Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

Over the past several weeks, the team here at Healthcare IT Today has been gathering Health IT predictions for 2024. Here is a short video with our favorite video predictions that we captured. Here are the predictions in order of appearance.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Patient education is just one example of many where pharmacists could take a more active role in the healthcare system and we could all benefit from pharmacists’ expertise. Another area where we haven’t enabled pharmacists has to do with pharmacy interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2024

Rauland is an open and highly interoperable platform, using standard communication protocols and publishing APIs that any vendor can use to connect. Listen to our video interview with DeLisle and Allen from Rauland for more information on the data exchange problems in hospitals, Rauland’s innovation, and their international reach.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

It’s one thing to talk about interoperability in healthcare and it’s another to talk about where sharing of health data is really happening. That’s the discussion I had with Anil Jain, MD, Chief Innovation Officer at Innovaccer , when I asked him where we’re at when it comes to healthcare interoperability.

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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. Most IT organizations have the tech chops to be interoperable. They don’t want to buy another tool.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2024

PointClickCare , having promoted interoperability for a long time in a few areas such as senior care, has expanded to include acute care, and particularly to connect it with post-acute care. Husainy says the regulations put “new teeth” into requirements for interoperability. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

For the 123rd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are discussing the recent Epic UGM and Civitas Conferences! Now, without further ado, we’re excited to share with you the next episode of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks. Thanks so much for listening!

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) was followed recently by the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) Final Rule. Patients will have access to data and can share it across healthcare systems. .”

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth , shows us in this video how current regulations and FHIR standards will actually make that happen. In a fast-paced exchanged with John Lynn of Healthcare IT Today, Rucker covers regulations and evolving data exchange standards that foster interoperability and data analytics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The symposium, which was hosted in partnership with the Digital Medicine Society, convened federal officials and industry partners to discuss the most pressing issues facing the agency – and healthcare as a whole. One such issue is interoperability. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Grace Cordovano, PhD, Founder of Enlightening Results , co-Founder of Unblock Health , and a devoted patient advocate, says that administrative burdens and failures at data sharing affect more than clinicians and administrators: These glitches in the healthcare systems also contribute to burn-out among patients and their families.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2019

As the American Telemedicine Association annual conference kicks off in New Orleans this week, the organization has published a white paper focused on the status of telehealth interoperability. The industry can help evolve these standards and make medical devices work seamlessly as part of video conferences." WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2024

It’s reasonable for a company like MRO to have a chief interoperability officer. According to their chief interoperability officer, Anthony Murray, the company has spent 22 years building tools to “exchange data seamlessly” in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The pressures for data exchange and interoperability have converged on the concept of a health data utility. Federal legislation has passed to require interoperability and to provide the states with funding to institute health data utilities. Watch the video for more insights on these topics. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Romo is highly concerned with interoperability and sees DirectTrust as a way to form a “federation” with their competitors to ensure easy document exchange. Watch the video for details, including regulatory and technical advances that will drive adoption of the secure exchange of health information.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 5, 2024

While many in the Healthcare IT Today community likely know Altera, Sunrise, and dbMotion from their work in the US, it’s great to learn the work they’re doing to address the health IT issues in Canada. For example, how are they addressing interoperability of health data across the provinces in Canada.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

For the 109th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are back with everyone’s favorite game, Health IT: Buy or Sell! We’ve got a number of hot topics for this episode included TEFCA, QHINs, Homecare, Healthcare Workforce, and Hospital Robots vs Nurses. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 18, 2022

The topic of TEFCA and QHINs has been an extremely important one in the world of healthcare IT and particularly when it comes to healthcare interoperability. In many ways, it’s setting the national infrastructure for healthcare interoperability going forward. So, we should be paying attention.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 3, 2024

For the 75th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Bill Hudson, Chief Digital Strategist at Aidoc and former CIO at INTEGRIS Health and John Muir Health to talk AI! Hudson then shares with us his opinions on AI interoperability and data interoperability.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. In the meantime, here are some of the most-read Healthcare IT News stories of 2020 so far. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Concord Technologies , which started in 1996, focuses on secure document exchange, counting three of the world’s five largest healthcare payers as customers. Concord is also participating in DirectTrust’s Interoperable Secure Cloud Fax initiative. Watch the video for details.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. It’s not just web analytics and ads that are an issue but even things like maps and videos hosted on a website. The following is what they had to say.

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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. Healthcare Data Interoperability. Data in healthcare is siloed. Inspiration From Outside of Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

At HIMSS, we sat down to talk with CommonWell Health Alliance to learn about their passion for interoperability and some of the latest happenings with the CommonWell community. Plus, Buckle shares with us a bit about how they’re approaching FHIR and what role that’s going to play for CommonWell going forward.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Check out the video below to hear the full story and to learn more about the KERI standard that has been used in other industries and now Jeffery and his team are bringing to healthcare. Check out the video below to learn more about Jeffery’s personal journey to becoming a health IT entrepreneur and his company healthKERI.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2019

Language service provider Stratus Video, announced their acquisition of InDemand Interpreting, a portfolio company of Health Enterprise Partners (HEP), with the aim of improving health equity for deaf, limited English proficient and hard of hearing patients. ” Nathan Eddy is a healthcare and technology freelancer based in Berlin.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

View the video with Discern Health for details about interoperability, making data work for patient improvement, and more. Learn more about Discern Health: [link] Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

And in an era where over six billion people have smartphones, incorporating the tool in healthcare makes sense. The following article shows four practical use cases for QR codes within the healthcare IT landscape. Managing Medical Equipment Healthcare facilities use a diverse range of equipment to deliver effective care to patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 21, 2023

In a recent video interview, Therasa Bell, President and CTO at Kno2 , revives the term “meaningful” in health care technology. However, in this case she is talking about establishing meaningful connectivity to drive individual outcomes for patients and healthcare organizations. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2024

For the 72nd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Donald McGruder, Chief Information and Revenue Integrity Officer at South Shore Hospital. We kick off this episode by discussing how South Shore Hospital is positioning itself in the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare interoperability.

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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. What do they mean for healthcare organizations and how will they be participating in them? Are they replacing current interoperability efforts? When will they be implemented?

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

Certainly AI us currently doing that in health IT, but in the world of interoperability TEFCA and QHINs are grabbing all of the attention. There are a lot of views on TEFCA, but the one thing that’s certain is that it’s grabbing a lot of the interoperability focus from government regulators and the industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

In the video interview below, Wilder and Liz Buckle, Director of Product, discuss CommonWell’s vision, achievements, and plans for the future. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 26, 2023

However, this can sometimes be overwhelming for healthcare provider organizations that are now getting larger and larger volumes of requests from payers which inundate their systems. Weitnauer also talks about bidirectional exchange, so that interoperability also adds value to clinicians for better patient care or operations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2023

Data sharing and interoperability are spreading too slowly in health care, and even if a doctor manages to get all the data, its varied formats make it hard to draw insights from. In this brief video, Jose M. Watch the video to see how First Choice Neurology exploits the integrated data offered by PRISMA inside their eCW EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2024

Plus, one of the important topics is how to make the patient’s record interoperable if a French citizen is visiting Italy for example. Watch the video to learn more about HIMSS from CEO Hal Wolf. In European countries, patients are treated as citizens which changes their approach.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In this video, you can hear about the technologies and regulations needed in LTPAC from Bill Charnetski, Executive Vice President, Health System Solutions and Government Affairs at PointClickCare. The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal. Learn more about PointClickCare: [link].

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