Healthcare IT Today

JULY 8, 2024

For the 144th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are discussing interoperability in healthcare! We kick this episode off by debating whether or not Epic is the biggest obstacle to interoperability in healthcare. Then we discuss the other obstacles we can see to interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

“Interoperability is not something you can buy, and not something you can sell,” according to Mario G. AEGIS offers testing for interoperability, helping companies ensure that they have interpreted health data standards such as U.S. Hyland, founder and senior vice president of AEGIS.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We don’t even have the time or word count to cover it all in this article, so instead we will be focusing on healthcare interoperability. The video below is a compilation of their answers. The video below is a compilation of their answers. What isn’t being talked about enough when it comes to sharing health data?

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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.

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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

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 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. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In this video at the DirectTrust conference, we hear about the use of AI and what the company calls straight-through processing from Chike Okeke, JR, Chief Information Security Officer, and Mike Stover, Director of Product Management. Concord is also participating in DirectTrust’s Interoperable Secure Cloud Fax initiative.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In this short video, CEO Lisa Bari describes the most interesting aspects of Civitas’s recent conference. Many members are HIEs, but a number of other organizations in health care including community organizations are members as well. Civitas started only two and half years ago, but already have 165 members spread across the country.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2025

At the conference, were talking with top companies, executives, and health IT leaders to get their insights on AI, security, workforce challenges, leadership, and more. Plus, were asking vendors about their biggest announcements at the event.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Epic Systems has tapped San Francisco-based communications tech startup Twilio to provide the video-communication backend for Epic’s new telehealth platform. Twilio also noted that it supports HIPAA-eligible workflows on Twilio SMS, voice, SIP and video-communication channels. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2025

An EHR system needs to make a 360-degree view of patient data accessible in a secure manner that can be made available using standard interfaces like FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) APIs for structured data exchange and DICOM for imaging.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Another area where we haven’t enabled pharmacists has to do with pharmacy interoperability. In our discussion, we talk about early approaches to ePrescribing and how those efforts have led us to where we are at today including pharmacy interoperability (or lack thereof).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Other examples of telehealth-enabled support include virtual nursing, direct-to-patient video visits, and hybrid ambulatory and in-patient virtual specialty consults. Finally, the technology is integrated with the EHR, ensuring all clinically relevant data is captured for a holistic view of patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

As we kick off a new year, I thought it would be fun to take a quick look back at some of the top resources, articles, videos, and podcasts we shared in 2022. 2022 Predictions for Healthcare Interoperability – A third predictions post doing so well. The State of Interoperability – COVID and Beyond.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

We have not achieved data interoperability despite an abundance of technology, standards, and legislation. Healthcare Data Interoperability. Only recently have EHR vendors begun rolling out APIs, adopting standards, and developing tools to make their data more interoperable. Data in healthcare is siloed.

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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. Check out the video below to learn more about this important topic.

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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.

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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 are a major source of pressure for interoperability and data sharing.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Cordovano and Colin Banas, MD, MHA, Chief Medical Officer at DrFirst , talk in this video about recent regulatory advances in data sharing and how both clinicians and patients are helped by transparency in bureaucratic areas such as prior authorization. Both Cordovano and Banas are enthusiastic about AI.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

There has been tremendous progress in healthcare IT interoperability, but this video is a stark reminder of how much more we need to do to better support patients, caregivers, and their providers. All providers must gain more empathy for their patients and make care team access to clinical data easier.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

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

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

Janine Cox, Operations Director – Health System Integration and Innovation, Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN), Australia We are hoping to see an improvement in the utilisation of video telehealth within residential aged care homes. Responses have been corrected and edited for accuracy and brevity.

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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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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

That speaks to Steve’s phrase, “ecosystem of ecosystems,” because that’s not just “digital” health — that’s now the true nature of health/care, and what is driving connectivity toward interoperability, cloud computing, and the adoption of APIs to enable health data liquidity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2019

The Department of Veterans Affairs and Verizon are teaming up to offer Veterans who are customers of the telecommunications giant unlimited access to department's VA Video Connect telehealth app. They can visit the VA Video Connect test site on their mobile device in order to test whether their device is compatible with the platform.

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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? Check out their answers in this video compilation below. When will they be implemented? Are they real?

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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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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Introducing GlobalMed’s New Interoperability Tools. Then the telemedicine solution is deployed and you discover the vendor’s version of integration is limited to their video platform, allowing you to launch a video consult from your EHR. Video integration and virtual video consults offer plenty of benefits.

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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. MRO also promotes the two-way exchange of data and quality assurance checks.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We wrap up this interview series withBrendan Keeler, Interoperability Practice Lead at HTD Health , with a look at his time workin with Jonathan, Bush, a discussion of the EHR market including Epic’s rise to dominance, a discussion of whether Epic is a monopoly, and finally a look at patient access to health data.

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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 News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

"Virtual care required a recast in strategy to address interoperability, patient experience, provider experience and cost," said Gerard Frunzi, director of virtual care at Centura Health. "Interoperability issues resulted in many manual steps to get information between systems and tasks completed.

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MARCH 19, 2025

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

We’ll be sharing a number of short videos on LinkedIn from the event, so be sure to follow me and Healthcare IT Today on LinkedIn to get the latest updates. We’ll have mutliple video studios set up in the space so you can watch some our interviews live or get a selfie with Colin or Brittany (we know how valuable those are).

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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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