IT community. Certainly AI us currently doing that in health IT, but in the world of interoperability TEFCA and QHINs are grabbing all of the attention.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

If you’re not sure whether you’re participating in TEFCA, contact your health information exchange (HIE), QHIN, or electronic health record (EHR) provider. This means you will need to maintain your existing connections to ensure broad access to patient health data for some time even after you begin participating in TEFCA.

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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. Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) Health Data Locator and Revoke Option - Rev. Health IT Vendors should review this supplement and determine if the capabilities within meet their interoperability needs.

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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

MARCH 7, 2023

The following is a guest article by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director, CommonWell Health Alliance. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) is indeed an instance of transformational change. Taking the Road Less Traveled Heath data interoperability is hard.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 27, 2015

There is much talk on the blogs about the USA government trepidation around Health Information Exchange interoperability. See below an interesting monthly report I get from the Wisconsin HIE. It shows the health of this system. A very healthy and Quality producing HIE: 2.6 Fully federated. per patient per year.

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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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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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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. We’ve made some great strides in improving interoperability, in no small part due to the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA).

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 5, 2021

Claudia Williams, Former Senior Advisor to the White House CTO and current CEO of Manifest MedEx, recently commented about one of the ideas she took from the TEFCA webinar and strong reliance on the IHE spefications: In the TEFCA webinar… what are the pluses/minuses of such a strong reliance on IHE specifications? Let me just […].

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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. So many good answers here!

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