Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This strategic acquisition underscores Health Commons Project’s commitment to expanding its impact by improving data interoperability, enhancing care coordination, and promoting public health across Washington. “Our shared mission of using health data to improve patient outcomes will be more achievable than ever.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

We look forward to monitoring the progress nationally and identifying where primary care fits within this model of information sharing. Health Information Exchanges (HIE) seem to be emerging where integration between systems is not available. Responses have been corrected and edited for accuracy and brevity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

These were among the results of a report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, which offers answers and recommendations related to coordinated response to future pandemics, protection of front-line healthcare workers and improved EHR interoperability.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Health Populi’s Hot Points: “An opportunity for device makers, health care providers, and the wellness ecosystem may lie in streamlining experiences and connecting wearable and phone data feeds to deliver personalized recommendations for users and their health care providers,” Deloitte recommends in its report.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

Logistics and operations addresses information processing, sharing, analyzing, and management — requiring interoperability and data liquidity, along with “nutritious” AI underpinning the analyses to ensure health equity-by-design.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

The technology could also help primary care practices avoid closure as business slows. Epic has been also encouraging organizations to share COVID-19 data , like travel-screening documentation and infection-status information, through the company’s interoperability network, Care Everywhere. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

THE PROBLEM Memorial began offering on-demand virtual urgent care to its employees and patients via a third-party vendor in 2016. With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 23, 2024

Our work with Elation Health and the integration of Surescripts Real-Time Prescription Benefit within their primary care platform and ePrescribing workflow can help eliminate sticker-shock at the pharmacy that can prevent patients from starting their medications,” said Andrew Mellin, M.D.,

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2022

On the upside, digital health investors see greatest opportunity for start-ups to focus on value-based care models and consumerization of healthcare businesses (each with 29% of investors keen), followed by interoperability and connectivity and reimbursement for digital health solutions (with over 17% enthusiastic for each).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2025

One of the limiting factors or barriers to achieving continuity of care from hospital-to-home in a streamlined, omnichannel way has been the lack of interoperability of health data and devices.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 22, 2019

Health Level Seven International (HL7), the global authority for interoperability in health information technology, and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the only medical society devoted solely to primary care, are pleased to announce that the Gravity Project is now part of the HL7 FHIR Accelerator Program.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Home care visit verification platform leverages FHIR Health tech startup didgUgo is set to provide IT system interoperability to its partners who use its care visit verification solution. The company partnered with InterSystems to adopt the IRIS for Health platform to offer interoperability based on FHIR standards.

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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 News - Telehealth

APRIL 11, 2023

AristaMD this week announced its new unified care transition platform, which it says will enable primary care practices to provide patient-to-provider specialty matching, process electronic referrals and access peer consultations to minimize patient wait times for specialties. CT at South Building, Level 4, room S401.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2025

Check out our community’s Value-Based Care , Social Determinants of Health , and Behavioral Health predictions: Luke Hansen, MD, MHS, Chief Medical Officer at Arcadia In 2025 and beyond, specialists will play a larger role in advancing value-based care (VBC).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

Government & Policy Interoperability Telehealth The director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay writes about significant acceleration of digital transformation across the UK. In the space of weeks, primary care services in the UK have switched from 1.2

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 7, 2025

The concept of Neighbourhood Health, as outlined in recent NHS England guidelines and government rhetoric, focuses on integrating primary care, community health, mental health, and social care services into cohesive "neighbourhood teams." Prevention Focus: Initiatives like health education programs or using tech (e.g.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2020

As health systems ramp up telehealth and, especially, remote patient monitoring programs, they're looking for technologies to help them manage multiple connected devices as they extend care delivery into patients' homes.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2024

A recent study found that primary care physicians (PCPs) spend 28.9 Additionally, prioritizing mobile accessibility and interoperability ensures that clinicians can access and update patient records seamlessly across devices and platforms. Interoperability is enabled through standard data and information representation.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. In October 2023 the company created the Health Assurance Transformation Company (HATco) to collaborate with health systems in re-imagining and implementing a blueprint for “interoperable” health care.

