Brian Platz, Co-CEO and Co-Chairman of Fluree
Interoperability is a big discussion in health care, with
new regulations requiring interoperability for patient data. Most approaches
follow the typical RESTful API approach that has become the standard method for
data exchange. Yet Health Level Seven (HL7), with its new Fast Healthcare Interoperability
Resources (FHIR) standard for the electronic transfer of health data, is
leading to a rash of implementations that, to date, are not solving core
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Withings, Redox Partner to Make Remote Patient Monitoring Devices Integrated With All EHRs
What You Should Know:
- Withings partners with healthcare IT integration
company Redox, which will make its remote patient monitoring solution, Withings
MED·PRO CARE, compatible with nearly all EHRs used by physicians, hospitals,
and medical institutions.
- Through the partnership, physicians can now order and
ship Withings clinically-validated connected health devices directly to their
patients through their EHR.
- As patients use their Withings devices, which are
designed to be
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CIO: 3 Rules for Meeting ONC/CMS Interoperability, While Improving Cybersecurity
Scott Galbari, CTO, LyniateDrew Ivan, Chief Product and Strategy Officer, Lyniate
Healthcare data security has been a growing concern for CIOs for the last year or so, as hackers are increasingly targeting health information. Now, with a global pandemic forcing a shift to telemedicine and remote work, and new rules from the ONC and CMS introducing more regulatory burden, healthcare CIOs have more to manage than ever. Fortunately, it is possible to roll out new capabilities while
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Human API CEO Talks Data Privacy Concerns in Employee Wellness Programs
Andrei Pop, Founder, and CEO of Human API,
A recent BBC article discusses the rise in employee health
tracking via wearable devices and highlights a number of concerns around data
privacy. To try and prevent health tracking schemes from crossing ethical
lines, and eroding trust between employee and employer, some industry figures
believe that organizations need to work with third-party vendors who specialize
in managing wellbeing data. These vendors would hold the data independently
under
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Highmark Inks 6-Year Partnership with Google Cloud to Power Living Health Model
What You Should Know:
- Highmark Health signs six-year strategic partnership agreement
with Google Cloud to transform the health experience for patients and
caregivers through the development of Highmark Health's new Living Health
Model
- The Living Health model is designed to eliminate
the fragmentation in health care by re-engineering the healthcare delivery
model with a more coordinated, personalized, technology-enabled experience.
Highmark Health and Google Cloud today
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Despite COVID-19: Providers Should Not Lose Sight of MIPS Compliance
Courtney Tesvich, VP of Regulatory at Nextech
When 2020 began, no one anticipated that complying with the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)—the flagship payment model of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Payment Program (QPP)—would look so different halfway through the year. Like many other things, the COVID-19 crisis has delayed, diverted, or derailed many organizations’ reporting efforts and capabilities. Lower procedure volumes, new remote work
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Elation Health Nabs $40M for Clinical-First Solution to Power Independent Primary Care
What You Should Know:
- Elation Health, which provides an easy-to-use and affordable clinical technology platform for more than 14,000 independent primary care clinicians serving 7 million patients - including an EHR raises $40M in Series C funding from Al Gore's sustainable investment firm, Generation Investment Management.
- Elation’s API-enabled platform also allows
organizations to transform the patient and provider experience and implement
their own models of data-driven,
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M&A: Ro Acquires On-Demand, In-Home Platform Workpath
What You Should Know:
- Ro announced it has acquired Workpath, a technology
platform that powers on-demand, in-home healthcare and diagnostics services
nationwide.
- Through this acquisition, Ro’s platform will now
uniquely bring together a patient's doctor, pharmacy, and
diagnostics/lab--offering a personalized, end-to-end experience with no
insurance required.
- Ro is also announcing a partnership with Quest
Diagnostics, which operates more than 2,200 locations nationwide, to
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Google Cloud Launches Healthcare Interoperability Readiness Program
What You Should Know:
- Google Cloud launches Healthcare Interoperability
Readiness Program to help healthcare organizations achieve healthcare data interoperability.
Today,
Google Cloud launched the Google Cloud Healthcare Interoperability Readiness
Program, helping organizations achieve data interoperability in advance of
upcoming HHS deadlines and to enable future innovation. Alongside partners like Bain, BCG, Deloitte, HCL,
KPMG, SADA, and more, the Healthcare
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Human API Raises $20M+ to Scale User-Controlled Health Data Ecosystem
What You Should Know:
- Human API, the consumer-controlled health data platform
announced it has closed a Series C round of $20M+ this week.
- Human API’s consumer-controlled platform gives users a
streamlined means of accessing and sharing their personal health records with
physicians, trusted startups and enterprises, and insurers.
- The platform harnesses a machine learning-powered data pipeline
that structures health data into a consistent format, making it easier for
medical
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