What You Should Know: - Vivalink is addressing these RPM interoperability challenges by announcing today that leading wearables and medical-grade devices are integrating with the company’s Biometrics Data Platform. - Now, leading pulse oximeters, blood glucose monitors and sleep monitors by companies like Garmin and Roche are available alongside the Platform to accelerate development and deployment of novel healthcare applications and research. Why It Matters Integration and
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MEDITECH Taps Health Gorilla to Power Canadian Interoperability Network
What You Should Know: - Health Gorilla, a Health Information Network and interoperability provider, has been selected by MEDITECH as the technology platform for Traverse Exchange Canada — a first-of-its-kind interoperability network that will enable the seamless flow of health information between participating organizations across Canada. - Powered by Health Gorilla’s Health Interoperability Platform, Traverse Exchange Canada will ensure that comprehensive clinical information is
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ONC and HRSA Launches USCDI+ Initiative to Support UDS Modernization
What You Should Know: - ONC and HRSA launches a new USCDI+ collaboration to support HRSA’s Uniform Data System (UDS) reporting through the UDS Modernization Initiative. - Last October ONC announced USCDI+, an initiative to support the identification and establishment of domain or program-specific datasets that will operate as extensions to the existing USCDI. In particular, ONC envisioned USCDI+ as a service that ONC would provide to federal partners who have a
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Availity to Acquire Diameter Health to Expand Clinical Data Interoperability
What You Should Know: - One of the nation’s largest real-time health information networks Availity announced an agreement to acquire Diameter Health, a national leader in clinical data quality and interoperability. - This strategic deal expands Availity’s clinical portfolio to deliver the strongest integrated clinical and claims data network and interoperability platforms in healthcare. Streamlining Clinical Data Interoperability Founded in 2013, Diameter
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Particle Health Raises $25M to Scale Health Data Exchange API Platform
What You Should Know: - Particle Health, a New York-based API platform for advanced healthcare data exchange, , today announced its Series B financing of $25 million led by Canvas Ventures with participation from Menlo Ventures, Story Ventures, and Pruven Capital. The financing brings the organization’s total capital raised to $39.3M. - From a healthcare infrastructure perspective, the company is leading the industry in applying the next-generation FHIR data format to make interoperability
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Healthcare Interoperability Has Arrived: 3 Ways to Harness the Potential
This year’s HIMSS Conference offered some exciting insights and a renewed focus on data-sharing and interoperability. While the healthcare industry has been extolling the virtues of data interoperability for years until recently it has remained one of the biggest obstacles to providing quality healthcare today. Yet, the tides are turning. New government regulations, like the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ interoperability rules and the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources
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SnapLogic Launches Amazon HealthLake Accelerator to Store, Share Patient Data
What You Should Know: - SnapLogic, a provider of Enterprise Automation, today launched the SnapLogic Accelerator for Amazon HealthLake, which enables healthcare and life sciences organizations to easily ingest a range of raw data into Amazon HealthLake, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), and transform it into healthcare-related insights and actions. - This new Amazon HealthLake-dedicated integration and automation accelerator will help organizations looking to quickly connect systems,
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Interoperability: A Powerful Solution to Staffing Challenges Continues to be Overlooked
In our ever-changing world, clinicians nowadays must find more efficient ways to operate with fewer resources. Increased patient loads, reimbursement changes, rule and regulation adjustments and thin margins, all while being short-staffed can be compared to a smoldering bonfire that reignites every time the wind blows. As if that weren't enough, post-acute providers will begin to feel even more heat if they don’t embrace interoperability. Our global demographics simply will not be able to
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Philips and Prisma Health Partner to Drive Enterprise Interoperability & Imaging Solutions
What You Should Know: - South Carolina’s largest health system Prisma Health adopts Philips software solutions for patient monitoring and enterprise imaging, helping to drive interoperability and data analytics, and deliver on Quadruple Aim. - The partnership reflects today’s growing trend of long-term strategic partnerships (LSPs) within hospitals and health systems to better manage the cost and complexity of their technology investments over a defined period of time while expanding
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Lyniate and NextGate Merge to Enhance Interoperability
What You Should Know: Lyniate, a leader in healthcare data interoperability, has announced a merger agreement with NextGate, a pioneer in Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI). Financial details were not disclosed. - This strategic combination will help meet increased market demand for more advanced interoperability solutions that address data quality as well as data-sharing, furthering Lyniate’s commitment to building connections for a healthier world. Merger Deepens
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