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Digital Health Wire

JANUARY 5, 2025

The Surgeons Record – 2025 The Year of the Wood Snake , Dr. Ben Schwartz Favorite Forecast: Care delivery innovation pivots from primary care to specialty care. Everyone wants interoperability, but regulatory uncertainty and the rapid emergence of new data sources complicates the situation.

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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? We don’t just have one type of provider, we don’t just have one primary care provider, we also have surgeons and specialists.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The healthcare industry is clamoring for AI and we are proud to offer a suite of full-featured solutions that seamlessly interoperate with existing tools. Suki helps clinicians across specialties and settings save time on clinical documentation so they can redirect time to other aspects of patient care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A new health economy bringing about the “end of the general hospital as we know it,” a dramatic change in health care financing in the U.S., The second chart shows six developments that drive the future state of health care and spending in the U.S., and a slowing of mass/general pharma manufacturing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Other health systems have built up their own virtual care provider strength but are unlikely to provide 24/7, comprehensive coverage. To get a perspective on the situation from a brand-new player, Healthcare IT News interviewed Dr. Lyle Berkowitz, CEO of KeyCare and a primary care physician.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2022

While the advent of modern interoperable approaches is gaining attention by reducing data entry burden – such as through pre-population of eCRFs using electronic health record data – the available data is still limited to a participating site’s point-in-time interactions with a given patient.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Virtual orthopedic care company Upswing Health announced a strategic pilot with BowTie Medical , a virtual direct primary care provider. Company News Edifecs introduced Healthcare Interoperability Cloud to help payers exchange administrative and clinical data.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Exec Summary: Amazon One Medical is a healthcare service that offers a combination of in-person primary care and virtual care options.It Typically, this approach can meet up to 20% of primary care demand. aims to provide convenient and accessible healthcare to its members.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2022

More than 2,900 physicians providing care to 175,000 senior patients now leverage UpStream’s unique platform to ensure better patient outcomes and improve their financial performance. “Primary care physicians are an integral part of the U.S. For more information, please visit upstream.care.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 25, 2025

This concept leverages digital technologies to achieve the goals of the traditional left shift early intervention, prevention, and community-based care. Shifting resources and focus to the left side aims to prevent people from needing more intensive care on the right side. Why is it called a "left shift"?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It is not enough to urge someone to see a primary care provider; we have to be certain they have transportation to get to the appointment and that their work schedule or other responsibilities and circumstances do not interfere, making it difficult or impossible to attend an in-person medical appointment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

Systemic issues of the nursing shortage, critical care capacity and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) were common across countries. Focus on the benefits of digital technology for nurses and patients, with continuity of care ensured through remote consultations. Lack of testing adds to pressure.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

This second graphic diagrams a patient journey map for the coronavirus, across the continuum of care settings from the community and home to primary care, emergency, hospital, and post-acute. But the company is also working on solutions for the longer term, learning through the pandemic.

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American Well

APRIL 22, 2020

In part one of our interview with Intermountain Healthcare, we discussed the health system’s approach to telehealth interoperability from the perspective of the patient. Initially, there was a separate login for Connect Care, and we had to rely on staff to monitor the waiting room for patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Improve digital access to primary care as an option to improve access and choice, including virtual after-hours and telehealth, with a focus on rural communities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

" Agarwal said the key is to dive into the details of interoperability specifications, for instance. " Understanding that "we had limited time to act," as lockdowns went into place and the novel coronavirus spread, the UK saw a rapid and massive scale up of online care in response to COVID-19, he said.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2023

The healthcare industry has an incredible amount of data at its disposal, so the next step is distilling every bit of information into something digestible for providers at the point of care. In 2023, I foresee EHR vendors paying more attention to interoperability. ModMed – Dr. Michael Rivers, Sr.

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