What You Should Know:
- Inovalon announced the availability of its Cloud-Based “Consumer Health Gateway” Module, alleviating the need for health plans to build their own Patient Access API to comply with the new requirement of the 21st Century Cures Act.
- The Consumer Health Gateway is a consumer portal allowing the FHIR®-based exchange of a patient’s claims and clinical data securely with authorized third-party applications. It consists of a robust patient consent and authentication
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FDA Grants Eko Emergency Use Authorization for Low Ejection Fraction AI
What You Should Know:
- The FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization to Eko for an ECG-based algorithm that screens for low ejection fraction, as part of an assessment of cardiac complications and co-morbidities associated with COVID-19.
- This ECG-based deep learning algorithm, developed on a large clinical dataset in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic, can help efficiently identify signs of possible heart failure in patients.
Eko, a digital health
company building
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Innovaccer Launches FHIR Enabled Data Activation Platform to Power Innovation to Care as One
What You Should Know:
- In accordance with ONC's latest interoperability rule, 21st Century Cures Act, Innovaccer has launched its FHIR® Enabled Data Activation Platform.
- The platform provides a rich set of capabilities from scalable FHIR application programming interfaces (APIs), optimized FHIR data lake, best-in-class API gateway, hundreds of analytical enrichments like HEDIS scores, and cloud infrastructure.
- The platform is already deployed at several of our customer sites
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COVID-19 Crisis Makes Complying with Data Interoperability a Priority
Jay Sultan, VP of Healthcare Innovation & Strategy at Cognizant.
With healthcare organizations focused on battling COVID-19, the recent federal healthcare regulation requiring data interoperability may have become an afterthought. However, compliance with this rule will create a powerful tool for fighting COVID-19 recurrences and future pandemics.
If interoperability had gone into effect earlier this year as originally scheduled, many insurance companies and the federal
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Redox Launches Rapid Deployment Telehealth Model for Providers to Go-Live in Less Than 2 Weeks
What You Should Know:
- Redox today announced a new rapid-deployment program that helps telehealth software vendors go live and integrate with healthcare organizations in less than two weeks - a process that typically takes 16-18 weeks.
- Telehealth as a virtual care model has been available for years, but only now is it taking center stage as the primary method to provide care in a world of social distancing. But deploying a telehealth solution at a healthcare organization is complex and
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Health Gorilla Launches EMR-Integrated Electronic Ordering for COVID-19 Testing for LabCorp and Quest
What You Need to Know:
- Health Gorilla announces the launch of electronic ordering for COVID-19 testing for LabCorp and Quest that will allow thousands of providers, who currently rely on Health Gorilla to place lab orders, to seamlessly order COVID-19 tests for their patients.
- Providers and developers can begin placing orders through API and web-based interface, expanding access to COVID-19 testing within their existing product/EMR workflow.
Health
Gorilla, a Sunnyvale,
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Patient Data Liberation: HHS Releases Final Interoperability & Patient Access Rules
What You Need to Know:
- HHS finalizes interoperability rules that will implement interoperability and patient access provisions of the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) and support President Trump’s MyHealthEData initiative.
- The ONC Final Rule identifies and finalizes the reasonable and necessary activities that do not constitute information blocking while establishing new rules to prevent “information blocking” practices (e.g., anti-competitive behaviors) by
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FHIR-Based APIs Health Gorilla Becomes Largest CommonWell Connector
What You
Need to Know:
- FHIR-based API Provider Health Gorilla is now the largest CommonWell Connector by connecting more than 15k participating provider sites within the CommonWell nationwide network.
- Health Gorilla was the first CommonWell member to join the CommonWell Connector program, and subsequently, had the first client live via a CommonWell Connector connection
Health Gorilla, a provider of FHIR-based APIs, today announced that it has successfully connected more than a
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Innovaccer Launches InAPI to Build Apps on FHIR APIs to Promote Interoperability
What You Need to Know:
- Innovaccer launches InAPI to build apps on FHIR APIs access for in-house development teams and third-party developers to enable seamless data.
- The platform enables easy development of healthcare apps and promotes healthcare data interoperability among systems to enable care as one.
Innovaccer,
a Silicon Valley-based healthcare
technology company, announced that it will be launching InAPI, its new
technology platform for healthcare developers that
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Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Ribbon Health Raises $10M for Health Data Platform
- Ribbon Health, a health care data platform raises $10.25M in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (“a16z”) and is the first investment by a16z’s newly announced Bio Fund III.
- Ribbon is a health data platform that offers the most accurate, up-to-date data on providers, insurance plans, and price and quality of care.
Ribbon Health, a New York City-based healthcare data platform, that today just announced a $10.25 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz (“a16z”)
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